The Irish abroad, door dancing, stargazing and more, with Margaret Hickey, Brian Farrell, Tim Carey, Daniel Mulhall, John Toal and, from the Miscellany archive, Maeve Binchy

A beloved vintage Galway jersey, a life-expanding sea voyage, swimming on the radio and the silence of Valentia Island, with Christina Hession, Joe Kearney, Brendan O’Sullivan, Breda Joyce, Brian Cosgrove and Noel King

Hurling heroes of Kilkenny and Limerick, a fox at midnight, a female freemason, and channelling your inner Kate Bush, with Gerry Moran, Christina Hession, Stephen O’Byrnes, Emer O’Kelly, Catherine Foley and Joe Kearney

Inspirational art of ancient Greece, Paris under the Nazi's, being a Francophile, a life at sea and the small things that give us hope, with Isabel Nolan, Maylis Besserie, Clíona Ní Ríordáin, John Tuomey and Niamh O'Malley

Summer swimsuits, student summers abroad, evocations of New York and Greece and links between Ireland and Brittany, with Mae Leonard, Shane O’Sullivan, Lauren Green, Gary Coyle and Neil Hegarty

Seán MacBride remembered, Eric Ravilious’s distinctive art, a dramatic Sligo jailbreak, and a lifelong love of an uncool pop star, with John Hedigan, Mary O’Donnell, Doreen Finn, Breege Brennan, Joe Kearney and Gerald Dawe

Marking the centenary of Joyce’s epic novel at Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, a vibrant live mix of words and music with Rachael Hegarty, Emer O’Kelly, Joseph O’Connor, Sara Keating, Declan Kiberd, Barry Gleeson, Malachy Robinson, Anita Vedres, Dermot Dunne, Darina Gallagher and Sinéad Murphy

Swifts, swallows and the Skerries triathlon, meeting Paul McCartney, and Ulysses in the jazz age, with Margaret Galvin, Gerry Mullins, Tim Carey, Ann Marie Durkan, Angela Keogh and Colin Murphy

Considerations around The Great Book of Ireland, created by Irish artists, writers and composers between 1989-1991, which in time would echo other great books of the past with Thomas McCarthy, Michelle McAdoo, Dorothy Cross, the late Mathew Sweeney and Michael Coady

Exam anxieties, audience protests, overheard conversations and Maeve Binchy’s writing advice, and fearless Dervla Murphy remembered, with Margaret Ward, Rachael Hegarty, Ian Sherry, Bernard Farrell, John Toal and Pádraig Ó Macháin