22/10/19 RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany from Ballyshannon this Sunday.

Hatchlings, with Donegal musicians Conor Cunningham and Eamonn Travers, feature on the Sunday Miscellany radio programme recorded at the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon earlier this month, which will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 this Sunday morning, October 27^th after the 9.00am News. 

This weekend’s edition of RTÉ Radio 1’s popular Sunday Miscellany radio programme, was recorded earlier this month at the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, as part of the 19^th. annual Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival.  It will be broadcast this Sunday morning, October 27, directly after the 9.00am News.

The featured writers will include RTÉ Francis McManus Award winning Brian Leyden (‘The Last Mining Village’) from Roscommon, Sligo-based Sunday Times Short Story Award nominee Louise Kennedy,former Leitrim county footballer and current GAA Community and Health Manager, Colin Regan, and Gerard Beirne, who lived for a number of years in Greencastle, Inishowen, and who is now a lecturer on the BA Writing and Literature Programme at Sligo IT.

Noted Glenties fiddle player Tara Connaghan performs along with Ellie Nic Fhionnghaile of Gleann Choilm Cille, on the Sunday Miscellany radio programme recorded at the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon earlier this month, which will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 this Sunday morning, October 27^th.

Musicians and singers featured will include noted Glenties fiddle player Tara Connaghan, traditional singer and member of acclaimed Irish vocal ensemble Anúna - Ellie Nic Fhionnghaile from Gleann Choilm Cille, Sarah E. Cullen from Carrigart and the jazz, folk influenced collective, Hatchlings, featuring Donegal musicians Conor Cunningham from Mountcharles and Eamonn Travers from Ballyshannon.

One of the national broadcaster’s longest running radio programmes, Sunday Miscellany has been an integral part of the Irish Sunday morning for over 50 years.  The programme’s popular mix of new writings read by their authors, interspersed with music and song, enjoys a weekly audience of over 260,000 listerners, many of whom tune in from overseas.

The annual Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival is presented by Donegal County Council, with assistance from The Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon.