Arena: Recent Episodes
RTÉ Radio 1
Irish podcast exploring what's happening in the world of arts, culture and entertainment. Listen live every weeknight on RTÉ Radio 1 from 7-8pm. Listen to individual clips at rte.ie/arena. Presented by Sean Rocks.
Galway International Arts Festival: Did It Deliver? - From Rembrandt to Matisse: Masterpieces on Paper - Jane Casey on Everything She Didn’t Say
Two: Fourteen Lives, One Pub - For Dolores: From Page to Stage - Remembering Brenda Fricker
From Gaeltacht Dreams to Full-Speed Chaos - The Art Bringing Galway to a Standstill - Ireland's Greatest Trickster Takes the Stage Again
The Epic Everyone's Talking About - Bringing The Brightening Air to Life - Unlocking Trinity's Treasures
Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan's movie The Odyssey, journalist Paul Whittington sat down with Rick to profile the career of the Academy award-winning filmmaker.
Playwright Deirdre Kinahan and theatre director Louise Lowe joined Rick to discuss their project.
Arena pays tribute to the Irish Born actor Sam Neill, star of many films including Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders. Joining Rick is film critic Chris Wasser, Director Neasa Hardiman and Australian Actor and friend of Sam's, John O'Hare.
Rick is joined by Professor Ahuvia Kahane, Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College Dublin who tells us how to read Homer's epic ahead Christopher Nolan's magnum opus release.
Chris Wasser and Dee Molumby review Ann Droid, Little House on Prairie and The Five-Star Weekend.
Carol Moran and Louise Bruton review new releases from Jack White, The Rolling Stones and Cat Power.
Ahead of tomorrow’s release of the new Rolling Stones album, Pat Carty discusses their new biography by Bob Spitz.
Darkfield Co-Artistic Director Glen Neath discusses Flight, a new immersive theatre project at this year's Galway International Arts Festival.
Author Jonathan Coe discusses his latest satire The Proof of My Innocence and an upcoming event at the West Cork Literary Festival.
Ahead of her upcoming Irish tour acclaimed Welsh/Cornish musician Gwenno chats to Rick.
250 years of the USA - How one piece of art stoked the flames of the American Revolution.
Tom Rack, co-founder of Welsh-based company NoFit State, discusses bringing their show Carnation to the GIAF.
Director Terry Loane discusses his new film Faraway Home, which is premiering at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
Zara Hedderman and Nadine O’Regan review new releases from Sienna Spiro, Madonna and Havvk.
Jenn Gannon and Simon Maher review Elle (Prime Video), Silo S3 (Apple TV) and Katie Price: Nothing to Hide (Sky).
The best of Arena's week with award winning costume designer Consolata Boyle... John Maguire on the influence of The Odyssey on cinema... and as Madonna releases her latest album, Kelly Anne Byrne looks back at her remarkable career.
Tara Brady and Hilary White review The Invite, Enola Holmes 3 and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.
Chris Walley discusses playing Nedeljko, a starving youth in Rajiv Joseph’s play Archduke at the Royal Court, London.
Harpist Cormac de Barra performs live in studio and discusses this year's Cruit Harpers' Gathering.
Ahead of the IFI's Odysseys season, John Maguire looks at the many films inspired by Homer's epic poem.
Composer and pianist Antoni O'Breskey and his daughter, singer and fiddle player Consuelo Nerea Bresch chat to Rick and play live in studio.
Oscar-nominated costume designer Consolata Boyle discusses her latest work for Enola Holmes 3 on Netflix.
Louise Bruton and Ray Cuddihy review new releases from Beth Orton, Shark School and Rattling Ark.
John Maguire and Sarina Bellissimo review Supergirl, A Private Life, and The Last Viking.
Ahead of his performance at the NCH, pianist Phillip Leslie discusses Chopin's Mazurkas.
Four decades after the premiere of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Steven Benedict remembers this classic film.
Eamon Sweeney discusses Pet Shop Boys Volume, a book marking the fortieth anniversayr of their debut Please.
Filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski discusses directing Jodie Foster in A Private Life – her first starring role in a French film.
Chris Wasser and Jenn Gannon review I Will Find You (Netflix) and season 3 of House Of The Dragon (HBO Max/Now TV)
Eamon Carr discusses his exhibition and book of photographs taken during Horslips' tour of North America in 1978 and 1979.
As Toy Story 5 is released, Paul Whittington looks back at the history of the company that changed the world of animation – Pixar.
Director Conall Morrison and theatre historian Fiona Brennan discuss a new production of George Fitzmaurice’s The Magic Glasses at Bewley's Theatre.
John Meagher discusses how musicians like Paul Simon, The Beatles and Ry Cooder put world music in the spotlight.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa discusses her new book, Said the Dead, and shares with Rick some of the books, songs, and films that have influenced her.
Maggie O’Farrell discusses her new novel, Land, and shares with Rick the books, songs, and films that have influenced her.
Live from the Irish Embassy in London for a special event marking 100 years of public broadcasting, Rick is joined by writer and broadcaster Graham Norton; musician and producer Bernard Butler; violinist Aoife Ní Bhriain; uilleann piper Rita Farrell; and poets Martina Evans and Ian Duhig.
Ahead of his appearance at the National Concert Hall, a summer of festivals, and the release of new music, Paddy Casey plays live in studio
Visual artist Clodagh Emoe discusses the new memorial garden honouring the life and work of the late writer and artist Christy Brown.
Author Philip Norman discusses his book Mr Moonlight, a new biography of Brian Epstein.
Live from our Cork studio, Rick chats to Cork native, Victoria Kinnefick about poems inspired by her home. Al Dalton discusses his production of Constellations, and Áine Ní Laoghaire talks about her feature HouseWork. Plus, music from Pa Sheehy.
Angélique Kidjo discusses her upcoming concert exploring the work of Philip Glass with the National Symphony Orchestra at the NCH.
Evanna Lynch discusses Pool (No Water), a new production of Mark Ravenhill’s 2006 play, staged in an empty swimming pool beneath the Metropole Hotel.
Banjo player Enda Scahill and violinist Dr Liz Doherty perform live in studio and discuss Blas Bluegrass, a new TG4 series exploring the growth and influence of bluegrass and old-time music in Ireland.
Eamon Sweeney discusses the 30th anniversaries of Fuzzy Logic by Super Furry Animals and Everything Must Go by Manic Street Preachers.
Composers Donncha Dennehy and Daniel Luke Smith discuss this year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival.
In a special Arena, marking 100 years since the birth of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, we celebrate her life, films, and enduring legacy with Ruth Barton, Paul Whittington, and Jenn Gannon.
Eamon Sweeney and Louise Bruton review new releases from Boards of Canada, Violet Grohl and Ae Mak.
Chris Wasser and Jenn Gannon review Spider Noir (Prime), Star City (Apple TV) and Tip Toe (Channel 4).
The best of Arena's week with actor / screenwriter on his new film Power Ballad, starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas... music and chat with singer songwriter Wallis Bird... and Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart on his latest novel, "John of John"
Ahead of their Dublin gig The Lemon Twigs join Rick in studio to discuss their new album Look For Your Mind!.
Wallis Bird chats to Rick about her new album, I Can See Your House From Here, and performs live in studio.
Ahead of the centenary of Miles Davis’ birth Rick speaks to drummer and educator Conor Guilfoyle.
Director Annie Ryan and actress Anna Healy discuss The Abbey’s new production of Lennox Robinson’s The Whiteheaded Boy.
John Meagher and Zara Hedderman review new releases from Paul McCartney, Future Islands, and Ed O’Brien.
Jenn Gannon and Chris Wasser review Kylie (Netflix), Falling (Channel 4), and Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed (Apple TV).
The best of Arena's week with Dublin Literary Award winner, Ali Smith... the Irish director of the new Netflix doc series about Kylie Minogue, Michael Harte... the renowned Turkish novelist Elif Shafak... and musician Matt Berniger of The National
Award-winning director Michael Harte discusses his new documentary about Kylie Minogue.
Scottish author Ali Smith on winning this year's Dublin Literary Award for her novel Gliff.
Live music by Mike Geary, who has a new EP out called Antebellum. Poison by acclaimed Dutch playwright Lot Vekemans is getting its Irish premiere and director Lianne O’Shea and actor Naoise Dunbar, who plays “He” join Rick in studio. Latin America's leading dance company, Ballet de Santiago brings its acclaimed production of Swan Lake to Dublin.
Film Reviews - Review: Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors - Jack Butler Yeats; The Dreaming Road
From That Small Island - Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Jaws at 50, Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
Film reviews - Michael Crummey wins 2025 Dublin Literary Award - The 78th Cannes Film Festival
Thomas McCarthy remembers Paul Durcan - Don’t Anger the Gods - L’elisir d’amore - Mike Garry
2025 Dublin Literary Award Shortlist - Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett - Why are we still telling fairytales?
Fermanagh performer RÓIS and UCC academic Marian Caulfield discuss the upcoming event being held for the St. Patrick’s Festival, which will bring an exploration of grief, memory, and musical tradition with ABAIR: Journey of a Lament.
Jess Fahy reviews "As Above, So Below" an exhibition of new paintings by Dublin-based artist Damien Flood showing at Green on Red Gallery. And Kwaidan – Encounters With Lafcadio Hearn is a touring exhibition of contemporary printmaking at Farmleigh Gallery in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
Director Sarah Jane Scaife and actor Molly Hanley joined Kay in studio to discuss their new play.
Breandan de Gallí's Misneach, Cumha - Poster Boys - A Wave from the Hill with Donald Teskey
Jennifer Johnston remembered - Wilfred Frost on David Frost Vs - Amazon takes over Bond - Museum of the Moon
Three Short Comedies by Seán O'Casey - The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth - The Celestial Stranger
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby - Samara Pearce - Between Heaven and Hell: The Films of Ingmar Bergman
Michael Longley remembered - Film reviews -The Memorisers - Kubrick's Barry Lyndon at 50
Live from Dublin Castle: An evening of music and chat featuring the talents of singer-songwriter Brídín, Guadeloupean musician Ines Khai, and renowned artists Gerry O’Connor and Daoirí Farrell.
Mary Elaine Tynan and Don Wycherley on The Life and Times of Paddy Armstrong. John Maguire celebrates Denzel Washington at 70. Musician and tour guide Sean Fitzgerald performs live in studio.
The Pogues to mark 40 years of Red Roses For Me - A Christmas Carol – Never Too Late review
2024 European Film Awards - Small Things Like These at the Pavilion Theatre - Hamad Butt
Live from the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, listen back to Arena's special programme for the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus.
Small Things Like These - Tulca Festival of Visual Arts: The Salvage Agency - Tara Erraught - This Is Art!
Film reviews - Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs - Dracula: Lucy's Passion at the Abbey
Eimear Noone - Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band - From Here to the Great Unknown
Sonny Boy: A Memoir review - Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Irish Horror Stories - An Taibhse
Live from the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray for a special Culture Night Arena; with music from Junior Brother, Susan O’Neill and John Spillane as well as conversation with film maker Alan Gilsenan and visual artist Harold Offeh.
The Ace & Deuce of Piping Concert 2024 - Coralie Fargeat on The Substance - Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
TV reviews - Sue Prideaux on Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin - Dame Sarah Connolly and Mihhail Gerts
New voices at Dublin Theatre Festival 2024 - Rachel Kushner on new novel, Creation Lake - Beyond The Console
DanceHall Blues - The Book of Elsewhere -Alicia Vikander on Firebrand - Don't Forget To Remember.
In tonight’s Olympiad, director Tom Creed discusses Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Jaime Martín talks about Verdi’s Requiem, and mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty explores Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade. Tonight’s programme also features performances of works by Grieg and Mendelssohn by the Allegria Quartet.
A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. In tonight's Olympiad Sean talks to Caoilinn Hughes and Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Kay talks to Booker prize winning Australian author Richard Flanagan.
A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Victoria Kennefick, Paul Muldoon and Elaine Feeney. Tonight's programme also featured music from The Henry Girls.
A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Rory Dunne, Finghin Collins, Jacob Koranyi, Tine Thing Helspeth and Judy Jackson.
A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Wim Wenders, Viggo Mortensen and this year’s Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, Cord Jefferson.
A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne.
A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Jared Harris about his father Richard, John Carter Cash and Rosanne Cash reminisce about their father Johnny’s musical legacy and Musician Joachim Cooder, son of Ry Cooder.
A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Mary McGill reviews Colm Toibin’s Long Island, Richard Aldous critiques Kevin Barry’s 'western with Cork accents', The Heart in Winter, Paula Shields explores Salman Rushdie’s Knife, and Paul Whittington reviews Neil Jordan’s autobiography, Amnesiac.
Since 1960 and the publication of her first novel The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien has been one of Ireland’s leading writers. This special programme features two interviews with Arena, the first to mark her 90th birthday and the second, her final interview with Arena, in advance of the production of her play Joyce's Women.
Olympic medals for art - Stephen King’s Carrie at 50 - NSO: Lurline Opera Concert Performance
Kay is joined by playwrights Marina Carr and Mark O’Rowe, actors Cathy Belton, Robert Sheehan, Marie Mullen, and Bosco Hogan. The programme also featured performances by Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo and Trad Rave’s Colm Olwill and Jack Dempsey.
Highlights from our Galway Film Fleadh special, where we were thrilled to host a public interview with the actor Brian Cox to a sold-out audience at the Galmont Hotel.
'Cosima' by Sheena Lambert - 'The Wise Guy' written and directed by Sam O’Mahony - Album Review
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages - The Misadventures of Oliver Goldsmith - Ríoghnach Connolly
TV Reviews - Perspectives: Philip Glass Cocteau Trilogy - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death - Richard Flanagan on new novel - Bette Davis, a celebration at the IFI
Film Reviews - The Sugar Wife - Brian Cox reads 'If I Must Die' by Refaat Alareer - ÍOMHÁ
Ransom '79 - The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World - Little Amal: Refugee puppet
Alice Munro dies at 92 - Caoilinn Hughes - Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 2024 - Pulp Fiction at 30
60 Years of a Hard Day’s Night - Night Dances - New acquisition by the Hugh Lane Gallery - Three Colours trilogy
Bass-baritone Rory Dunne, accompanied by Aoife Moran on piano, joined Sean in Studio 8 to perform pieces from Don Pasqale and Carmen. Jenn Gannon and Chris Wasser review Dark Matter, Bodkin and the third series of Welcome to Wrexham. Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth speaks to Arena ahead of concerts with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.
To celebrate the launch of their new album 'That Golden Time', Conor O'Brien and his band perform new songs and favourites live in front of a Studio 1 audience.
Deirdre O'Mahony - The Quickening - Ruth Clinton - This Fearless Maid II - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
That They May Face The Rising Sun - Matilda Lloyd and Alexandra Whittingham - ‘Knife’ by Salman Rushdie
Arlene Hunt and Mary McGill review Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Blue Lights and The Jinx: Part 2. Artist Mick O'Dea talks about his latest exhibition What Is the Stars? Alvy Carragher chats about and reads from her latest collection, What Remains the Same
Author Jan Carson talks about her new short story collection 'Quickly, While They Still Have Horses'. Composer David Downes and poet Adam Wyeth on 'there will be no silence'. Director Niall Henry and cast members Sandra O’Malley and Aisling Mannion from 'The Last Pearl'
Lankum's Ian Lynch speak about his score for Paul Duane's new film, All You Need is Death. Ferdia Lennon on his new book Glorious Exploits. Art historian Jess Fahy provides her art highlights in Berlin.
The Music of Quincy Jones - We Realised The Power Of It - IMMA Exhibition - Album Reviews
John Maguire and Cara O’Doherty review 'Scoop', 'Monkey Man', 'One Night in Millstreet' and 'Io Capitano'. David Harrington and Paul Wiancko from the legendary Kronos Quartet spoke to Kay about bringing their 'Five Decades Tour' to the NCH on May 12th. Jenn Gannon joined Kay to review the new Netflix series 'Ripley' starring Andrew Scott.
INO present Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade - 2024 Dublin Literary Award Shortlist - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at 20
Oscar 2024 reaction - Celebration of Allen Ginsberg: Poetry & Song - Abair Festival 2024
Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin, Marina Carr’s new play Audrey or Sorrow opened at the Abbey Theatre on Wednesday night - Red Menace, Joe Thomas’s sequel to last year’s White Riot - Up for review are new albums by Liam Gallagher John Squire, Everything Everything, and Faye Webster.
Imagining Ireland at the National Concert Hall - Pregnant with a Drag Queen - Four Daughters
Tonight's Arena comes live from the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar as Rough Magic celebrates 40 years. Featuring chat, readings and music from the company's players through the years including Anne Enright, Declan Hughes, Owen Roe and the artistic director, Lynne Parker.
Declan Burke and Gemma Creagh review The Iron Claw, Occupied City and Double Blind. Gay-Yee Westerhoff and Eos Counsell, or FIRL, make their debut at the Spike Cello Fest. John Meagher gives his verdict on Zara Larsson's 'Venus', Britney Howard's 'What Now', and Declan McKenna's 'What Happened to the Beach?'
Jaq: A Top Boy Story - Country Music by Simon Stephens - Victoria Johnston - Sive at the Gaiety
The Long-Winded Lady - Looking for Brigid - - Art’s Wildest Movement: Mannerism - Ficino Ensemble
Live from Dublin Castle, music and chat from Janis Ian, Ralph McTell, Toshín, Aoife Scott, Neil Martin and Louise Mulcahy.
Live from Dublin Castle, music and chat from Stockton’s Wing, Strangeboy, Yankari and Indeceltic.
Film reviews - São Paulo Dance Company - The enduring appeal of Victorian literary characters
To wrap up the year, we look back at the cultural highlights of 2023 and look forward to what is to come in 2024 in films, books, TV and music with our panel of experts John Maguire, Sinéad Gleeson, Jenn Gannon and Zara Hedderman.
Peacock Theatre: Hammam - 2023 Best Crime Fiction Novels - Music Revolution - Jukebox to TikTok
Oneworld Publications on latest Booker success - Rebel Wife - In the Name of The Father at 30
Living the Beatles Legend - Kenneth Womack - Night Side of the River - Jeanette Winterson - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The Musical
A tribute Thomas Kilroy - Trish Morrissey- Vladimir's Viennese Christmas Gala Concert - Serpico at 50
Imogen from the Heart - The Thinning Veil - Renaissance: a Film by Beyonce - The Coen brothers
Film Reviews, Paul Whittington & Tara Brady have been watching - Asteroid City, No Hard Feelings, The Last Rider - I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Lorrie Moore's new novel - Claudia Boyle, Claudia Boyle International Soprano at St Bridget's Cathedral in Kildare.
Wes Anderson, chats about his new movie and more - The King and I coming to the Bord Gais Energy Theatre - Darling, new book from India Knight.
The Hare, at Cairde Arts Festival Sligo - Elsewhere, from Yan Ge - 12 Ensemble at Cork Midsummer Festival
Richard Kearney, new novel Salvage & West Cork Literary Festival - Pipeworks Festival, The Tallis Scholars at Christ Church Cathedral - The Wicker Man at 50 from Siobhán Kane.
An extended interview with the esteemed singer-songwriter as he brings us through the songs of his latest release, Folkocracy. In album reviews, Nadine O'Regan and Simon Maher give their verdicts on the latest releases from Queens of the Stone Age, Creep Show and Yusuf/Cat Stevens.
Women’s Prize for Fiction, Barbara Kingsolver for her novel Demon Copperhead - Film Reviews, The Flash // Sunlight // Greatest Days - Anton Jablokov, violinist & Stefano Moschetti, guitarist.
Stewart Copeland, on early life, playing with The Police, and reimagining their classics for orchestra - RiP Cormac McCarthy, with Colum McCann - Richard Ford reads extract from latest novel 'Be Mine'
Christy Dignam RIP, Tom Dunne, Jerry Fish & Pat Carty - Black Mirror, Writer Charlie Brooker and executive producer Jessica Rhoades - Sunlight director Claire Dix (*This film is about assisted dying, euthanasia) - Caroline Shaw at Louth Contemporary Music Society's Festival.
Irish Music Festival: Tunefest - Play: Asylum Workshop - Four-part drama: Best Interests - Tim Murtagh: Tenements of Dublin
Take That and their cultural impact - The Full Monty, new series on Disney+ - Album Reviews, Andrea Cleary& Brian Boyd have been listening to Niall Horan, The Show // Janelle Monáe, The Age of Pleasure // Christine and the Queens, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love
Film Reviews / Chevalier / Medusa Deluxe / War Pony / Flamin’ Hot - Rita Duffy 'Persistent Illusion' Exhibit at the Crawford Art Gallery - We look back at Cleopatra (1963) at 60
Walkabout The Tree Whisperer at the Botanic Gardens - Political Films with Steven Benedict - The Crowded Room review by Dave Hanratty
Morgan Freeman and Eric Meier, will join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra later this week to MC the Delta Blues Project. The Idol is a new six-part television drama on Sky Atlantic. Celebrated German film composer, Hans Zimmer, comes to the 3 Arena.
Actor and writer Gina Moxley on her new show, I Fall Down: a Restoration Comedy, recalling her time as an art student in Cork in the 1970s - Gods of Tennis on BBC2 on how an extraordinary generation of players turned themselves into celebrities - New albums by Foo Fighters, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Aingeala Flannery’s novel, The Amusements, won the 2023 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award - Dave Hanratty and Deirdre Molumby review new films: Carmen; Reality; Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse; The Boogeyman - The West Cork Chamber Music Festival in and around Bantry - A Century of Style: Fashion Photography, now at the Ulster Museum.
The true story of a whistleblower whose actions fuelled a media storm over apparent Russian interference in US elections - The fictional story of Deena Garvey who disappeared in 2004, leaving behind a daughter and a sister - Information for Birth Mothers - The Dublin International Chamber Music Festival kicks off next week.
This year for the first time, the RHA Gallery has included a work generated by AI in its annual exhibition, which received criticism - Up Late, a new poetry collection by Nick Laird. - White House Plumbers, a new mini-series set behind the scenes of the Watergate scandal - RIAM students get the chance to perform with the NSO - Graham Knuttel RIP.
Patricia Forde is the 7th Laureate na nÓg, Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate - Shot From All Sides by Cormac Figgis, a book of live music photography - Dabhach Bhríde – by boat to Inis Oírr Pilgrim Exhibition with works by Frances Bermingham and Mary Fahy - The phenomenon of films inspired by historical consumer products, or specific brands
Film Reviews, The Little Mermaid / 406 Days / Sisu / Hypnotic - Bell X1, new album, Merciful Hour.
Falling Animals, Sheila Armstrong - Mihhail Gerts at National Concert Hall - RHA Annual Exhibition - Arnold Schwarzenegger Profile
Martin Amis emerged in 1973 with The Rachel Papers and went on to produce 14 novels - Darragh McKeon’s second novel, Remembrance Sunday, is rooted in the trauma of the Enniskillen bombing of 1987 - Moxie on ‘Reflecting Migrations’, a concert at Tradition Now in the NCH - Bodybodybodybody is a dance and music performance at Carlow Arts Festival.
MacBeth Opera, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival - Jess Gillam, West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival - Album Reviews, Paul Simon // Lewis Capaldi // Kesha & In tribute to Andy Rourke we play The Boy with the Thorn in His Side.
Film Reviews, Beau is Afraid // Fast X // Under the Fig Trees - Sleeping on Islands, by Andrew Motion - Lovetrain2020, Dublin Dance Festival
The Ballad of Mossy Flood, from Seamus O’Rourke - National Symphony Orchestra Concerts, Christian Reif conductor & soprano Julia Bullock - 406 Days, Joe Lee documentary.
Steeltown Murders, with Philip Glenister - The Dublin Dance Festival, Catherine Gaudet - Werner Herzog, German director - Soundwalk, Ellen Reid
The Stones and Brian Jones, Nick Broomfield's new documentary - The Man Who Played with Fire - Album Reviews, Alison Goldfrapp // Dropkick Murphy’s // BC Camplight
Film Reviews, Book Club: The Next Chapter // Plan 75 // Aosta Valley - The Eight Mountains - National Symphony Orchestra, At The National Concert Hall with conductor Jaime Martin - Adventures in Wonderland, by Paul Charles
Irish National Opera, Così fan tutte - Dublin Dance Festival, The Ark - The Array Collective - The Mary and Alan Hobart Collection, IMMA
We review Guardians of the Galaxy Volume Three, Return to Seoul, and Lakelands - Claire Kilroy’s new novel Soldier Sailor is the story of a woman navigating being a mother for the first time - Silo is a new post-apocalyptic TV show based on a series of sci-fi novels by Hugh Howey.
The hero of Billy O’Callaghan’s novel The Paper Man was part of the Austrian team who played Germany in 1938 - The NGI celebrates painter Lavinia Fontana, Trailblazer, Rule Breaker - The Irish Concertina Orchestra take to the stage in Glór Ennis - A new translation of The Lament for Art O’Leary by John FitzGerald, for the 250th anniversary.
Hamilton preview w/Aedín Gormley - Ed Sheeran's Docu-Series - Review - Siobhan McDonald, Artist Exhibition
Citadel - spy series on Prime Video. HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL comes to Dublin. Album Review - The First Two Pages of Frankenstein, That! Feels! Good! & Blood Orange.
Film Reviews, Tara Brady and Paul Wittington, Ann // Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry // Little Richard: I Am Everything // Rodeo - The Rose Tattoo, A new translation, by Vanessa Fielding and Catherine Joyce - Victoria Melkovska, A Ukrainian poet, who has lived in Dublin since 2003.
Punk Poet, Jeffrey Lewis - Lakelands, Actor Éanna Hardwicke - Poetry Day Ireland, Eavan Boland Legacy.
Sylvia Plath, Sixty Years On - Jim Broadbent - The Mysterious Mr. Lagerfeld - Restoration at Russborough House
Festival in a Van with FELISPEAKS, Dagogo Hart and Samuel Yakura, collectively known as WeAreGriot - Eyes Guts Throats Bones by Moira Fowley - Album Reviews, Brian Boyd & Lauren Murphy have been listening to Everything But the Girl // Rodrigo y Gabriela // Feist, Multitudes
Film Reviews, Deirdre Molumby & Dave Hanratty have been watching - Pray for Our Sinners // Evil Dead Rise // Missing - A Bit of a Writer, A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan’s Complete Collected Short Prose - All Ireland Drama Festival, All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone, which is presented in association with RTÉ.
Cúirt Festival Galway, Haunting Fiction - Dead Ringers, on Prime Video - An Inspector Calls, at the Gaiety Theatre.
Raging Bull, 4K Re-Release - The Disappointed Tourist, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny - John Fogerty & Creedence
Play: The Verdict - Film: Cairo Conspiracy, Director Tarik Saleh - Album Review - Metallica, Daughter & Blondshell
Zara Hedderman and Pat Carty touch on The Script’s Mark Sheehan the guitarist from rock band The Script who sadly died today. Then they review these new albums: Metallica, 72 Seasons Daughter, Stereo Mind Game Blondshell, Blondshell.
Actor Jason Merrells talks about his character, Frank in Play The Verdict. Set in the Irish enclave of Boston, this is the powerful bestselling courtroom thriller that inspired a multi Academy Award-Nominated film starring Paul Newman. The play is coming to the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.
Swedish-Egyptian Director, Tarik Saleh who made The Nile Hilton Incident in 2017 discusses his new spy thriller, Cairo Conspiracy.
Play: The Verdict - Film: Cairo Conspiracy, Director Tarik Saleh - Album Review - Metallica, Daughter & Blondshell
Film Reviews, Chris Wasser & Gemma Creagh have been watching Renfield // Barber // One Fine Morning - Werther, The Irish National Opera is about to tour Ireland with Werther. Sophie Mottley directs the production & mezzo-soprano Niamh O’Sullivan stars.
Beth Orton at Body and Soul festival - Gone Self Storm from Harry Clifton - A Call to You, A contemporary dance project - Obsession, new on Netflix.
Barber, Fintan Connolly the co-writer and director & Actor Helen Behan - The Red Bird Sings, written by Irish author Aoife Fitzpatrick - Anamnesis a new album from Síle Denvir.
Conleth Hill, Simon Delaney and Sean Campion on their new production of 'The Price' at The Gate; Ciara King reviews 'Boom Boom! - The World vs Boris Becker'; and Dave Hanratty and Louise Bruton review new albums from Ellie Goulding and Yaeji.
Film Reviews, John Maguire and Arleen Hunt have been watching Air // Lola // Super Mario Bros - The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Chris O Rourke has been to see the stage show at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse - The Speculations of Country People, Majella Kelly's debut poetry collection.
LOLA, Written and Directed by Andrew Legge - Shy, Author Max Porter brings us his new book - Shakespeare and the Irishman, Professor of English at Trinity, Andy Murphy discusses Trinity's New Exhibition - Beef, Jenn Gannon reviews the new Netflix series.
An Old Song, Half Forgotten, Deirdre Kinahan, Bryan Murray and his partner Una Crawford O’Brien discuss this new play - Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv Author Andrey Kurkov - Windham-Campbell Prize, Author Darran Anderson
Ghosts at The Abbey Theatre, Director Mark O’Rowe & Cathy Belton who plays Helena Alving - The Good Mothers on Disney+ reviewed by Declan Burke - Album Reviews with Zara Hedderman & Simon Maher, Boygenius, The Record // David Kitt, Idiot Check // Arxx, Ride Or Die
Film Reviews, Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves // Night of the 12th // Tetris - Cormac Begley Live at Vicar Street - Lessons in Kindness, poetry collection by Dani Gill.
Jenn Gannon on the final season of Succession; 'Is It Still Raining?' is a new exhibition of paintings by artist Sophia Campbell; and Andrea Cleary and Paul McLoone review Lankum’s new release False Lankum, Depeche Mode’s Memento Mori and Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
Ahead of a sold-out concert at the National Concert Hall, Martin Hayes talks to Sean about 'Peggy’s Dream', the new album with his Common Ground Ensemble. For film review night, Ruth Barton and Paul Whitington cover 'God’s Creatures', 'Infinity Pool', 'The Five Devils' and 'John Wick: Chapter 4'.
Dublin: A Writer’s City investigates the extent to which Dublin has been created by its authors, poets and dramatists - Peter Whelan on the busy spring and summer ahead for the Irish Baroque Orchestra - Television BAFTAs nominations - Great Expectations, the Charles Dickens classic, is the new Sunday night drama on BBC TV.
Paul Mescal and Emily Watson discuss their new film 'God's Creatures', Jennifer Tiexiera tells us about the new documentary she has co-directed called 'Subject', Cahal Dallat on his WB Yeats walking tour of London which is narrated by Ciaran Hinds, and Dave Hanratty reviews Apple TV+'s The Big Door Prize.
Fibin Director Stephen D’Arcy - Book review - Art of Darkness: Goth Music - Johannes Vermeer exhibition 2023 - Amsterdam - Craig Walker & The Cold
Liam Neeson and Neil Jordan bring Raymond Chandler’s private eye back in Marlowe. Shazam! Fury of the Gods marks the return of the Gotham City hero. Pearl, a slasher movie about a wife whose husband is away at war in 1918. Allelujah, a gentle comedy set in a hospital. Rye Lane, a London romcom - New albums by U2, Miley Cyrus and Ailbhe Reddy.
Next week, writers Colm Tóibín, Niamh Campbell and archivist Catriona Crowe come together online for a special discussion of The Barracks - Patrick O’Kane plays David Trimble in a fictional account of the last few days of the Good Friday Agreement negotiations - The Kilfenora Céilí Band takes to the stage of the National Concert Hall.
The world premiere of Shaun Davey’s Refuge, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, at the NCH, with cellist Sinéad O’Halloran - Rosemary Jenkinson on her latest collection of short stories, Love in the Time of Chaos - Extrapolations, a new series telling the familiar story of humanity’s struggle to offset the effects of climate change.
Tartuffe - Music Network Trio - Transatlantic Commissions - Irish language IFI Irish Film Archive
With Andrew Bennett & Carrie Crowley from An Cailin Ciuin, Journalist Lesley O’Toole, Ben Zauzmer, Author of "Oscarmetrics", Marcus Jones, Awards Editor, TV & Film at IndieWire & our live panel Ruth Barton, Paul Whittington, Tara Brady & John Maguire.
Film Reviews, Dave Hanratty and Gemma Creagh have been watching Scream 6, Champions & My Sailor, My Love - Director of The Artist and the Wall of Death, Maurice O’Brien - Albums, Zara Hedderman and Eamon Sweeney have been listening to - Sleaford Mods, Huw Evans & Fever Ray.
Na Cailleacha - Sarah Buckley - Poetry Celebrating International Women's Day - First Cut Film Festival - Fiachra Garvey
The longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced - Richard Eyre’s latest film Allelujah celebrates the spirit of elderly patients in a geriatric ward - Becoming Frida Kahlo, a three-part television series begins on BBC Two this Friday - The Ennio Morricone Experience at the Pavilion Theatre celebrates the great Italian Maestro.
Moving Hearts & The RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Nicole Flattery’s first novel, Nothing Special - Nomos: O’Riada Reimagined, Ordnance Survey brings experimental electronic music to the work of Sean O'Riada.
Niall McCabe brings his new album Rituals - Richie Baneham on another Oscar Nomination - Album Reviews Brian Boyd & Aoife Barry were listening to U.S. GIRLS, Bless This Mess // Slowthai, Ugly // Hello Mary, Hello Mary
Chris Wasser and Deirdre Molumby have been watching Creed 3, Close, & Fashion Reimagined - “My Sailor, My Love” Starring James Cosmo as Howard and Bríd Brennan as Annie, against the odds, and the beautiful backdrop of Achill Island, they fall in love - Eleanor Catton returns with a new novel, Birnam Wood.
Hangmen by Martin McDonagh - National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall - Daisy Jones & the Six
Olivier Awards - Running Feet, Sharp Noses - Pop Art Pioneers - Dark Side of the Moon 50 Years Old
In The Dry, a 35-year-old woman returns to Dublin after years of partying in London. Staying sober is going to be harder than she thought - For 40 years, Brian Maguire has explored the aftermath of conflict and violence. Four monumental paintings make up his new exhibition The Clock Winds Down - Steven Benedict profiles director James Cameron.
The Consultant, Dave Hanratty has been watching The Consultant new to Prime TV starring Christoph Waltz - Crawford Art Gallery, Cristin Leach discusses the new exhibition Site of Change: Evolution of a Building - Album Reviews, Alan Corr & Louise Bruton have been listening to Gorillaz//Ron Sexsmith//Caroline Polachek
Film reviews with Declan Burke and Arlene Hunt, What’s Love Got to do With It // Broker // Creature - Reconstructing Mondrian at Hugh Lane - Louis Stewart Legacy
Nine Apples of Gold from Karan Casey - Brian Dillon's New Work Affinities - Django on Sky - Limerick Literary Festival - Future Tense Documentary
Sean speaks to Sebastian Barry, on the occasion of the publication of his new book Old God’s Time. Old God’s Time revolves around retired Garda, Tom Kettle, a man who has ‘washed up’ in a granny flat lean-to attached to a Victorian Castle in Dalkey.
Madame Butterfly is one of the most celebrated romantic operas of all time - Rushdie has just published his 15th novel, Victory City - Jonathan Harvey has written the new panto Mother Goose - Clare Langan exhibition
Peter O’Toole Documentary - Valentines Day Opera and Poetry - Here and Now Dance - Broken Talkers Manifest
A review of Janet Malcom’s Still Pictures - Deirdre Purcell, RIP - Patricia Hurl at IMMA - Atomic Hope Documentary - Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh Exhibition
Maeve Clancy’s graphic novel The Irish Civil War is the retelling of the story of the Irish Civil War - The Gold is a new six-part BBC drama about the 1983 raiding of a security depot near Heathrow - Pat Carty and Aoife Barry review All of This Is Chance, Lisa O'Neill's new album; Sitting Pretty by the Academic; and This is Why by Paramore.
Tales from the Holywell, Damien Dempsey at Abbey theatre - Paco Robanne RIP - Album reviews
Behan at 100 - Arena Special with - Donal Fallon, Peter Sheridan, Daoirí Farrell, Anne Buckley and Macdara Yeates
Film Reviews - St Dymphna at the National Gallery of Ireland - Sultans of Ping Radio Documentary
Rebel Irishwomen at the NCH - Old Biddy Talk - Celebrating Brigid Through Objects - At Bridget’s Well - Finding a Voice
Stinging Fly anthology A tribute to The Bell - You Resemble Me - Radiohead Jazz Symphony
Gemma Creagh & Dave Hanratty review, Babylon / Let the wrong one in / Bank of Dave and talk BAFTA Nominations.
We speak to Director Emily Atef about her film, More Than Ever which made its world premiere at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2022.
We speak to the main character and narrator, Bret Easton Ellis about his new novel The Shards. Set in Los Angeles in 1981, it's about a group of alienated high school teenagers...
Celebrating the Voice - TradFest 2023 - Streetcar - The Mary Magdalene Experience at Rua Red
Danti Dan play by Livin Dred - Inishowen Traditional Orchestra & Choir - Gina Lollabrigida RIP - Doolin Hedge School
Coisceim,The Piece with the Drums - Kevin Higgins RIP - The Dublin Bowie Festival - The Mystery of Four - Classics Now Fest
Seamus Begley RIP - TradFest - Judy Collins - The Child in Striped Pyjamas - Break Point
Paul McLoone has been watching If These Walls Could Sing - David Wray, piano / Sandra Oman, soprano / Simon Morgan, baritone - Happy Valley has returned after a seven year hiatus and Jenn Gannon has been watching the new series.
This feel-good film was produced by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, and directed by the Swiss filmmaker - and Bond veteran - Marc Forster - First fortnight - Notifications Off They have commissioned work by Electronic Sheep - Till star Danielle Deadwyler plays Mamie Till-Mobley
John Maguire & Ruth Barton have been watching Till, A Man Called Otto, Empire of Light, The Pale Blue Eye, Alcarrás. Guy Barker is back with a new take on Charles Mingus, where he explores the artists who inspired Mingus himself.
Between Worlds' The Life of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin - Music for Galway - Turner: The Henry Vaughan Bequest
The Outsider is a new documentary marking the 30th anniversary of Bacon’s death and is presented by U2's Adam Clayton - ‘Crude’ is the Dundalk singer songwriter’s third album - Paul Whitington - The actress was born one hundred years ago this month.
Memento Civitatem at NGI - Linnar Looris, Artistic Director Estonian National Ballet - Spoken Stories 2 - The Light of Day Tony O Shea retrospective
Film Reviews - Gemma Creagh and Dave Hanratty review White Noise, Nocebo and The Silent Twins. Love Songs is a new dance show by choreographer Philip Connaughton & opens at Project Arts Centre, Dublin in December. The Busk Record, which will be released tomorrow, with all proceeds going to the Dublin Simon Community.
A brand-new documentary to mark 50 years of Raidió na Gaeltachta, on how the station breathed new life into Ireland's music and song tradition - So what is it that makes certain books so hard to get on to the big screen? All Heaney's one hundred and one translations can be found in a single volume, edited by Marco Sonzogni.
Fíbín are deep in preparation for this year’s panto Fionn agus an Bradán Feasa - Lynch/Oz explores the links between David Lynch and The Wizard of Oz - Three Pines is Prime Video's lavish, atmospheric rendering of author Louise Penny's best-selling mystery series - The death was announced of Cheers actor Kirstie Alley.
We broadcast from the set of The Weir, written by Olivier award-winning and Tony award-nominated playwright Conor McPherson, directed by Caitriona McLoughlin, Abbey Theatre artistic director. Also on set are all the cast (Jolly Abraham, Peter Coonan, Brendan Coyle, Sean Fox and Marty Rea) and musicians Éamonn Cagney and Courtney Cullen.
The Sight and Sound Movie Poll comes around every 10 years, and takes into account the favourite films of critics around the world - The Patient is a 10-part drama centering around a successful psychotherapist, Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) and his unusual patient (Domhnall Gleeson) - We review new albums by White Lung, Sophie Jamieson and RM.
Deirdre Molumby & Chris Wasser have been watching Violent Night, How to Tell a Secret and North Circular - The Cure remain one of the most influential and successful bands to arise from the post-punk movement of the late ’70s - Paul Nugent gives A Christmas Carol another twist in his play Orson Welles’ Christmas Carol.
With music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Beauty and the Beast now runs at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre - The Last of the Light is a collection of memoir, short stories, poetry and photographs by Marc O Riain - Stephen Lawlor’s latest show at the Oliver Sears Gallery is this deep exploration of famous masters’ works.
Well I Just Kind of Like It is a new collection of writing edited by Wendy Erskine, about art in the home and the home as art - Crash Ensemble are a group of world-class musicians who play the most adventurous and groundbreaking music of today - Slow Horses on Apple TV Plus is back for Season 2, with Gary Oldman as a foul-mouthed spy.
The Irish Aesthete, Ten Years in the Making: an exhibition of Robert O’Byrne’s photographs - Had he lived, yesterday would have been Jimi Hendrix’ 80th birthday - Netflix’s spin on DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, starring The Crown’s Emma Corrin.
Under Milk Wood is one of the best known and loved creations of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Now Cerys Matthews has adapted it for young readers - The 16th Waterford International Film Festival is currently underway with entries from all over the world, including ‘Dead Dog’ by Joe Rooney - New albums by Stormzy, Anna Mieke and Damian O’Neill.
A live broadcast from the Museum of Literature Ireland, to mark the publication of Winter Papers, a collection of essays, short stories, interviews and poems, with photography. With Winter Papers editor, Kevin Barry, along with some contributors to this year’s collection, Belinda McKeon, Dragana Jurišic, Brian Leyden, and Jessica Traynor.
The extraordinary legacy of film composer Elmer Bernstein will be celebrated on 9 Dec at Dublin's NCH - She Said by Maria Schrader is a biographical drama based on the NYT investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein - A new exhibition in The Kerlin Gallery is celebrating the artist Stephen McKenna, with rarely seen early work.
20 years after his death, legendary actor, poet and singer Richard Harris tells his story in a new documentary film ‘The Ghost of Richard Harris’ - Wednesday, Netflix’s new series about Wednesday Addams - We celebrate the life and work of Martin Scorsese, one of the most talented directors in Hollywood history, who turned 80.
Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These, is set in 1985, where we meet Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant in New Ross - Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing is Poetry Ireland’s new anthology by Martin Dyar - We review new music by Norwegian electronic duo Royksopp, and Weyes Blood.
John Maguire and Aingeala Flannery review three new films, Aftersun, Aisha and Armageddon Time - Tolka, a brand new Irish literary journal set up to promote ‘formally promiscuous non-fiction’ - Elizabeth Cope at VISUAL in Carlow, entitled The Palpable Bump on the Bridge of the Nose.
The Australian musician Jessie Lloyd, artist in residence for Galway’s Song from an Open Road Festival, holds her indigenous culture at the heart of her creativity - Sounding Sionna: A Celebration Of Music & Dance takes place in UL Concert Hall - Transformer is Lou Reed’s second album, which turns 50 this month.
Jack Viertel will take part in The Stars and Stripes Shaded Green, a series of public readings exploring Irish American theatre at Druid - Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, was released in cinemas in November 1942, 80 years ago this month - Nutcracker Sweeties by Ballet Ireland, an Irish twist on The Nutcracker.
The tender relationship between Calum, played by Paul Mescal, and his daughter is the cornerstone of Aftersun - Hereafter by Vona Groarke is the imagined story of her great grandmother - In My Father’s Dragon, a young boy is having trouble adjusting to life in a new town - 1899, an eight-part series set on an 19th century ocean liner.
In Nocebo, Irish film maker Lorcan Finnegan explores themes like consumerism, human exploitation and the fast fashion industry - Chris Thile, American mandolin player, songwriter and composer - New albums by Bruce Springsteen and Warhaus.
Louise Kennedy and Wendy Erskine - John Francis Flynn with Ross Chaney on drums - Jessica Fahy - Art and Writing at the Hugh Lane
New films: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Aisling Trí Néallaibh: Clouded Reveries, No Bears - Independent director John Sayles is in Ireland to take part in the first Dingle International Film Festival this weekend - Berte & Harmey’s work, Nul Punt Wolk, looks at aerial imaging, aviation, mapping and landscape boundaries.
Frank Berry’s new film Aisha turns its lens on the Irish immigration system through the experience of a Nigerian woman who lives in an asylum centre - What should poetry do? This is the question that poet Pat Boran explores at The Leaves Festival - New series The English starring Emily Blunt is set in 1890s mid-America.
In The Crown season 5, the royal saga has reached the 90s and the public implosion of the Prince and Princess of Wales' marriage - The filmmaker Ciara Nic Chormaic has made a feature documentary about Doireann Ni Ghriofa and her creative process - Cowboy Junkies bring their blues-tinged alt-country sound to the National Concert Hall on Nov 17.
Glen Hansard read The Philosophy Of Modern Song, the long awaited new book from Bob Dylan - Wendy Erskine reading from her short story Anti Treaty about a cut throat tv talent show - Dave Hanratty and Zara Hedderman review Alpha Zulu by Phoenix, Palomino by First Aid Kit, and Back Home by Big Joanie.
We review new films: Living, Watcher and The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby - Short Stories in Print, a limited edition collection of unpublished work by some of Ireland’s leading writers - Fermanagh singer and songwriter Clara Tracey’s new album is called Black Forest.
Aura by Ruth McGinley and Neil Martin celebrates Irish airs with classical arrangements - Persona is an interactive visual art exhibition that explores the notion that there are multiple versions of ourselves - During lockdown, photographer Conor Horgan imagined what Ireland would look like if the state had indeed collapsed.
The Marriage Portrait is a novel set in Renaissance Italy which simmers with court intrigue - After a life of being written about, lead singer of U2 and activist, Bono has decided to write his memoirs - For the first time in 145 years, Irish National Opera bring William Tell back to Irish shores at the Gaiety Theatre this month.
Ian McEwan - Margaret Atwood - Walter Murch - Charlotte Rampling - The Banshees of Inisherin
The winner of this year’s Booker Prize for Literature was Sri Lankan writer, Shehan Karunatilaka - John McLachlan celebrates his mother, the poet Leland Bardwell - New albums by Aoife Neasa Frances, The Mary Wallopers, and Babyface.
Gemma Creagh and Dave Hanratty review new films: The Wonder, Bros, Triangle of Sadness, All Quiet on the Western Front - The Latecomer centres around triplet children who are to be joined by a late fourth child - TG4 series Ceolaireacht takes a deep dive into the grass roots of the regional styles of Irish traditional music.
Irish group Clannad have been pivotal in spreading the gospel of Irish traditional music and culture. Now band members have decided to call it a day on Clannad, and to say goodbye to the global stage - A twisted six-part horror thriller, The Devil’s Hour arrives on Prime Video this Friday - 50 years ago, Stevie Wonder released Talking Book.
Maser’s second solo exhibition is on view at Gormleys Fine Art in Dublin - Adapted from William Gibson's novel, The Peripheral stars Chloe Grace Moretz and Wicklow Actor Jack Reynor - Boogie Nights, starring Mark Wahlberg and Julianne Moore, was released 25 years ago - Jimmy Crowley remembering musician Mick Moloney who died in July this year.
In The Wonder, Florence Pugh plays a nurse who is called to poverty-stricken post Famine rural Ireland to bear witness to what some consider a miracle, others suspect is a hoax - Sélène Saint-Aimé is an Afro-French double bassist, singer and poet, with a love of jazz - We review new albums by Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, and Dry Cleaning.
Live from the Pavillion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, listen back to Arena's special programme for the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus
Deirdre Molumby and Chris Wasser on this week’s latest releases - The Banshees of Inisherin, Decision to Leave & Black Adam - Spoken Stories: Near Adelaide by Christine Dwyer Hickey - Mustard by Eva O'Connor, Balor Hall by Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair & Every Five Miles by Sinéad Collopy
John Scott, on Shakespeare’s Othello, which premieres this week - An Irish Story, by Kelly Rivière, a journey into the heart of a family full of secrets - Imaging Conflict: an exhibition of photographs from revolutionary era at the National Museum of Ireland - Star violinist Rosanne Philippens ahead of her performance in Music for Galway.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver is a retelling David Copperfield, set in the Appalachian Mountains, in the 1990s - Brendan Killeen, author of short story Big Why, Little Why - Aoife Nessa Frances announces her forthcoming album Protector is Aoife Nessa Frances' new album, due Oct 28th - Gavin Maloney is one of our most versatile conductors.
The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh, Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell - Rachel Hynes, who wrote The Big House of Nora Toad - Rebecca Miller on her novel Total - The Playlist is a new limited series from Netflix about the ascent of Spotify.
Met Opera and INO, in a partnership that will see live transmissions of productions in cinemas in Ireland, starting with Medea. Award winning actor Robbie Coltrane (72) has died. Turner: The Sun is God is currently open at NGI, showing 89 artworks by the English artist. We review new albums by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Columbia Mills and The 1975.
Ruth Barton and Paul Witington review the latest releases - Emily, Halloween Ends, Holy Island - Angela Gheorghiu will perform with the National Symphony Orchestra in an evening of operatic highlights - The Model Arts in Sligo - Portrait Lab, a visual art exhibition that explores representation through portraiture in its many expanding forms.
Poetry Unbound, a new anthology curated by Pádraig Ó Tuama - We hear from Short Story Competition finalists Antoinette McCarthy and Bernard Crowley - Ballads of a Bogman - The Sigerson Clifford Song Cycle - Turner Prize-nominated, Derry-born visual artist Willie Doherty has a new exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin.
In the Dark is an immersive surround sound experience which brings to life the turning points in the lives of blind or visually impaired actors - John Self reviews Robert Harris' latest historical novel, Act of Oblivion - Ceara Conway is a sean-nos singer and traditional musician, performing at Tradition Now - We preview Season 4 of Babylon Berlin.
Emily is the brainchild of the Australian actor Frances O'Connor, which is her debut as a writer and director - Patrick Spottiswoode will deliver the Dr Tom Walsh Lecture on Shakespeare's Rough Magic at Wexford Opera Festival. Paul Clements on his biography of writer Jan Morris - Scrappage is Aingeala Flannery’s RTÉ Short Story Competition entry.
Nothing Compares - Vicky - The Woman King - The Lost King - Madly Deeply the Diaries of Alan Rickman - Like Punk Never Happened
Some highlights from the Dublin Theatre Festival 2022, on 29 Sep - 16 Oct - ‘The Most Recent Forever’ is a national touring show of visual artist Brian Fay’s work - Albums up for review are: Cool It Down by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Most Normal by Gilla Band; and Building Something Beautiful for Me by Loraine James.
Stephen Frears' The Lost King, the story of the amateur historian whose work led to the discover of the body of King Richard III - Dvorak’s final opera Armida at Wexford Festival Opera - When Unforgiven was released in 1992, it earned Eastwood two Oscars - Iona Sound Trio are taking to the stage for Fermanagh Live.
It's 30 years since Sinéad O'Connor's memorable appearance on Saturday Night Live, which is the pivotal scene in Nothing Compares - The Bear, a mini-series set in a sandwich restaurant - The Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris celebrates its 20th birthday - Music for Galway's 40th anniversary concert with Finghin Collins - Loretta Lynn dies at 90.
My Fair Lady, the story of the flower seller Eliza Doolittle who is transformed from her humble origins into a proper lady - Released last Friday, Magnify is the fourth album from HamsandwicH - In The Boy Who Never Was, set in 1918, a young queer man exists on the fringes of an intolerant society, at a moment of profound global transformation.
In The Realistic Joneses, Will Eno looks at how two suburban couples deal with mortality - Beginning in Karachi, Best of Friends tells the story of two fourteen-year-old girls, as they navigate the teenage years against a background of social surveillance and political upheaval - We review new releases by Björk, Pixies and Sorcha Richardson.
Maxim Vengerov will be performing with the National Symphony Orchestra under conductor David Brophy at the National concert Hall. The program will consist of Prokofiev violin Concerto number one and Ravel’s Tzigane; Cara Doherty and Donald Clarke have been watching - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, Hocus Pocus 2 and Flux Gourmet.
Kate Mosse on her latest book Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries; This England, starring Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson as his government grapple with Brexit and the pandemic; Writers gather to share how they were inspired by Maeve Binchy; and Alma Deutscher's opera, Cinderella, will be performed for the first time in Ireland.
Suzanne Ciani has been a pioneer of electronic music since the early 1970s - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris stars Lesley Manville as a cleaning lady who dreams of owning a Dior dress - Documentary Make Me Famous explores the 80s NYC art scene - Starring Jeff Bridges, The Old Man tells the story of a former CIA operative, whose past catches up with him.
Charlotte Rampling has often chosen complex roles, women who are often in unenviable or impossible situations - No Magic Pill, by playwright Christian O'Reilly, inspired by disability activist Martin Naughton - Cosán na Naomh, new music commissioned by Máire Breatnach - Haunted Dancehall, a two day electronic music event in NCH.
A panel of book and travel enthusiasts, sharing the best plots that involve travel, including Lisa McInerney, Peter Murphy, Darryl Jones and Bebe Ashley - Very sad news emerged this morning with the announcement that British author, Hilary Mantel, has died at the age of 70.
Academy Award-winner Walter Murch’s career as a film editor, sound designer, writer and director, has included work on era-defining films such as Apocalypse Now, The Godfather parts 1, 2 and 3, and The English Patient - We review Blonde, After Yang and more.
Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's new novel, Nights of Plague, is set on an imaginary Mediterranean island beset by a plague - Commemorating our capital in poetry, Dublin in Poetry is a special event hosted by Stephen James Smith - Andor, the new Rogue One prequel, sees Diego Luna return as Cassian Andor.
Sean McGinley and Jason Byrne on Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark - Dancer and theatre director Michael Keegan-Dolan on How to be a Dancer in Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons - Emilie Pine brings us Good Sex, and she also collaborated with Louise Lowe in All Hardest of Woman - Louise White, director of Animals, an interpretation of Animal Farm
Antonia Campbell-Hughes, director of It Is in Us All, the story of a Londoner who returns to his ancestral homeland of Donegal - Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘Memory of My Father’ read by Liam Neeson - Stevie Appleby, previously of Little Green Cars, ahead of his performance at the Pavilion Theatre - Much Ado About Dying, a documentary by Simon Chambers
John Grant will be performing at the inaugural Night and Day Festival in Co. Roscommon next week - Kerr Logan who plays Aidan Kenny in the New RTE drama, North Sea Connection - Aoife Barry and Alan Corr on Suede: Autofiction, Death Cab for Cutie: Asphalt Meadows & Turin Breaks: Wide-Eyed Nowhere
Film Reviews, Ticket to Paradise, Róise & Frank & I used to be famous - Charlie’s Good Tonight: Biography of Charlie Watts - Eye of the Dream by David O’Reilly
The Dublin Review is a quarterly magazine that publishes fiction, essays, memoirs, journalism and travel writing. Launched in 2000 by Brendan Barrington, the Dublin Review has published pieces by John Banville, Anne Enright, Sally Rooney, Seamus Heaney, etc. Show Your Work is its second anthology.
Kynsy releases her second EP ‘Something to Do with Love’ today - World cinema is in mourning as Jean-Luc Godard has died - New film, Moonage Daydream features many of Bowie’s greatest tracks and previously unseen concert footage - Disappearing Islands is the latest work from theatre group Performance Corporation, set around Belmullet’s tidal pool.
Novelist Ian McEwan’s new novel Lessons is the life story of Roland, and the global events that shaped his life - In Róise & Frank, we meet a woman in the throes of grief - The Arts Council has launched The Curiosity Series, a podcast hosted by writer, comedian and podcaster Maeve Higgins.
Conductor Delyana Lazarova talks about the Hallé Orchestra ahead of the performance at the NCH - The new movie Bodies Bodies Bodies takes a parlour game but introduces danger and gore that play on our pre-occupations with technology and cancel culture - John Meagher and Lia Murphy review new albums by John Legend, Daithí, Sampa The Great.
Ruth Barton and Paul Whitington have been watching - See How They Run, Crimes of the Future, The Score.
Double Booker Prize winner and creator of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood speaks to Arena ahead of her appearance at the Clifden Arts Festival - Pianist Barry Douglas on the Music at Monkstown festival - Lie Low, a new play about sex, violence and PTSD as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival.
We speak with Jaime Martín, chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra about the season opening - We review Mise en scène, a new exhibition of works by acclaimed Irish artist Eithne Jordan - Mike on Disney+ dramatizes the life and career of controversial boxer Mike Tyson.
Tara Brady gives us the latest from the Venice Film Festival - Dublin based singer songwriter Katie Kim on her latest album, Hour of the Ox - Estella Solomons paintings exhibited at the National Gallery of Ireland - Bandit Country, poet James Conor Patterson's debut collection.
The Unfolding follows a Republican donor plotting a coup in the wake of Obama's election as President of the United States - Devil in Ohio is the story of Mae, a young girl fleeing a satanic cult - We review new albums by Yungblud, Two Door Cinema Club and Nina Nesbitt.
We review Blackbird, It Snows in Benidorm, and Three Thousand Years of Longing - Verdi's La Traviata was chosen by Northern Ireland Opera to celebrate their return to the stage of the Grand Opera House in Belfast - The long awaited Lord of the Rings TV series The Rings of Power centers on the Second Age of JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth.
Drawing from the Well on 11th September takes its inspiration from the Irish Traditional Music Archive - The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell's new novel is the story of Lucrezia, daughter of Cosimo de'Medici - Dublin street photography by Lorcan Finnegan - Spielberg's Jaws returns to the big screens this September.
Timothy Spall speaks about his new film It Snows in Benidorm - Wake, where club culture meets Irish tradition, at the Dublin Fringe Festival - The Slain Birds, new poetry by award winning Belfast poet Michael Longley.
We hear from conductor David Brophy on Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin's significance as a composer and his musical legacy - Mespil in the Dark charts the bohemian life of the actor and writer residents of the Mespil flats in Dublin - With JazzTempo, audiences experience the fusion of jazz and classical music.
Mr Malcolm's List is a romantic comedy set in English high society in 1818 - The Last Movie Stars, directed by actor Ethan Hawke, charts the careers and incredible fifty-year marriage of legendary Hollywood couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward - New albums by Muse, The Lounge Society, Julia Jacklin.
Official Competition, Her Way and Beast - Arlene Hunt is a unique voice in Irish crime fiction, her latest While She Sleeps - Luke Casserly, There are hotels in Japan that provide special ‘crying rooms’ for people, to escape life’s stresses. These hotels were the inspiration for a new show ‘Hotel Happiness’.
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy is an Irish song written by Brendan Behan in memory of, Michael Collins - Elaine Shay Chow reads the opening scene from Disorientation - Author of Room and the Wonder, Emma Donoghue has a new novel, Haven - On the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins death, The Chief, is a new play by Jimmy Murphy.
Chris Wasser looks at the prequel to Game of Thrones - Listowel International Storytelling Festival - Maria Gillem - Where there are people, there are stories & that is especially true of Irish culture - Albums with Zara Hedderman & Simon Maher, they have been listening to Hot Chip, Anna Mullarkey & The Mountain Goats
Donald Clarke & Cara O’Doherty have been to see - My Old School, Anais In Love & The Feast - New trio, a combination of musicians, uilleann piper David Power with violinist Marja Gaynor and Flamenco guitarist John Walsh - Don Paterson is an Award-winning Scottish poet & has named his ninth collection, The Arctic
Thomas McCarthy & Richard Aldous on Poet Philip Larkin - Steven Benedict - Jeanne Moreau was heralded as a star from her stage debut in 1947 - Arena's tribute to Wolfgang Petersen after his death at 81 - Jessica Fahy - Bones in the Attic is an exhibition at the Hugh Lane Gallery.
Lyric Opera, Massenet’s Werther at NCH - Salman Rushdie - Author Nick Drnaso - Brad Pitt Profile from Paul Whitington
Edna O’Brien - Joyce’s Women at The Abbey Theatre - Albums with Paul McLoone and Louise Bruton
Tara Brady and Justin MacGregor review 'Nope', 'Blind Ambition' and 'Where is Anne Frank'; Mohsin Hamid discusses his latest novel 'The Last White Man' and composer, Anna Mullarkey discusses her debut album 'Falling'.
Liam O'Connor discusses the 2022 Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival gets underway in 12 days time; tribute to Raymond Briggs, who has passed away aged 88; Mary McGill tells us about the new Sunday and Monday night drama on the BBC, Marriage and a new exhibition from Kevin Atherton at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny.
Remnant Ecologies from Jony Easterby - Bone Rosary - Thomas Lynch - Sandman Review with Peter Murphy - Choreographer, Luke Murphy discusses upcoming Kilkenny Arts Festival
May Twenty-Second is a new poetry collection from Frank McGuinness - Laura O’Connor and Stephen Millar of Array Collective, the Belfast-based group of artists won the 2021 Turner Prize for their work - Niamh Regan will be performing at Keep Her Lit, a new folk and traditional music festival taking place in the village of Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
Mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter & Nicholas Cords of string quartet Brooklyn Rider bring their Songs of Love and Death to Kilkenny Arts Festival - In the latest of his book-to-screen adaptations, Declan Burke looks at 2001: A Space Odyssey - Brian Boyd & Andrea Cleary on the latest albums from, Calvin Harris - Maggie Rogers - Jamie T
Paul Wittington and Ruth Barton review Bullet Train, Thirteen Lives and Maisie. Poet Paula Meehan tells us about For The Hungry Ghosts at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. World-renowned organist and harpsichordist, Malcolm Proud, will perform Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival
50 years of Deliverance, John Boorman discusses the legacy of the film - Chinese artist Zhou Li is something of a regular on the international circuit. She now has her first solo exhibition in Ireland - John Meagher & Nadine O’Regan review new albums from Beyoncé, Jack White and Nina Nastasia.
John Maguire & Gemma Creagh look at the Joyride, Hit The Road; The Deer King - Chris Wasser reviews Surface, a new eight-part psychological thriller starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, begins on Apple TV+ this Friday - Directed by Sophie Motley, Letters of a Country Postman, has been adapted for the stage & opens at the Everyman in Cork in August
Dr. Mary Burke - The Horse of Selene was the acclaimed debut novel from Juanita Casey - Steven Benedict - Eleven years ago today saw the passing of one of Hollywood’s most revered, yet paradoxically unrewarded figures, Polly Platt - As a 75th birthday gift, the RTE Concert Orchestra will accompany John O’Conor on August 19th in the NCH
Poet Paul Muldoon is on the road again with Muldoon's Picnic; Rough Magic Theatre Company will perform 'The Tempest' at the Kilkenny Arts Festival; Declan Burke reviews Under The Banner of Heaven and Pat Carty previews an IFI screening of Sam Peckipah's classic Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Semele’s Director Patrick Mason, its conductor Christian Curnyn and one of its stars Kelli-Ann Masterson who plays the titular role speak to Sean - Jenn Gannon on Neighbours, as it finishes after 37 years on screen - Poem – Colm Toibin - Gemma Dunleavy at the All Together Now festival.
On Saturday, September 3, the RTE concert Orchestra will present the world premiere of ROOM performed as a live score - Stuart Clarke discusses how Hot Press has been at the forefront of a changing Ireland as it celebrates 45 years - Simon Maher & Andrea Cleary - Gavin James - The Sweetest Part, Lizzo - Special, Beabadoobee - Beatopia
Chris Wasser & Deirdre Mulomby discuss the latest films - Where the Crawdads Sing - The Gray Man - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time - Preview Light & Magic on Disney + with John Maguire.
Gabriel Byrne on Death of a Ladies Man & Walking with Ghosts - John Francis Flynn debut album, I Would Not Live Always & All Together Now festival in Co Waterford - Cathal Synott, pianist, conductor, musical arranger and director, a host at the Sondheim festival.
Russo Bros on their new film, The Gray Man - Seán Hewitt discusses All Down Darkness Wide - Robert Wilson talks about returning to The Happy Days, Enniskillen Beckett Festival - Clara Simpson gives us a taste of what she has planned for The Happy Days, Enniskillen Beckett Festival
Loah, real name Sallay-Matu Garnett, is best known for her unique blend of Afro-folksoul music - Earagail Arts Festival - Women & the State: Writing Irish History, Sinéad Gleeson & Annemarie Ni Churreain - This is Entanglement – the work of Annex, a collaboration between artists, architects and researchers.
Artist Anna Maria Pacheco - Philip O Doherty from Fíbín Theatre Company - Helen Meany and Judy Murphy review GIAF - Crash Ensemble
With guests - Enda Walsh, Donnacha Dennehy and Paul Fahy - Eímear Noone - Sonya Kelly - Glenn Davis and Brooke Flanagan of Steppenwolf Ensemble & music from Anna Malarkey, ‘Falling Apart’.
Donald Clarke and Cara O'Doherty review Persuasion, Railway Children The Return and The Good Boss; Harrison Ford turns 80; A Wilton Place LED screen will show short films until September; and Mary McGill reviews The Control Room.
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Bríd Harper of the group SíFiddlers, who are performing at the Earagail Arts Festival; poet Michael Pedersen discusses his new book 'Boy Friends'; artist Lorcan Walshe on his exhibition at the Hunt Museum; and Chris Wasser reviews the new Netflix series Resident Evil.
Filmmaker Carrie Cracknell discusses 'Persuasion', her fresh take on a Jane Austen classic which stars Dakota Johnson, Peter Whelan, Artistic Director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra, previews HandelFest, and Declan Burke reviews Black Bird.
The Galway Film Fleadh kicked off on Tuesday, and continues until this Sunday, July 10 - Tara Brady & Justin McGregor - Thor: Love & Thunder - Brian & Charles - Futura - Earagail Arts Festival gets underway this Saturday in Donegal. Singer Ríoghnach Connolly is on the bill with her band Honeyfeet.
CMAT is the stage name of Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson - Spangler’s latest play, Albatross, opens on 19th July at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin - Klostes, is the title of a black & white non-verbal film created by the people of Kaunas together with Irish artist & film-maker Aideen Barry - Paul Whitington on Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy at 50
Adrian McKinty, author The Island - A Fool’s Errand, Cairde Arts Fest, Sligo - The Battle for Kildare Place, is about to come to Bewley’s Café Theatre - Peig Sayers was a contemporary of James Joyce, a new exhibition at the Musuem of Literature Ireland tells us more about her captivating story.
Artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly are touring on the Shannon in their solar-powered Eco Showboat - The theatre world mourns the passing of Peter Brook - A socially awkward inventor comes up with a plan to amuse himself and combat isolation - Shame // Less is a documentary shot in the Boilerhouse sauna, which shows Dublin’s queer underbelly.
Written by Conor McPherson and based on Bob Dylan’s back catalogue, the musical Girl from the North Country, is set in Duluth, Minnesota in 1934, at a boarding house - Untold Ukraine is a short film festival running for the month of July at the IFI in Dublin. All proceeds go to Nova Ukraine - We review new music by Jack Johnson, & SJ McArdle.
Ruth Barton and Paul Whitington on Minions: The Rise of Gru, Nitram, Castro’s Spies - My Life As a Rolling Stone is the new four-part BBC series celebrating the 60th anniversary The Rolling Stones - Iron Annie is Luke Cassidy’s debut novel, a tale of crime and ill-fated romance set in his native Dundalk.
Inua Ellams won the Fringe First award in Edinburgh for The 14th Tale, which is now on the Junior Cert syllabus. Jessie Buckley is one of the most versatile Irish actors of her generation. Bernard Butler's career has seen him move well beyond his role with Suede. Their new album is called For All Our Days That Tear the Heart.
The Steward of Christendom makes a return to the Gate Theatre with Owen Roe as Thomas Dunne - The Civil War saw the destruction of State records, which are now being recreated digitally - The Terminal List is a new series starring Chris Pratt - Model Plot by Deirdre O’Mahony is a sculptural planting of herb and forage crops framed by potato ridges
From Four Weddings and A Funeral to Into The West, Mike Newell's films have launched careers and won awards worldwide - Writer Geoff Dyer on his new book The Last Days of Roger Federer - The O’Donoghue: Bernard O’Donoghue's poetry - Cathal Ryan’s first play Pucked is the story of a young hurler and his arch nemesis.
40 years after being dismissed by critics and audiences, Blade Runner is now regarded as one of the most influential science-fiction films ever made - Poet Padraig Regan's debut collection, called Some Integrity, is already making its mark on the awards circuit - New albums for review by James Vincent McMorrow, Soccer Mommy and Regina Spektor.
Films up for review are: Elvis, The Black Phone , Cannon Arm & the Arcade Quest - Man vs Bee, a new series on Netflix starring Rowan Atkinson, who takes on a house-sitting job - Stephen Brandes' new exhibition in The Model in Sligo is called 'Schmerzbau: It’s not all just misery'
A tribute to musician Dennis Cahill, whose death was announced today - Voyage: ABBA’s virtual tour using digital avatars of the group - In Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest, Kim sets his heart on becoming the greatest of them all in an arcade game - Loot, a ten-part comedy series starring Maya Rudolph, kicks off on Apple TV+ this Friday.
Witch It Up is Bronagh Gallagher's new EP - Crossing Skin by Junk Ensemble, which explores our relationship to the sea - Composer Deirdre Gribbin at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival - Meat, a poem by Victoria Kennefick - This Train Is For, Bernie McGill's new short stories collection.
Paul McCartney turns 80 on June 18th, and he’s still writing, recording and performing. In a writing career that began in 1956, he has written or co-written more than 400 songs. We look back on his prolific career with Dr Holly Tessler - Dave Hanratty and Nadine O'Regan review new albums by Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Foals and Melts.
Chris Wasser & Roe McDermott tell us about Lightyear, Good luck to you Leo Grande & Spiderhead - Colm Toibin & Catherine Flynn celebrate James Joyces great work, Ulysses, on it's 100th anniversary of the publication this year.
Paul McLoone celebrates 50 years since THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS - The French filmmaker, Francois Ozon, is back with a new film, taking on the subject of euthanasia - Dublin’s Summer Organ Festival will fill the various churches with uplifting and fun performances.
Steve Jones discusses Danny Boyle’s new 6 part series about the band, simply called PISTOL - Jessica Traynor Stories of migration with Irish Modern Dance Theatre will present THE WANDERER as part of Corks Midsummer Festival - Alan Corr on the array of actors who have played Elvis – from Kurt Russell to Val Kilmer to Jack White.
Emma Thompson & Daryl McCormack discuss their new film, Good Luck to you Leo Grande - Sinead Campbell Wallace INO production at the Bord Gais - Tolu Makay @ Cork Midsummer - The Last Spring of the World is the second collection by Belfast-based poet Maureen Boyle
John Maguire - 40 years ago, this month saw the release of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Irene Kelleher’s new play, A Safe Passage, opens next week at Firkin Crane, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. - Andrea Cleary & Paul McLoone - George Ezra, Sinead O’Brien and Vance Joy
Donald Clarke & Cara O Doherty give the low down on Jurassic Park: Dominion, Swan Song and Earwig - New work from playwright Colin Murphy & show Director Conall Morrisson, The United States v Ulysses - Declan Burke - Loosely inspired by events in real life, Sherwood is a new 6-part BBC crime drama, starring David Morrissey and Lesley Manville.
Writer/Director Philly McMahon discusses Party Scene, from theatre company THISISPOPBABY - Paddy McAloon turns 65, Colm O’Callaghan takes a look at his work - David Bolger CoisCéim, This month, the IFI celebrates the work of director Bob Fosse with a retrospective of his films - 19th century French artist, Eva Gonzales exhibition.
Swan Song is the latest feature from American writer/director Todd Stevens - Yell, Sam, If You Still Can, follows Samuel Beckett through his last months in 1989 - We Own This City, a crime series from the mind of David Simon, who brought us The Wire - Debut poetry collection, entitled Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho?
Carlow Arts Festival, 9th to 12th June, mix of Irish and international artists. - American comedian Norm Macdonald died last year, and his death came as a shock to almost everybody but him. This week Netflix released ‘Norm MacDonald: Nothing Special’ - Album Reviews: Angel Olsen Big Time, The Whileaways In All Honesty and Stars From Capelton Hill
We review horror film Men, with Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear, and Bergman Island, the story of a couple who goes on a creative retreat - The Bob Dylan Center has just opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with over 100,000 documents: manuscripts, photographs, tapes - Everything I Know About Love, a BBC series created by Dolly Alderton, based on her memoir.
Set during the Irish War of Independence, Guests of the Nation is the story of two English soldiers held hostage by the Irish Republican Army - Irish pianist Peter Tuite will perform Bach's Goldberg Variations in Dublin Castle's Chapel Royal this Friday - Raised Among Vultures is Molly Twomey's debut poetry collection.
Actor Stephen Rea and musician Neil Martin come together again to perform the work of Seamus Heaney in Irish - Corn Exchange Theatre Company are producing Joyce's Dubliners as part of Bloomsday Festival 2022 - The Midwich Cuckoos is set in a sleepy commuter town where, following a blackout, every woman of child-bearing age falls pregnant.
A clash of queens, one Catholic and Scottish, and one Protestant and English, is the subject of the INO's new production Maria Stuarda -The Trial of Lotta Rae, by Siobhan MacGowan, is a rape trial set in London at the beginning of the 20th century - Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+, starring Ewan McGregor.
Pistol is a six-part series based on Steve Jones's memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol - Tara Brady updates us from the Cannes film festival - We review new albums by Liam Gallagher, Just Mustard and Wilco.
Ray Liotta tribute and movie reviews, Top Gun: Maverick, Between Two Worlds and The animated TV series Bob’s Burgers. Rufous Nightjar at Tradition Now in the National Concert Hall. Sandra Newman’s latest novel,?The Men.
The National Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Jaime Martín bring mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter to the National Concert Hall - Darryl Jones celebrates Arthur Conan Doyle in a public lecture - In her latest show, Camille O'Sullivan sings Nick Cave, and will perform at the Kaleidoscope Festival.
Wallis Bird, on her seventh studio album Hands - Elder’s Corner directed by singer-songwriter-producer Siji Awoyinka, as part of the inaugural Africa Day Film Festival in Dublin - Following Ulysses, by photographer Deirdre Brennan, inspired by James Joyce's novel - We review the Dublin Dance Festival.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Cathal Coughlan has died - The Tower, by Dublin artist, Jesse Jones, as part of the Magdalene Series at Rua Red - The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter, wins Dublin Literary Award - The much loved Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy has died - The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky.
Mick Herron is the award-winning author of the Slough House series of spy thriller, including his latest offering, Bad Actors. Costume has always been an integral part of film making, and we look at how fashion in film has evolved over the years. New albums by Harry Styles, Soak, and Ye Vagabonds.
Film reviews: The Innocents, about supernaturally gifted children; Benediction, a biopic of Siegfried Sassoon; Everything Everywhere All At Once, a mind-bending sci-fi - David Harrower’s controversial and award-winning play Blackbird - Dances Like a Bomb, celebrating the strength and beauty of mature bodies and challenging the cult of youth.
Soak, singer-songwriter from Derry, on their new album If I Never Know You Like This Again - Travelling with Mozart, a theatrical and music experience by the Irish Chamber Orchestra - The end of the girl band era.
Future Limerick is Ireland's first climate arts festival taking place in Limerick - Life & Beth is the story of a woman whose life looks good on paper, until the death of her mother changes everything - Catherine Young's A Call To You is a contemporary performance as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, Conversations with Friends follows 21-year-old Frances, who becomes involved in the life of a married couple - The Innocents is a psychological horror film about children with mysterious powers - After Beethoven, a series of chamber music concerts at the NCH, with newly commissioned work by five contemporary composers.
The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival returns to the south-east from May 31 until June 6, headlining with Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice - The Essex Serpent follows London widow Cora Seaborne who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. - New albums by Kendrick Lamar, Florence + The Machine, and Kevin Morby.
Chris Wasser and Deirdre Molumby review An Cáilín Ciúin, Vortex and Father Stu - In May 1972 the Rolling Stones released their 10th studio album Exile on Main St. - Glendalough estate, in Wicklow, will host the Beyond the Pale Arts Festival which includes Soda Blonde, James Vincent McMorrow and Loah amongst the line-up.
Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine, is the crisscrossing story of two women: Ruth, a therapist struggling with infertility, and Pen, a teenager on the autism spectrum - The Calvalcaders, a play by Billy Roche, directed by Aaron Monaghan for Druid - Trailer Park, a vast collection of repurposed caravans, horseboxes and mobile homes.
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, a new documentary, made of interviews conducted by investigative reporter and author Anthony Summers - INSIDE/OUT Street Art in Clonmel - Music for Galway presents their Cellissimo Gala in Galway.
The Man in the Hat, with Ciarán Hinds and Stephen Warbeck - An Cailín Ciúin, based on Claire Keegan's novella Foster - Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin.
Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Wild Men, Wake Up Punk. To celebrate how Emily Dickinson's writing has inspired others, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra will host an evening of music and verse on Wednesday, May 25th, at the NCH. MusicTown 2022 celebrates the theme of ‘Together Again’. A 2-week musical celebration, running from 6th – 15th May.
Constructing a Nervous System by Pulitzer Prize winner Margo Jefferson - New music by Ashley Campbell - New albums from Arcade Fire, Sigrid and Sharon Van Etten
Mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught & conductor Joana Carneiro, ahead of their Malher performance at the National Concert Hall - How dementia is treated in film, with Dr Tony Tracy - County Clare musician Síomha's debut album Infinite Space - The Staircase with Colin Firth and Toni Collette, a Sky Atlantic eight-part mini-series.
Warren Ellis on his personal and creative relationship with Nick Cave. The Cartographer's Pen, a new play by Jimmy Murphy, based around The Treaty and the drawing of the border - The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan, the story of a Russian mathematician who comes to the Irish midlands in the 1950s to help Bord na Móna with a land survey.
Featuring - Jarvis Cocker, Kelly McDonald, Anne Enright, Stephen James Smith and Cormac Begley
Helen Meany Helen Meany has been to see An Octoroon. Dr Jorie Lagerway, Associate Professor in Television Studies in UCD takes a look at the legacy of Lena Dunham’s Girls and Paul McLoone and Zara Hedderman discuss new music releases by Bloc Party, Sive and Let’s Eat Grandma.
Sean catches up with Allen Leech, who plays Tom Branson in Downton Abbey: A New Era. The renowned Nederlands Dans Theater is set to return to Bord Gáis Energy Theatre this May Bank Holiday. Tara Brady and Justin MacGregor discuss the latest movie reviews, Downton Abbey: A New Era - Casablanca Beats - The Velvet Queen
Danny Denton's new novel All Along the Echo, about talk show host Tony Cooney and his producer Lou. Shining Girls with Elisabeth Moss, who is forced to come to terms with a violent assault. The Sound of Being Human by Jude Rogers, a memoir about why music matters. The NCH Creative Lab, a programme that aims to give opportunities to young creatives.
May The Fourth Be With You, a celebration of John Williams' Star Wars music, conducted by Stephen Bell - Ten Percent is the English language adaptation of Dix pour cent, the acclaimed French comedy drama - Pit Lullabies is Jessica Traynor's third poetry collection - House by Fidget Feet, is the sequel to Bingo Wings, a bingo inspired show.
In her memoir, Stories I Might Regret Telling You, Martha Wainwright describes her journey from awkward, earnest, and rebellious daughter, through her intense competition with her brother. - Caitriona McLaughlin is directing a new production of Brian Friel’s play Translations, a co-production between the Abbey Theatre and the Lyric Theatre.
Steve Coogan returned to our TV screens last night on Channel 4 with a new six-part series Chivalry. Pianist John O’Conor presents a programme of Beethoven piano sonatas at the University concert Hall in Limerick, on Sunday, May 8th. Aoife Barry and Simon Maher give us their verdict on new albums by Fontaines DC, Spiritualized and Síomha.
We preview new films: Happening, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Playground. In theatre, we report from the launch of the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival at the Abbey Theatre, and we look at Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster at the Gate Theatre.
American singer, musician and model Ava Cherry on her collaboration with David Bowie - Booker Prize winning author Douglas Stuart brings us back to working class sectarian Glasgow for a love story called Young Mungo - Miasma, by Colin Murphy, a new pandemic play at Richmond Barracks.
John Self has been reading Trespasses for us, the much-anticipated debut novel by Louise Kennedy. Jenn Gannon has been watching the second season of Russian Doll. Shane O’Toole (architect) joined us to discuss his new book.
Jenn Gannon has been reviewing Apple TVplus newest offering ROAR. Composer Elaine Agnew tells us about Paper Boat - a new opera from Music for Galway and we have Album Reviews with Andrea Cleary and Brian Boyd.
We look at The Northman, Operation Mincemeat and Benedetta - Dave Hanratty reviews Amazon Primes latest show Outer Range - And we speak to Author Amy Bloom
She’s remebered by many as Diane the schoolgirl in Trainspotting but tonight Kelly Mac Donald tells us about her latest movie Operation Mincemeat. And Booker prizewinning Julian Barnes talks to us about his new novel Elizabeth Finch. Chris Waser reviews Anatomy of a Scandal, the new Netflix series.
The Outstanding Achievement in Opera award goes to Bajazet. Our Place in Space, a three-dimensional sculpture of our solar system. DBC Pierre, with his new work Big Snake, Little Snake, a cascade of true stories. Giacometti: From Life, a exhibition of more than 50 pieces at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Solidarity a fundraising event in aid of Ukraine, at the Abbey Theatre. Should there be a levy on streaming services? New albums by Wet Leg, Kae Tempest and Pillow Queens.
We review Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore, The Outfit and Murina - Brian Bourke exhibition - Colin Barrett reads The Alps, from Homesickness - Bliss, an audio storytelling experience set on Bray seafront.
Artist Niamh O'Malley is representing Ireland at this year's Venice Biennale. Katharine Hepburn: Woman of the Year is a new season of the screen icon's films at the IFI. Wendy Erskine reads from a short story called Nostalgie. Lenny, Laura McVeigh's new novel of two connected tales, one in the Louisiana bayou, one in the Libyan desert.
Magic & Music is the theme of this year's Wexford Festival Opera. All I Can Say, a film based on video recordings made by Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon. The Ten, a short story by Colin Barrett - Jazz musician Guy Barker.
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume, is a story set in rural Ireland in the shadow of a mountain. Rebel Artists is a series of talks at the National Concert Hall on the subject of art and rebellion. Nosferatu is a German horror film from the silent era, now regarded as one of the most influential movies ever made.
Jarvis Cocker's band JARV IS has composed the original soundtrack of the BBC series 'This is Going To Hurt'. 'Original Sins' is a series of new works by Hughie O'Donoghue now on display at the National Gallery. With the announcement of a U2 biopic on the way, we look back at the music biopic genre.
Our reviewers Paul Whitington and Cara O'Doherty give their verdict on Morbius, True Things and The Bubble; concertina player Cormac Begley has a new album 'B'; and curator Karen Reihill tells us about the Daniel O'Neill retrospective at Farmleigh House.
Stephen James Smith tells us about his new album 'See No Evil, Brendan Muldowney reveals his new horror film 'The Cellar', and Dave Hanratty reviews the new Marvel series Moon Knight.
Filmmaker Graham Cantwell spoke to Sean about his new film Who We Love, Irish-Canadian artist Ciara Phillips discussed her new exhibition Love and Odd Posters & Chris Wasser reviewed the new AppleTV+ series Slow Horses.
Performance poet and wordsmith Stephen James Smith tells us about his debut album 'See No Evil', Brendan Muldowney's speaks about his new horror film The Cellar & Dave Hanratty gives his verdict on the new Marvel series Moon Knight
Luke by Mairéad Folan - Album reviews: Charli XCX, Rosalía and Mattiel - Oscar nominee interviews
Join us as we check out the latest movies, chat with Musician Martin Hayes and delve into the new series of Bridgerton.
Arena marks the launch of the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2022, with the help of judges Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Ferdia Mac Anna and Lisa McInerney - Between Worlds, new music by Dani Larkin - Jack Kerouac at 100.
Baile Beag Mór, the first production of Gaeltacht theatre company Fibín’s three-year residency at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe - A new production of Tarry Flynn by Aaron Monaghan - Songs of the Open Road, a documentary about Traveller singer Thomas McCarthy - Colm Tóibín wins the Rathbones Folio Prize
The Worst Person in the World, a romantic comedy by Joachim Trier- Róisín ReImagined, new music by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh - Abomination: a DUP Opera - My Cousin Vinny turns 30.
Kiefer Sutherland spoke to Arena about his latest album Bloor Street. Oscar winning actress Penélope Cruz talked about her latest film Parallel Mothers and her decades long creative partnership with Pedro Almodóvar. Sean Penn's film Flag Day is based on Jennifer Vogel's 2004 memoir about her father.
A celebration of how we see and express our historical selves in the arts, with author June Caldwell, artist Amanda Coogan, film critic Paul Whitington, theatre director Conor Hanratty, and Joe Csibi, the General Manager of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
We review the latest films: The Phantom of the Open, Fresh, Deep Water, Wolf - WeCrashed, a new mini series about the rise and fall of WeWork - Looking for América, the real life story of a family fleeing conflict in El Salvador.
Hive, a film based on the true story of a woman whose husband disappeared during the war in Kosovo - The Scorched Earth Trilogy, street-opera by the Irish National Opera - The Dublin band Thumper's debut album Delusions of Grandeur is out this Friday 18th March.
The Oscar-winning actor William Hurt has died aged 71 - The Phantom of the Open, the incredible story of the man who entered the British Open despite never playing a single round of golf before - Wolf, the story of Jacob, who believes he is a wolf - Booth, a new novel about the family of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Lincoln.
Homesickness, a collection of short stories by Colin Barrett - The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, with Samuel L Jackson, who plays a man in his 90s, who suffers with dementia - We review new music from Telefís, a collaboration between Cathal Coughlan and Garret 'Jacknife' Lee; Bryan Adam's 15th album, and Classic Objects by Jenny Hval.
Guitar legend John McLaughlin, who began his career in the 1960s, played with the likes of Georgie Fame, Tom Jones, and Ginger Baker - Film reviews: Foscadh, an Irish language feature film, Red Rocket, a comedy drama about a washed up porn star, The Adam Project, where we meet a time-traveling pilot trying to save the future.
Foscadh, a new Irish language feature film - National Symphony Orchestra concert with music by Emma O'Halloran - Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, the new Netflix mini-series
Outrage, a new play by Deirdre Kinahan focusing on the role of women in the war of independence - Centenary commemoration with Myles Dungan and Turtle Bunbury - Pieces of Her, Netflix's new thriller series with Toni Collette.
For Those I Love: RTÉ Choice Album of the Year - The Queen V Patrick O'Donnell, a documentary on the Phoenix Park Murders - Young Gainsborough: Rediscover Landscape Drawings - Francis Ford Coppola's classic gangster movie turns 50
Seán Scully, whose work is exhibited as part of Belonging, in Limerick, along with works from other European artists - The Slowworm's Song by Andrew Miller, a story rooted in the Troubles in Northern Ireland - We go back over Batman in film, to coincide with the release of The Batman.
Kate Dolan's first feature film You Are Not My Mother, a modern day horror story - 'i see Earth', an exhibition of works by Tom dePaor at VISUAL Carlow - The Dropout, the story of Elizabeth Holmes, America's youngest female billionaire for her health technology company Theranos.
Moe Dunford stars in Nightride, about a drug dealer desperate to go straight. The Woman in White Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, an exhibition running at the Royal Academy in London. Living Canvas, digital art at Dublin's Wilton Park.
Who were the real-life Peaky Blinders? With Professor Carl Chinn. Run and Hide, Pankaj Mishra's new novel, the story of three friends who meet at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Album reviews: Tears for Fears, Johnny Marr, Robert Glasper
Leland Bardwell, born 1922, was an influential and prolific figure on the Irish literary scene. A new collection of her poem is published this month to celebrate her centenary - a-ha: The Movie, with music video producer Steve Barron, who produced the video for Take On Me - The plays and films of Martin McDonagh, with Eamonn Jordan.
Jim Broadbent stars in The Duke, about the theft of Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington - Cyrano, a new production of the classic, by producer Joe Wright, with Peter Dinklage - How to Tell a Secret, a documentary film that explores the secrecy around a HIV positive diagnosis - Shit, a play by ThisIsPopBaby.
Ghosts of Baggotonia, a semi-autobiographical film by Alan Gilsenan - Dance Move by Wendy Erskine, a collection of acutely observed short stories - Three decades of Dorothy Cross's art in Crossing - A review of the Australian mini-series Wolf Like Me
Anne Enright on Ulysses: The Wandering I, an exploration of what the brain does when we read Joyce's masterpiece - We Were Young, a new novel by Niamh Campbell which takes us to Dublin's contemporary arts scene - Album reviews: Big Thief, Beach House, And So I Watch You From Afar.
Tara Brady and Justin McGregor fill us in on the latest movie releases. The Real Charlie Chaplin and Here Before
We speak to the writer and director Stacey Gregg of Here Before. In an ordinary Belfast suburb, bereaved mother Laura is unsettled by the arrival of new neighbours and haunted by the possibility that their child Megan may be the reincarnation of her own daughter, Josie, who died some years before
A virtual recreation of the 1922 Art Expo - The Window Seat - Sail We Must - How to Gut a Fish
Gravity (A Love Story), a new play at Limerick's Belltable - Betty Boo releases new solo material - Bill Hughes reviews Les Misérables
Violinist Patrick Rafter - We are the Brennans by Tracey Lange - Album reviews: Eddie Vedder, alt-J and Foxes
Oscar Nominations - The genius of composer John Williams - Severance - Kabosh Theatre Company: Callings
Michael Keegan-Dolan: The Dance - Audrey Magee’s new book The Colony - This is Going to Hurt - Spike Cello Festival
Irish social media influencers - A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe - Album reviews: Mitski, Cate Le Bon and Black Country, New Road
We celebrate 100 years since the publication of Joyce's Ulysses with Nuala O'Connor ('Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce'), Mary Costello ('The River Capture'), John Patrick McHugh ('Reading Ulysses'), Colm Tóibín (Laureate for Irish Fiction), Terence Killeen ('Ulysses Unbound') and Catherine Flynn ( 'The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses')
Lise Hand reviews John Preston's book about media mogul Robert Maxwell which won best biography at the Costa Book Awards. The English National Opera is reviving La Bohème with Irish soprano Sinéad Campbell Wallace. James Joyce’s final book, Finnegans Wake has provided the inspiration for a new album by electronic composer, Roger Doyle.
Alan Corr discusses Neil Young removing his music from Spotify. Christopher Morash talks about The Dublin Literary Award long list. The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork celebrates 100 years of James Joyce's Ulysses in new exhibition Odysseys. The Irish Chamber Orchestra host a programme of classical music under the baton of Thomas Zehetmair.
Penélope Cruz is one of the most compelling film stars of our era, the Oscar-winning star chats to Kay Sheehy about her latest role in Parallel Mothers, Cara O'Doherty & Paul Whitington review new films, Jenn Gannon previews Pam & Tommy on Disney Plus, based on the true story of the Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee sex tape stolen from the couple’s home
Reavey Brothers is a short film directed by John Reavey which tells the story of his young uncles who were victims of a sectarian murder. Arena pays tribute after the passing of Andre Leon Tallie at 73. William Ryan tells us about his new novel The Winter Guest. Artist Sam Keogh discusses his reconfigured show in Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
Kiefer Sutherland talks about his just-released third album, Bloor Street. Northern Irish Opera open a new production of Stephen Sondheim's 'Into The Woods' starring Sean Kearns and directed by Cameron Menzies. The book 'Bacon In Moscow' describes how, despite all odds, James Birch took an exhibition of Francis Bacon's work to Moscow in the 1980s.
Stephen Rea is at the centre of Saíocht, which combines poetry and music and features poets, Natalya O’Flaherty and Sasha Terfous. TradFest 2022 welcomes folk legend, Peggy Seeger who discusses her album, First Farewell. Brothers Steve and Joe Wall, of The Walls and The Stunning play their first restriction-free gig as part of Tradfest.
Flag Day is directed by Sean Penn, Sean & his daughter Dylan Penn star in the new film based on the real-life con man, Jon Vogel, Peter Coonan on the Irish language mystery, Doineann, Darryl Jones reviews The Gilded Age, Sara Freeman on her debut novel Tides.
Haunted by Vertigo is a new book which explores the film and its legacy, one of the editors, Sidney Gottlieb spoke to Kay, Arlene Hunt reviews the final season of Ozark on Netflix, Louise Bruton & Pat Carty review new albums from Miles Kane to Silverbacks & Janis Ian.
Ciarán Hinds, star of the new film Belfast, Ruth Barton & Michael Pope bring us the latest films – Belfast, Nightmare Alley, Mass, Steven Benedict on how cinema has addressed the Holocaust.
Author William Ryan on his new novel The Winter Guest, Wicklow artist Sam Keogh discusses his reconfigured show currently in Kerlin Gallery, Reavey Brothers tells the story of his young uncles who were victims of a horrendous sectarian murder in 1976 in Co Armagh.
Richard Aldous casts his historian’s eye over Munich: The Edge of War, the film adaptation of Robert Harris’s 2017 novel Munich, Poetry, Memory and the Party, Journals: 1974 - 2014 is Thomas McCarthy's new book, Liam Geraghty on Fraggle Rocks reboot on Apple TV
Local Wonders is an anthology of poetry, edited by Pat Boran, more than 100 poets were charged with the task of taking inspiration from their locale, from the things that have seen them through the last couple of years, Chris Wasser reviews After Life, Music for Galway will present a weekend of music celebrating composer, Charles Villiers Stanford
Elvis Costello discusses his new album The Boy Called If & his new podcast How to the Learn the Guitar & Y which is as much a philosophy of living as it is a guitar manual, Kate Brennan Harding & Brian Boyd review new albums from The Lumineers , FKA twigs, & Grace Cummings.
Snowpoet are a London based musical collective led by Irish vocalist Lauren Kinsella & bassist, Chris Hyson, The Sopranos heralded a new era of television, Dr Clare Clark marks the anniversary, available on Sky, Mick O’Dea discusses Inside an exhibition of still life paintings & interiors from the studio at the Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery Dublin.
Ricky Gervais’ After Life is the most watched British comedy of the last ten years, worldwide, Ricky Gervais & cast members incl. Diane Morgan joins Seán, Declan Burke on the classic book to film, Watership Down, Oliver Sears' The Objects of Love, in association with Holocaust Awareness Ireland, at Dublin Castle’s Bedford Hall until February 13th.
Vivaldi’s Bajazet is the Irish National Opera’s first production of the New Year, Classics Now festival celebrates the art, literature & ideas of the Ancient Greeks & Romans, Cloud Studies is a new exhibition at Visual in Carlow.
Steven Benedict pays tribute to Sidney Poitier, whose death was announced today, he was a trail blazer as a black actor in a very white industry, Hilary Rose returns to on our screens in hit RTÉ drama Smother, Alan Corr and Nadine O'Regan look ahead to 2022, in music from breakthrough Irish artists to international music and concerts.
Donald Clarke & Gemma Creagh review films, The 355 a spy caper with Jessica Chastain, Boiling Point, Ailey, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain with Benedict Cumberbatch has sparked an interest in the work of Louis Wain & the Chris Beetles Gallery in London is current exhibition is Louis Wain’s Cats, Steven Benedict discusses the evolution of acting.
The Raptures is set in the small fictional Northern Irish town in the early 90s, Jan Carson's new novel explores how tragedy can both unite & tear apart a small community, Simon Maher on RTE Choice album of the year shortlist, Jess Fahy previews Andy Warhol's America, Every Brilliant Thing at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin
Shy Man, Show Man is about the playwright Brian Friel, Conall Morrison has been watching the documentary which airs on RTÉ One on Thursday at 10.15pm, 50 years on from their debut, The Eagles are back on a world tour, Author, journalist and chronicler of contemporary America, Joan Didion died over the Christmas at the age of 87.
Screw is a new prison drama, starring Derry Girls’ Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Jenn Gannon previews the Channel 4 series, We Seldom Talk About the Past is a collection of stories by John MacKenna, Midwinter Festival Stanford celebrates the music and the legacy of Irish composer, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.
Seán Rocks takes a look back at the Arena series which looks at well-known artists, including Daft Punk, Marina Abramovic and Wes Anderson.
Seán Rocks revisits film interviews from the past year on Arena, includng Ruth Negga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Sparks, Ron and Russell Mael.
Seán Rocks revisits musical moments from 2021's Arena including Dublin rapper Kojaque, Mick Flannery and Susan O'Neill and a tribute to the Chieftains co-founder Paddy Moloney.
Seán Rocks revisits some of the best author interviews on Arena in 2021, from Marian Keyes to Lisa McInerney and this year's Booker Prize winner, Damon Galgut.
Arena celebrates Christmas in music, literature and art with conductor David Brophy, writer John Connolly and art historian Jess Fahy. Chris Wasser on It's a Wonderful Life at 75.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss won six Grammys for their debut album, Raising Sand in 2007. Raise the Roof is their latest studio album.
The Matrix Resurrections, Licorice Pizza, The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Humans, Titane, film reviews with Aingeala Flannery, John Maguire & Paul Whitington, leading piper Louise Mulcahy presents a new documentary which explores the contribution of female pipers, Mná Na Bpíob on TG4 player.
Poet Enda Wyley selects her favourite poems on the eve of the Winter Solstice, Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It, tells the story of the West Side story star, Rita Moreno, The Cow Book by John Connell reflects on his time on the family farm, Jenn Gannon with recommendations for Christmas TV,
A Frosty Dawn is a series of shows at the Pepper Canister Church, feat. artists such as Scullion, Angela Byrne is the co-editor of All Strangers Here, a new anthology of poetry and prose written by Irish diplomats, Zara Hedderman & Simon Maher's favourite albums of the year from Self Esteem to Orla Gartland.
Don’t Look Up is Adam McKay's new film, the satire boasts an all-star cast with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence & Meryl Streep, Cara O'Doherty & Paul Whitington review films, The Lost Daughter, Spider-Man, I Would Not Live Always is John Francis Flynn's critically acclaimed debut album, ahead of his gig at December Sounds yulefestkilkenny.ie
Winter Light features artists Martin Gale & Aideen Barry, ark.ie/events/view/exhibition-winter-light, Siobhán Kane explores the connection between walking & creativity in literature, Jesse Jones is the artist in residency for the King's Inn Society of Ireland, Emma Tobin & Lauren Green are the first winners of the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award.
Declan Hughes, Edel Coffey, Éamon Sweeney and Damien O’ Meara look at best books of 2021 from crime to popular, and literary as well as non-fiction, music and sport.
Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About, 10th anniversary, Colm Keegan, & Kalle Ryan join Seán Rocks, The Japanese Story season of film preview with John Maguire, ifi.ie, Andrea Cleary & John Meagher review new music from Alicia Keys, Tom Morello & Aeon Station.
Tara Brady on the European Film Awards, David Benedict reviews Cabaret with Jessie Buckley & Eddie Redmayne, Dr Dara Downey on Reading Shirley Jackson in the Twenty-First Century, online tonight at the Trinity Long Room Hub , The Voices of Ireland on the great works of Irish writers, documentary on Sky Arts with music from Julie Feeney & others.
Tick Tick Boom is based on the life of Jonathan Larson, the genius creative mind behind Rent, Lin-Manuel Miranda joins Seán Rocks to chat about his feature film directorial debut, Michael Pope & Gemma Creagh review films, West Side Story, Don’t Look, Lamb, Jenn Gannon reviews for And Just Like That
Steven Benedict on Stanley Kubrick's use of music in A Clockwork Orange, Jane Willow, Burn so Bright is her debut album, In 1993 artist Shane Cullen created a monumental sculptural work, of panels transcribing the communications of the hunger strikers, Fragmens sur les Institutions Républicianes IV is at IMMA.ie
The Abbey Theatre production of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, Joe Dowling also directed its first production on an Irish stage 40 years ago, director Ruán Magan's Steps of Freedom, follows the evolution of Irish dance, Dr Enrica Ferrara reviews The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of the Neapolitan Quartet My Brilliant Friend
Alan Corr reviews David Bowie 5, Brilliant Adventure (1992 – 2001) a new boxset, Helen Meany reviews The Long Christmas Dinner at the Peacock, telling the story of 90 years & four generations in the Bayard family, Aoife Barry previews Landscapers which is inspired by real events.
A very special Arena celebrating Winter Papers. The seventh annual publication of stories, essays, poems, photographs, interviews and art edited by Kevin Barry and Oliva Smith. Guests include Kevin Barry, Donal Dineen, Niamh Campbell, Mary Costello, Victoria Kennefick and Billy O' Callaghan.
Array Collective became the first Northern Irish winner of the prestigious Turner prize for their shebeen pub installation, Emma Campbell & Laura O’Connor on their win with Seán Rocks, Tara Brady & Justin MacGregor with film reviews, The Hand of God, C’Mon C’Mon & Final Account, Karen Tongson discusses her new book, Why Karen Carpenter Matters.
The Poison Glen collection by Annemarie Ní Churreáin explores her native Donegal & her own family history taking the reader to Castlepollard & the Mother & Baby Home in which her father was born, Stephen Kelly with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on Christmas Big Band special, Oh William! is Elizabeth Strout's new novel.
Theo Dorgan, Colin Murphy & art historian Jessica Fahy on the centenary of The Treaty, Josephine Baker became the first black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon, Sophie Gorman reports from Paris, Glen Hansard & documentary filmmaker, Alan Leonard, remember the hugely talented Mic Christopher on his twentieth anniversary.
Shadow Voices: 300 Years of Irish Genre Fiction is a new anthology edited by John Connolly, Mon Legionnaire or Our Men from director Rachel Lang at the French Film Festival, Simon Maher & Aoife Barry review from Christy Moore, Julie Doiron, The Darkness
The latest film reviews, House Of Gucci, JFK Revisited with Aingeala Flannery & Donald Clarke, Peter Jackson’s Get Back explores the most contested period in The Beatles history, Paul McLoone & Sarah Stacey review the new documentary on Disney plus.
Ye Vagabonds ahead of their performance at the National Concert Hall, Vona Groarke on her new poetry collection, Link, Tadhg O’Sullivan’s on his film, To The Moon, a new visual work which considers its subject through the media of sound and vision.
Pat Carty on Freddie Mercury: The Final Act, a new feature-length documentary on his 30th anniversary, Joy Crookes shares music from her debut album Skin, Thomas Morris on his new book The Dublin Railway Murder, an insight into Victorian Dublin
Jeremey Irons on his role in House of Gucci, John Meagher on importance of running orders for great albums, Nick Drake play about the scandals around Handel’s Messiah in Dublin in 1742, Vera Klute is a multi-disciplinary artist, perhaps best known for her sculpture of the head of Luke Kelly & curator of the 2021 RDS Visual Art Awards.
Cara O'Doherty and Paul Whittington with all the latest film reviews, the Balanas sisters ahead of their sold-out show at the West Wicklow Festival, and Eoin Dara of Tulca Festival discusses ‘there’s nothing here but flesh and bone, there’s nothing more.’
Garry Hynes and Marty Rea discuss Druid Theatre taking three O'Casey plays on tour, Peter Whelan on the 300th anniversary of Bach's Brandenburg concertos, and Chris Wasser chats about the new Apple TV series The Shrink Next Door
Rosemary Jenkinson on her new short story collection Marching Season, Amy Conroy and Paul Meade on Gúna Nua's production of SHAM, Claudia Boyle on her performance in Alice in the Underground, and Amanda Feery on her new vocal piece 'Longwave'
Pat Carty on Led Zeppelin IV's 50th anniversary, JR Thrope on her debut novel Learwife, and Michael Gallen on his new opera Elsewhere being performed at the Abbey
Gemma Creagh & Justin MacGregor review new films, Spencer with Kristen Stewart playing Princess Diana, The Card Counter, Damien Dempsey's documentary Love Yourself Today, writer Damon Galgut was announced as the 2021 winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction for his book the Promise, Maurice Riordan shares poetry from his new collection Shoulder Tap.
Stephanie Sy-Quia's Amion explores the workings of gender, race & class, Tom Murphy is remembered through a series of acting masterclasses, Conversations on a Playwright, The Sum of the in between is the debut album from Maria Kelly, The Cork Film Festival kicks off on Friday, Holy Island, from writer and director Robert Mason
Americans Anonymous – a handsome book of John O’Donnell's poems twinned with Barry Delaney's portraits, Jack O’Rourke is a singer and songwriter from Cork city, His latest album is Wild Place, The White Handkerchief is a new play from writer Liam Campbell, which tells the story of the victims of Bloody Sunday.
Fidelio is Beethoven’s only opera, Irish National Opera will stage a production of the work at the Gaiety Theatre, artistic director Fergus Sheil & director Annabelle Comyn, John Banville on his latest novel, April in Spain, Unseen Plays is a series of weekly podcasts by the Abbey Theatre featuring lesser-known plays by Lady Gregory & WB Yeats.
In his debut collection of short stories, 'Disappearing Act', actor Robert Sheehan reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour, Rob Doyle's latest book is non-fiction, an account of 52 books he read in a year, from Susan Sontag to Martin Amis, Kate Brennan Harding and Pat Carty review the latest albums from Ed Sheeran to Tori Amos.
Film reviews: Last Night in Soho, Passing, The Rescue - Terence Davies - Paul Muldoon's Howdie-Skelp
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra is staging a special concert for Halloween, Spooktacular is conducted by Stephen Bell, Arena is championing Nuala O’Connor’s book Nora for the Audience Choice Award, Nuala retrace Joyce & Barnacle's first date in Dublin, 'The History of Wexford Festival Opera with Dr Karina Daly, Chris Wasser on the films of Edgar Wright.
Ruth Negga on her latest role in Passing, the film tells the story of two black women, who can "pass" as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the colour line, Sinéad Gleeson reviews 'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan, Colm Keegan, judge of the Waterford Poetry Prize & Ingrid Casey, the overall winner.
The 47th Saturday a short opera by composer, Andrew Synnott, Pipeworks continues this week with a concert from Daniel Moult, Album reviews with Andrea Cleary & Simon Maher, from Self Esteem, the experimental pop project of British musician, singer & songwriter, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, Lana Del Rey, Biffy Clyro.
Ruth Barton & Donald Clarke review films, from Dune with Timothee Chalamet to Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, Straight to Video is a new comedy by Emmet Kirwan set in Tallaght in 1995 in a video shop, Civic Theatre from October 28th, directed by Philly McMahon, Chris Wasser reviews Invasion, a new sci-fi series starring Sam Neill.
Six decades on, West Side Story remains unrivalled, Jamie Bernstein, author of the book, Famous Father Girl, talks about the impact of her father Leonard Bernstein, Lise Hand reviews American Crime Story: Impeachment, Krapp’s Last Tape is one of Samuel Beckett’s best-loved plays, Denis Conway on appearing at the Everyman Theatre in the iconic role
Irish tenor Gavan Ring has put together a gala concert in conjunction with the Daniel O’Connell Summer School, Liberation takes place this Saturday, critics Helen Meany and Peter Crawley look back at five of the shows they have seen at Dublin Theatre Festival. From Anu's Book of Names to Phillip McMahon’s play Once Before I Go at the Gate.
Six decades on, West Side Story remains unrivalled, Jamie Bernstein, author of the book, Famous Father Girl, talks about the impact of her father Leonard Bernstein, Lise Hand reviews American Crime Story: Impeachment, Krapp’s Last Tape is one of Samuel Beckett’s best-loved plays, Denis Conway on appearing at the Everyman Theatre in the iconic role
The Map is a monumental new textile by artists Alice Maher & Rachel Fallon, at Rua Red Gallery in Tallaght, the duo has created a world that is sewn, painted & crocheted, Vincent Dubois holds the prestigious position of Titulaire at Notre Dame Cathedral. Zara Hedderman & John Meagher review new music, Coldplay, Joy Crookes, Finneas.
Seán Rocks is joined by Chris Morash, poet John O’Donnell and Brendan Kennelly’s publisher and friend Neil Astley in celebrating the life and work of Brendan Kennelly and a celebration of the life and work of the influential Irish language poet, Máire Mhac an tSaoi with Louis De Paor, Moya Cannon and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.
Cara O'Doherty & Paul Whitington review the latest films, The Last Duel, Venom & Arracht, Paul McLoone previews Todd Haynes' new documentary about The Velvet Underground premieres on Apple TV+, Fans of jazz music, and experimentalism in sound, can see Kit Downes on tour from next week, as he brings his quartet on a short tour around Ireland.
Jenn Gannon on the return of Succession, Shakespeare is the theme of the 70th Wexford Festival Opera, who better to direct a Shakespeare inspired opera than Conor Hanratty, Soprano Jade Phoenix will be performing in the opera, A mobile living thing is a new exhibition of drawings by artist Brian Fay, now on at the Municipal Gallery, Dun Laoghaire.
The sad news today of the passing of Paddy Moloney, founder of The Chieftains. Donal Lunny, Peadar Ó Riada, Seán Óg Potts, Moya Brennan, Andrea Corr, Cathy Jordan, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Imelda May, Aoife Nic Cormaic and Seán Ó Sé join Seán Rocks in celebrating the life and music of Paddy Moloney.
In The Echo: Field Recordings From Earlsfort Terrace is a new album from Ross Turner featuring 16 artists incl. Lisa Hannigan & Conor O’Brien, Laethanta Sona is a first-time translation into Irish of Beckett’s Happy Days, Domenico Starnone is a leading Italian writer, Enrica Ferrara reviews Trust, Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival.
Aoife Barry previews Scenes from a Marriage, which is a modern adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's classic Swedish series, starring Jessica Chastain & Oscar Isaac, Brian Boyd & Louise Bruton review the latest albums including Elaine Mai's debut album 'Home'& Sam Fender's 'Seventeen Going Under'.
Aingeala Flannery & John Maguire review new films, Deadly Cuts, Sweetheart & The Man who Sold his Skin, Darryl Jones on the South Korean TV sensation streaming on Netflix, Prix Pictet Hope features photographs from 12 different photographers from around the world, Olan McGowan reports on the exhibition, at The Gallery of Photography Ireland.
Elaine Mai is one of Ireland’s top electronic music producers, has a huge following in Ireland & abroad, collaborating with some of Ireland’s finest, Home is her debut album, Deadly Cuts is the debut film from Rachel Carey, the comedy is set in a vibrant hair salon, Ferghus Ó Conchúir & Lucia Kickham on Tipperary Dance International Festival.
The Scottish crime writer William McIlvanney was working on The Dark Remains, when he died leaving behind a half-finished manuscript, which Ian Rankin has completed, The Border Game, at the Lyric Theatre, The Dance, documentary maker Pat Collins follows acclaimed choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan & concertina virtuoso Cormac Begley amongst others.
On The Line: Conversations with Sean Scully, is a new book by art critic Kelly Grovier, The First Bad Man, Pan Pan’s Theatre Festival Show is part theatre piece, part book club, Cristin Leach reviews The Crawford Gallery exhibitions, Rembrandt In Print, & Remains, from acclaimed Irish artist, Brian Maguire.
Seán Ó Riada's contribution to Irish music was enormous, his 50th anniversary was celebrated with two concerts, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Brophy & Peadar Ó Riada teamed up with some of the country's finest musicians & singers, David Burke is the director of the documentary Father of the Cyborgs, album reviews.
Actors Alex Murphy, Catherine Walsh & director Geoff Gould on Philadelphia Here I Come! from October 5th, corkoperahouse.ie , Paul Whitington revisits Daniel Craig's 007, Crime author Stuart Neville's new book, The House of Ashes, the writer Annie Ernaux is considered the great chronicler of French society, Edel Coffey reviews Exteriors.
Gemma Creagh & Michael Pope review films incl Daniel Craig's last outing as Bond in No Time to Die, Uncle Ray from CoisCéim Dance Theatre by David Bolger, looks at father figures, David & Don Rongavilla , this week is traveller pride week, Roads Well Travelled recalls life on the road, Vivian Klieman’s No Straight Lines closes GAZE Film Festival
Cary Fukunaga is the director of No Time to Die, which opens this week in cinemas, Music for Galway celebrates 40 years, Dutch soprano, Lenneke Ruiten, opens the series with a Gala this Thursday, Oliver Sacks is best known for two extraordinary books, Awakenings, he died in 2015, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is a documentary by filmmaker Ric Burns.