Arena

Paul Noonan guested on the 2019 album L.O.S.S. from electronica producer Daithí & so began the musical partnership Houseplants, Dry Goods is out now, Colm Tóibín’s The Magician is one of the most anticipated novels this year, on the Nobel-Prize winning author, Thomas Mann, Foundation is a tv series based on Isaac Asimov’s influential sci-fi novels.

Y: The Last Man takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, Aoife Barry previews the Disney+ series, Dinner Party: A Tragedy is the debut novel from Sarah Gilmartin, a prize-winning writer & the co-editor of The Stinging Fly, Philippe Cassard will be performing at Newsosspianofestival.com, Ireland’s Historic Gardens, documentary with Robert O Byrne.

Seán Rocks hosts a very special Arena on Culture Night, with author John Boyne, soprano Claudia Boyle, producer Daithí Ó Drónaí, actors Roxanna Nic Liam, Emmet Kirwan and singer Jess Kavanagh sharing their culture highs, what pieces of work have sustained them, challenged them or delighted them throughout their lives.

Film reviews: Rose Plays Julie, Everybody's talking about Jamie, 12 Mighty Orphans - Lemuel Gulliver: Adventurer Extraordinaire - Black Dragonfly by Jean Pasley

Orla Brady: Rose Plays Julie - TV previews: Kin, Help and The Morning Show - Cinematography with Steven Benedict

Met Gala - Fehdah - John Zorn - Carlo Gébler's 'I, Antigone'

Jack B Yeats exhibition - Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture - Album review: Little Simz, Manic Street Preachers and St Etienne.

James Vincent McMorrow - Schumacher - Mark Cousins - Dementia Fiction Festival

- Film reviews: Herself, Respect and Copilot - In The Game: Mick Flannery & Susan O'Neill - Ian Lynam's Autistic License

John Lennon's Imagine album at 50 - - Shaking Bog Festival - Abigail O'Brien - Fringe: Junk Ensemble's 'The Veiled Ones'