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Sunday Miscellany goes behind the scenes with the '22 Kerry team

Behind the scenes with the Kerry team, ahead of the 2022 All-Ireland senior football final

Kerry: Tides of Time - how I made the epic new RTÉ documentary

Katrina Costello introduces her new documentary series Kerry: Tides of Time, narrated by Brendan Gleeson, which tells the multi-dimensional story of the Kerry landscape, from its earliest origins, deep in the geological past, right up to the present day

Documentaries • 28 Apr

Sunday Miscellany: Climbing Carrauntoohil, by Jamie O'Connell

Attempting the notoriously challenging Kerry mountain

Sunday Miscellany • 26 Feb

RTÉ Documentary On One: The only Kerryman to be buried twice

Sunday, April 2nd 2023 marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Con Carey, a bachelor labourer from Brosna, Co. Kerry – and the only Kerryman to be buried twice.

Documentary On One • 01 Apr 23

Paul McDermott and Eoin 'Stan' O'Sullivan at Knocknaboul Cross in Co. Kerry.

Searching for the the music of Sliabh Luachra - The Lyric Feature

Paul McDermott previews An Draíocht – the music of Sliabh Luachra, his new Lyric Feature documentary.

The Lyric Feature • 12 Mar 23

Lyric Feature: Olivia O'Leary, Paddy Bushe and James O'Shea take Ellen's Walk

Lyric Feature: A poet, a poem and a long-forgotten walk

Lyric Feature: Olivia O'Leary on a poet, a poem and a long-forgotten walk

The Lyric Feature • 27 Feb 23

An injured soldier being helped by the Red Cross on the South Western Front during the Irish Civil War (Pic: NLI, colourised by John Breslin for his book Old Ireland in Colour)

No Middle Path - David McCullagh on the Civil War in Kerry

Books • 10 Feb 23

100 Buildings: A Modern Medievalist church outside Listowel

Architecture • 19 Nov 22

Row at Listowel Writers' Week as volunteers dismissed

Efforts will be made this week to try to resolve a growing row at Listowel Writers' Week after the voluntary committee underpinning Ireland's longest running literary festival were dismissed by their board on foot of a consultant's report to replace them with a professional curator.

Munster • 13 Nov 22

St Bernards Abbeydorney Front view courtesy of Tom Kennedy

100 Buildings: St. Bernard's church - Kerry's modernist miracle

Architecture • 07 May 22

(L-R) Artistic Director Mary Dullea, violinist Darragh Morgan and composer Linda Buckley on Valentia

Chamber Music on Valentia Festival: land, sea, sky & fresh sounds

Music • 10 Aug 21

The Bride Collector by Siobhan MacDonald - read an extract

Books • 30 Jul 21

Paul Hughes, Standing still and staring, mixed media on canvas

In The Picture: Staccato @ Kenmare Butter Market

visual arts • 29 Jul 21

Documentary On One - meet the men who beat the bookies

Conor Keane writes for Culture about the influences that drew him to tell this compelling story of how ordinary punters successfully schemed to beat the bookies.

Documentary On One • 12 Oct 21

Kerry