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Book Of The Week: Anne Enright's The Wren, The Wren

When the Man Booker Longlist was announced last month, conversation erupted on social media around how many Irish writers were on the list.

Books • 09 Sep 23

Seaside Girls Darina Gallagher and Sinead Murphy celebrate Ulysses on Sunday Miscellany

Re: Joyce! RTÉ celebrates Bloomsday 2022 as Ulysses turns 100

Ulysses • 14 Jun 22

Something For The Weekend: Jessica Traynor's Cultural Picks

Something For The Weekend • 18 Apr 22

Kim Gordon & Sinéad Gleeson to edit music anthology

Anne Enright • 20 Aug 21

Watch: Notes From A Quiet Land - Women's Day celebrated

Watch the live spectacular from Dublin's National Concert Hall...

international womens day • 06 Mar 21

Anne Enright reads Wildlife for Spoken Stories Independence

Spoken Stories Independence - RTÉ Radio 1's new writing showcase

Wildlife read by Anne Enright launches a new collection of RTÉ Radio commissioned short stories...

RTÉ Radio 1 • 18 Jan 21

The Book show tackles the Irish Mammy in fiction

It was all about the Irish mammy in fiction, The Readin' & Feedin' Book Club, and cop clichés on this week's Book Show. Listen back here . . .

Book Show • 08 Dec 20

Author Roxane Gay will speak at this year's ILDF Dublin

International Literature Festival Dublin goes online for 2020

International Literature Festival Dublin have unveiled the programme for their 2020 installment which, like many of the recent cultural events affected by the Covid-19 crisis, will take place online.

Books • 30 Sep 20

Cúirt Festival highlights: In conversation with Anne Enright

We are bringing you highlights from this year's Cúirt International Festival of Literature all week.

Culture • 05 May 20

The Book Show returns to RTÉ Radio 1 with Landy & Enright

The Book Show returns to RTÉ Radio One at a time when some of us are reading more than ever while others are struggling to concentrate at all...

The Book Show • 20 Apr 20

Something For The Weekend: Marian Richardson's Cultural Picks

Choice Cultural Picks from the acclaimed broadcaster...

Something For The Weekend • 10 Mar 20

Reviewed: Actress by Anne Enright

Actress is the tale of the complex relationship shared between the protagonist Norah and her Hollywood actress mother Katherine O'Dell in post war 1940s Hollywood.

Books • 15 Feb 20

Atwood, Donoghue & Enright for UCD Irish-Canadian literary fest

Handmaids Tale author Margaret Atwood is among the authors set to feature in Imagining: Home - a two-day literary festival celebrating the connections between Canada and Ireland, taking place at UCD Dublin from March 1-2.

Culture • 21 Feb 18

Artist Anton Hallmann talks about his re-imagined cover designs for six classic Irish novels.

In The Picture: Irish literary classics reimagined

To celebrate Ireland's status as a nation of storytellers, international hotel group Radisson Blu commissioned artist Anton Hallmann to take six iconic 20th-century Irish novels and re-imagine their cover design.

visual arts • 07 Feb 18

Anne Enright on life as the Laureate for Irish Fiction

It has been almost three years since then-Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced Anne Enright as the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. With her tenure coming to a close, she joined Sean O'Rourke to discuss some of the work she did during that time.

Books • 19 Dec 17

Children's Laureate PJ Lynch meets ongoing Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright

The Laureate na nÓg writes - from the Aras to the ploughing!

Read the latest blog from celebrated illustrator and Children's Laureate PJ Lynch... This month, the Laureate is very busy indeed - and loving it.

Books • 11 Oct 17

Anne Enright's The Green Road is one of the novels shortlisted for this year's Dublin International Literary Award.

Sinead Crowley on the Dublin International Literary Awards

Featuring six novels in translation as well as several that have been nominated for prizes including the Man Booker, the Man Booker International and the Baileys Prize, this year's Dublin International Literary Award shortlist is an impressive one.

Books • 13 Apr 17

Room director Lenny Abrahamson features in This Is Ireland, a new video celebrating Irish culture and creativity.

New Creative Ireland site celebrates Irish culture and creativity

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny today launched the new Ireland.ie portal, as part of his St. Patrick's Day visit to the United States. The new site is an initiative of the new five-year Creative Ireland Programme.

Creative Ireland • 16 Mar 17

Legendary Irish author Maeve Brennan, pictured on the streets of NYC (Picture: Getty)

Anne Enright on Maeve Brennan - going mad in America

In April of 2016, inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright delivered her annual laureate lecture in New York, an appropriate location for her subject - Dublin-born author Maeve Brennan.

Culture • 08 Jan 17

Author (and style icon) James Joyce pictured in Dublin in 1904

A Portrait of the Artist at 100 - a celebration

100 years ago, on 29 December 1916, a seminal book of the twentieth century was published for the first time: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Culture • 04 Jan 17

Seven short book reviews from Rick O'Shea

Looking for a good read? RTÉ Poetry Programme presenter Rick O'Shea has a few recommendations for you.

Culture • 25 Nov 16

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