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Letters from Quotidia

Letters from Quotidia

Written by: Quentin Bega
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 For lovers of music, poetry, and the Crack-that most Irish of nouns. Quotidia is that space, that place, where ordinary people lead ordinary lives. But where, from time to time, they encounter the extraordinary.Brian Mitchell 2021 Art Music Social Sciences
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  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 9

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 9
    Jan 26 2026
    The next song is, arguably, the most overplayed, over sung, over loved and over hated of any Irish ballad. Its antecedents are not entirely Irish- I have even read somewhere that it has Korean origins- but let’s not go down that particular rabbit hole. I speak, of course, of Danny Boy.More
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    16 mins
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 8

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 8
    Jan 23 2026
    In my youth, beguiled by whimsical notions of the dark Romantic imagination, I would have chosen the eldritch Selkie tale; now, unquestionably, I would choose the quotidian world of Margaret and the Dutchman she loves. More
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    19 mins
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 7

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 7
    Jan 22 2026
    Some say, Such Is Life, were the final words of Ned Kelly as he stood on the scaffold of Melbourne Gaol. In fact, his final words were Ah Well, I suppose…which his detractors use to claim that he was just mumbling incoherently at the end. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, Ah Well, in the mouths of Irish people has the same plangency as Virgil’s sunt lacrimae rerum- there are tears at the heart of things.More
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    16 mins
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