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Directors Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon talk to Seán about their Oscar nomination for Wolfwalkers, Stephen Rea will hosts a special show honouring the late poet, Derek Mahon, Tradfest.ie Vivian Gornick revisits her essays on culture, feminism & literature. Taking a Long Look, is her new book.

Eamon Carr discusses his film Cú Chulainn Awakes, stpatricksfestival.ie , portrait painter, Chantal Joffe's new exhibition at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Brian Boyd & Zara Hedderman review new albums from Irish singer-songwriter Megan O’Neill, Australian band The Paper Kites & the Stepney Sisters, described as feminist trailblazers.

Ruth Barton and Donald Clarke review films, Judas and the Black Messiah tells the story of the FBI-backed treachery within the Black Panthers in the late 60s, Jenn Gannon reviews the Flight Attendant on Sky One, Paul McVeigh, Emma Donoghue and Neil Hegarty have come together as editor and contributors to Queer Love: An Anthology of Irish Fiction.

Tenducci was one of the most acclaimed operatic singer, Peter Whelan, artistic director at the Irish Baroque Orchestra & mezzo-soprano, Tara Erraught, discuss their new CD, based on the life of Tenducci, Adam Mohamed is an Irish Sudanese spoken word artist, film-maker Paul Duane revisits his documentary Barbaric Genius 10 years on.

Chief Conductor Jaime Martin conducts the first of six concerts on Friday with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, NCH.ie, live on rte.ie/culture, Surviving or Thriving? online series on the mental health of artists, Theatre director Louise Lowe & composer Jennifer Walshe, waterfordhealingarts.com, Conor Hanratty on the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra celebrated International Women's Day with a series of recordings with female artists incl. Dana Masters & Emma Langford, Raven Leilani's debut novel Luster is one of the major literary hits of the year, St. Patrick's Festival will have huge St. Patrick's Night Trad at Whelan's incl. Cormac Begley & Colm Mac Con Iomaire.

My Tribe on the rise of music subcultures in Ireland, Irish filmmaker Paul Rice travelled across Russia meeting LGBTQ+ activists along the way who face the threat of extreme physical violence, A Worm In the Heart screens at diff.ie, John Meagher & Andrea Cleary review new albums from the iconic Nick Cave, to the Kings of Leon & Jane Weaver.

Director Francis Lee discusses Ammonite with Kate Winslet & Saoirse Ronan, telling the story of 19th century palaeontologist, Mary Anning, Michael Pope & Cara O' Doherty review films, Moxie & Poly Styrene, Salena Godden re-imagines death as an elderly, overworked black woman who appears in the flat of a writer in ‘Mrs Death Misses Death’.

The Nobel Prize winning author of 'The Remains of the Day' and 'Never Let me Go', Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his new book 'Klara and the Sun', A Smyth's debut album is Last Animals, This Sunday, March 7, Irish author Edna O’Brien will be conferred with France’s highest cultural accolade, The Order of Arts and Letters.

The RTÉ Short Story Competition is back, as part of this years judging panel writers Declan Hughes and Lisa McInerney give tips and advice for entrants, the most famous performance artist in the world is Marina Abramovic, Amanda Coogan recommends her work, 'New Poetries VIII' seeks out new and promising poetry from 24 diverse poets.