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Crash Ensemble's Kate Ellis (Pic: Rich Gilligan)

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Sunday Miscellany: Affirmation, by Andrew Clancy

Sunday Miscellany

Charli XCX attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March (Pic: Getty)

Welcome to Brat Summer - how Charlie XCX created a moment

The Lauren Murphy Column

Sissy Spacek in the film version of Stephen King's carrie

Hail to the King - 50 years of the master of literary horror

Soprano Claudia Boyle makes her RTÉ lyric fm DJ-ing debut this month

From diva to DJ: opera star Claudia Boyle on finding her voice

Sir Roger Casement was executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I

The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement - the new book extracted

The other Super Mario Brother is back in Luigi's Mansion 2 HD

Ghosts, Goofy, and good vs. evil – the latest games reviewed

Watch: Arcade Fire in concert at Bilbao BBK Live Festival

Actor Robert Sheehan on how meditation changed his life

The case for keeping the Basic Income for the Arts

Opinion and Analysis

Editor's Choice

RTÉ Supporting The Arts this July

RTE Supporting The Arts

Patti Smith onstage in New York earlier this year (Pic: Getty)

'It was the wildness': Patti Smith's triumphant Vicar Street show

Aimée Walsh: 'There was little of this period of time that brought me much joy'

A writer in exile - Aimée Walsh on her debut novel

Welcome to Swiftogeddon! Your ultimate Taylor Swift playlist

Lauren Murphy on Sister Act 2 and when nostalgia strikes

The Lauren Murphy Column

Sir David Puttnam is the subject of a new RTÉ documentary (Pic: Miki Barlok

David Puttnam, from Hollywood to West Cork - inside the new film

Girls' Night - Eimear Lynch's photos of Ireland's teen discos

Arena on RTÉ Radio 1

In the blood - singer Ríoghnach Connolly talks to RTÉ Arena

The Misadventures of Oliver Goldsmith - Arena stoops to conquer

Ode to joy - poet Paul Muldoon talks to RTÉ Arena

"Even painful memories are sweet" - Rosanne Cash talks to Arena

Nineteen Eighty-Four at 75 - RTÉ Arena celebrates a literary gem

Hilary Heron, celebrated - Arena on a pioneering Irish sculptor

In The Meadows with Lankum - the band talk to RTÉ Arena

I Am: Celine Dion - RTÉ Arena on a portrait of a diva in crisis

RTÉ Arena on the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death

Watch: Villagers perform That Golden Time for RTÉ Arena

Jennifer Higgie on her story of women in art and the spirit world

Raconteur Mary Kate O'Flanagan on making a show of herself

RTÉ lyric fm selects

From The Vaults: Cillian Murphy takes the Mystery Train

Kerry's Castaway Composer - The Lyric Feature on Arthur O'Leary

The Lyric Feature

Feather & Flock - Anja Murray on her lyrical love letter to birds

The Lyric Feature

RTÉ Lyric FM presenters, from left, Aedín Gormley, Paul Herriott, Marty Whelan, Lorcan Murray, Liz Nolan and Niall Caroll

RTÉ lyric FM celebrates 25 years on air

Lyric fm @ 25 - listen to the spectacular concert celebration

The legendary Mark Knopfler talks music with Marty

Marty in the Morning

Aédin Gormley on the magic of Stephen Sondheim

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The John Kelly Mixtape

John Kelly on Joni Mitchell: Blue is the warmest colour

A view of John Kelly's native Fermanagh

John Kelly on a time and a place with Buddha, Molaise and Mose

The John Kelly Column

Remember the time Liam Brady (L) took the Mystery Train with John Kelly (R)?

Out of midfield - John Kelly on Liam Brady and his records

Black Sabbath, 1970: Bill Ward, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler (Pic: Chris Walter/Getty)

John Kelly on Ireland's role in the invention of Heavy Metal

The John Kelly Column

Rufus Wainwright tackles folk standards on his latest album

It's all folk - John Kelly on opening your musical mind

John Kelly on Pet Sounds - the greatest album ever made?

John Kelly and the late Harry Belafonte

Meeting Belafonte - John Kelly on an audience with a legend

The John Kelly Column

The second album from Telefís makes John Kelly's cut for 2022

John Kelly's Top 10 albums of 2022

John Kelly on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love - a 'work of genius'

The original Sun Studios recording facility run by Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee

John Kelly on writing about what you love - and saying thanks

Composer John cage, pictured in 1958

John Kelly on two sound men who changed how we hear things

John Kelly on keeping it simple and being awake to nature