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The artists who shaped us: A Giant at My Shoulder returns

Twenty-five years ago, an RTÉ Radio millennium series asked prominent Irish people to select the person who has most influenced them...

RTÉ Radio 1 • 28 Jul

Writer Edna O'Brien is the subject of the new documentary Blue Road

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1 pm

Culture 5 • 31 Jan

Edna O'Brien is the subject of Sinead O'Shea's new documentary

Blue Road: Sinead O'Shea on her new Edna O'Brien documentary

Originally from Navan in Co. Meath, Sinéad O'Shea is an acclaimed writer, journalist and filmmaker.

In Conversation • 30 Jan

Trinity College has renamed its library after poet Eavan Boland

Why Ireland's women writers are finally receiving their due

The recent renaming of Trinity's George Berkeley Library in honour of the late, great poet Eavan Boland is undoubtedly a good thing, but if we want to rewrite the Irish literary canon to be more inclusive of women, we have much more work to do.

Opinion and Analysis • 23 Nov 24

Edna O'Brien remembered - conversations from the RTÉ Archives

An Irish literary giant has left us - writer Edna O'Brien has died at the age of 93.

In Memoriam • 29 Jul 24

Book Club: The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien

Your Book Club Bluffer's Guide...

Books • 07 Feb 24

Legendary screen badass Lee Van Cleef stars in The Hard Way (Pic: Getty)

Irish Cult Movie Classics: The Hard Way

Filmmaker Paul Duane celebrates his favourite Irish cult movie classics...

Film • 16 Jan 24

Joyce's Women: Edna O'Brien's theatrical portrait of the artist

RTÉ Arena • 17 Aug 22

Edna O'Brien's Joycean play to premiere at Abbey Theatre

Theatre • 13 Jun 22

Edna O'Brien archive acquired by National Library of Ireland

Books • 10 Sep 21

Edna O'Brien celebrated with France's highest cultural honour

Author Edna O'Brien has been named Commander in the French "Ordre des Arts et Lettres" by Mrs Roselyne Bachelot, French Minister of Culture, during an online ceremony on Sunday 7 March, on the eve of International Women's Day.

Books • 08 Mar 21

Edna O'Brien marks her 90th birthday with T.S Eliot Lecture

On her 90th birthday, acclaimed author Edna O'Brien delivered the annual T. S. Eliot lecture, focusing on Eliot's impact on modern literature and his friendship with James Joyce.

Edna O'Brien • 15 Dec 20

James & Nora - Edna O'Brien reads from her new book

Edna O'Brien's new book James & Nora: A Portrait of a Marriage is specially adapted for broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 at 6.30pm on Saturday 13 June, to coincide with its publication and Bloomsday 2020.

Ulysses • 15 Jun 20

Nicole Flattery, author of Show Them A Good Time

Big reads - books to keep cabin fever at bay

Paddy Kehoe looks at a bag-full of compelling novels and short stories to beat the cabin fever blues...

Books • 22 Mar 20

Edna O'Brien: exploring trauma and serial loss to extraordinary effect in Girl (Pic: Murdo MacLeod)

Reviewed: Girl by Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien's nineteenth novel depicts the trauma which Nigerian schoolgirls experienced when ambushed and captured by Boko Haram militants. This raw account of a young girl's captivity and escape is nothing short of heartbreaking.

Books • 12 Sep 19

Edna O'Brien's new novel Girl hits bookshops this week

Culture 10 - the week's cultural highlights, digested

And how was your week? Here's our handy tip sheet of Cultural musts for the next seven days...

Culture 10 • 06 Sep 19

Edna O'Brien on bringing The Country Girls to the stage

Edna O'Brien introduces her own stage adaptation of her classic novel The Country Girls, currently running at the Abbey Theatre.

Theatre • 16 Apr 19

Biographer turned memoirist Claire Tomalin.

Reviewed: Claire Tomalin - A Life of My Own

Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed biographer of Austen, Dickens and Hardy. In A Life of My Own, she tells her own fascinating story, involving two marriages, rearing children and the demands of a professional life.

Books • 14 May 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

Seven Irish authors are in the running for the 2017 Dublin Literary Prize

Seven Irish novels in running for Dublin Literary Award

John Banville's The Blue Guitar, Kevin Barry's Beatlebone, Anne Enright 's The Green Road number among the Irish novels long-listed for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award.

International Dublin Literary Award • 22 Nov 16

Edna O'Brien