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William Butler Yeats

Friday 26th October

As we look our of the windows, we can see the beautiful Hyde Bridge & Garavogue river, the William Butler Yeats statue & of course just up the river is Lough Gill, where the Isle of Innisfree is located and the inspiration for one of his most famous poems.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-john-murray-show/programmes/2012/1026/355100-the-john-murray-show-friday-26-october-2012/?clipid=943532

Prose and Poetry

Wednesday 19th December

Today's programme featured poetry and prose from a panel of well known Irish poets Mary O'Donnell, Rita Ann Higgins and Dennis O'Driscoll and callers to Liveline . Christine Broe ,Pairic Duffy,Maria Smith , Michael O'Flanagan, Fleur Finlay , Seamus Kirwan , Mary Guckian , Emma Tobin , Louis Mulcahy , Mary Turley McGrath, Tony Curtis all contibuted to the programme today.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/programmes/2012/1219/359704-liveline-wednesday-19-december-2012/?clipid=960441

Arts Tonight: Dennis O'Driscoll Remembered

Monday 28th January

'...Someone today is seeing the world for the last time as innocently as he had seen it first' A programme for the much-missed poet Dennis O'Driscoll, who died suddenly last month, recorded in Studio 8 in the Radio Centre, RTÉ, with an audience of his family and friends. As well as the voice of Dennis O’Driscoll himself in extracts from the RTÉ Radio One archive, including readings of his poems Prologue and The Conformist Village, we hear, variously, memories, reflections, critical analysis, stories, and readings of his poems from poets Séamus Heaney, Éiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Gerard Smyth, Joseph Woods, Aidan Mathews, Ellen Hinsley, Pat ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arts-tonight/programmes/2013/0128/364985-arts-tonight-monday-28-january-2013/?clipid=986176