Explore every episode of the podcast RTÉ - Arts Tonight

Hay, Straw and Rushes in Irish Folk Tradition with Anne O'Dowd on the publication of her book published by the Irish Academic Press. Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Criostóir MacCárthaigh and Clodagh Doyle also contribute. Recorded in the National Museum of Ireland: Country Life Division and in the National Folklore Collection, UCD.

Le Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris: Ireland's cultural home abroad with contributors Fionna Murray, Michael O'Loughlin, Olwen Fouré, Muireann Ní Chonaill, Mary O'Malley, Helen Carey, Siobhán Cleary, Evonne Ferguson and Nora Hickey M'Sichili.

'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce on the eve of its publication centenary with Éilis Ní Dhuibne, Anne Enright, Frank McGuinness, Anne Fogarty and Luke Gibbons with readings by Barry McGovern from hte RTÉ archives..

50 Years of Art History Degrees at UCD with Alistair Rowan, Eileen Kane + Christine Casey + an extended interview with Brian Kennedy, who studied art history at UCD in the 1970s, former assistant Director of The National Gallery of Ireland, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, and now Director and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art Ohio.

'Hallelujah: The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life' - a programme with the book's author and also includes Jim Culleton, Director of Fishamble Theatre Company and conductor and composer Prionnsias Ó Duinn.

Artist Michael Craig Martin speaks with Clíodhna Ní Anluain. Vincent Woods considers the artist with critic Aidan Dunne

Rufus Wainright in Conversation with presenter Vincent Woods in the Model Arts Centre, Sligo, as part of Sligo Live 2015 in assocation with the US Embassy's Creative Minds Series.

Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising (Liverpool University Press) with the book's editors Joanna Godson and Lisa Godson as well as other contributors to the book Pat Cooke, Brian Crowley and Elizabeth Crooke.

The staging of the opera 'Guglielmo Ratcliff' by Mascagni, part of the Wexford Festival Opera 2015, with contributions by the artisitc team, designers, costume and make-up artists, stage management and administration team.

'The Art of Sound and Theatre' with designers and composers Tom Lane, Alma Kelliher, Denis Clohessy and Karl Kennedy, recorded in the Project Arts Centre as part of the 2015 Dublin Theatre Festival

50 Works of Irish Art You Need to Know by Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch with its author, artist James Hanley, Peter Murray, Director of the Crawford Gallery, Cork, and Anne Stewart, Curator at the National Museums Northern Ireland.

Arts Tonight with conductor Stephen Barlow as guest - conductor of Koanga by Frederick Delius, hte opening opera of Wexford Festival Opera 2015

Arts Tonight with Conor MacPherson in conversation with Vincent Woods as part of the 2015 Dublin Theatre Festival in which his play 'The Night Alive' had its Dublin premier.

The RIA series 'Art and Architecture of Ireland - Volume 5' : 20th Century with editors Catherine Marshall and Peter Murray - and contributions by artist Martin Gale, arts officer Muireann Ní Chonaill, writers and scholars Linda King nad Brenda Moore McCann

An interview with acclaimed Canadian artist Stan Douglas whose first exhibition in Ireland runs until September 2025 in IMMA. Also, Seamus Kealy, the show’s curator, talks about Douglas’s art.

Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume iv: Architecture with 3 of its five editors Ellen Rowley, Livia Hurley and Hugh Campbell. Barry O'Reilly, Patricia McCarthy and Graham Hickey also contribute

Remembering the Legendary American folk singer Jean Ritchie who died in June 2015 with contributions by Irish singer Mary McPartlan and Jean's son Jon Pickow. The programme was first broadcast on 22 December 2014

Arts Tonight considers William Butler Yeats as dramatist and man of the Theatre: contributors are theatre artists Kellie Hughes and Olwen Fouré; editor of Yeats’ plays, Richard Cave; academics+ writers Tony Roche and Michael McAteer and former Artistic Director + Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre, Christopher Fitzs-simon.

Human intervention on the natural landscape: Brian Dillon on his book 'The Great Explosion' and Julian Gaisford St Laurence, Mathew Jebb and David Averill on British architect Edwin Lutyens

Arts Tonight: British Artist Cornelia Parker and her curator Mary Griffiths at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester.

Dermot Healy's writing+literary work with his editors Bill Swainson+Peter Fallon; poet Mary O'Malley; Keith Hopper who with Neil Murphy is editing his writing+related essays; Timothy O'Grady in whose film of his book 'I Could Read The Sky' Dermot featured; writer Brian Leyden who edited Force 10 and Neil Jordan, writer and longtime friend of Healy.

A look at Contemporary Dance in Ireland to coincide with the Dublin Dance Festival 2015. Contributors include Julia Carruthers(Festival Director), writer and documentary maker Deirdre Mulrooney, dancers and choreographers Liz Roche, Philip Connaghton, Maria Nilsson Waller and Robbie Synge

Wayne, Jordan the production's director and others of the creative and production team shed light on their work, including Andy Koegh, Sarah Bacon, Sarah Jane Shiels, Niamh Lunny, Katie Davenport, Mel Mercier, Fiach Mac Conghail and Jimmy Fay.

Marking Koningsdag, Netherland's National holiday, the programme meets 2 Dutch artists who have made Ireland their Home: visual artist, Anita Groener and singer and writer, Judith Mok. Irish writer Peter Sirr also recalls a freezing cold winter spent in the Netherlands as a young language teacher.

The writing and life of Scottish writer David Thomson - author of 'Woodbrook'. Thomson was also a BBC radio producer and folklorist. On the programme - Roy Foster, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Luke Dodd and Julian Vignoles , author of 'David Thomson: A Delicate Wildness'.

A focus on Louth Contemporary Music Society with contributors Eamonn Quinn, Paul Griffiths, Marino Formenti and Christian Wolff

Another chance to hear Harold Bloom in coversation with Vicent Woods with references to WB Yeats during YEATS:150

The Baroque in painting, words and music with baroque violinist Claire Duff, composer Sean Doherty as well as senior curator of the National Gallery of Ireland, Adrian Le Harivel and art historian Audrey Nicholls on the exhibtion Passion and Persuasion: Images of Baroque Saints at the NGI

Poets Maureen McLaneDavid Ferry, Tom Pickard and Liz Berry in conversation at the Poetry Now DLR Book Mountains to Sea Book Festival 2015 in Dun Laoghaire

Denis Sampson - author of A Migrant Heart, (see: www.lindaleith.com), an exploration of place and displacement and making sense of the homeplace with literary references including Edna O'Brien, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Brian Moore and VS Naipaul

Poet Alice Lyons, curator of Poetry Now 2015, part of the DLR Mountains to Sea Book Festival on poetry and poets Liz Berry, Tom Pickard and David Ferry.

Sculpture 1600-2000 of 'Art and Architecture of Ireland' with its editor Paula Murphy, contributor to the volume William Gallagher and Clíodhna Shaffrey (Temple Bar Gallery+Studios); sculptors Maud Cotter and Ruth Lyons; Peter Murray (Crawford Gallery), Mary McCarthy (The National Sculpture Factory) and poet Enday Wyley.

Architects Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey of O'Donnell and Tuomey discuss their practice and ideas around Space and Architecture, having been presented with the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture this February, 2015

Writer Éilis Ní Dhuibhne in conversation with Vincent Woods to mark her being Awarded the 2015 Irish PEN Award for lifetime contribution to writing

Sáirséal agus Dill 1947-1981: Scéal Foilsitheora - a book about one of Ireland's 20th Century Landmark Publishers told in studio by its authors Cian Ó hÉigeartaigh and Aoileann Nic Gearailt. Also, Alan Titley reads from his translation of Cré na Cille - The Dirty Dust - by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, first published in Irish by Sáirséal agus Dill in 1950.

Artist and Turner Prizewinner Duncan Campbell in conversation with Vincent Woods in the artist's studio in Glasgow, and also Sarah Glennie, Director of IMMA, longtime supporter of his work and curator of his first major show in Dublin.

Tim Robinson: writer, cartographer and artist in conversation in his studio in Roundstone, Co. Galway about his early life as an artist in Vienna and London as well as his life in Connemara. He also reads from his short essays published in 'Connemara and Elsewhere' published by Jane Conroy

Painting 1600-1900: Volume 2 of Art and Architecture of Ireland, published for the RIA and the Paul Mellon Centre by Yale University Press. Contributors: Editor Nicola Figgis, Brendan Rooney, Tom Dunne, Anne Hodge and Julian Campbell.

Toner Quinn: musician, editor and publisher is Vincent Woods' guest.

Four artists consider the work they produced in 2014 and what they are likely to listen to, read or watch on the tune of a new year: Peter Sirr, Isabel Nolan, Mary Costello and Seán McErlaine

Jean Ritchie: a Celebration with her son Jon Pickow and Irish singer, Mary McPartlan as well as archive contributions by Seamus Ennis and Jean Ritchie

A visit to the exhibition: Interpreting Landscape: Tim Robinson and the West of Ireland, currently running in NUIG and to the Tim Robinson archive in the Hardiman Library and a profile interview with Tim Robinson at his home in Roundstone, Co Galway.

Artist Dorothy Cross, Rory Sherlock, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Amanda Pedlow, Father James McKieran and editor Rachel Moss on 'Art and Architecture of Ireland' Volume : Medieval c400-c1600 published for the Royal Irish Academy and the Paul Mellon Centre by Yale University Press

Rachel Moss, Nicola Figgis, Paula Murphy, Hugh Campbell and Catherine Marshall, five of the editors of Art and Architecture of Ireland, a 5 volume publication for the Royal Irish Academy of Ireland and the Paul Mellon Centre published by the Yale University Press, discuss the project

The Artist as Citizen - a discussion with Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, Gerry Kearns and Helen Carey.

After The Titanic - a Life of Derek Mahon by Stephen Enniss, published by Gill and Macmillan. The programme includes readings and archive interviews by Mahon, one of Ireland's foremost contemporary poets.

Author of 'Woodbrook' David Thomson is the subject of this programme. Contributors include Julian Vignoles, author of 'A Delicate Wildness - The Life and Loves of David Thomson 1914-1988', as well as Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Luke Dodd and Roy Foster.

An in-depth examination of the arts in Ireland today

A look at dance as an art form in Ireland and American jazz pianist and composer Bertha Hope.

Anthony Cronin on Poetry, Politics and the modern world.