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Shortlist unveiled for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards

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Something for the Weekend: Alma Kelliher's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

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New Irish Writing: Chaos Theory by Sylvia Leatham

writer Angela Finn (on a beach), a finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: A Spectrum of Sorrow, by Angela Finn

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Wexford Festival Opera - watch Deidamia by George Frideric Handel

Wexford Festival Opera

Watch: Documenting life under siege in Gaza - First Thought Talks

First Thought Talks

Coraline: 'A deceptively dark and unsettling tale for children.'

Horror films for kids, from mildly spooky to downright scary

A close-up of a young boy with an identical version of him on a TV screen in the background.

The Fetch: Another piece of Irish mythology on screen

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Why Madama Butterfly is 'the most beautiful & perfect of operas'

Wexford Festival Opera - watch Le Trouvère by Giuseppe Verdi

Wexford Festival Opera

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New Irish Writing: Injury Time by Kevin Smith

RTÉ Short Story Competition

writer Jill Kenny (close up, pic credit Eve North), finalist in 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Pool Story, by Jill Kenny

RTÉ Short Story Competition

writer Angela Finn (on a beach), a finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: A Spectrum of Sorrow, by Angela Finn

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Sage Omar, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition (pic credit Jie Gao)

Short Story Competition: It Must Have Come First, by Sage Omar

RTÉ Short Story Competition

writer Peter McCauley, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Wolves, by Peter McCauley

RTÉ Short Story Competition

writer Kevin McDermott, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Kazakhstan, by Kevin McDermott

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Lynda McCarthy, shortlisted writer in 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Witness, by Lynda McCarthy

RTÉ Short Story Competition

writer Mary O'Rourke, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Labels, by Mary O'Rourke

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Irish language writer Niall Ó Siadhail, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition:Corrán na Maidine by Niall Ó Siadhail

RTÉ Short Story Competition

writer Sinèad Troy, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Feeding Time, by Sinéad Troy

RTÉ Short Story Competition

writer Ian Feighery, finalist in the 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition: Auntie and Anto and Ivy and Ava

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Editor's Choice

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Who is Tilly Norwood, and why does Hollywood hate her?

The Lauren Murphy Column

Taylor Swift

Reviewed: Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl is utterly... meh

Jonathan Anderson - will the Derryman deliver for Dior? (Pic: Getty)

No Filler - your one-stop pop culture essentials

Charli XCX - one of the great romantic poets of the modern age?

Why Charli XCX might be gen Z's answer to the Romantic poets

Opinion and Analysis

You're never too old to be a debut author

What is Italian Brainrot, and should parents be wary of it?

100 Buildings: Dublin Airport's original terminal is a wonder

Seamus Heaney Remembered

Seamus Heaney celebrated - an Irish poetry legend in focus

New Heaney collection contains 25 unpublished poems

Listen: Postscript - Ruth Negga reads Seamus Heaney

Listen: Postscript - Ruth Negga reads Seamus Heaney

A Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus Heaney

A Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus Heaney

Remembering Seamus Heaney in 10 selected broadcasts

Remembering Seamus Heaney in 10 selected broadcasts

Seamus Heaney's North at 50 - a poetry masterpiece revisited

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney - Reading the Future

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney - Reading the Future

The Letters of Séamus Heaney - RTÉ Arena on an epistolary event

The Letters of Séamus Heaney - RTÉ Arena on an epistolary event

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney at the Poetry Now Festival

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney at the Poetry Now Festival

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney celebrates his 65th birthday

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney celebrates his 65th birthday

Heaney Remembered: Seamus Heaney talks District and Circle

Heaney Remembered: Seamus Heaney talks District and Circle

Heaney remembered: Stepping Stones with Heaney & O'Driscoll

Heaney remembered: Stepping Stones with Heaney & O'Driscoll

Best Of RTÉ lyric fm

Photo by RTÉ staff member Áine Gallagher

Ambient Orbit returns - enter RTÉ lyric fm's chill out zone

The show occupies a unique space in Irish radio...

Conductor David Brophy, an Irishman in Cologne: The Lyric Feature

Conductor David Brophy, an Irishman in Cologne: The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature

Composer Michael Gallen sitting in a radio studio and presenter Paul Herriott standing beside him, both smiling.

Listen: RTÉ lyric live for Culture Night from the NCH

Culture Night 2025

Singer and presenter

Keeping it Euro-Country - the mighty CMAT talks to Marty

More Best Of RTÉ lyric fm

Manchán Magan remembered

Photo shows writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan against a forest backdrop

Remembering Manchán Magan - conversations from the RTÉ archives

A view from inside the chapel during Manchán Magan's funeral. A priest speaks at the alter while the coffin lies in state to his right.

Manchán Magan was 'fear lán d'iontas', funeral hears

Sunday Miscellany: 2 Words for Manchán, a poem by Noelle Lynskey

Brendan O'Connor and Manchán Magan in studio

"I have no fear of death": Manchán Magan on living with cancer

Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan - read an extract

Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan - read an extract

Listen to the Land Speak: Manchán Magan's journey of return

Manchán Magan, writer

Sunday Miscellany: Samradh, by Manchán Magan

Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany: Manchán Magan's wild words from Dingle

Sunday Miscellany: Manchán Magan's wild words from Dingle

Sunday Miscellany

Sea Tamagotchi - Manchán Magan celebrates the language of the sea

Sea Tamagotchi - Manchán Magan celebrates the language of the sea

Departures - Manchán Magan on his Dublin Book Festival series

Departures - Manchán Magan on his Dublin Book Festival series

Departures Volume 1: Manchán Magan celebrates County Wicklow

Departures Volume 1: Manchán Magan celebrates County Wicklow

Departures Volume 2: Manchán Magan in Westport

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