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Tom Murphy and Mark O'Halloran in Adam & Paul

The Bloomsday Film Festival celebrates Adam and Paul at 20

The Bloomsday Film Festival, perhaps the most literary film festival in Ireland, have announced their programme of events for this year's event, which runs from 12th - 16th June.

Film • 31 May 24

New documentary Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat comes to cinemas

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...

Culture 5 • 17 May 24

Lenny Abrahamson on Room live with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Film • 15 Aug 22

Conversations With Friends - Lenny Abrahamson talks to RTÉ Arena

RTÉ Arena • 18 May 22

Brian Gleeson and Sarah Morris star in Constellations (Pic: Rich Gilligan)

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Culture 5 • 13 May 22

21 movies that define 21st century Irish cinema

You won't find any Quiet Men or My Left Feet on this list; instead, these are the movies that we think have had the biggest impact, both nationally and internationally, in defining 21st century Ireland on the silver screen.

Film • 14 Mar 22

Watch: Paul Mescal & Daisy Edgar Jones' Normal People audition

Watch footage of Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones' original audition tapes for the roles of Connell and Marianne in Normal People, the sensational tv series based upon Sally Rooney's bestseller novel.

Normal People • 29 Oct 20

Lenny Abrahamson on the future of the arts in Ireland

The Expert Advisory Group set up by the Arts Council to advise on the arts in a post-Covid world has published its report. It's called Survive Adapt Renew, and filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson, one of the Committee members, discusses the details with Arena...

RTÉ Arena • 23 Jun 20

Normal People star Paul Mescal is one of a new wave of Irish acting talent making a splash

New Screen Ireland initiatives focus on actors and mentorship

Screen Ireland have launched a new initiative focused on the promotion of Irish acting talent, alongside a new mentorship scheme with high profile industry leaders attached.

Film • 03 Jun 20

Culture 10 - the week's cultural highlights, for the new normal

In case you've made enough banana bread, we have some choice cultural pickings to keep your brain busy for the next seven days...

Culture 10 • 21 May 20

Normal People - the 10 best tweets about last night's episode

Last night's superb episodes of Normal People on RTÉ One caused quite the stir, as - to be blunt - things got rather steamy between young lovers Connell and Marianne.

Normal People • 13 May 20

Normal People - watch the first two episodes

The electricity of first love between two people who changed each other's lives. Based on Sally Rooney's best-selling novel and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

Normal People • 29 Apr 20

Normal People is broadcast on Tuesday nights on RTÉ One

How Normal People became the defining novel of our era

To talk about Sally Rooney's work as capturing the zeitgeist would be something of an understatement...

Normal People • 27 Apr 20

Lenny Abrahamson on bringing Normal People to the screen

Lenny Abrahamson talked to RTÉ Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 about directing the television adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People.

RTÉ Arena • 23 Apr 20

Saoirse Ronan in the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn

What next for Irish cinema?

The Irish movie and TV industry is poised for a roaring twenties, following a decade in which native cinema went truly global, wowing audiences and winning many top awards.

Film • 11 Jan 20

Domhnall Gleeson in Lenny Abrahamson's The Little Stranger

Lenny Abrahamson & Stephen Rennicks talk movie soundtracks

Ahead of the Vinyl Festival in Dun Laoghaire, RTÉ Arena's Sean Rocks talks movie soundtracks with director Lenny Abrahamson and long-term composer/collaborator Stephen Rennicks.

Arena • 06 Nov 18

10 Classic Dublin Films

With Dublin Oldschool currently going down a treat in Irish cinemas, it's as good a time as any to look back on other gems that have been set in the Fair City.

Film • 29 Jun 18

Director Lenny Abrahamson and actor Domhnall Gleeson, pictured on the set of Frank.

Abrahamson and Gleeson reunite for The Little Stranger

Director Lenny Abrahamson and actor Domhnall Gleeson have both come a long way since their last collaboration, on 2014's critically acclaimed black comedy Frank.

Film • 19 May 17

Oscar nominated filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson is one of the many participants in the free talks programme at Cruinniú na Cásca on Easter Monday.

Let's Talk: Over 50 Talks lined up for Cruinniú na Cásca

Free talks will take centre stage at Cruinniú na Cásca on Easter Monday as Dublin City Centre opens to the public for a large-scale free festival across St. Stephen's Green, Dublin Castle, Smithfield Square and Custom House Quay from 11.00am - 6.00pm.

Culture • 17 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

Art Matters: How Irish film ruled 2016

And why we can't take it for granted, says Andy Linnane of the Screen Director's Guild of Ireland.

Culture • 13 Mar 17

The Pantisocracy Christmas Special line-up, from left to right - artist Amanda Coogan, singer and director of ITMA Grace Toland, filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson, Queen Of Ireland Panti Bliss, Sean-Nós singer Róisín Elsafty and performer Gavin Friday.

Watch Panti's Christmas Message - Pantisocracy at Xmas

On a day that, for many of us, brings us back to our sense of ourselves and childhood Pantisocracy explores 'the heart of memory, the song of home'. What story does Christmas tell of us? Watch (and read) Panti's Christmas monologue below...

Culture • 24 Dec 16

Lenny Abrahamson

The Bloomsday Film Festival celebrates Adam and Paul at 20

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Lenny Abrahamson on Room live with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Conversations With Friends - Lenny Abrahamson talks to RTÉ Arena

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

21 movies that define 21st century Irish cinema

Watch: Paul Mescal & Daisy Edgar Jones' Normal People audition

Lenny Abrahamson on the future of the arts in Ireland

New Screen Ireland initiatives focus on actors and mentorship

Culture 10 - the week's cultural highlights, for the new normal

Normal People - the 10 best tweets about last night's episode

Normal People - watch the first two episodes

How Normal People became the defining novel of our era

Lenny Abrahamson on bringing Normal People to the screen

What next for Irish cinema?

Lenny Abrahamson & Stephen Rennicks talk movie soundtracks

10 Classic Dublin Films

Abrahamson and Gleeson reunite for The Little Stranger

Let's Talk: Over 50 Talks lined up for Cruinniú na Cásca

New Creative Ireland site celebrates Irish culture and creativity

Art Matters: How Irish film ruled 2016

Watch Panti's Christmas Message - Pantisocracy at Xmas

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