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The Tarot Reader of Versailles by Anya Bergman - read an extract

The Tarot Reader of Versailles by Anya Bergman - read an extract

The Benefactors - author Wendy Erskine

Book Of The Week: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine

Book Of The Week

David Kitt joins Ambient Orbit to celebrate the summer solstice (Pic: Neil J Smith)

Listen: Ambient Orbit goes live for the summer solstice

Banshee is one of the many journals in the busy Irish literary scene

Get Creative: On writing a novel - go find your tribe

Yes, it's okay if you haven't seen Adolescence yet.

Too. Much. Content. Are you suffering from cultural burnout?

The Lauren Murphy Column

Meg Grehan: 'Writing in verse can seem intimidating.'

Author Meg Grehan: How writing in verse helped me find my voice

Sfera con sfera ('Sphere within sphere') by Arnaldo Pomodoro in Trinity College Dublin

Renowned Italian sculptor Pomodoro dies aged 98

Author Caoilinn Hughes joins The Prompt (Pic: Amitava Kumar)

The Prompt tackles 'embarrassment' with author Caoilinn Hughes

Might the new Haim album be the soundtrack to your summer?

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Eileen Walsh onstage in The Second Woman (Pics: Jed Niezgoda)

I am Woman: Eileen Walsh's 24-hour theatrical tour-de-force

The scheme provides 2,000 artists and creative arts workers with payments of €325 per week

Six-month extension announced for basic income for the arts

Basic Income for the Arts

Editor's Choice

The Oscar-nominated An Cailín Ciúin is available to watch free online

50 Irish movie classics available to watch free online

"What do you mean 'A Song For Europe' didn't make the top spot?"

Careful, now - the 10 best Father Ted episodes, ranked!

AI, journalism and the importance of human voices

AI, journalism and the importance of human voices

The Lauren Murphy Column

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Love/Hate's Nigel Delaney, AKA Nidge

Why Love/Hate is the TV show that just won't die

The Lauren Murphy Column

Listen: Dublin International Piano Competition Final 2025

Listen: Dublin International Piano Competition Final 2025

Watch Now: RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival Awards 2025

Watch Now: RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival Awards 2025

DJ Proval of Kneecap performing at Glastonbury in 2024 (Pic: Getty)

The world can criticise Kneecap, but they have started something

Opinion and Analysis

Celebrating Queer Irish voices

Ordinary Saints - author Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin (Pic: Julie Broadfoot)

Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin on faith, family, identity & her debut novel

Listen: Mother's Pride playlist - your essential Pride mix

Listen: Mother's Pride playlist - your essential Pride mix

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

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

'John Broderick was a writer of prickly truths.'

John Broderick at 100: a pioneering queer Irish writer celebrated

Kel Menton: ' I am so, so grateful to be alive.'

Coming back to the light - Kel Menton on their debut novel

'Pride is a time to wonder at the distance we've travelled'

'Pride is a time to wonder at the distance we've travelled'

Opinion and Analysis

Emma Donoghue's early novel Stir Fry is a key work in Irish LGBTQ fiction

Pride on the page - 6 essential Irish LGBTQ novels

Digital Pride: Vickey Curtis performs Two Fat Ducks

Digital Pride: Vickey Curtis performs Two Fat Ducks

Aoife Sweeney O'Connor on mammies, queer joy and Wee Daniel

Aoife Sweeney O'Connor on mammies, queer joy and Wee Daniel

Dublin Fringe Festival

The Long Road To Pride - watch the moving short film

The Long Road To Pride - watch the moving short film

Crowds gather at a Gay Pride parade in Belfast

Why do we still need Pride?

The incomparable Sexy Tadhg (Pic: Kate Lawlor)

Something For The Weekend: Sexy Tadhg's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

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Get Creative

Banshee is one of the many journals in the busy Irish literary scene

Get Creative: On writing a novel - go find your tribe

Aimée Walsh: 'All good writers are first great readers'

Get Creative: On writing a novel - a great place to start

Cristin Leach: 'Much of my recent work has taken the form of hybrid texts.'

Get Creative: writing non-fiction – hybrid texts & collaborations

Get Creative: On non-fiction - writing groups and first readers

Get Creative: On non-fiction - writing groups and first readers

Donal Ryan is one of many Irish writers to have contributed to Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – writing audio essays

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – on self-editing

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – on self-editing

The first sentence of Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat: "This is a female text."

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – writing first sentences

Cristín Leach is the author of the acclaimed memoir Negative Space

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – writing personal essays

'If editing a poem is your to do list, or even part of your to do list, it's worth aiming for the small wins.'

Get Creative: On writing poetry – writing is rewriting

Filmmaker Robert Eggers describes the world of his films (including The Lighthouse) as his 'dollhouse'

Get Creative: On writing poetry – building the dollhouse

'Ted Hughes had his thought fox, I have my frog poems.'

Get Creative: On writing poetry - pinning the poem to the page

'In Ireland we tend to read poetry in liturgical tones. It's one of those unusual occasions where we can blame something on both W.B. Yeats, and the Catholic Church'

Get Creative: On writing poetry - who are you talking to?

Best Of RTÉ lyric fm

Listen: The Culture File Debate, live from Borris

Listen: The Culture File Debate, live from Borris

The Culture File Debate on RTÉ lyric fm took a trio to Carlow, for a special edition recorded live at this year's Borris Festival of Writing & Ideas 2025...

Listen: Aedín Gormley's Movies & Musicals live with the RTÉ CO

Listen: Aedín Gormley's Movies & Musicals live with the RTÉ CO

Chill out: Ambient Orbit's epic 7-hour World Meditation Day mix

Chill out: Ambient Orbit's epic 7-hour World Meditation Day mix

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

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

The Lyric Feature

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Here comes the summer

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10 smaller arts and music festivals to check out this summer

Daisy Press & the Aleph Quartet come to Dundalk (Pic: Mark Grochowski)

5 unmissable moments at LCMS's Echoes Festival 2025

Oh ...by Mikel Murfi comes to this year's GIAF (Pic: James Connolly)

Galway International Arts Festival announces 2025 programme

Eileen Walsh stars in The Second Woman at Cork Midsummer

Cork Midsummer Festival returns with a cultural lark by the Lee

French mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel stars in The Magic Fountain

Ancient tales, modern voices: Wexford Festival Opera returns

The International Literature Festival Dublin takes place 16th -25th May in Merrion Square

Dublin Literature Festival 2025 - 10 essential events

Scorched Earth by Luke Murphy is inspired by John B. Keane's The Field (Pic: Marcin Lewandowski)

Dublin Dance Festival 2025 celebrates community, chaos and ritual