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Marie Mullen reads Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Caitlín

Poetry • 03 Aug

Marty Rea reads Seamus Heaney's Station Island VII

Poetry • 30 Jul

Clare Dunne reads Paula Meehan's This is not a confessional poem

Poetry • 26 Jul

Watch: A Blessing Of The Boats By The Village Mothers

Poetry • 23 Jul

Daniel Reardon

Sunday Miscellany: The Hours of the Swifts at Clonmacnoise

'In Summer, after 10 months flight, they stop With the rest of the scream at St Ciaran's Hallowed Abbey adjacent the Shannon's Drifts. Within the ...

Sunday Miscellany • 23 Jul

Andrew Bennett & Rory Nolan read a Paul Durcan classic

Poetry • 19 Jul

Watch: The smallest cul de sac in Drumcondra

Poetry • 10 Jul

Departures Volume 1: Manchán Magan celebrates County Wicklow

This July, Dublin Book Festival presents Departures, a special, three-part summer series of conversation and music, presented by Manchán Magan and filmed amidst some of ...

Books • 06 Jul

Jade Jordan reads Eavan Boland's The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Poetry • 06 Jul

Jan Brierton gets poetic about life as a homeschool dropout

Poetry • 05 Jul

How can you get a festival into a van?

Festivals • 28 Jun

Venetia Bowe reads Eiléan Ní Chuillean's Architectural Metaphor

Poetry • 06 Jul

Watch: Brian Doherty reads A Disused Shed in County Wexford

Poetry • 22 Jun

Watch: Seán McGinley reads Thomas Kinsella's Another September

Poetry • 15 Jun

Watch: Aaron Monaghan reads Patrick Kavanagh's The Hospital

Poetry • 15 Jun

Orla Ní Dhúill features in the season finale of The Poetry Programme

Poetry and the climate crisis - Poetry Programme preview

Books • 20 May

Watch: Tommy Tiernan reads Austin Clarke's The Echo at Coole

Poetry • 19 May

Clare Dunne features in Druid's new Coole Park Poetry Series (Pic: Matthew Thompson)

Druid's Coole Park Poetry Series to feature on RTÉ Culture

Poetry • 19 May

Frank Ormsby joins Olivia O'Leary on this week's Poetry Programme

Ireland Professor of Poetry Frank Ormsby - The Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme • 13 May

Wherever We Are When We Come To The End - poet Richard Barnett (Pic: Isabella Cuan)

Wherever We Are When We Come To The End - read an extract

Books • 13 May

Leontia Flynn joins Olivia O'Leary on this week's Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme - Leontia Flynn and Matthew Geden

Poetry Programme • 09 May

Come, let the blazing truth blind - a poetic response to tragedy

Vicky Langan • 29 Apr

Turn Again by Ciaran Carson - RTÉ lyric fm for Poetry Day Ireland

This year RTÉ lyric fm will broadcast six specially chosen poems to mark Poetry Day Ireland - listen to Turn Again by Ciaran Carson...

Books • 28 Apr

Poetry Programme preview - Paula Meehan's Bealtaine book

Paula Meehan's selected poems, As If By Magic is the Book Club choice for the 2021 Bealtaine Festival, the first time a book of poetry ...

Poetry Programme • 29 Apr

Blessings - poet David Whyte comes to The Hedge School

Poetry • 28 Apr

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