Ciaran Mac Mathuna
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Fifty Shades of Sabbath Day – Frank McNally on a half century of RTÉ’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’
- Opinion
- December 7, 2018, 17:55
If there really is a heaven somewhere, complete with pearly gates, I suspect that new arrivals will be welcomed there to the trumpeted strains of Gall(...)
An Irishman’s Diary about music with special powers, natural and otherwise
- Opinion
- November 11, 2015, 01:00
On Saturday night, I realised that it’s almost exactly 10 years since Ciarán Mac Mathúna’s Mo Cheol Thú aired for the last time, after being a fixture(...)
‘When Séamus Ennis played, it stood your hair on end’
- Music
- August 10, 2015, 06:00
‘Séamus Ennis was unique,” wrote Ciarán Mac Mathúna, about the singular piper, folklorist and broadcaster on his death in 1982. “Of course every pe(...)
Welsh writer and doctor who relished the links between the Celtic cultures
- People
- April 4, 2015, 01:00
Harri Pritchard Jones, who has died aged 81, was a Welsh writer, doctor and activist who acted as a powerful link between Irish and Welsh culture for (...)
Sunday morning voice of poetry on RTÉ radio
- People
- January 3, 2015, 01:00
Neasa Ní Annracháin, whose voice many will remember from her poetry readings on Ciarán Mac Mathúna’s Sunday morning radio programme Mo Cheol Thú, and (...)
Donal Dineen: ‘DJing is storytelling with added button-pushing’
- Culture
- April 24, 2014, 17:15
My own big love affair with radio began before lengths lost their waves and bands became a bit too broad for their boots. Radios, remember them? Ma(...)
