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RTÉ / 10 hours ago

The Godmothers by Monica Mc Inerney - read an extract

We're delighted to present an extract from The Godmothers, the latest novel by bestselling Australian author Monica Mc Inerney, a family drama set in Australia, Scotland, Ireland and England.

RTÉ / 11 hours ago

Watch: Emma Langford performs 'Birdsong on The Tommy Tiernan Show

RTÉ / 11 hours ago

Watch: Andrea Corr & RTÉ Concert Orchestra perform Lilac Wine

RTÉ / 11 hours ago

Lyra's tribute to Dolores O'Riordan on The Late Late Show

RTÉ / 13 hours ago

Music 101: Your Bluffer's Guide To Soul Music

Welcome to your Bluffers Guide To Soul, the hopeful beginnings of a musical journey through influential genres and artists...

Irish Times / 13 hours ago

Netflix has spent millions on its films, so why are they so mediocre?

Streaming giant Netflix has spent gazillions making movies, with little of quality to show for it

Irish Times / 15 hours ago

'2020 was going to be the most amazing year ever for us'

Producer Anne Clarke on experiencing live performance for first time since pandemic

Irish Times / a day ago

Sylvain Sylvain, New York Dolls guitarist who paved way for punk , dies aged 69

Billy Idol among those to pay tribute to ‘all-time great’ who had cancer for over two years

RTÉ / a day ago

Something for the Weekend: Marin Alsop's cultural picks

Marin Alsop is one of the world's most acclaimed conductors, a guest tutor on the National Concert Hall's award-winning Female Conductor Programme...

RTÉ / a day ago

Oprah Winfrey gives 25 Irish books seal of approval

The Oprah Winfrey Magazine has published a list of their top 25 Irish books to their readers.... let's look at what books made the list...

RTÉ / a day ago

20 Shots Of Opera: Through and Through by Peter Fahey

Irish National Opera's 20 Shots of Opera series features 20 new compact operas from composers in Ireland...

RTÉ / a day ago

Remembering Dolores - three years on

The mark the third anniversary of the death of Dolores O'Riordan, we're re-running our tribute to the sorely missed Limerick singer

Irish Times / a day ago

WandaVision: The most audacious – and entirely bonkers – TV in recent entertainment history

Review: WandaVision is a mystery, a satire and a love letter to the great American sitcom

RTÉ / a day ago

Behind The Truth: Entrepreneur Charlotte Matabaro means business

Born in the East End of London, and raised in Waterford, entrepreneur Charlotte Matabaro features in episode 2 of Behind the Truth.

RTÉ / 2 days ago

The Stand - RTÉ Arena on the latest Stephen King adaptation

Stephen King's epic 1978 novel described a band of survivors in a world that had been turned upside down and inside out by a pandemic...

Irish Times / 2 days ago

Sleaford Mods: Spare Ribs review – Postcards from a pandemic full of righteous rage and indignation

Sleaford Mods create vivid and evocative pen pictures of modern life like no other band

Irish Times / 2 days ago

Dear Comrades! Heart-rending drama with electrifying central performance

Film review: 1962’s Novocherkassk massacre was the ultimate betrayal of the Russian revolution

Irish Times / 2 days ago

Shame: Drunk Tank Pink review – Taking the ferocity down a notch

An obvious recalibration in their second album won’t do the band a bit of harm

Irish Times / 2 days ago

The Movie Quiz: ‘Fifty million people watched, but no one saw a thing’ – name the film from the tagline

Plus: James Stewart and Hitchcock, a missing Saturday Night Fever song and Schitt’s Creek casting

Irish Times / 2 days ago

One Night in Miami: Claustrophobic but engaging chamber piece

Review: This sophisticated imagined conversation between Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke works hard to shake off its theatrical roots

Irish Times / 2 days ago

Four new films to stream this weekend

Dear Comrades!, MLK/FBI, One Night in Miami, Stardust

Irish Times / 2 days ago

Pom Poko: Cheater review – Wacky, joyful and crammed with creativity

You never quite know which way any of these songs are going to swing

Irish Times / 2 days ago

Joe Duffy et al do what the mother and baby home commission could not

The week's radio shows let survivors set records straight, share their anger and ask crucial questions

RTÉ / 2 days ago

Danny Diamond on fiddler Andy Dickson - The Rolling Wave podcast

RTÉ / 2 days ago

Poetry Programme preview - the search for inspiration

Inspiration is the topic on this week's Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio One

Irish Times / 2 days ago

Armie Hammer drops out of comedy film amid social media controversy

US actor’s decision comes after explicit messages allegedly sent by him were leaked online

RTÉ / 3 days ago

Comfort Viewing: 5 RTÉ Player box-sets to beat the January blues

Beat the January blues with some classic box sets on the RTE Player.....

Irish Times / 3 days ago

MLK/FBI: The sinister smearing of Martin Luther King by a paranoid FBI

Film review: More than five decades on, Sam Polland’s documentary is alarming

Irish Times / 3 days ago

West Cork Chamber Music Festival doubles down for 2021

Artistic director Francis Humphrys is responding to Covid by adding more shows

Irish Times / 3 days ago

Stardust: David Bowie’s 1971 tour of the US was disastrous. This film about it isn’t much better

Film review: Johnny Flynn’s enigmatic performance anchors this David Bowie movie

Irish Times / 3 days ago

‘Very surreal’: Pillow Queens make US TV debut on James Corden show

Irish rock band personally booked by CBS talkshow host, who ‘absolutely loves’ the group

Irish Times / 3 days ago

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings will have plenty of elves but will there be any hobbits?

Middle-Earth to return to the screen with Amazon drawing on The Silmarillion for big budget show

RTÉ / 3 days ago

First Fortnight presents My Story My Song on Sunday 17th January

My Story My Song one of the musical highlights of the First Fortnight festival takes place online this Sunday 17th January.

Irish Times / 3 days ago

Netflix: 25 films to watch out for in 2021

Big names, Oscar contenders and everything from westerns to romcoms will hit the small screen this year

RTÉ / 4 days ago

Dear Gay - new documentary wants your Gaybo story

Dear Gay is a major new documentary for RTÉ One, which aims to tell some of the myriad stories behind the tens of thousands of letters that were written to Gay over his 60 years in broadcasting.

Irish Times / 4 days ago

The Music Quiz: David Gray once sang about which aspect of a hospital stay?

In honour of The Irish Times Health Month, a special quiz on medically relatable music

Irish Times / 4 days ago

Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived

Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight

Irish Times / 4 days ago

Jessie Buckley: Kerry’s bright star lights up the new season of Fargo

Fargo, season four review: Kerry actor Jessie Buckley is chilling as psychokiller Nurse Mayflower

Irish Times / 5 days ago

How to saw a person in half: 100 years of a sensational illusion

From David Copperfield to Paul Daniels, the trick is as iconic as pulling a rabbit from a hat

Irish Times / 5 days ago

Call My Agent’s Camille Cottin: ‘People thought I was this senseless b*tch’

The scene-stealing star on her journey from Paris prank show to co-stardom with Matt Damon

Irish Times / 5 days ago

Inside the world of the Irish men who married one another for tax reasons

TV review: Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan used marriage-equality laws in a novel way

Irish Times / 5 days ago

The Serpent: The BBC’s big new year drama has lost its way

TV review: With constant flashbacks and a labyrinthine storyline, it’s a sweltering muddle

Irish Times / 5 days ago

Michael Apted obituary: Eclectic director’s work spanned Up documentaries to James Bond

Gorillas in the Mist director worked on variety of projects including Coronation Street

Irish Times / 5 days ago

Arnold Schwarzenegger uses ‘Conan sword’ to condemn Trump as ‘worst president in US history’

Actor and ex-Californian governor likens last week’s storming of US Capitol to Kristallnacht

Irish Times / 5 days ago

Sex and the City to return for new series

The revival will be called And Just Like That, but Kim Cattrall will not be involved

Irish Times / 5 days ago

Happy Mondays star Bez to launch fitness class after spending lockdown ‘mainly sitting on sofa’

YouTube class Get Buzzin’ With Bez is a bid to help him and public ‘get fit and mentally happier’

Irish Times / 6 days ago

TV guide: 24 of the best shows to watch this week

Let the Rest of the World Go By, Pembrokeshire Murders, All Walks of Life, Servant

Irish Times / 6 days ago

David Bowie: 10 questions on his 5th anniversary

To mark the fifth anniversary of David Bowie's death, a special music quiz on all things Ziggy

Irish Times / 7 days ago

Wikipedia at 20: Did you know Will Ferrell was once not killed in a paragliding incident?

Its prose is flat, design rudimentary, but Wikipedia remains a triumph of human ingenuity

Irish Times / 7 days ago

Gorillas in the Mist director Michael Apted dies aged 79

Film-maker was also known for Up documentaries and for directing Bond film

Irish Times / 8 days ago

RTÉ’s Waterford Whispers News sketch was woefully unfunny, crude and offensive

Hugh Linehan: The New Year’s Eve rape joke was less satire than a failure of imagination

Irish Times / 8 days ago

The hundreds of Irish words for sea and sea life

The abundance of Irish words to describe every element of marine life is staggering

Irish Times / 8 days ago

Painting Dublin: A visual history of Ireland’s capital city

Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. This book takes a very different approach

Irish Times / 8 days ago

Vanessa Kirby: ‘I wanted to feel like I’d lost a limb, like someone was missing’

The London actor plays a woman who loses her baby in the hard-hitting Pieces of a Woman

Irish Times / 8 days ago

Sleaford Mods: ‘Right now it’s embarrassing to be English. I feel ashamed, frankly’

Singer Jason Williamson on what Brexit has shown him and creating a new album during lockdown

RTÉ / 8 days ago

Michael and Matt are getting married - inside the new documentary

Filmmaker Donal Moloney writes for Culture about his new documentary Let the Rest of the World Go By, which receives its TV premiere on Monday, January 11th on RTÉ One.

Irish Times / 9 days ago

The Movie Quiz: What was Marlon Brando’s directorial debut?

Plus: tying the title, novels by actors, a first time song, the three wives of who?

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Four new films to see this weekend

Dramas Pieces of a Woman and Two Ways Home, docs Robin’s Wish and Mother

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Real-life Peaky Blinders: How the IRA sourced guns from the ‘Birmingham mob’

Newly released files detail role of Birmingham gangs in the War of Independence

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Barry Gibb and Friends: Greenfields review – Game approach but doesn’t match originals

Volume one of Gibb Brothers’ songbook with Nashville twist

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Robin’s Wish: What Robin Williams really died of

Film review: This documentary sets the record straight on the actor’s last days

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Ray D’Arcy has the solution to all our problems

This is mightily flimsy stuff, more suited to local radio. But, against the odds, it works

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Kerri Watt: Neptune’s Daughter review – Distinct and interesting change of direction

Acoustic tracks fly higher and louder thanks to added oomph of production techniques

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Aaron Frazer: Introducing review – Heartache-infused 1970s soul

Baltimore singer’s tender falsetto is leavened by a moderate grittiness

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Mother: Thought-provoking tribute to selfless caregivers

Review: Documentary questions ethics of outsourcing care and economic disparity between Thailand and the West

Irish Times / 9 days ago

Two Ways Home: A drama about bipolar disorder that might do some good

Review: Tanna Frederick is terrific in a film about mental illness that avoids preachiness

RTÉ / 11 days ago

Music when the lights go out - reimagining the live gig

Kilkenny's Set Theatre has weathered the storm facing Ireland's live venues, conceptualising, filming, and editing a series of unique concert films showcasing the sheer breath of our island's creative forces...

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