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Clare Monnelly stars in Irish folk horror film Fréwaka

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

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Book Of The Week: Open, Heaven by Sean Hewitt

Just as for his remarkable memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, Sean Hewitt has borrowed the title of his debut novel from another poet, writes Conor Hanratty.

Book Of The Week • 17 Apr

Eimear McBride returns with The City Changes Its Face

10 books we're looking forward to reading in 2025

Irish literature continues to go from strength to strength.

Books • 28 Dec 24

Have you read Jan Carson's Quickly, While They Still Have Horses?

10 outstanding books you may have missed in 2024

Before our final rundown of the year's best books, we wanted to give a flavour of some of this year's most outstanding releases which, for one reason or another, didn't quite garner the attention they deserved.

Best Of 2024 • 11 Dec 24

Rapture's Road is Seán Hewitt's second volume of poetry

Book Of The Week: Rapture's Road by Seán Hewitt

Sean chats to poet Seán Hewitt about his new collection, Rapture's Road.

Books • 03 Feb 24

Seán Hewitt: "I definitely saw myself in this book as a sort of conduit"

Seán Hewitt on exploring the "emotional territory" of queer love

The Rooney Prize winner speaks about the importance of language in translation, revelling in the ordinariness of queer love and restoring queer identity and sexuality to the pinnacle of culture.

Books • 06 Dec 23

RTÉ's Sinead Crowley has published several acclaimed novels, most recently The Belladonna Maze

Sinéad Crowley's books of the year 2022

Books • 03 Dec 22

Seán Hewitt awarded 2022 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

Books • 29 Oct 22

Irish Book Awards nominees Charlie Bird and Judge Gillian Hussey

Bird, Bono, Norton & Harrington lead Irish Book Awards shortlist

Charlie Bird, Bono, Graham Norton and Kellie Harrington are among the authors on the shortlist for this year's An Post Irish Book Awards which take place in November.

Books • 18 Nov 22

Kellie Harrington talks about her autobiography at this year's Dublin Book Festival

This is me - true stories at the Dublin Book Festival

Bill Whelan • 14 Oct 22

Book Of The Week: All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt

Books • 27 Aug 22

All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt - read an extract

Books • 07 Aug 22

All Down Darkness Wide - Seán Hewitt on his acclaimed new memoir

RTÉ Arena • 27 Jul 22

Author and art critic CristÍn Leach (Pic: Conor Horgan)

Something For The Weekend – Cristín Leach's Cultural Picks

Something For The Weekend • 18 May 22

Cúirt Festival: Writing through the Queer Archive

For this year's Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which runs from 21st - 25th April, we're delighted to host a series of Cúirt conversations here on RTÉ Culture...

Cuirt Festival • 23 Apr 21