What to watch on RTÉ Player this week? The RTÉ Player team share their top picks to watch on RTÉ Player this week.
What’s Trending?
Dermot Bannon’s US Homes Unseen Footage
In case you missed Ireland's favourite architect, Dermot Bannon, visiting some of New York’s most incredible homes, catch up now on RTÉ Player. If that wasn’t enough to set you drooling over how the other half live,check out our unseen extras including a cleverly designed tiny Manhattan apartment, a cubed shaped holiday home in the Hamptons and a stunning Brooklyn Brownstone.
What's New?
James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
James Joyce's most famous novel, Ulysses, is regarded as one of the most influential books ever written. In this documentary, James Joyce: A Shout in the Street, actress Anjelica Huston tells the story of his extraordinary life and work.
Anjelica has a special connection with Ireland and with Joyce’s work. She grew up in the West of Ireland, and she delivered a remarkable performance in the last movie made by her father, the legendary film-maker John Huston, in an adaptation of Joyce’s short story, The Dead. Watch James Joyce: A Shout in the Street now on RTÉ Player.
What Not to Miss?
The 62nd Cork Film Festival took place in November celebrating the best in International and home-grown film making. RTÉ Player now for a selection of short films featured at the festival such as a short film about the power of the female spirit to transcend and transform the human body in Everything Alive is in Movement, The Box and My Father My Blood. Watch these fantastic short films and more on RTÉ Player.
Pick of the Week
Striking Out, Series One Box Set
With a second series of Striking Out coming in the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on series one. The show follows the tumultuous professional and personal life of solicitor, Tara Rafferty (Amy Huberman), and her fledgling legal firm.
When Tara discovers, on her hen night, that her fiancé and fellow solicitor Eric Dunbar has been cheating on her with a colleague, she breaks up with him, quits her job at the prestigious law firm they worked at together, and sets about making her own way in a new life outside the inner circle of the legal profession. Watch the first series of Striking Out on RTÉ Player.
