Gentle strolls and the morning commute, the Mendelssohns and the Wyse Powers, and a dark day in Dublin and Monaghan, with Katrina Bruna, Daniel Mulhall, Kate Carty, Kevin McDermott and Lorna Siggins

Telephone conversations, travel woes, dashed dreams and devoted love, with Nicole Flattery, Conall Hamill, Rory Gleeson, Barbara Scully, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and John F Deane

Birds, bees, the Boyne, the Shannon, and keeping faith with The Boss, with Vincent Kenny, Cathal Ó Gallchóir, Kerry Neville, Grace Wells, Kevin Connolly and Elma Walsh

The glory days of advertising, a fjord in Mayo and a maypole in Finglas, with Liz Houchin, Pat Dunne, Phlip Judge, Dermot Bolger, Rachael Hegarty, John F Deane and Catherine Foley.

A border centenary, Venice in Shakespeare’s day, outsiders, memory and forgetting, with Peter Trant, Elizabeth Oxley, Pauline Kelly, Tim Carey, Elizabeth Power and Vincent Woods

President Theodore Roosevelt’s Irish obsessions, farewell to Long Wave 252, and a birdman at the bottom of the garden, with Daniel Mulhall, Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, Emer O’Kelly, Paul Hughes, Lani O’Hanlon and Denise Blake

John Huston, Hedy Lamarr, the Good Friday Agreement at 25 and Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Leipzig, with Maria Hayden, John McDonald, Hester Scott, John F Deane, John Toal and Vincent Woods

Meeting Lauren Bacall, Gonzaga College’s triumph and Camille Souter’s vivid art, with Marion O’Dwyer, John O’Donnell, Emer O’Kelly, Alannah Robins and Neil Hegarty

A selection from the Miscellany archive from the 1970s and 1980s, with writers Mervyn Wall, Val Mulkerns, Dominic Roche, Patricia O’Reilly, Benedict Kiely and Eric Cross

Memorable moments of motherhood, rebel songs and a glorious St Patrick’s Day parade, with Maeve Edwards, James Harpur, Clare Monnelly, Pier Kuipers, Geraldine Mitchell, Colin Regan and Claire Garvey