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Tall Tales and Murder comes to the RTÉ Player

Culture 5 special - TV shows to binge right now

Hear The Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm...

Everyone is a writer now — but what does being a writer mean?

I've taught creative writing for years, in universities, writers' centres, libraries and festivals, online and in person, and the people who come to these courses are always wildly different.

Opinion and Analysis • 01 Oct

Druid explores O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten

Patrick Lonergan explores the history of Eugene O'Neill's theatrical masterpiece A Moon for the Misbegotten, revived by Druid Theatre Company and coming to Gaiety Theatre this October for the Dublin Theatre Festival.

Theatre • 30 Sep

Adventures in audio - The Lyric Feature returns for a new season

RTÉ lyric fm's award winning arts and culture documentary series The Lyric Feature (Sundays 6 pm on RTÉ lyric fm and on RTÉ Listen) returns on October 4th with more engaging stories of our past, present and future.

Rté Lyric Fm • 22 hrs

Try hard - inside the new documentary about mixed ability rugby

Director Oisín Mistéil introduces TRY!, his acclaimed new feature documentary that follows four Irish players who defy all expectations on their journey to the most inclusive and competitive World Cup you've never seen...

Film • 15 hrs

RTÉ Supporting the Arts this October - culture on tap nationwide

RTÉ is proud to continue its commitment to supporting and celebrating the arts across Ireland this October, highlighting a vibrant programme of theatre, music, opera, literature, visual arts, film, architecture and children's cultural events taking place.

RTE Supporting The Arts • 21 hrs

An unhappy medium: John O'Donnell's new Drama On One play

Fortune-tellers, mediums, psychics: do they really have a connection with the spirit world, or are they charlatans exploiting the vulnerabilities of others?

Drama On One • 01 Oct

Watch and listen to the 75th Wexford Festival Opera with RTÉ

RTÉ lyric fm and RTÉ.ie to bring the 75th Wexford Festival Opera to audiences across Ireland and around the world.

Opera • 21 Sep

'One of a kind': Broadcasting veteran Michael Carroll remembered

Theo McDonald pays tribute to a multi-talented veteran of Irish broadcasting, his grandfather Michael Carroll, who died in September of this year.

In Memoriam • 16 hrs

People on the street for the Galway Arts Festival

€6m Capital Fund announced for arts and culture sector

Details of a new €6 million Arts Capital Investment Fund for the Arts and Culture sector have been announced by Minister for Culture, Patrick O'Donovan.

Arts and Culture • 30 Sep

Marian Keyes and the politics of commercial fiction

Marian Keyes is one of Ireland's most important fiction authors but is often not celebrated as such...

Books • 30 Sep

Síomha and the artists saying 'I'm out' to the music industry

Putting something you've created out into the world inevitably comes with a degree of vulnerability.

Opinion and Analysis • 30 Sep

Something For The Weekend: Niall Buggy's cultural picks

We're honoured to welcome an Irish theatre legend to our virtual pages...

Something For The Weekend • 30 Sep

Ambient Orbit Photo Áine Gallagher RTÉ Staff

Ambient Orbit Returns for a Ninth Series on RTÉ lyric fm

Rté Lyric Fm • 30 Sep

Denis Tuohy reads his essay for Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany: A Fax from Seamus Heaney, by Denis Tuohy

Rejection-guilt subsequently mollified by the eternal good grace of this world-class poet and gentleman

Sunday Miscellany • 30 Sep

Ireland's games industry takes centre stage at Nexus Summit

Over 300 leaders from the gaming industry gathered at Aviva Stadium in Dublin last week for the Nexus Games Summit.

Games • 30 Sep

U2 at 50: The 10 best U2 albums of all time, ranked

One of the biggest bands of all time has just celebrated their 50th birthday - and along with it, the news that their first studio album in nine years will be released in November.

Listicles • 29 Sep

Twelve Irish makers shortlisted for €60,000 RDS Craft Awards

The shortlist for the 2026 RDS Craft Awards, with a prize fund of €60,000 was unveiled at Collins Barracks at the National Museum of Ireland.

visual arts • 29 Sep

Animal kingdom: Blindboy's tales come to the Abbey Theatre stage

Ruth Mc Gowan, Literary & New Work Director at the Abbey Theatre, introduces Animals, a new work based on the short fiction of writer and podcaster Blindboy Boatclub, premiering at the Abbey this month.

Theatre • 29 Sep

My TV and me - why I just can't let go of my old telly

Sixteen years, four house moves and one brief separation: that's how long my so-called dumb TV and I have been together.

Pop Culture • 29 Sep

Sunday Miscellany: The Abbey That Refused To Die, by John Egan

The kindly uncle who was instrumental in the restoration of 800-year old Ballintubber Abbey

Sunday Miscellany • 29 Sep

Ireland: Why it matters to be an island - the new book extracted

It is a simple fact that Ireland is an island nation. But how often do we consider what it means to be an islander?

Book • 29 Sep

Seán Ó Riada, Irish composer and musician © RTÉ Photographic Archive.

How Seán Ó Riada helped forge a new path in Radio Éireann

The artist's progress in broadcasting was bound up with Radio Éireann's development and changed how we think and talk about Irish traditional music

Radio Éireann • 30 Sep

Shortlist announced for RTÉ Short Story Competition 2026

RTÉ has announced details of the ten outstanding new stories which have been shortlisted for the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2026 in honour of Francis MacManus, from almost 2,500 entries submitted.

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 28 Sep

Reviewed: Technologies of Peace at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

It is tricky to form a critical position on the exhibition titled Technologies of Peace which opened at the Irish Museum of Modern Art last week, writes Frank Wasser.

Reviews • 28 Sep

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