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Gradam Ceoil TG4 2025 winners: celebrating the best in Irish trad

The recipients of the Gradam Ceoil TG4 2025 awards have been announced.

Music • 28 Mar

Derek Hickey – recipient of the Gradam Ceoil TG4 award. (Photo: Alan Place)

TG4 Announces Gradam Ceoil Recipients

Artists will be presented with their awards at a gala event at University Concert Hall in Limerick on 5 May.

Music • 02 Apr 24

Gradam Ceoil TG4 2023 recipients (L-R): Michelle Mulcahy, Louise Mulcahy, Fintan Vallely, Maurice Lennon, Mick Mulcahy, Méabh Smyth, Mick O'Brien and Síle Denvir (Pics: Liam Burke)

Uilleann piper Mick O'Brien wins Gradam Ceoil TG4 Musician Award

Uilleann piper Mick O'Brien has been announced as the recipient of the Gradam Ceoil TG4 Musician Award for 2023.

Music • 16 Mar 23

Catherine Clinch in the Oscar-nominated An Cailín Ciúin

Maith an cailín! Irish language cinema's coming of age

It's a revolution that nobody saw coming, but one that is arguably decades overdue.

Opinion and Analysis • 02 Feb 23

Dog days - is Róise & Frank the next big Irish language movie?

Film • 14 Sep 22

Something For The Weekend: Cormac De Barra's Cultural Picks

Something For The Weekend • 18 Aug 22

Tom Collins RIP: 'I wish Saint Peter luck in controlling that boundless energy'.

Filmmaker Tom Collins remembered: ducking and diving for a living

In Memoriam • 09 Aug 22

Cathair na Mílte Grian - a meditation on war in the atomic age

TG4 • 31 Jul 22

Paddy Glackin announced as recipient of TG4 Gradam Ceoil award

Music • 25 Mar 22

The Queen V Patrick O'Donnell: inside the new TG4 docu-drama

TG4 • 10 Mar 22

Eco warrior Úna Ní Bhroin features in the latest episode of Finné on TG4

An eco-warrior's tale - Glen of the Downs battle revisited

Documentaries • 20 Feb 22

Traditional music legend and Coen Brothers fan Steve Cooney (Pic: Maurice Gunning)

Something For The Weekend: Steve Cooney's Cultural Picks

Something For The Weekend • 16 Sep 21

Birthplace of the Republic - inside the new TG4 documentary

Documentaries • 12 Apr 21

Something for the Weekend – Julie Fowlis' Cultural Picks

Julie Fowlis is one of the musicians featured in Sruth, a new four-part TG4 Series featuring some of the finest young traditional musicians from Ireland and Scotland who get the chance to play with some of traditional music's more established figures...

Something For The Weekend • 10 Mar 21

Something for the Weekend – Ríoghnach Connolly's Cultural Picks

Choice cultural picks from the BBC2 Folk Singer of the Year 2020, featured in Sruth, a new four-part TG4/BBC Alba Series

Something For The Weekend • 18 Feb 21

Samhlú Croí Cruthaitheach on TG4 - creative hearts in focus

TG4 • 06 Feb 21

Finné - shining a light into the darkest corners of Irish life

TG4's award-winning documentary series Finné returns to screens for a third series from Wednesday 13th January, exploring the personal testimony of those who have lived through trying times, as they tell their stories from the inside out...

Documentaries • 13 Jan 21

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

Róisín Seoighe features in Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody

Cumar - Aodh Ó Coileáin on his Galway Rhapsody

Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody is a new feature-length documentary by Aodh Ó Coileáin, screening on TG4 on Culture Night, Friday 18th September...

Film • 17 Sep 20

A War on Women? Sexual violence during the Irish revolution

Ciara Hyland, director of the upcoming TG4 documentary A War on Women - Cogadh ar Mhná writes for Culture on the making of this film, which examines the issue of sexual violence during the Irish Revolution.

Documentaries • 06 Oct 20

The Lost DNA – Manchán Magan on the revelations of our past

'While these new techniques and technologies are uncovering secrets of the past that would have been unimaginable even a decade ago, they are throwing up as many questions as answers...' Manchán Magan writes for Culture about his new TG4 docudrama series.

Documentaries • 02 Sep 20

Watch: Meitheal na mBan live with Bronagh Gallagher, Soak & more

Meitheal na mBan is an inspirational and empowering series of online concerts from TG4, led by Ireland's top female musicians and artists as they perform directly from their own homes, in a much-needed fundraiser to support the victims of domestic abuse.

TG4 • 11 Jun 20

Éamon De Valera on tour in America in 1919

De Valera i Meiriceá - how we made the new documentary

Ciara Hyland, director of the new documentary series De Valera i Meiriceá, writes for Culture on her new production about Éamon de Valera's trip to America in 1919- 1920, which will be shown on TG4 on September 11th and 18th at 9.30pm.

TG4 • 09 Sep 19

Fleadh TV presenters Hector Ó hEochagáin, Ruth Smith and Doireann Ní Ghlacáin

Watch: The Best Of Fleadh TV at Fleadh Ceoil 2018

Hats off to the brilliant team at Fleadh TV on TG4, who delivered four amazing nights of live highlights from this year's Fleadh Ceoil, in Drogheda - the sheer volume of talent on display was staggering.

Fleadh Ceoil • 20 Aug 18

Gairdíní na Lus - a dander through the National Botanic Gardens

On Tuesday evenings at 8pm, TG4 is currently showing Gairdíní na Lus, a six-part series shot over the course of a year at the National Botanic Gardens.

TG4 • 22 May 18