Letters from Quotidia

By: Quentin Bega
  • Summary

  • 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
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Episodes
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 12 Surprised By Joy
    Jan 23 2025
    The song, Surprised by Joy, was performed only once in public, at the newly opened Penrith Gaels club in Sydney in 1997. Unfortunately, I had neglected to tell my wife about this song, which had just been written. Indeed, the decision to sing it was spur-of-the-moment. As she listened to the lyrics, she realised the context and left the venue in tears.More
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    14 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 11 The Mark of Cain
    Jan 22 2025
    Crime takes centre stage as we wander from the first crime recorded in Genesis through murders in ancient Greece and Rome and the Ottoman Empire to a Shakespearean examination of the topic as well as how it is treated in 20th Century popular culture.More
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    12 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 10 Easter Rises
    Jan 21 2025
    caught in the coils of commercial-ism, having been harried by the pester power of the kids over the years, having the state of my kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, laundry, study- let’s face it, every nook and cranny of my dwelling, not to mention the garden shed and garage- sneered at by reno-vation shows and lambasted by lifestyle mavens, I have long since capitulated to capitalism’s handmaiden- commercialism.More Easter Rises
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    11 mins

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