Tonight's programme is a special to mark the publication of the annual arts anthology "Winter Papers, Volume 3", with co-editor/writer Kevin Barry and contributors Sarah Baume, Paul Lynch, Jessica Traynor ...
coming up this week on Arena..... Tuesday 27th - a special programme remembering and commemorating the life and work of the late John Montague, one of our great contemporary poets and Ireland's first Professor Poetry ************************ Wednesday 28th - remembering Anthony Cronin, the novelist, poet, cultural activist and founder of arts organisation Aosdána whose death was announced today ************************** Thursday 29th - a look back at some of the broadcasts that came from various Festivals around the country this year, including the Temple Bar Tradfest, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, the Hay Festival Kells and the Kilkenny Arts Festival **************************** Friday 30th - a panel ...
Mary Morrissy talks about her latest collection of short stories “Prosperity Drive”, about the residents of one street in a middle-class Dublin suburb (published by Jonathan Cape)
Sunday Miscellany Its new radio essays and occasional poetry followed by complementary music capture our times, passions and curiosities. The contributor led content is selected from open submission and commissioned writing presented by new voices and established names. Reportage, appreciations, memory pieces, poetry, travel writing and personal accounts of events and happenings are the stuff of Sunday Miscellany. The programme is part of Sunday mornings since 1968. It is essential listening to thousands across Ireland and the world.
This morning’s programme was recorded as part of Sunday Miscellany Live at Christmas- a collaboration with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra which took place in the National Concert Hall earlier this ...
Sunday Miscellany Its new radio essays and occasional poetry followed by complementary music capture our times, passions and curiosities. The contributor led content is selected from open submission and commissioned writing presented by new voices and established names. Reportage, appreciations, memory pieces, poetry, travel writing and personal accounts of events and happenings are the stuff of Sunday Miscellany. The programme is part of Sunday mornings since 1968. It is essential listening to thousands across Ireland and the world.
As part of RTÉ’s marking of World War 1 from an Irish perspective this morning’s Sunday Miscellany is a recording of an event which was part of the World War ...
The Book on One is a celebration of writing from all over the world, with five 15-minute excerpts from a single book broadcast each week. HOW TO LISTEN BACK TO THE BOOK ON ONE You can listen back to the last four weeks of The Book on One here: Listen ['Listen' will open the most recent episode in the RTÉ Radio Player. If you would like to hear an earlier episode, please click on 'Listen back further' - in the middle of the Player screen - which will open a calendar.] This week's featured book is Miss Emily by Nuala O'Connor and read by ...
Bella Casey was the real-life, but enigmatic sister of the playwright Seán O’Casey and in her book, Mary Morrissey weaves the real and the imagined together to tell Bella’s story. ...
Yvonne Nolan reviews 'The Rising of Bella Casey', a fictionalised account of the life of Sean O'Casey's sister with Seán Rocks. The book is by Mary Morrissy and is Published ...