Arts Tonight
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Arts Tonight 20 May 2013: podcast: Dublin Dance Festival
In-depth discussion and analysis of the Dublin Dance Festival, a week into its run
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Arts Tonight podcast 13 May 2013: arts in education
Ministers for Arts and Education + panel + audience on the new charter for arts in education. Extended podcast
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Arts Tonight podcast 6 May 2013
Edward Murphy of NIVAL and Mary Moynihan of Smashing Times
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Arts Tonight podcast: Edna O'Brien 29 April 2013
Extended podcast of Edna O'Brien interview at Cúirt, Galway
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Arts Tonight 22 April 2013 podcast: False Optimism at...
A visit to an exhibition of Berlin and Irish artists' work at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, and Alan Foley on 21 years of the Cork City Ballet
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Arts Tonight podcast 15 April 2013: Harry Kernoff
Kevin O'Connor on his biography of painter Harry Kernoff
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Arts Tonight podcast 8 April: Jack B Yeats + National...
Jack B Yeats Sketchbooks; National Gallery of Ireland director Sean Rainbird; and a painter's eye on the Gallery's treasures
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Arts Tonight 1 April 2013: podcast: Tony Judt + NYRB
Historian Tony Judt remembered, and 50 years of the New York Review of Books, with Robert Silvers
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Arts Tonight podcast 25 March 2013: History of Opera
Roger Parker on Opera: the last 400 years
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Arts Tonight 18 March: Marie Mullen
Actress Marie Mullen interviewed at her old alma mater, NUI Galway, with a student audience
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Arts Tonight podcast 11 March 2013: Stewart Parker
Playwright Stewart Parker remembered by Marilynn Richtarik, Lynne Parker, Gerald Dawe, John Fairleigh and more
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Arts Tonight podcast 25 February 2013: Peter Rice
Engineer Peter Rice (Pompidou Centre, Sydney Opera House, Louvre Pyramid) remembered 20 years after his death. Extended podcast
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Arts Tonight podcast 18 Feb 2013: The Famine in Art
Representations of the Irish Famine in visual art, recorded in Dublin, New York and at the new Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut
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Arts Tonight 18 Feb podcast: Keith Jarrett
Billy O hAnluain profiles solo jazz pianist improvisor Keith Jarrett
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Arts Tonight 4 Feb 2013 podcast: Alice Maher
A tour with the artist of Alice Maher's retrospective at IMMA, Dublin, 'Becoming'. With curator Sean Kissane, actor OIwyn Fouere, composer Trevor Knight and lighting designer Aedin Cosgrove
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Arts Tonight 28 January 2013: Dennis O'Driscoll...
A programme for the late poet Dennis O'Driscoll, with contributions from Seamus Heaney and many more poets, editors, critics, friends and family
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Arts Tonight 21 January 2013: amon De Buitlar
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Arts Tonight 14 January 2013: Harold Bloom
An interview with Professor Harold Bloom of Yale University at his home in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Arts Tonight 7 January 2013: Leonard Cohen
Sylvie Simmons on her biography of Leonard Cohen, 'I'm Your Man'
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Arts Tonight 26 December 2012: The famine in art
The Irish famine and visual art: with a visit to the new Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut.
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Arts Tonight 17 December 2012: The Virgin Mary in art...
Catherine Marshall, Miri Ruben, Marina Warner, Colm Toibin and more on history and imaginings of Mary
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Arts Tonight 10 December 2012: Frank McGuinness and Juan...
Frank McGuinness on adapting Joyce's The Dead for the Abbey Theatre, and Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vazquez on his new book The Sound Of Things Falling.
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Arts Tonight 3 Dec 2012: Kaleidoscope
An eclectic mix of modern and centuries old music selected by Kaleidoscope and performed by some of Ireland's best musicians to a studio audience in RT Radio. Baroque 'jazz', Piazzolla, Gubaidulina, new work by Linda Buckley and a Shakespeare sonnet set to music by Gavin Bryars with Gavin Friday.
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26 Nov 2012: Mary Lavin
Mary Lavin remembered in the centenary year of her birth. With James Ryan, Kathleen MacMahon, Maureen Kennelly, Mary Gordon and more
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Arts Tonight 19 November 2012: Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly...
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Yvonne Scott on the iconic Australian paintings currently on view in Dublin
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Arts Tonight 12 November 2012: Eithne Jordan and the new...
Eithne Jordan at the Rubicon and RHA and Raymond Bell with John Banville on the new selection of Banville's work, Possessed of A Past
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Arts Tonight 5 November 2012: Amiri Baraka
Poet, playwright, music critic, political activist Amiri Baraka on jazz, the black nationalist era and the US election
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Arts Tonight 29 October 2012: MacDara Woods
MacDara Woods on his Collected Poems, recently published by Dedalus Press
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Arts Tonight 22 October 2012: Sen Keating and the visual...
imear O'Connor, Mick O'Dea, Luke Gibbons and Linda King on Sen Keating and the visual imagining of an emerging State
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Arts Tonight 15 October 2012: Writing Dublin Now
Louise Lowe, Michael West, Grace Dyas, Ali Grehan, Fintan O'Toole on the city + the artist
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Arts Tonight 8 October 2012: New York: Big Lights Will...
First of two special recordings of Arts Tonight from the Dublin Theatre Festival. With Eugene Downes, Julia Carruthers, John Scott and Cynthia Hedstrom
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Arts Tonight 1 October 2012: Scott Tallon Walker and...
Busras and other buildings, and iconic New York composer John Zorn
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Arts Tonight 24 September 2012: A conversation with Tom...
Vincent Woods meets playwright Tom Murphy at his home ahead of DruidMurphy at the Dublin Theatre Festival
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Arts Tonight 14 June 2012: Finnegans Wake
Last of four in our Joyce series. With Barry McCrea, Finn Fordham, Marian Eide, Philip 'Keel' Geheber, Sam Slote, Katherine O'Callaghan, David Spurr, Danis Rose, and songs from Barry Gleeson, Darina Gallagher and Sinead Murphy. Readings excluded
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Arts Tonight 14 May 2012: modern dance and the Dublin...
With Julia Carruthers, Deirdre Mulrooney, Seona MacRamoinn, Diane Madden of Trisha Brown Company, Junk Ensemble, Coisceim, Fabulous Beast, Liam O'Maonlai, Alan Gilsenan
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Arts Tonight 30 April 2012 part 2: Heinrich Bll, Ireland...
Gisela Holfter on her new book Heinrich Bll and Ireland. With Moray McGowan of TCD, Peter Jankovsky and John F Deane
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Arts Tonight 23 April 2012 Part 2: Gavin Quinn of Pan...
Theatre director Gavin Quinn on 20 years of Pan Pan and its current production in Dublin
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Arts Tonight 23 April 2012 part 1: Sculptor Eileen...
A visit to Lithosphere, Eileen McDonagh's large-scale work gathered under one roof
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Arts Tonight 16 April 2012: Part 2: Bram Stoker and...
Discussion continues, with a visit to Stoker's birthplace. Studio guests: Jarlath Kileen, Paul Murray, Elizabeth Miller
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Arts Tonight 16 April 2012: Part 1- Bram Stoker and...
Bram Stoker, Dublin and Dracula, 100 years after the writer's death
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Arts Tonight 9 April 2012 Part 2: The late John Arden in...
Part 2: Galway-based British playwright, short-story writer and novelist in interview with Vincent Woods. First broadcast 2009
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Arts Tonight 9 April 2012 Part 1: The late John Arden in...
Part 1: Galway-based British playwright, short-story writer and novelist in interview with Vincent Woods. First broadcast 2009
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Arts Tonight Part 1: 2 April 2012: Crash Ensemble,...
Young composers interviewed ahead of forthcoming concert Free State 7
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Arts Tonight Part 2: 2 April 2012: Crash Ensemble and...
Young Irish composers discuss their work
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Arts Tonight 26 March 2012 Part 2: Young John McGahern
Denis Sampson in interview, author of Young John McGahern: The Making of A Novelist
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Arts Tonight 26 March 2012 part 1: Young John McGahern
Denis Sampson in interview, author of Young John McGahern: Becoming A Novelist
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Arts Tonight 19 March 2012 part 2: 18th and 19th Century...
Public interview with Eoin Burke recorded at Goethe Institute. Readings by Andrew Bennett and Christiane O'Mahony
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Arts Tonight 19 March 2012 part 1: 18th and 19th Century...
Public interview with Eoin Burke recorded at Goethe Institute. Readings by Andrew Bennett and Christiane O'Mahony
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Arts Tonight 12 March 2012: Irish language in North,...
Gary Mitchell's play in Irish and Northern Ireland Arts Minister Carl N Chuiln on Irish language policy
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Arts Tonight 12 March 2012: Derry's Irish language...
A portrait of a changing city: Derry's Cultrlann, the city walls tour, and preview of 2013
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Arts Tonight 27 February 2012 Part 2: Iarla Lionard on...
Iarla Lionard chats to Vincent Woods about his latest album Foxlight
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Arts Tonight 27 February 2012 Part 1: Riada Reimagined...
We look ahead to the premiere of a new arrangement of Sen Riada's Mass by composer Dmitri Yanov Yanovksy
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Arts Tonight 20 February 2012 Part 2: Arts in Action and...
Galway's Medical Orchestra and the Arts in Action programme at NUIG
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Arts Tonight 20 February 2012 Part 1: connections...
When art and science collide: City of Science, Schrodinger's Cat, Flann O'Brien, Improbable Frequency and more
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Arts Tonight 13 February 2012: art education in prisons
Sculpture at Loughan House prison, and painter Brian Maguire on teaching art in prisons
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Arts Tonight 6 February 2012: 'Miraculous Plenty' and...
A new collection of Irish folk tales in translation, and the illustrations of Harry Clarke and others at the National Gallery
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Arts Tonight 30 January 2012: Remembering Pearse...
Memories and insights into the late poet's work with Philip Coleman, Eilan N Chuilleanin, MacDara Woods, PJ Kavanagh, and archive of Pearse Hutchinson himself
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Arts Tonight 23 January 2012: Theatre in Belfast
An architectural tour of the new Lyric Theatre, a community play on the Shankill Road, and critics' take on contemporary Belfast theatre
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Arts Tonight 16 January 2012: Alex Ross on Listen to This
Alex Ross on writing about music for the New Yorker, and briefly, poet Pearse Hutchinson remembered
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Arts Tonight 9 January 2012: Jazz Composer Ronan...
'All human beings improvise' -- Ronan Guilfoyle on teaching, composing and playing jazz
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Arts Tonight 2 January 2012: Marina Warner on the...
Marina Warner on her new book, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
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Arts Tonight 26 December 2011: The Virgin Mary in...
Miri Rubin, Catherine Marshall, Colm Toibin, Marina Warner and more on imaginings of Mary
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Arts Tonight 19 December 2011: Songs of the Scribe --...
Pdraign N Uallachin on her new collection of early Irish poems set to music
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Arts Tonight 12 December 2011: Oscar Wilde
Special programme on Wilde in Paris and the West of Ireland
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Arts Tonight 5 December 2011: Imagine Ireland in Chicago
Chicago as seen through Irish architects' eyes; the IBAM festival; Minister Jimmy Deenihan and Culture Ireland ceo Eugene Downes
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Arts Tonight 28 November 2011: Imagine Ireland in New...
From New York, a flavour of the Imagine Ireland arts showcase
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Arts Tonight 21 November 2011: Alan Lomax
John Szwed on Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded The World
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Arts Tonight 14 November 2011: Claire Tomalin, Dickens's...
Arts Tonight 14 November 2011: Claire Tomalin, Dickens's biographer, interviewed
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Arts Tonight 7 November 2011: Year of Craft
A visit to the National Craft Gallery and Rudolf Helztel's jewellery workshop in Kilkenny, and in studio, Nicola Gordon Bowe, Anne Mulrooney and Gearoid Muldowney
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Arts Tonight 31 October 2011: Patrick Galvin
Cork's great poet remembered: a tribute to the author of Song for a Raggy Boy
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Arts Tonight 24 October 2011: Access All Areas
Artists, planners, journalists, architects and developers discuss creative use of the recession's empty buildings and spaces
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Arts Tonight 17 October 2011: Radical Thoughts
Radicalism in German theatre, culture, politics, society: a panel discussion from the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival
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Arts Tonight 10 October 2011: Behind Closed Doors
Louise Lowe, Colm O'Gorman, Colm Toibin and Minister Frances Fitzgerald on Laundry, Trade, secrecy and marginalisation in Irish society
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Arts Tonight 3 October 2011: More Berlin than Boston?
Rachel West, Adrienne Goehler, Eugene Downes, Denis Staunton, Willie White on what Dublin can learn from Berlin
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Arts Tonight 26 September 2011: Open House architecture...
A tour of the Long Room Hub with McCullough Mulvin and discussion on Herbert Simms
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Arts Tonight 19 September 2011: Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen: a special centenary programme
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Arts Tonight 12 September 2011: Dublin Contemporary
Critics, artists, curators, and visitors discuss the first week of the new international art show
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Arts Tonight 27 June 2011: Reading Pearse Hutchinson
As a book on the work of the contemporary Irish poet is published, a profile of his life and work
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Arts Tonight 20 June 2011: 1960s folk group the...
Paul Brady, Lucy Johnston, Mick Moloney on the ground-breaking band, and the late Adrienne
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Arts Tonight 13 June 2011: Galway ArtSpace and Gil Scott...
A tour of an artists' collective, and Billy O hAnluain on the life and music of the late Gil Scott Heron
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Arts Tonight 6 June 2011: Fiona Ross at the National...
An ex-stockbroker outlines her plans to transform a cultural institution
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Arts Tonight 30 May 2011: Poet Patrick Galvin remembered
Tribute to the late Patrick Galvin, author of Raggy Boy trilogy, Madwoman of Cork and more
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Arts Tonight 16 May 2011: Short story winners and The...
Francis MacManus winners and Gerald Barry's opera
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A special programme with the late Maurice Craig, first...
Architectural historian and writer Maurice Craig on Joyce, music, architecture and cats
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Arts Tonight 9 May 2011: Best European Fiction 2011
Aleksandar Hemon, Eilis N Dhuibhne and John O'Brien on the new Dalkey Archive collection
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Arts Tonight 2 May 2011: Playwright Thomas Kilroy...
Vincent Woods with Gerald Dawe, Nicholas Grene, Patrick Mason, Wayne Jordan, Marcela Lorca
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Arts Tonight 25 April 2011: Sounds of the Silk Road
Music by contemporary composers from the former Soviet Union comes to Louth
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A history of Irish protest songs with Terry Moylan and...
A history of Irish protest songs with Terry Moylan and Philip King
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Arts Tonight 11 April 2011: Protest Songs
Dorian Lynskey on his book, 33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs
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Arts Tonight 4 April 2011: 'Urban Flats' photo...
The uncomfortable legacy of Dublin's public housing blocks, and new ideas in urban design
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Arts Tonight 28 March 2011: the Lir and Anne Carson
Conor McPherson and Brian Singleton on the Lir Academy, and Canadian poet Anne Carson
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Arts Tonight 21 March 2011: Agnes Varda and Roland...
French filmmaker Agnes Varda; and Brian Dillon on Roland Barthes
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Arts Tonight 14 March 2011: Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan
Princeton historian Sean Wilentz on his book, Bob Dylan in America
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A programme from the Model, Sligo on the current Jack B...
A programme from the Model, Sligo on the current Jack B Yeats show 'The Outsider'
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Arts Tonight 28 February 2011: Iceland and Al Jolson
Einar Orn and Andri Snaer on Iceland post-crash, and Billy O hAnluain on Al Jolson
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Arts Tonight: September 6 2010: JG Farrell
A special on JG Farrell: with Lavinia Greacen, Gerry Dawe, Peter Straus and Bridget O'Toole
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Arts Tonight 20 December 2010: Friel's Translations, 30...
Arts Tonight 20 December 2010: Friel's Translations, 30 years on
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Arts Tonight 13 December 2010: Sculptor Michael Warren
Sculptor Michael Warren takes us around Unbroken Line at VISUAL, Carlow
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Arts Tonight 6 December 2010: Derek Hill and Alice...
Bruce Arnold on painter Derek Hill, and Catherine Morris on a forgotten Irish figure
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Arts Tonight 29 November 2010: Mick Moloney, and the...
Mick Moloney on Irish-Jewish musical links, and Ireland's first disability film festival
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Arts Tonight 15 November 2010: Niamh O'Sullivan on...
O'Kelly, the "Land League painter," reappraised
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Arts Tonight 8 November 2010: Greil Marcus on Van...
Greil Marcus, author of Listening to Van Morrison, talks to Vincent Woods
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Arts Tonight 1 November 2010: Dublin Review and Herbie...
Ten years of the Dublin Review, and the music of Herbie Hancock
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Arts Tonight: 25 October 2010: John Banville
John Banville talks to Vincent Woods at the Ranelagh Arts Festival
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Arts Tonight 18 October 2010: ENRON
A discussion recorded at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin on issues raised by Lucy Prebble's play
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Arts Tonight 11 October 2010: Dublin Theatre Festival
The Polish plays at the Dublin Theatre Festival, and an interview with Tim Crouch
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Arts Tonight 4 October 2010: Sam Stephenson
A reassessment of the architecture of Sam Stephenson, and a look around his private house
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Arts Tonight 20 September 2010: Minister Mary Hanafin,...
Minister Mary Hanafin on arts policy and Robert O'Byrne on his 'Dictionary of Living Irish Artists'
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Arts Tonight 13 September 2010: Arts and the economy
Artists' living and working conditions, and the case for retaining current arts funding
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Arts Tonight: 6 September 2010: JG Farrell
A special on JG Farrell with Lavinia Greacen, Gerry Dawe, Peter Straus and Bridget O'Toole
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Arts Tonight- 31st May 2010- The Short Story
ilis N Dhuibhne and John Boland discuss the Irish short story tradition
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Arts Tonight- 24th May 2010- Trir sa Draighean
Martin Hayes, Peadar Riada and Caoimhn Raghallaigh talk about their new album
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Arts Tonight- 24th May 2010- Architecture in Ireland
Paul Keogh, Andrew Clancy and Yvonne Farell discuss architecture in Ireland today
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Arts Tonight- May 17th- Henry Glassie
An interview with American folklorist, Henry Glassie
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Arts Tonight- May 10th 2010- Literary laureates for...
A discussion on children's literature with Siobhn Parkinson and Anthony Browne.
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Arts Tonight- May 10th 2010- Flamenco
Martin Santangelo and Nathalia Moyano Gonzales discuss the art of flamenco
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Arts Tonight- 3rd May 2010- Maurice Craig
An interview with author and architectural historian Maurice Craig
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Arts Tonight-26th April 2010- Liam Carson
Liam Carson on his memoir 'Call Mother a Lonely Field'
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Arts Tonight-26th April 2010- Sofia Gubaidulia
The life and music of Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina
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Arts Tonight- 19th April 2010- Aloys Fleischmann...
Ruth Fleischmann and Mchel Silleabhin on the life and work of Aloys Fleischmann
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Arts Tonight-19th April 2010 -Carsten Jensen
Novelist and political journalist Carsten Jensen talks about his new novel, 'We,the Drowned'
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Arts Tonight-12th April 2010- Ian Jack
Journalist Ian Jack on journalism, editing Granta and the British general election
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Arts Tonight-12th April 2010- Philip Ball
Philip Ball on his book, 'The Music Instinct-How music works and why we can't do without it'
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Arts Tonight- 5th April 2010- A celebration of forty...
A panel of poets and writers mark the 40th birthday of The Gallery Press
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Arts Tonight- 29th March 2010- Tilda Swinton
An interview with Tilda Swinton from the 2010 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
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Arts Tonight- 22nd March 2010- Gerald Barry talks about...
A profile of Feldman who is the inspiration for the new 'Vertical Thoughts' exhibition in IMMA
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Arts Tonight- 22nd March 2010- Paul Muldoon
Poet Paul Muldoon talks about fish, fishermen, poetry and music
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Arts Tonight- 15th March 2010- 'Books Burn Badly' by...
Translator Jonathan Dunne on the work of Galician author Manuel Rivas
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Arts Tonight-15th March 2010- Mirtn Direin
Eoghan hAnluain on the life and poetry of Mirtn Direin
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Arts Tonight- 8th March- Fiach Mac Conghail on Toms Mac...
A tribute to Toms Mac Anna who was honoured at the Irish Times Theatre Awards
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Arts Tonight-8th March- How to Live by Michel de...
Sarah Bakewell and Michael Cronin discuss Montaigne's essays as a guide to life
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Arts Tonight- 8th March- The resignation of Minister...
Shane Coleman and Gerry Godley on Minister Martin Cullen's resignation
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Arts Tonight- 1st March 2010- Duke Special
Duke Special talks about his latest release, 'The Stage, the book and the Silver Screen'.
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Arts Tonight-22nd February 2010-Dominic Drumgoole
Dominic Drumgoole on directing 'Philadelphia Here I Come' in Dublin
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Arts Tonight- 15th February 2010-Gerard Mannix Flynn
Gerard Mannix Flynn guides us around his exhibition space 'adifferentkettleoffishaltogether'
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Arts Tonight- 8th February 2010- Irish literary legacy...
Author Liam Harte and theatre director Patrick Mason discuss the literary legacy of the Irish in Britain
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Arts Tonight- January 11th 2010- a tribute to the late...
Vincent and guests celebrate the life and work of the late broadcaster Ciarn Mac Mathna
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Arts Tonight- January 4th 2010- A new language for...
Guests Peter Browne and Niall Keegan discuss the need for a new critical language for Irish traditional music.
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Arts Tonight - 14th December 2009 - The Aftermath of the...
Minister Martin Cullen, Michael Dervan, Brian Fay, Peter Daly discuss the future for the arts in the wake of this year's budget
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The Arts Show Wednesday 19th August 2009
Live music and chat from Cuban group Son Salsa who will perform at the Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures on Saturday 29th August 2009. The band's website is www.sonsalsa.altpro.net/bandsite while the Dun Laoghaire Festival website is www.festivalofworldcultures.com
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The Arts Show Thursday 23rd July 2009
The Big Bang Festival in Dublin - Sean Rocks talks to festival organisers Brian Fleming and Robbie Harris who perform live in studio. The Big Bang Festival happens every year and drummers and percussionists from all over the world come to Dublin to take part. This year's starts on Friday 24th July at The Button Factory in Dublin.Full details are on www.bigbangfestival.com
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The Arts Show Monday 20th July 2009
Live music from The Duckworth Lewis Method.
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The Arts Show Wednesday 15th July 2009
Riverdance composer Bill Whelan talks about the return of Riverdance to The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, his life and career and chooses some of his favourite music.
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The Arts Show Thursday 9th July 2009
Music and interview with Carosel (Michelle Phelan and Pete McGrane) with tracks 'Easy as it Flows' and 'Sun is Shining' from their album 'Kaleidoscope'.
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The Arts Show Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Outside Broadcast from the National Library of Ireland in Kildare Street in Dublin, where author Edna O'Brien shares some of her love for and insights into the work of William Butler Yeats.
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The Arts Show Thursday 2nd July 2009
Live Music and conversation with Shaun Davey, Rita Connolly, Liam O'Flynn and friends.
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The Arts Show Tuesday 19th May 2009
Dublin-Born Pianist Finghin Collins plays live in studio
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The Arts Show Thursday 23rd April 2009
Live Music from the Rastrelli Cello Quartet
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The Arts Show - Monday 20th April 2009 - Emma Audio Diary
Emer Horgan who plays Emma in the La Touche Players production kept diary
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The Arts Show Monday 6th April 2009
Live Music from David MacKenzie and Josh Johnston
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The Arts Show Thursday 19th March 2009
Interview with Pat Moylan recently appointed chair of Arts Council
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The Arts Show Monday 23rd March 2009
Elizabeth O'Neill meets young film-makers taking part in the Fresh Film Festival.
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The Arts Show Thursday 12th March 2008
Music from Paul Tiernan accompanied by Kevin Murphy on cello. Songs 'Breakfast in Bed' and 'Skinny' from his latest album 'Earthquakes start with Little Cracks'. Full information on Paul Tiernan is available on www.paultiernan.com and www.myspace.com/paultiernan and www.cdbaby.com/cd/paultiernan
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The Arts Show Thursday 5th March 2009
Dublin band Caruso perform the tracks 'Monster' and 'Satellite' from their album 'The Watcher and the Comet' live in studio with interview between songs.
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The Arts Show Wednesday 4th March 2009
Double Grammy Award Winning duo 'Sugarland' on their album 'Love on the Inside' and first trip to Ireland for dates in Belfast, Thurles and Donegal.
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The Arts Show 12th February 2009
Music and chat from New York singer-songwriter Nell Bryden. Nell's current album is called 'Second Time Around' and her website is www.nellbryden.com.
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The Arts Show Monday 23rd February 2009
Special programme to mark the 80th birthday of Northern Irish poet John Montague.
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The Arts Show Wednesday 18th February 2009
Live music from Wicklow Band Major Bullhorn - Tom Doyle, Damien Buckley & Stephen Rooney.
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The Arts Show Tuesday 17th February 2009
Poet Ruth Padel on the bi-centenary of the birth of her Great Great Grandfather Charles Darwin.
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The Arts Show Tuesday 24th February 2009
Public Interview with Actor Colin Firth conducted by Vincent Woods at Cineworld Parnell Street as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
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The Arts Show: 21st January 2009 - New Album Reviews
Jessie Collins of iVenus.com reviews the new albums from Antony and the Johnsons and Grand Duchy (Black Francis and his wife Violet Clarke)
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The Arts Show: 22nd October 2008 - 'Nights Beneath the...
Denis Kehoe, a young Irish writer, talks about his new debut novel 'Nights Beneath the Nation'. The story is set in Dublin of the 1950's and the 1990's and tells the story of a gay man who returns from New York after 40 years
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The Arts Show: 21st October 2008 - Great Writers Series:...
American novelist, short-story writer and playwright Joseph Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War II satirists. Heller wrote the influential novel 'Catch-22' about American servicemen during World War II. Jon Mitchell of the Department of English at NUI Maynooth and writer Julian Gough talk about Joseph Heller
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The Arts Show: 20th October 2008 - Children's Book...
The 18th Children's Book Festival has been taking place around the country this month, with events including workshops, competitions and readings. Cathy Hopkins, author of the 'Mates, Dates and the Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise' series and Oisin McGann, author of 'Mad Granddad' and the 'Forbidden Files' series, are among those taking part
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The Arts Show: 16th October 2008 - Arthur Conan Doyle
Journalist and author Russell Miller is the first biographer to have been granted unlimited access to Arthur Conan Doyle's private correspondence. He also makes full use of the writer's personal papers, unseen for many years. He joins us to talk about his life and work
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The Arts Show: 14th October 2008 - Burn After Reading
The new Coen brother's film 'Burn After Reading', which tells the story of two unscrupulous gym employees who try to sell a disk of CIA secrets they've stumbled across, opens in Irish cinemas on Friday. Grainne Humphreys, director of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and who saw the film at the Toronto Film Festival, joins us to discuss it
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The Arts Show: 13th October 2008 - 2008 Man Booker Prize...
Vincent Woods, journalist Sinead Gleeson and Lecturer in Modern English in UCC Eibhear Walsh discuss the nominees for the 2008 Man Booker prize. The shortlist for the prize are: ''The White Tiger' by Aravind Adiga, 'The Secret Scripture' by Sebastian Barry, 'Sea of Poppies' by Amitav Ghosh, 'The Clothes on their backs' by Linda Grant, 'The Northern Clemecy' by Phiilip Hensher and 'A Fraction of the Whole' by Steve Toltz
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The Arts Show - 9th October 2008 - David Guterson
David Guterson talks about his latest book 'The Other', which is set in Seattle in the early 1970s, and tells the story of the friendship between two men. The book is a moving tribute to enduring friendship but also a meditation on freedom and the high price that comes with it
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The Arts Show - 8th October 2008 - Francis Bacon:...
Michael Peppiatt is the author of 'Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma'. He joins us to talk about the revised edition of his 1996 biography of the artist and his friendship with the artist
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The Arts Show - 7th October 2008 - Dublin Theatre...
Brian Singleton and Anne Hartigan review the National Theatre of Great Britain's production of 'Happy Days' and the Irish premier of 'The Cripple of Inishman', presented by the Druid and Atlantic Theatre Company. Ian Walsh and Mary O'Donnell review 'First Love', adapted for the stage by Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland, and discuss 'Rank', a dark comic thriller based in a taxi rank at Dublin Airport
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The Arts Show - 6th October 2008 - Discussion: State Of...
Recorded at a public event at the Abbey Theatre, this public discussion event centred on the role of national theatres in Britain and Ireland. Chaired by Vincent Woods, it brought together the directors of the national theatres of Ireland
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The Arts Show: 9th January 2009 - Brian Friel Special
To celebrate the 80th birthday of the playwright Brian Friel we dedicate a special of the show to his work. Joining us to discuss Friel's enormous legacy are playwright Conor McPherson, actor and director Adrian Dunbar, Director of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Joe Dowling, and Professor Harry White of University College Dublin
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The Arts Show: 6th January 2009 - Children's Literature
On tonight's show we take a look at books for children and young people. What makes a book or writer not just popular but enduring? Are there timeless themes and characters? And what's the international appeal of Irish authors? Critic Robert Dunbar and writer Siobhn Parkinson discuss children's literature
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The Arts Show: 5th January 2009 - Street Art
Street art and exponents such as D*Face, Blek Le Rat, Asbestos, Skewville, Shepard Fairey and the ubiquitous Banksy are no longer only to be seen in urban settings, with The Tate in London among the galleries exhibiting work. Elizabeth O'Neill reports on the developments in the form of Street Art
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The Arts Show 17 Dec 2008
Rod Stoneman was executive producer of the documentary "Chavez: The Revolution Will Not be Televised" (2002). Stoneman here talks about his recently published study of the documentary
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The Arts Show 15 Dec 2008
Ulick O' Connor talks about his new poetry collection - The Kiss
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The Arts Show: 2nd October 2008 - Dublin Theatre...
Catriona Crowe, Chairperson of the Irish Theatre Institute, and theatre critic Ian Walsh review some of the plays at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Up for discussion are: 'The Year of Magical Thinking', 'Hedda Gabler', 'Black Watch', 'Caligula', 'Heart of Darkness' and 'Delirium'
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The Arts Show: 1st October 2008 - Mark Rothko Profile
Mark Rothko was one of the most famous abstract artists of the 20th Century. He is the subject of a retrospective at the London's Tate Modern. Declan Long of the National College of Art and Design discusses his life and work
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The Arts Show: 30th September 2008 - Fiona Shaw
We interview the Irish actress Fiona Shaw about her life and work, and playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days' at The Abbey Theatre
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The Arts Show: 22nd September 2008 - The Stinging Fly...
Editor Declan Meade and writers Mia Gallagher and Tom Tierney talk about The Stinging Fly Press' second anthology 'Let's Be Alone together' which features 20 stories by 20 writers. The anthology includes stories from some very well known writers like William Wall, Gina Moxley and Evelyn Conlon plus many new writers too
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The Arts Show: 24th September 2008 - PD James
PD James has been writing and publishing crime fiction for 46 years. Her first novel, 'Cover Her Face', was published in 1962. She is known for her acute social and psychological insights and she relishes character, place and the possibilities unleashed by murder. Her new novel is 'The Private Patient' and she joins us to talk about it and read an excerpt
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The Arts Show: 16th September 2008 - IMRAM: Irish...
The IMRAM Festival, which celebrates Irish language, literature and culture, starts this week. We interview ilis N Dhuibhne about her new book 'Dn An Airgid'
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The Arts Show: 15th September 2008 - Public Interview...
A public interview with writer Roddy Doyle took place on Saturday 13 September in Dromahair in County Leitrim, as part of the Cinema North-West Adaptations Festival. Beginning with 'The Commitment's' the writer discusses the script to screen process
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The Arts Show: 10th September 2008 - Andrew Miller's...
Writer Andrew Miller won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his first novel 'Ingenious Pain'. His fifth book, 'One Morning Like a Bird', tells the tale of a young poet, Juji Takano, growing up free of self-delusion and striving to make the right decisions in life
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The Arts Show: 8th September 2008 - John Banville Public...
Listen to our recent public interview with Booker Prize-winning author John Banville. During the interview he talks about his alter-ego, the crime author Benjamin Black
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The Arts Show: 4th September 2008 - Chris Binchy
The author Chris Binchy discusses his newly published Dublin-set novel, 'Open Handed'
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The Arts Show: 2nd September 2008 - Claire Cunningham at...
Dance Base, Scotland's National Centre for Dance, has partnered with Dance Ireland and the Dublin Fringe Festival to promote a cutting edge dance exchange programme between Scotland and Ireland. As part of this exchange programme, Claire Cunningham, an artist with osteoporosis, will be performing her solo dance aerial piece 'Mobile' at the Dublin Fringe Festival. We find out more about it from her
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The Arts Show: 28th August 2008 - Oscar's Books
A new biography of Oscar Wilde, who was also a consummate reader and lover of books, examines his life and character by considering the books he read. We are joined by its author, Thomas Wright, to discuss 'Oscar's Books' and the life of Oscar Wilde
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The Arts Show: 26th August 2008 - Private / Public...
The New Group Exhibition in St Anne's Park is called 'Private - Public' and is inspired by the transformation of the park from a privately-owned estate and mansion to a public amenity where artists present their own interpretations of this idea through various media. Richard Beirne meets the exhibition's curator Colleen Lambe
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The Arts Show: 25th August 2008 - Shepard Fairey and...
We take a look at art as a political image and specifically the work of American artist Shepard Fairey, who has most recently designed and issued a series of posters of US presidential candidate Barack Obama in the style of the iconic images of Che Guevara, which have been approved by Obama himself
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The Arts Show: 27th August 2008 - Tracey Emin
Always controversial, a retrospective exhibition of the work of British artist Tracey Emin has opened at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. The exhibition looks back on her 20-year career and brings together work ranging from appliqud blankets, paintings, sculptures, films, neons, drawings and print. Brian Fay, Head of Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology, reviews the exhibition
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The Arts Show Special from The Abbey Theatre: Public...
This special edition of The Arts Show comes from The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, marking and celebrating the publication of Dennis O'Driscoll's book 'Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney'
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The Arts Show 18th August 2008
Norwegian writer Linn Ullman talks about her latest novel A Blessed Child
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The Arts Show 20 August 2008
Scottish playwright Zinnie Harris talks to Sean Rocks ahead of the Irish premier of her play Further than the Furthest Thing
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The Arts Show 19 August 2008
Playwright and broadcaster Melissa Murray and Stephen Matterson of the School of English at Trinity College Dublin discuss the life and work of American writer John Steinbeck
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The Arts Show 15 July 2008
Composer Philip Glass discusses his life and work
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The Arts Show 21st July 2008
Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif talks about his debut novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes
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The Arts Show 3rd July 2008
Writer Joseph O'Neill talks about his new book Netherland
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The Arts Show 9th July 2008
Film director Tom Kalin talks about his latest film, Savage Grace
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The Arts Show 16 June 2008
American writer Tobias Wolff talks about his latest short story collection - The Story Begins
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