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Venice Film Festival 2026

TV reviews

Film reviews

Wexford Festival Opera - Hannah O'Brien

Dublin Fringe Festival - Cyclone

Kavanagh’s Beat Generation

Human or Animal?

Conducting a New Chapter

Writing Between the Notes: Mark O’Halloran on Bill Evans

Reading Between the Lines with Seamus Deane

From the Womb to the Trad Session: Jayne Pomplas’ Irish Music Journey

Mark Kermode: From Movie Scores to Post-Punk

Grief, Grit & Line-Dancing

Kids, Parents & the Soundtrack to Your 40s

Album reviews

TV reviews

Film reviews

Billy Ocean on his upcoming Irish tour

At the Villa Celeste - Elizabeth Wassell Montague

The Gentlemen - Season 2

Ian Prowse performs live in studio

Patrick Street Studios

A Sunday Afternoon, With Strings Attached

Finding Her Way Forward

Seeing the World Through Berger’s Eyes

Dancing for Cake

The Keys to New Ross

All Roads Lead to I, Claudius

TV reviews

Album reviews

Film reviews

Who to see at this year's Electric Picnic

Celebrating 60 years of Star Trek

Andy Irvine

Temple Bar the Musical - Molly Mew

Time Frames: A century of proscenium playwrights - Dominic Dromgoole

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Dolly Parton remembered

Forget Electric Picnic - Muldoon’s Picnic Is Bringing A New York Night of Music & Art

Follow the Hare: Into the Wild World of Hill of the Hares

Macdara Yeates: Digging Deep into Dublin’s Folk Soul

TV reviews

Super Furry Animals - Gruff Rhys

Masters of Tradition - Méav Ní Mhaolchatha

Film reviews

Niamh Bury

Jim Lockhart on The Shield of Achilles

IMMA

Annie Atkins

The Jackson Harp

Country People - Daniel Mason

Really Good Time

Days of Miracle and Wonder - Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland.

Dublin Fringe Festival - Saving for a Helicopter

Album reviews

Arena - 14 August 2026

Fritz Lang

Mcgrath performs live in studio

Film reviews

Arena's eclipse soundtrack

13 Songs from Nobodaddy

Dublin Fringe Festival - Pretty Vacant

Sirens

Pedro Almodóvar

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra - 2026 Invincible Tour

Judy – End of the Rainbow at The Gaiety

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026

Eleanor McEvoy

TV reviews

Album reviews

Film reviews

Dublin Fringe Festival - Chronically Hopeful

Have You Never Heard of Bill Fuller?

Flood Tide

Whitney Houston

Intentionally Offline - Niamh Bagnell

Pilgrims

Sweep the Cobwebs Off the Sky - Mary O'Donnell

Film Noir

TV reviews

Album reviews

Sean Rocks remembered

The Catcher in the Rye

Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Film reviews

Glen Hansard

Dior's Irish Connection

Art in Focus: Energy Made Visible

Live Music with Jack Talty, Mark Redmond and Michael McCague

Mirandolina: A Modern Classic

Cut! Ireland's Film Censors

Stream for Free

TV Reviews with Chris Wasser and Jenn Gannon

Album Reviews with John Meagher and Zara Hedderman

Remembering, The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Film Review

New Opera - The Curing Line

The Story Behind The Blind Fiddler

The Dark Side of AI Love: Kate Dolan Talks Soulm8te

Barry Ward - On the Sea

Guggi: From Post-Punk Pioneer to International Artist

The Alice Project Brings Kilkenny's Dark History to Life

My Bloody Valentine and the Rise of Shoegaze

Galway Reviews - From Rembrandt to Matisse - Jane Casey

Remembering Brenda Fricker - Galway International Arts Festival

Galway International Arts Festival

The Odyssey - The Brightening Air - Trinity's Treasures

John Cleese - Fawlty Towers

Christopher Nolan filmography

The Homecoming of Joseph Grace - Play

Remembering Sam Neill

Bill Nighy - Ride or Die

How to read The Odyssey?

TV reviews

Album reviews

Flight - GIAF

The Rolling Stones: The Biography

Jonathan Coe - The Proof of My Innocence

Gwenno

The National gallery’s latest acquisitions

U2 release new single, Street of Dreams

Contrapposto

Carnation - GIAF

250 years of the USA

Louise Brangan - The Fallen

Mick Lennox - The Power of Dreams

Terry Loane - Faraway Home

Album review

Arena Encore - Consolata Boyle on Enola Holmes 3 // The Odyssey and cinema // Madonna's career

Madonna

Oscar Unwritten

Archduke - Chris Walley

Cruit Harpers' Gathering - Cormac de Barra

The Red Mouth - Sheila Armstrong

Antoni O'Breskey 50 Years of Music

Wimbledon fashion

IFI's Odysseys season

Consolata Boyle

The Cure at Marlay Park - review

Opening Night - Sara Baume

TV reviews

Album reviews

Film reviews

Phillip Leslie: Chopin Recital

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at 40

Mick Flannery

Pet Shop Boys Volume

Frida Slattery As Herself - Ana Kinsella

The art of adaptation - Hinterland Festival

A Private Life – Rebecca Zlotowski

For the Record - Colin Dunne

After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

TV reviews

The Shaughraun

The Pixar story

Visions of America 1978–79

How to read Ulysses - Colm Tóibín

The Magic Glasses at Bewley's Theatre

Who is the 'real' Alexander Hamilton?

David Hockney remembered

Toy Story 5

World Music pioneers

Maggie O’Farrell

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Arena Live at Irish Embassy London for RTÉ 100

Christy Brown honoured with memorial garden

Paddy Casey

Mr Moonlight

Arena Cork special

Film reviews

TV reviews

Album reviews

Angélique Kidjo

Pool (No Water) - Evanna Lynch

My Real Life

Blas Bluegrass

West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2026

Fuzzy Logic and Everything Must Go at 30

Marilyn at 100

Album reviews

TV reviews

Arena Encore - Peter McDonald on "Power Ballad" // Wallis Bird // Douglas Stuart

Oklahoma!

Rituals - Danielle McLaughlin

Whistler’s Irish muse, Joanna Hiffernan

Wallis Bird

The Lemon Twigs

Miles Davis at 100

The Whiteheaded Boy

John of John - Douglas Stuart

Power Ballad

Album reviews

Arena Encore - Ali Smith // "Kylie" director Michael Harte // Elif Shafak // Matt Berniger of The National

Ali Smith wins 2026 Dublin Literary Award

Kylie director Michael Harte

Film reviews

Elif Shafak - The 79th Cannes Film Festival - Star Wars spin-offs

Live music featuring Mark Geary - Irish premiere of Lot Vekemans play Poison- Swan Lake Ballet de Santiago production

Matt Berninger- Sybil Connolly - Pet Sounds turns 60

Film Reviews - China Moses - Stirring the Pot

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Don Giovanni - John Banville on Gulliver's Travels at 300 - Suspended Chorus

Arena Encore - Úna Ní Dhonghaíle // Eric Whitacre // HamsandwicH

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena Encore - Fra Fee // Dan Donnelly's Arm // Toshín & Cáit Ní Ríain

Arena (Podcast)

Sáile - Fashion in Film - CRTL: Essays on Video Games - Gordon Snell tribute

In The Ring with Dan Donnelly - The Palm House - Excalibur at 45

The Unchosen with Fra Fee - Big Thief - The Spirits of Maritime Crossing

Arena (Podcast)

Arena Encore - Venice Biennale // Filmmaker David Gleeson // Review: Lena Dunham's Famesick

Film Reviews - The Madonna of Asia - The Steps

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena Encore - Aoife Ní Bhríain & Cormac McCarthy // William Blake at the NGI // Remembering Moya Brennan

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena Encore - SexyTadhg performs in studio, Schiaparelli at the V&A and Rosaleen McDonagh on her debut novel

Arena (Podcast)

Linear Flux - Delirium Archive - Ciseach

Remembering Gabriel Rosenstock - Schiaparelli at the V&A - Diatribe Stage at New Music Dublin - Stephen Sexton at the Granard Booktown Fest

Arena (Podcast)

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Celebrating Mary Lavin, remembering John McGahern and Wexford Festival Opera

Film Reviews - Wexford Festival Opera - Communion

Remembering Ronnie - Phoeno - Easter art

Celebrating Mary Lavin

Doctor Millar on his new album 'I am Vermin'

Jackie Nickerson on her new book and Exhibition 'Stateside'

Rita Perry's Kill Your Darlings - 20th anniversary of John McGahern's passing - The Lives of Others

Film Reviews - Album Reviews

Arena Encore - Sex and the City creator Michael Patrick, SNL UK and Orwell: 2+2=5

Arena (Podcast)

Saturday Night Live UK - Life Aid in the National Photographic Archive - Rembrandt's Promise

George Orwell - The Good Luck Club - Patient: Soldier

Arena Encore - A Woman of Substance Jessica Reynolds, Liza Minnelli's memoir and the death of Dolores Keane

Film reviews - Tuesdays With Morrie - Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

Jessica Reynolds - Of Mornington - Look What You Made Me Do

Arena's St Patrick's Day Arts Quiz

Irish folk singer Dolores Keane dies aged 72 - The East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2026 - Krapp's Last Tape

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Element Pictures, Paul Muldoon, and the art of Casting!

Film reviews - The Madison - Rusalka

Joe Stilgoe - Spring as inspiration - How to make a killing - Glasshouse perform Björk

RTE Short Story Competition - Daughter Of A Drum - The Academy Award for Achievement in Casting

Element Pictures - Paul Muldoon - Ashes to Fashion

Arena's Oscar Edition

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Retirement Plan, Mary Costello and John O'Donnell

Film reviews - Kristian Bezuidenhout - Ethnology: a love song for Connemara

Retirement Plan - Morrissey - A Beautiful Loan

Mr Hoo and other stories - Couture - Hello Charlie

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Bowie Fest, Marianne Faithfull doc, Band T-shirts & Amanda Seyfried

Film reviews - Mike Garson on Bowie - Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold

Man on the Run - Ubu Roi - Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There

Broken English - As if nothing could fall: Essays on monuments - The Ballad of Johnny and June

Ian Lynch - Sweat, Sounds and Stories: A Love Letter to Old T-Shirts - The Testament of Ann Lee - Ciaran Creagh

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore -

Film reviews - Spring poetry - Dani Larkin

Rough Trade at 50 - Dublin International Film Festival - RHA

Consumed - 2026 Dublin Literary Award Longlist - Petrified

Robert Duvall dies aged 95- Trainspotting at 30 - Scene + Heard 2026 - The Secret Agent

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Wuthering Heights, Bad Bunny, Taxi Driver at 50 & poet Eoin Devereux

Film reviews - The Wardrobe Department - Gardening Leave

Bad Bunny - The song is nearly over - In Vitro

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast - Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age - Taxi Driver at 50

The Plough and The Stars turns 100 - The enduring legacy of Emily Brontë - Story of a Day

TV Reviews - Album Reviews

Arena Encore - Abel Selaocoe, SisterS, and Bob Dylan's album Desire turns 50

Film Reviews - Plastic - Bob Dylan's Desire at 50

Abel Selaocoe - A Quiet Love - As If

Sisters - Infinity - Bach Cantata series 2026

Arena Bank Holiday Music Special

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - John Bishop, George Saunders, Kathryn Ferguson & John Butler

Film reviews - Travellers’ Tunes - How I Became A Wave

These Sacred Vows - Fair Deal - Nostalgie

George Saunders - The films of Jean-Luc Godard - Cello Concerto No. 1 – Hostile Summits

John Bishop - Rob Doyle - Return to Palestine

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - The Odyssey, Paul Mescal & Sibéal

Film reviews - Midwinter Festival -Departure(s) by Julian Barnes

Patient Labyrinth - Daniel Mendelsohn - The History of Sound

Arena Tradfest special 2026

Valentino - Bryan Washington - Little John Nee - 38th European Film Awards

TV reviews - Film reviews

Arena encore

Arena RTÉ100 Special

Mark Kermode - The Crucible - Brokeback Mountain at 20

Brendan Fraser - EUREKA DAY - Sister Wake

The 83rd Golden Globes - Dido's Lament - ClassicsNow - Peggy Seeger

TV reviews - Music 2026

Arena Encore

Film reviews - A Slow Fire - The Cunning Little Vixen

Hamnet - David Keenan - Fiction in Translation

Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie -Olivia Laing - He Dies in the End

Ailbhe Reddy - Turner as Inspiration - First Fortnight Festival 2026

The Essential Seán Rocks - part 2