Ministering angels and mutiny at sea, a devastating fire in a Dublin market, and a poem for the late Ivor Browne, with Antonia Hart, Eddie Vallely, William Wall, Rebecca Hunter, Joe Kearney and Lani O’Hanlon

Bittersweet love stories, eye-catching cover art and home thoughts from abroad, with Feargal Ó Dubhghaill, Molly Furey, Joe Kearney, Margaret Galvin, Dermot Bolger, Lani O'Hanlon and Yvonne Cullen

Slip-sliding resolutions, sleepy sheep and saluting the darkness even as winter turns to spring, with Conall Hamill, Beth Kilkenny, Kevin Gildea, Karl O’Neill, Mae Leonard and Neil Hegarty

Sailing to Antarctica, a few sticks of furniture and the life of O’Reilly in Australia, with Hugh Weldon, Margaret Galvin, Mary Dowey, Beth Kilkenny, Daniel Mulhall and Amanda Bell

From Cherbourg to Belmullet to Western Vancouver: friendship, poetry and voyages of the heart, with Mattie Brennan, Peter Cunningham, Cathy Sweeney, Grace Wilentz, Michael Gallagher and Aidan Mathews

Silk Road meditations, dreamy prophecies and the hard winter of 1947, with Emer O’Kelly, Eileen Casey, John MacKenna, Alexander McMaster, Lani O’Hanlon and Denis Tuohy

Diplomatic travels and inner journeys, from Leitrim to Lourdes, from Ontario to Togo and Nauru – meeting a Daniel O’Donnell fan along the way… a New Year Miscellany with Joe Hayes, Pat Boran, Nuala O’Connor, Angela Keogh, Niall McArdle and Mary O’Malley

A friendly spy, Joyce’s favourite music, and remembering the Dead at Christmastime… with archive from and tributes to some much loved writers we lost this year. With Kevin Mc Dermott, Justin Kilcullen, Conor Hanratty, Judith Mok, Emer O’Kelly, Catherine Foley and Gerald Dawe

Christmas food, seasonal gifting and contemplation and a Dublin legend, with John Toal, Donal Fallon, Maggie Armstrong, Margaret Galvin, John F Deane and James Harpur

Reflections on the Christmas season and an unexpected house guest, a miniature Miscellany for Christmas Eve, with Olive Travers, James Harpur and John F Deane