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The Calendar Road

A short audio walk along a rural byway. Sinéad McClure is your guide as she highlights the changes along the road as each month passes. The season’s change, the local sounds, words, and landscape all add together to make this a unique journey.

We are now uploading The Calendar Road as posts, rather than by page files, as a result, you will find the most recent show below in post format, this means that you can also access the show through our podcast feeds, however, the archive of programmes from November 2009 to January 2011 will remain static on this page in case you have missed any episodes.

The Calendar Road began in 2009 – the archived files from November 2009-December 201o can be listened to below

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17 Comments (and one trackback)

#1 by Ken Harley on November 24, 2009 - 9:59 pm

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What can i say, well told Sinead, good idea.Lots of Luck with it.Ken
#2 by Tess on January 15, 2010 - 6:04 pm

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I enjoyed the Calendar Road Sinead and I am looking forward to hearing many more walks along it and who knows I might get to do the walk myself someday. Tess
#3 by admin on January 15, 2010 - 7:19 pm

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Thanks Tess.
#4 by c harris on March 1, 2010 - 7:24 pm

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well done, a breath of fresh air looking foward to march, thankyou
#5 by c harris on March 31, 2010 - 5:14 pm

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It has brightened up a dull day for me, many thanks C
#6 by criostoir ,Glan on June 3, 2010 - 9:06 pm

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Ta do cuid gailge ar fas ar gach clar ,fair play duit. C
#7 by admin on June 4, 2010 - 4:24 pm

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Go raibh maith agat Criostoir – Nil Gaeilge maith agam -Beagan agus a ra go maith!

Thanks Criostoir – I don’t have much Irish – but it is nice to use a little bit – Hopefully I can keep learning –
Thanks for listening –
Sinéad
#8 by Brian Dolan on September 1, 2010 - 11:11 am

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thanks for a very enjoyable programme about the hedgerows full of blackberries sycamore and honeysuckle.. Although Ive always thought of it as honeysuckle my mother , who is from Crossmolina, always referred to honeysuckle as Woodbine. Even in the twilight of her life she eulogised of, as a young girl, walking the lanes on a warm summer evening after a shower and smelling the fragrance of the Woodbine..
#9 by admin on September 1, 2010 - 1:10 pm

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Hi Brian
Thanks for your comment – I always call it ‘woodbine’ too, we have lots of wild woodbine here, it grows in abundance and in the summer evenings the smell is delicious so I certainly know what your mother eulogised about – it is one of those memorable country smells I think – when I moved to the country I was also instantly hit with that after rain smell – which I remembered as a child holidaying in my mothers homeplace. Lovely to hear from you as always. S.
#10 by Brian Dolan on October 1, 2010 - 10:49 pm

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What an enjoyable programme about the Kingfisher..I’ve only ever seen a Kingfisher once.I was walking back from the town along the river towpath and this flash of blue caught my eye.. It was one of the most beautiful birds I had ever seen.Its colours were stunning.It was so small and I stopped to watch it for five minutes as it swooped down onto the water at speed and then preened itself in the tree but reluctantly I had to go back to work such is life..
#11 by Brian Dolan on November 4, 2010 - 12:14 pm

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You got me thinking Sinead.About twenty miles away from me here in England is a place called All Hallows.I’ll have to seek out the connection..
But did you know that Halloween was originally an Irish custom requiring a turnip to be scooped out and a candle lit inside to light the way for the spirits.. After the famine and when the same Irish emigrated to America they took the custom with them and when they were introduced to the native pumpkin which was being used by the Americans for an entirely different tradition, the Irish adopted the pumpkin and threw away the turnip..And now it is the lighted pumpkin that symbolises Halloween
#12 by Michael Woods on November 23, 2010 - 10:15 pm

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I enjoyed your October Calendar road Sinead and your reflection of earlier Halloween memory to which caused me to remember of times in my youth when we would load up a wagon with hay and ride through the night singing songs and telling ghost story’s and of Barn dances where as kids we would bob for apples and listen to fiddle or harmonica music. Keep up the good work.
#13 by admin on November 25, 2010 - 3:57 pm

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Thanks Michael glad it brought back a few memories and exciting ones too! S.
#14 by Michael Woods on December 20, 2010 - 11:57 pm

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Have a very happy and joyful Christmas Sinead and Jho and may the New Year be the best yet for you.
#15 by criostoir ,Glan on January 31, 2011 - 9:56 pm

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I really enjoyed your show.

Criostoir

County Wicklow
#16 by Michael Pattwell on April 29, 2011 - 12:53 am

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I so look forward to The Calendar Road each month since I first discovered this site a few months ago. Not disappointed this month either. Brilliant that you managed to finish off with the cuckoo. We were outside Kenmare for Easter and he sang for us all day every day. Neighbors told us he was there about a fortnight.
So interesting too about the hawthorn and blackthorn. Some reference to that could turn up in a poem before long.

Michael Pattwell
Cork and Podcasts.ie
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#17 by Doug on January 13, 2013 - 2:57 pm

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Thank you so much for sharing your adventures and enjoyment of your ‘Calendar Road’! I look forward to it each month!

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