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Watch: Doireann Ní Ghríofa's Filmpoem for Poetry Day

Eavan Boland and Olivia O'Leary

Poetry Programme preview - Eavan Boland and Poetry Day Ireland

Poetry Programme / 20 Apr

Doireann Ni Ghriofa and Louis de Paor join Olivia O Leary on this week's Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme preview - a feast of bilingual poetry

Poetry / 13 Apr

Poem Of The Week: Grizzly by Rachel Hegarty

Poetry / 11 Apr

Sinead Morrissey joins Olivia O'Leary on this week's Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme preview - the Good Friday Agreement at 20

Poetry / 06 Apr

The poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) who was executed at the age of 38 by anti-Republican rebels during the Spanish Civil War and whose body has never been found.

Review: Federico García Lorca's Dialogue of Two Snails

Poem Of The Week: Station by Tom French

Poetry / 04 Apr

Jim Lucey (L) and Jean O Brien (R) join Olivia O Leary (centre) on this week's Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme Preview - shining a light on mental health

Poetry / 30 Mar

Poem Of The Week: Diana in the Tide by Michael Coady

Poetry / 28 Mar

Jackie Kay joins Olivia O'Leary for the first episode of the new

Poetry Programme Preview: Jackie Kay & Leanne O'Sullivan speak up

Poetry / 23 Mar

Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin: Who are the readers of poetry?

Poetry / 20 Mar

Watch: My Ireland by Stephen James Smith

Poetry / 17 Mar

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson (L) with poet Eavan Boland (R)

Eavan Boland - the new documentary celebrating a poetry legend

Poetry / 09 Mar

Man, and poet - Richard Murphy remembered, by Gerard Dawe

Poetry / 02 Feb

Poet Richard Murphy has died aged 90

Poetry / 31 Jan

Gerald Dawe and Eleanor Shanley explore the idea of 'home' in poetry, prose and song.

Bringing it all back home - Lyric Feature preview

Rté Lyric Fm / 29 Jan

Tobias Roberts: poems about dark nights of the soul in Las Vegas and elsewhere.

Reviewed: The Formality of the Page by Tobias Roberts

Pat Boran: an ability to combine analytical sharpness with attention to the world of the senses.

Reviewed: A Man is only As Good... by Pat Boran

Poetry / 22 Jan

Poet Richard Murphy celebrated - His Chosen Islands

Poetry / 11 Jan

Felispeaks on turning panic into poetry - First Fortnight 2018

Poetry / 10 Jan

RTÉ Poetry Programme host Olivia O'Leary

The Christmas Poetry Programme - listen to a preview

Poetry / 22 Dec 17

Mark Roper: profoundly humane but assuming the correct detachment

Reviewed: Bindweed by Mark Roper

Books / 12 Dec 17

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Olivia O'Leary

Poetry Programme preview: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin speaks

Poetry / 08 Dec 17

Poem Of The Week: Dead Man's Shirt, by Stephen James Smith

Poetry / 07 Dec 17

Eavan Boland, recipient of the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards, talks to Olivia O'Leary on the Poetry Programme

Poetry Programme preview - Irish, Moroccan & Galician poets

Poetry / 01 Dec 17

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