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American composer and pianist George Gershwin is here to help you get a good night's sleep...

Playlist: Classical music to help you sleep

If you're finding it difficult to get to sleep lately, here are some soothing classical pieces that will help you drift off into a restful night's sleep.

Music • 22 Apr 20

Kathleen Watkins:
"I'm exercising a little bit of every hour if I can. That's the most important thing in my day, to keep moving."

Listen: Kathleen Watkins on cocooning, poetry and life after Gay

Kathleen Watkins has shared her daily routine, which includes working on a collection of poems for Gill Books and clearing out her late husband Gay's Byrne's office.

RTÉ Radio 1 • 21 Apr 20

Get Ireland Making - create your own Home Hack Spring Decoration

We're delighted to present the first in a series of Get Ireland Making videos, created in association with the Design & Crafts Council Ireland.

Get Ireland Making • 09 Apr 20

The Trailblazery - creatively activating the spirit of our times

Kathy Scott is the founder of The Trailblazery, a cultural agency dedicated to 'creatively activating the spirit of our times' - ahead of their multicultural International Women's Day Gathering on March 8th, entitled Women Rising, she writes for Culture.

lifestyle • 06 Mar 20

Watch: Queer Eye's Tan France talks to Stephen Colbert

The acclaimed and essential US late-night talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert is now available to watch the day after its U.S. broadcast on RTÉ Player.

RTÉ Player • 11 Jan 20

Top 10 Halloween tips - how to creep it real

The spooky season is almost upon us! Here's a few tips from Ireland's Halloween experts Film Fatale, the events team behind this year's monster Halloween ball, Danse Macabre, at the RDS, Dublin.

Halloween • 22 Oct 19

Aviator Lady Mary Heath (Illustration: Sean Branigan)

Who's Your Heroine? Nominate your choice for new RTÉ animations

RTÉ Young Peoples' Programmes wants your help for an exciting new animation project celebrating great Irish women...

Herstory • 10 Sep 19

Actor and activist Aoibheann McCann at the Now By RTÉ tent

All Together Now - the future of sustainability?

Actor and activist Aoibheann McCann has taken over Culture's social accounts for this year's All Together Now bash - here, she checks out the sustainability initiatives on display at this year's ATN Festival.

All Together Now • 03 Aug 19

Elsewhere by Rosita Boland - read an extract

We're delighted to present an extract from Elsewhere, the new travel memoir from Rosita Boland.

Books • 03 Jul 19

Tiny Dancer - Donal Dineen on DJ-ing for kids

DJ, broadcaster and living legend Donal Dineen has been making a noise of late with his massively popular Tiny Dancer events, which feature DJ sets aimed at kids aged 0-9.

Music • 19 Jun 19

"Just be sound." Avril Stanley on a decade of Body & Soul

This year, 50% of Body & Soul attendees will sign up and commit to its US&YOU campsite committing to 'Leave No Trace'.

Body & Soul • 24 Jun 19

Liz Nolan returns with a new series of 'Music and the Mind'

Music and The Mind returns - Liz Nolan on keeping focused

RTÉ lyric fm presenter Liz Nolan previews the new series of Music and the Mind, lyric's popular 'wellness on the wireless' show...

Rté Lyric Fm • 09 May 19

May Day alert - bringing the May Bush tradition back to life

On the first of May, summer officially begins in Ireland. And in centuries-old fashion, it's also the time that many people in Wexford will gather their painted eggs shells, ribbons and bunches of flowers and decorate their May Bush.

Folklore • 30 Apr 19

Aoife Carton on heartache, the bottle & her new single

Singer-songwriter Aoife Carton's recently released single Edinburgh was launched this month at a special fundraiser gig in Dublin, with all proceeds going to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

Music • 28 Apr 19

How I fell for a farmer, wrote a book & lived happily ever after

Maura McElhone writes for Culture about the series of fortunate events led to her writing her acclaimed memoir Falling For A Farmer, now in bookshops.

Culture • 12 Mar 19

Kristen Dunst in Lars Von Trier's film Melancholia, a touchstone for the Melancholia and the Brain project.

Melancholia and the Brain - exploring depression creatively

Kathy Scott writes for Culture about a fascinating new project that invites 'collaboration between artists, scientists and people with a lived experience of depression to generate new perspectives in the public realm'.

Wellness • 28 Feb 19

10 Irish art galleries worth a road trip for

Ireland is full of remarkable, free, galleries, showing all kinds of art all year round. Here, from small to large, from the regions to the capital, is our essential guide to Irish art galleries you might not have realised you definitely should visit.

visual arts • 27 Feb 19

Reviewed: The Burnout Solution by Siobhan Murray

Siobhan Murray is a highly regarded psychotherapist and life coach with an array of impressive qualifications including counselling, mindfulness and meditation. This is her first book, The Burnout Solution.

Books • 20 Feb 19

Peter O'Brien's costumes feature in The Great Gatsby at The Gate.

Legendary designer Peter O'Brien on his glittering career

The legendary lusciousness of Peter O'Brien's designs has rendered him a major player on the international fashion scene.

Theatre • 28 Nov 18

Remains of the day: The skeletons in Trinity's closet

Remains of the day: Inside Trinity's Anatomical Museum

Few of us would be aware that a huge and fascinating body of work is housed at Trinity College Dublin's Anatomical Museum..

science week • 13 Dec 22

Ireland's Deep Atlantic: Ken O'Sullivan on his incredible new doc

Ken O'Sullivan writes for Culture about his remarkable new documentary series, Ireland's Deep Atlantic, which begins on RTÉ One on April 22nd.

Ireland's Deep Atlantic • 24 Apr 18

Oprah, #MeToo & the Golden Globes - is this a moment?

It was a good night for the Irish contingent at last night's Golden Globes - Rachel Vigeon from Showbiz Networks was on the line on Today with Sean O'Rourke to talk about the night.

Film • 09 Jan 18

It's Saturday morning - a beautiful memoir

New Writing - a moving memoir of love, loss and art

We're delighted to present a moving memoir of love, loss and art from Neva Elliott McGinley.

New Writing • 31 Dec 17

5 things you can't miss at Body & Soul

Body&Soul will take place from the 23rd to 25th of June 2017 at Ballinlough Castle. Here are just five things you can't miss.

Music • 08 Jun 17

Can't get Electric Picnic tickets? Some European alternatives...

Electric Picnic sold out in five minutes flat, putting paid to plenty of people's plans for a perfectly soundtracked, hazy and (possibly) hedonistic blowout to send off the Irish summer. Time to look further afield...

Culture • 17 May 17

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