Culture | Books, Music, Theatre, Film & The Arts

It's all Greek to me - Conor Hanratty reimagines The Persians

Director Conor Hanratty writes about The Persians, a new podcast that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the oldest surviving Greek tragedy, brought to life in a vibrant new Irish translation...

Podcasts • 09 Oct 20

The Spinning Master - inside the epic new audio adventure

At a time when the consumption of so many art forms – performance in particular – is undergoing change, the solitary act of reading, or listening to, a book will spread no germs...

Podcasts • 25 Sep 20

The Rolling Wave Podcast: The Frank Harte Song Collection

Frank Harte was born and raised in Chapelizod in Dublin. An architect by trade, his lifelong passion was song and song collecting...

The Rolling Wave • 17 Sep 20

My Creative Life - a celebration of creativity in young people

Sometimes, when we think of creativity, we picture an artist's studio, or perhaps a row of paintings hanging in a gallery. But creativity is everywhere, and this is especially true amongst the young people of Ireland.

Podcasts • 08 Sep 20

Unlaunched Books - Poetry Ireland's podcast

Unlaunched sets up conversations which might otherwise be happening at the festivals and events which have had to be cancelled because of the pandemic...

Poetry Ireland • 20 Aug 20

Unlaunched - Poetry Ireland's podcast with Tara Bergin

Poets John McAuliffe, Seán Hewitt and Victoria Kennefick host the tenth episode of Unlaunched, the weekly podcast from Poetry Ireland.

Podcasts • 12 Aug 20

Kate O'Brien: The Woman and the Writer - RTÉ Davis Now Lectures

Two new RTÉ Radio 1 Davis Now Lectures podcasts celebrate legendary author Kate O'Brien

Podcasts • 11 Aug 20

Something for the Weekend – Niall Breslin's Cultural Picks

Musician, author, activist, mental health activist, TV coach and former Westmeath Gaelic footballer and Leinster Rugby player - Niall Breslin has packed a lot into his 39 years...

Something For The Weekend • 04 Jul 20

Declan Kiberd salutes our libraries - Davis Now Lectures podcast

Saluting our public libraries, one of the jewels of civic life, this week's RTÉ Davis Now Lectures podcast shares from its archives a wonderfully mischievous and entertaining talk by Professor Declan Kiberd from the 2002 series University of the People...

Podcasts • 11 Jun 20

The Music of Mayo - The Rolling Wave Podcast

Aoife Nic Cormaic introduces some of the best interviews and features from the popular Irish traditional music show on RTÉ Radio 1...

Podcasts • 09 Jun 20

Listen: Reading Ulysses - Joyce's masterpiece explained

This companion series to the newly available RTÉ recordings of James Joyce's Ulysses features discussion and explainers of Joyce's masterpiece.

Ulysses • 24 Jan 22

Portals: David Peace on Patient X & the end of his Toyko Trilogy

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a special podcast series from International Literature Festival Dublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe

Books • 03 Jun 20

Claire Keville, Paddy Fahey and Breda Keville

Who was Paddy Fahey? The Rolling Wave Podcast

Aoife Nic Cormaic introduces some of the best interviews and features from the popular Irish traditional music show on RTÉ Radio 1...

Podcasts • 03 Jun 20

John Kelly of Capel Street - The Rolling Wave podcast

Fiddle and concertina player John Kelly was born in West Clare in 1921 but moved to Dublin in 1945, where he opened a shop on Capel Street. He was a central figure in the music scene in Dublin from then until his death in 1988...

Podcasts • 27 May 20

Portals - Esther Saftan Foer on her post-Holocaust memoir

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a new limited podcast series from International Literature Festival Dublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe...

Books • 26 May 20

Winds Of Change - rock classic or CIA propaganda tool?

Patrick Radden Keefe is a New Yorker columnist and investigative journalist. Wind of Change is his new podcast on Spotify and asks if the Scorpions' legendary rock anthem could have been created by the CIA as a propaganda tool...

RTÉ Arena • 22 May 20

Portals: Fernanda Melchor's acclaimed portrait of modern Mexico

Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals is a new podcast series from International Literature Festival Dublin that takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe...

Books • 22 May 20

The Rolling Wave podcast -talks to fiddle player John Carty

In this episode of The Rolling Wave podcast, John Carty talks about learning music at the feet of many great London musicians and finding a way into the intricacies of Sligo fiddle music...

The Rolling Wave • 19 May 20

Author Breandán Ó hEithir features in the latest Davis Now Lectures podcast

The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature revisited - Davis Now Lectures

The latest RTÉ Radio 1 Davis Now Lectures podcast features three major forces in 20th-century Irish writing. The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature was a 1970s Thomas Davis Lectures series, featuring writers on writers in the Irish language.

Podcasts • 15 May 20

The Rolling Wave podcast - musician and archivist Liam O'Connor

The Rolling Wave - Featured podcast of the week is an interview with Liam O'Connor, fiddle player and recently appointed Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive.

The Rolling Wave • 23 Apr 20

Unlaunched Books - Poetry Ireland's podcast with Róisín Kelly

Poets John McAuliffe, Seán Hewitt and Victoria Kennefick host a new weekly podcast from Poetry Ireland, in which they talk to poets, critics, curators and readers about the books they would have been launching before the Covid-19 crisis...

Poetry • 17 Apr 20

The Nobody Zone: The podcast makers answer your questions

Rob Mulhern and Liam O'Brien answer some of the many questions that have arisen from the critically acclaimed podcast, The Nobody Zone.

Podcasts • 08 Oct 24

The Rolling Wave podcast - the history of women Uilleann Pipers

In this edition of The Rolling Wave podcast, piper Louise Mulcahy talks about the history of women Uilleann Pipers.

Podcasts • 15 Apr 20

We Love Books! Listen to the essential RTÉJr podcast

On this week's episode of RTÉJr's podcast We Love Books, Niamh McManus chats to authors and illustrators Philip Reeve & Sarah McIntyre about their latest collaboration, Kevin's Great Escape: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure...

Books • 04 Apr 20

British Architect Ian Ritchie's Monument of Light or The Spire on O'Connell Street, Dublin, won the international competition for a monument for Dublin city, and was completed in 2003.

Listen: Davis Now lectures - Symbolic Streetscapes

This series encourages us to look at, and take account of our built and natural, as well our cultural and emotional surroundings.

Davis Now Lectures • 02 Apr 20