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The Fire in Me Now explores the life and work of actor Stephen Rea

The fire inside Stephen Rea - how we made the new documentary

Genshin Impact was hit with a 20 million fine over allegedly unfairly marketed loot boxes

Will tougher loot box and currency rules create fairer gaming?

What do you mean you've never seen The Quiet Man?

47 Irish movie classics available to watch free online

Oscar-winning producer Ed Guiney is the founder of Storyhouse

Storyhouse screenwriting festival kicks off in Dublin

Bring the noise - guitar legend Thurston Moore talks to RTÉ Arena

Bring the noise - guitar legend Thurston Moore talks to RTÉ Arena

The full Druid company before departing for their first tour to the Aran Islands with J M Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (Photo: Bill Doyle)

Hitting the road - Druid theatre marks 50th anniversary

Wired Our Own Way - the new anthology of Irish autistic voices

Wired Our Own Way - the new anthology of Irish autistic voices

Conleth Hill stars as King Lear at The Gate Theatre (Pic: Ros Kavanagh)

The promised land? King Lear and the shape of tragedy

Novelist Jan Carson is one of the judges of this year's RTÉ Short Story Competition

Chasing the high: Jan Carson's short story tips for writers

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Something for the Weekend: Cashel Day-Lewis's cultural picks

Something for the Weekend: Cashel Day-Lewis's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

Amenazeb Khan, writer

Sunday Miscellany: Mina Is The Word For Love, by Amenazeb Khan

Sunday Miscellany

Get Creative

Poet Jessica Traynor: 'I'm telling you to take a nap.'

Get Creative: On writing poetry - questions and dreams

Franz Kafka, author of The Metamorphosis (Pic: Getty)

Get Creative: On writing poetry - beetles and bad dreams

Want to learn about screenwriting? Begin by watching The Godfather...

Get Creative: How to write a movie, part one

Raiders Of The Lost Ark - plot is necessary, but character is everything.

Get Creative: How to write a movie, part two

Want to know how to create a 'lean forward' in your script? Watch a Paul Thomas Anderson movie...

Get Creative: How to write a movie, part three

Paul Duane's movie All You Need Is Death won rave reviews upon release

Get Creative: Making a movie - how to manage your production

Best Picture winner Anora was shot in 40 days, with 10 days alone going on the infamous mansion scene

Get Creative: Making a movie - how to manage your crew

Want to see a well-edited movie? Watch the Oscar-winning Get Out

Get Creative: Making a movie - the editing process

Editor's Choice

Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète) is rescored at New Music Dublin

5 must-see events at New Music Dublin 2025

New Music Dublin

You Don't Get To Be Racist And Irish - Imelda May's stunning poem

You Don't Get To Be Racist And Irish - Imelda May's stunning poem

Kneecap are bringing the Irish language to a global stage

The young artists making Gaeilge cool again

The Lauren Murphy Column

RTÉ Radio 1 is looking for writers for their new series

RTÉ Radio 1 is looking for writers for their new series

10 of the best kids' shows on the RTÉ Player right now

10 of the best kids' shows on the RTÉ Player right now

(L-R) Toner Quinn, Bob Quinn and Stephen Rea (Pic: Ruby Quinn)

Growing up in the Conamara Gaeltacht with my maverick father

Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew take to the stage at Vicar Street

Fontaines D.C. win RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year

RTÉ Choice Music Prize

New Music Dublin

Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète) is rescored at New Music Dublin

5 must-see events at New Music Dublin 2025

New Music Dublin

Composer and musician Caimin Gilmore brings BlackGate to NMD 2025 (Pic: David Six)

Enter BlackGate: Caimin Gilmore on his New Music Dublin premiere

New Music Dublin

Ed Bennett: 'I would never tell an audience what to do or think.'

All Earth Once Drowned - Ed Bennett's musical call to action

Gamelan on - bringing the sound of Indonesia to New Music Dublin

Gamelan on - bringing the sound of Indonesia to New Music Dublin

New Music Dublin

What does the sea sound like? Jonathan Nangle's ocean of music

What does the sea sound like? Jonathan Nangle's ocean of music

The Universal: Carl Corcoran & Ciarán Kelly's New Music premiere

The Universal: Carl Corcoran & Ciarán Kelly's New Music premiere

New Music Dublin

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