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Watch: Neil Jordan talks to Tommy Tiernan

The director of The Crying Game, Interview With The Vampire and The Butcher Boy gave an illuminating interview on the latest edition of the Tommy Tiernan Show...

the tommy tiernan show • 18 Apr 21

Neil Jordan features in the first episode of the new series of The Book Show

The Book Show returns to RTÉ Radio One with Neil Jordan

The Book Show • 05 Apr 21

Neil Jordan's acclaimed new novel - read an exclusive extract

Blending the drama of real events with Jordan's inimitable storytelling ability, The Ballad of Lord Edward & Citizen Small spotlights a long-forgotten chapter in Ireland's history.

Books • 27 Feb 21

Writer and film-maker Neil Jordan: his latest novel plays with this sense of froideur, or coolness or reserve between people

Reviewed: Neil Jordan's new novel

Neil Jordan's depiction of the revolutionary, Lord Edward Fitzgerald and his faithful manservant, Tony Small, is an enthralling and stirring chronicle set against the backdrop of tumultuous late 18th century events.

Books • 01 Mar 21

Neil Jordan goes sci-fi for Spoken Stories Independence

A brand-new story from Neil Jordan entitled Easter 2036 is the latest story from RTÉ Radio 1's new fiction collection Spoken Stories Independence...

Spoken Stories • 24 Feb 21

The youthful Graham Greene: a dalliance with death and manic depression at its insidious work

Reviewed: The Life & Times Of Graham Greene

This new 586-page biography from Professor Richard Greene - no relation - considers Graham Greene, the writer and the public man, the unflinching traveller into trouble and forensic investigator into the human condition

Books • 12 Feb 21

Anne Enright reads Wildlife for Spoken Stories Independence

Spoken Stories Independence - RTÉ Radio 1's new writing showcase

Wildlife read by Anne Enright launches a new collection of RTÉ Radio commissioned short stories...

RTÉ Radio 1 • 18 Jan 21

Bloody Sunday on screen - Neil Jordan revisits Michael Collins

RTÉ Arena • 21 Nov 20

Watch: Neil Jordan's Throes - a portrait of a paralysed city

Neil Jordan has taken extraordinary footage shot by videographer Alex Sapienza, from the depths of Dublin's lockdown and made from it a portrait of a paralysed city

Film • 31 Oct 20

Tom Cruise starred as Lestat in the movie version of Interview with a Vampire

New Vampire novel due from Anne Rice

Anne Rice's new novel features the vampire Lestat, whom readers first encountered in her 1976 novel, Interview with The Vampire, which was later filmed by Neil Jordan, starring Tom Cruise as the eponymous vampire.

Culture • 31 Aug 16

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