Now That Summer's Coming by Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly
Drama of the Week
BBC
3.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to mark Bealtaine, the Gaelic festival heralding the beginning of summer traditionally held on the first day of May. Written and read by Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly.
The Author. Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly is a writer from Donegal, who lives in Belfast. She is a member of the Duncairn Arts Centre's Creative Collective. She has read her work on stage and on BBC Radio Ulster.
Writer: Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly Reader: Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly Producer: Michael Shannon A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:45.9 | Anish are hiacked and towery, now that summer's coming. |
| 0:51.6 | Written and read by Derdra Anna Rose Kelly. |
| 0:56.4 | I started working as a classroom assistant in a Bunskull at Irish Language Medium Primary School |
| 1:03.1 | last year. After reaching and then exceeding the point of desperation with my previous |
| 1:09.8 | data administration job, I emailed all nine of the |
| 1:13.8 | Bunsculina within Belfast and thankfully, the one that is within the shortest walk to my house |
| 1:19.6 | took me on. I rationalised that if I didn't like the job, at the very least I'd be using |
| 1:26.9 | and improving my Irish. I'd learned Irish |
| 1:31.0 | at school in Letterkenny and on visits to Ironmore Island as a teenager. I didn't realise |
| 1:38.3 | how much of a privilege this was until I moved across the border and even then the words caught in my throat. |
| 1:47.0 | I felt embarrassed at my inarticulateness, the clumsiness of my attempts at expression, |
| 1:55.0 | my inability to be funny in what should have been my native tongue. |
| 2:00.0 | I always envied anyone who'd attended an Irish |
| 2:03.2 | medium school. I was assigned to work one-on-one with a child in primary one and felt like a child |
| 2:10.3 | myself, as if I was starting school again for the first time. On Friday the 9th of May, the electricity and the school went off around half-past nine |
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