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Margaret O'Connor: How I made Maggie O'Farrell's BAFTA headpiece

Conceptual artist, milliner, and accessory designer Margaret O'Connor has earned acclaim for her singular creations; her latest challenge took her to London and the BAFTA Awards.
Design • 11 Mar

Jessie Buckley's 10 best roles, ranked

She's come a long way from Killarney, but Jessie Buckley's march through Hollywood continues apace.
Film • 12 Mar

The next green wave: 10 exciting Irish names to watch in culture

Bring in the flood defences, because it's not just the extravagantly-named storms that the world has to contend with these days.
Listicles • 16 Mar

Sunday Miscellany: An ode to Jessie Buckey's hopes for an Oscar

An ode to Jessie Buckey's hopes for an Oscar win...
Sunday Miscellany • 10 Mar

Will Sinners succeed? Arena talks to this year's Oscar nominees

As this year's awards season reaches its climax, join Sinéad Egan for RTÉ Arena's Oscar Edition, a special show bringing you the very best of Arena's interviews with nominees for the 2026 Academy Awards.
RTÉ Arena • 10 Mar

How easy is it to correctly predict who will win an Oscar?

Theories around the Oscars may prove to be not entirely correct, but they do provide a useful approximation of which films will triumph
Oscar Awards • 13 Mar

Man with a plan - Oscar-nominee John Kelly talks to Arena

Ireland has a history of recent brilliant animation being Oscar-nominated and John Kelly, a filmmaker specialising in animation, is just about to pack his bags and head to Los Angeles.
Film • 09 Mar

Is Timothée Chalamet right about opera?

For Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Grace Morgan and Laura Aherne from the Irish National Opera, discuss Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet's controversial comments on opera and ballet - listen above.
Opera • 13 Mar

Something for the Weekend: Actor Eleanor O'Brien's cultural picks

Rising star Eleanor O'Brien stars in the new Irish language mystery Báite, winner of Best Irish Language Feature Film at the 2025 Galway Film Fleadh...
Film • 05 Mar

Irish-language heist thriller Aontas comes to TG4 & BBC

The acclaimed Irish-language heist thriller Aontas will receive its television premiere on TG4 and TG4.ie on Monday, 16 March at 9:30pm, and it will also air on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC iPlayer on the same date.
Television • 04 Mar

Irish news reels filmed over 60 years ago released by IFI

A collection of archive newsreels which were filmed across Ireland in the 1950s and early 1960s have been released on the Irish Film Institute's archive player.
Ireland • 04 Mar

Navigating the global stage, and bringing Irish cinema to L.A.

Matthew Nevin, Executive Director of CIACLA and Co-Director of MART Gallery & Studios, introduces this year's edition of The Irish Film Festival Los Angeles, showcasing new Irish cinema in the centre of the world's entertainment industry.
Film • 04 Mar

A rendez-vous in Cork with French cinema

Film • 02 Mar

Spotting Robert Duvall on a Buenos Aires morning

In 1995, I was teaching English in Buenos Aires...
In Memoriam • 18 Feb

Taxi Driver at 50 - how Scorsese and De Niro made a masterpiece

Fifty years ago this week, U.S. cinema changed forever with the release of a piece of cinema that felt less like a movie and more like a fever dream of New York City...
RTÉ Arena • 13 Feb

Frameworks - applications now open for animated short film scheme

Fís Éireann/ Screen Ireland's flagship animated short film scheme Frameworks, in partnership with RTÉ, is now open for applications for 2026.
Animation • 03 Mar

Is this film on a Kerry legend the best music doc of the year?

You've probably never heard of Bill Fuller before, but the Kerryman was one of the most influential music promoters of the 20th century
Film • 16 Feb

Ireland's success at the Oscars, from the 1920s to now

You'd be forgiven for thinking that it's been the ongoing Green Wave that is solely responsible for washing Irish talent onto the shores of Hollywood - but the Irish have played an intrinsic role in the movie business since its earliest days.
Film • 08 Feb

Get Creative: On becoming an actor - being a self-starter

Ever dreamed of one day treading the boards, but don't know where to start?
Get Creative • 10 Feb

Something for the Weekend: Kathryn's Ferguson's cultural picks

Belfast-born filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson won acclaim and awards internationally for Nothing Compares, her documentary portrait of Sinead O'Connor.
Something For The Weekend • 11 Feb

Every Moon Is Atrocious - a cinematic love letter to a poet

The new film Every Moon Is Atrocious is a psychogeographic voyage by artist and filmmaker Yvonne McDevitt, who uses the poetry of her late brother Niall McDevitt to take us on a cinematic journey
Film • 13 Feb

Something for the Weekend: Animator John Kelly's cultural picks

Animator John Kelly is winning acclaim for his short Retirement Plan...
Something For The Weekend • 23 Jan

Breathless & beyond: the unclassifiable cinema of Jean‑Luc Godard

Dave O Mahony, the Irish Film Institute's Head of Cinema Programming, takes aim at a moving target - legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, the subject of a new season at the IFI this February.
Film • 03 Feb

As Hamnet shows, all movies should end with a dance sequence

At a time when social media is doomier and gloomier, a little light came from the unlikiest of places.
Trending • 22 Jan

Get Creative: On becoming an actor - getting started

Ever dreamed of one day treading the boards but didn't know where to start?
Get Creative • 20 Jan
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