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Nealo debut album, All the Leaves Are Falling is out this Friday,Edel Coffey reviews Mantel Pieces which consists of twenty “pieces” by Hilary Mantel, the twice Booker Prize winning author, Dead Still is a new TV drama, part murder mystery, part black comedy on RTÉ One, Declan Burke reviews, DracuHa, bramstokerfestival.com/

American poet & essayist, Claudia Rankine discusses her new book, Just Us, she has conversations with white friends & strangers on the topic of whiteness & white privilege, Waterford poetry prize winner Molly Twomey, Steven Benedict on where to begin with filmmaker Federico Fellini, Declan Hughes reviews Martin Amis' memoir, The Inside Story.

Tradition Now is a series of concerts run each year by the National Concert Hall. Tradition Now 2020 features Ye Vagabonds who cleaned up at the 2019 RTE Folk Awards, Art Historian, Jess Fahy reviews the RHA's Annual Exhibition, Pat Carty and Siobhan Kane review new albums from Bruce Springsteen’s to Laura Veirs and Gorillaz.

John Maguire and Aingeala Flannery review new films from Rebecca to On The Rocks & Summer of 85, Elizabeth Thompson on her new Joan Baez book, The Last Leaf on the iconic, singer-songwriter & civil rights activist, Felispeaks is a Nigerian-Irish Poet, Performer, Playwright. She will be part of Waterford’s Imagine Arts Festival this weekend.

Edel Coffey discusses Daphne du Maurier’s, Rebecca, Secrets Never Told is the first short story collection by Dermot Bolger, a writer so prolific in poetry, plays and novels that it’s hard to believe he could have a debut, Chris Wasser reviews The Undoing, a new six-part drama from David E Kelley with Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman.

40 years ago the debut album from little-known Dublin band U2 was released, it was the band's first time working with producer Steve Lillywhite, Irish soprano Claudia Boyle recommends where to begin with the music of Anna Moffo and Robert McFarlane remembers artist Tim Robinson.

30 years ago, a Northern Irish band released their debut. Their enormous back catalogue has been remastered, Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time: Thirty Years of The Divine Comedy and Tara Erraught on Mezzo Masterpieces a new series of three online concerts with fellow mezzo-sopranos Paula Murrihy and Sharon Carty, with the Irish National Opera Orchestra.

Emily Hourican's novel, The Glorious Guinness Girls tells the story of the Guinness sisters from their idyllic childhood in Ireland to London's high society, Jenn Gannon on the teen drama, from escapist fantasies to something more gritty, Donald Clarke & Roe McDermott review films; The 40 year Old Version, The Other Lamb & Body of Water.

Christopher Morash on the Dublin International Literary Award, worth 100,000, Lauren Murphy and John Meagher review new albums, from Matt Berninger, Katie Melua and Paddy Hannah, Declan Burke reviews Ben Schott's Jeeves and the Leap of Faith.

To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, renowned pianist John O’Conor performs the composers final three piano sonatas, see musicforgalway.ie, Mary McGill reviews Roadkill which is the title of a new political thriller & Greg Delanty's latest poems 'No More Time' salute the natural world.