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Sunday Miscellany: Peter Cunningham on a forgotten revolutionary

On the forgotten revolutionary Darrell Figgis

Sunday Miscellany • 22 Feb 23

Portrait of a revolutionary: David McCullagh on Eoin MacNeill

Books • 25 Jun 22

Sunday Miscellany: The Lost Dispatch, by Lourdes Mackey

Nancy Wyse Power's adventures on the Dublin-Cork train in Easter Week, 1916

Sunday Miscellany • 12 Apr 22

1916, and the road to Terrible Beauty - The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature • 17 May 21

Author Peter Cunningham: a web of intrigue, love, loss and betrayal that keeps you hooked right up to the end

Reviewed: Freedom is a Land I Cannot See

Eileen Dunne was deeply engaged by Peter Cunninham's new novel because of its subtlety, lyricism, and the author's ability to re-create the atmosphere of fear and tension that permeated Dublin in the 1920s.

Book Review • 30 Jun 20

Assessing Roger Casement - 'He was a very complex character'

Professor of Modern History at UCD, Diarmuid Ferriter joined Seán O'Rourke to talk about the complicated legacy of the 1916 leader Roger Casement.

Culture • 08 May 20

New Irish Shorts: Mr Yeats and the Beastly Coins - After '16

We present a week-long series of shorts commemorating the Easter Rising, from Screen Ireland's After '16 funding scheme which marked the 2016 centenary.

Irish Short Films • 18 Apr 20

Irish Short Films: Watch Baring Arms - After '16

We present a week-long series of shorts commemorating the Easter Rising, from Screen Ireland's After '16 funding scheme which marked the 2016 centenary - watch Colm Quinn's documentary Baring Arms...

Irish Short Films • 16 Apr 20

New Irish Shorts: Watch Granite and Chalk - After '16

We present a week-long series of shorts commemorating the Easter Rising, from Screen Ireland's After '16 funding scheme which marked the 2016 centenary.

Irish Short Films • 15 Apr 20

Mick O'Dea - The Britannia (2015), RHA Dublin, 2016

21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks: The Britannia

In an ongoing series of articles, critic and broadcaster Cristín Leach selects 21 artworks for RTÉ Culture that define Modern Ireland. Number Fifteen: Mick O'Dea's The Britannia (2015)

visual arts • 15 Sep 17

RTÉ Player Recommends: The Story of the Irish Revolution

Each week, the RTÉ Player team suggest a 'must-watch' from the Culture collection. This week, we look at 'A Sovereign People', a documentary film exploring the two decades that laid the stepping stones for the foundation of the Irish state.

RTÉ Player • 29 May 17

RTÉ Player Recommends: The Story of the Irish Revolution

Each week, the RTÉ Player team suggest a 'must-watch' from the Culture collection. This week, we look at a documentary film exploring the two decades that laid the stepping stones for the foundation of the Irish state.

RTE Player • 24 Apr 17

Countess Markievicz (centre) lays a wreath at Wolfe Tone's graveside

New Dublin public artwork will highlight role of women in 1916

As part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme, a new a new specially commissioned public artwork will be unveiled Dublin as a “permanent reminder” of the women of 1916 and also the achievements of Irish women over the last 100 years.

Culture • 29 Aug 16

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Sunday Miscellany: Peter Cunningham on a forgotten revolutionary

Portrait of a revolutionary: David McCullagh on Eoin MacNeill

Sunday Miscellany: The Lost Dispatch, by Lourdes Mackey

1916, and the road to Terrible Beauty - The Lyric Feature

Reviewed: Freedom is a Land I Cannot See

Assessing Roger Casement - 'He was a very complex character'

New Irish Shorts: Mr Yeats and the Beastly Coins - After '16

Irish Short Films: Watch Baring Arms - After '16

New Irish Shorts: Watch Granite and Chalk - After '16

21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks: The Britannia

RTÉ Player Recommends: The Story of the Irish Revolution

RTÉ Player Recommends: The Story of the Irish Revolution

New Dublin public artwork will highlight role of women in 1916

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