A truce at Christmastime a century ago

A Christmas schoolboy prank

On this morning’s programme we heard: Tins by Paul Howard; Christmas Truce, Ardoyne, 1914, by Louise Kennedy; Imagining Places by Evelyn Conlon; Senior Dormitory, The Night Watch, a poem by James Harpur; Christmas Trains of Thought by John O’Donnell

A disastrous night on Quicksilver might have ended so differently if only..........

On this morning’s programme, we heard: Connections, by Leo Cullen; Lovely Cigar, by Kate Kerrigan; In the Annals of Beara, a poem by Gerard Smyth; The Day my Sister met the Queen, by Roslyn Dee; Winter Dusk, a poem by Grace Wells; and Georgie Boy, by Des MacHale

A most enjoyable visit - the Queen of England describes her 2011 visit to Ireland

a poem by Gerard Smyth

A forgotten Havana cigar distracts from the job in hand

A poem by Grace Wells

An emigrant of the mind