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Meat Loaf onstage at Feile 1990 (Pic: Getty)

Meat Loaf and Ireland - to hell and back with a rock icon

Detail from a painting by artist Paul Doran

Paintings you can hold in your hand, and how to buy them

Poet Sean Hewitt publishes his memoir in July

6 Irish non-fiction books to read in 2022

2FM Rising 2022 - Irish musical acts to watch

The Aislings meet Tommy: "I feel like my friendships sustain me"

the tommy tiernan show

Ruby Wax talks to Brendan about mindfulness, loss and cats

The KinShip Project - climate action through art in Cork

Belfast, Nightmare Alley & Mass: RTÉ Arena on the latest movies

Crimes & Confessions - justice delayed is justice denied

100 Buildings: a Dundalk cigarette factory 'fit for a High King'

Remember My Name - author Sam Blake (Pic: Alice-Rose Jordan)

Remember My Name by Sam Blake - read an extract

Editor's Choice

1990: A wink from 'Nighthawks' continuity announcer Bláithín Keaveney (Michelle Houlden)

Ireland On The Box - new exhibition celebrates 60 years of RTÉ

Wexford Festival Opera: Watch Edmea live

RTÉ Supporting the Arts this January

RTE Supporting The Arts

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

Ulysses - listen to the epic RTÉ dramatisation

RTÉ Choice Music Prize shortlist announced - listen to the albums

The RTÉ Choice Music Prize

Documentary On One: Conor Walsh – Passing Through

Documentary On One

Movies & Musicals on RTÉ lyric fm salutes Stephen Sondheim

Music 101: The Bluffer's Guide

More Music 101: The Bluffer's Guide

Music 101: Your Bluffer's Guide to Northern Soul

Bluffer's Guides

Music 101: Your Bluffers Guide to Disco

Music 101: Your Bluffers Guide to Irish Punk Rock

Music 101: The Bluffers Guide to Trip-Hop, live at the Sugar Club

Bluffer's Guides

Music 101: The Bluffer's Guide to Electronica

Bluffer's Guides

Music 101: The Bluffers Guide to Ska

Music 101: The Bluffer's Guide to House Music

Music 101: Your Bluffers Guide to Hip Hop Ladies

Bluffer's Guides

Music 101: The Bluffer's Guide to Alternative Hip Hop Ladies

Bluffer's Guides

Music 101: Your Bluffer's Guide to Soul Music

Bluffer's Guides

Arena on RTÉ Radio 1

More Arena on RTÉ Radio 1

The End: Ricky Gervais talks After Life with RTÉ Arena

Why do people hate The Eagles?

The Raptures - author Jan Carson talks to RTÉ Arena

Wait for Me: Snowpoet talk to RTÉ Arena

Tick, Tick... Boom! Lin-Manuel Miranda talks to RTÉ Arena

Faith Healer returns - director Joe Dowling talks to RTÉ Arena

Oh William! Author Elizabeth Strout talks to RTÉ Arena

More Arena on RTÉ Radio 1

Best Of 2021

Clockwise from top left: Brendan Tallon, For Those I Love, Inhaler, Villagers, Orla Gartland, John Francis Flynn, Declan O'Rourke, Cathal Coughlan, Kojaque

Listen: Our top 10 Irish albums of 2021

Orla Garland's Woman On The Internet - one on Jim Carroll's must-hear albums of 2021

Jim Carroll's Top 25 Albums of 2021

'Holding Her Breath' author Eimear Ryan

Sinead Crowley's Books Of The Year

Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman

Aedín Gormley's Top 10 Movies Of The Year

'Vulture Prince' by Arooj Aftab is one of John Kelly's picks for 2021

John Kelly's Top 10 Albums of 2021

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart makes the list of 2021's best games

The Best Video Games of 2021

Olivia O'Leary, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and Vincent Woods recommend poetry books to buy for Christmas

The Poetry Programme recommends poetry books for Christmas

Rachel Sennott in Shiva Baby

10 great movies you might have missed in 2021

The Colour Of Ireland by Rob Cross brings Irish history back life.

Gift reads - best books to buy this Christmas

Architecture in focus

100 Buildings: Modernist remnants of a bright future in Longford

100 Buildings: a courtyard housing classic in Cork

The Watergate Theatre in Kilkenny, originally the Savoy

100 Buildings: a palace of dreams in Kilkenny

100 Buildings: Goulding Summer House is a floating Wicklow wonder

Busáras in 1967

100 Buildings: Busáras - Michael Scott's modernist masterwork

100 Buildings: the American dream in the suburbs of Limerick City

Modern Worship: celebrating Ireland's 5 Quirkiest Churches

Rosleven Telephone Exchange, Athlone (1976-1980) designed by Noel Dowley for the Department of Posts and Telegraphs

How to appreciate architecture within your 5km

100 Buildings: a modernist masterpiece in Donegal

The Poolbeg Chimneys were illuminated by Movember in 2020

100 Buildings: how the Poolbeg Chimneys became a Dublin icon