The Gone, again: Richard Flood on the return of the hit RTÉ drama
The Gone was a 2023 crime drama TV series from New Zealand and Ireland. When an Irish couple went mi...
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Sunday Miscellany Architecture Special: The Pyramid of Glasnevin, by Cormac Murray
Shelter from the storm: tracing the story of architect Liam McCormick's Met Éireann building... For ...
Maeve Ingoldsby - an Irish children's theatre legend remembered
Barnstorm Theatre Company's Autumn production is The Bus, a work for young audiences written by the ...
Pope Francis autobiography to be released in January
Pope Francis will release a memoir next January, in what has been described as the first autobiograp...
The legacy of the Nintendo Switch - and hopes for Switch 2
Selling over 143 million units, the Nintendo Switch is easily one of the most successful consoles of...
How Dublin looked in the 1950s' photos of George Pickow
Analysis: Pickow's photos capture the capital and its people at a time when modernisation and intern...
Something For The Weekend: CHRISTEENE's cultural picks
On Sunday 28 October CHRISTEENE brings The Lion The Witch And The Cobra to the National Concert Hall...
Sunday Miscellany: Tracing a family's Dublin Docklands roots in maps and stories...
Tracing a family's Dublin Docklands roots in maps and stories... For this Sunday Miscellany Architec...
Something For The Weekend: Sexy Tadhg's cultural picks
IMRAM returns to Dublin from 7th – 16th November 2024, showcasing the rich diversity of modern Irish...
Éamonn MacThomáis remembered: Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin at 50
We present an extract from Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin by Éamonn MacThomáis, illustrated by Michael ...
Steve Buscemi to join Aidan Quinn for play reading at Abbey
Irish-American actor Aidan Quinn will be joined by veteran US actor Steve Buscemi on stage at the Ab...
On the ball: how Irish football jerseys became fashion statements
If you can think of it, there's a market for collecting it. Sneakerheads spend thousands on limited ...
How Sally Rooney came to be the 'voice of a generation'
Analysis: Why do Rooney's books particularly resonate with people in their 20s and 30s - and who wer...
Trump, the biopic - Sebastian Stan & Jeremy Strong talk to Arena
The Apprentice is a movie that has taken some time to find an American distributor. It is a biograph...
Radharc Films- the legacy of Ireland's documentary-making priests
Even before Ireland had a national television station ( RTE was founded in 1961) or film industry ( ...
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its harrowing, visceral impact has been rarely matched, 50 years on
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a product of a unique time in American filmmaking, when independent ...
Defying Gravity: The high risk, high reward world of Broadway musicals
Musicals aren’t always taken seriously in the art world – but they’re a serious business. Broadway s...
RTÉjr Book Club: It's the season for magic and mayhem
Whether you like a gentle vampiric spook, are fearful of banshee books, devour Frankenstein-themed f...
Untangling the Hallowe'en story - we didn't really invent it
Folklorist Michael Fortune takes a deep dive into the myths and legends behind Hallowe'en... I’ve be...
Old Dublin buildings open doors to public for architectural festival
A number of buildings which are normally not accessible to the public will open their doors in the c...
Spoken Stories: Poets of Rapallo by William Wall
This time commissioned authors were prompted to consider the theme of The State of Us and make their...
An Interview with Martin Hayes: 30 Years of Questions in One Hour
Via The Journal Of Music: It is just over thirty years since I paused on my way out of J. McNeill's ...
RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards to return in February 2025
THE DETAILS QUALIFYING PERIOD Submissions for consideration from musicians, labels, promoters and me...
Hide Away by Dermot Bolger - read an extract
Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, different lives collide, all afflic...
What Seamus Heaney's letters tell us about his life and poetry
When considering an oeuvre as vast as Seamus Heaney's, what correspondences seem to offer is a tanta...
Divided and Bound: Cristín Leach on artist Debbie Godsell's History Lesson
The thing about history is it has already happened. The thing about lessons is we are never done lea...
5 cultural gems you may have missed lately
There has never been a better time to be a culture vulture, but the sheer volume of stuff out there ...
South Korea's Han Kang wins Nobel literature prize
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose th...
DARA O’Kearney flicked through the DVDs on his bookshelf. He was looking for an old compilation of c...
Tune Of The Week: Passing Of Time by Tom Barry
Or latest Tune Of The Week comes from Galway-based singer-songwriter Tom Barry - listen to Passing o...
