A panel discuss what it means to be Irish and how we’ve expressed this through our art and culture; what are the words, the songs, the images, that speak to ...
coming up on Friday's show....a special with the Defence Forces School of Music, the New Dublin Voices Choir and soprano Mairead Buicke in a musical Christmas celebration _______________________________________________________________________ coming up next week on Arena..... Tuesday 27th - a special programme remembering and commemorating the life and work of the late John Montague, one of our great contemporary poets and Ireland's first Professor Poetry ************************ Wednesday 28th - a public interview with Jim Sheridan, recorded in July at the Town Hall Theatre as part of this year’s Galway Film Fleadh ************************** Thursday 29th - a look back at some of the broadcasts that came from various Festivals around the country this ...
Sinead Crowley, Arts and Media Correspondent, reports on the fightback of traditional publishing despite the rise of digital media
Declan Burke and Mary McGill discuss the most memorable psychopaths in literature and film Selections include: Oliver Ryan from the book "Unravelling Oliver" by Liz Nugent, Achilles from Homer's "Iliad", Vee Parker in the tv ...