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The Works - 27th Feb - Jape Image Name: The Works - 27th Feb - Jape Description: The Works - 27th Feb - Jape
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RTE A Poem for Ireland 13 Image Name: RTE A Poem for Ireland 13 Description: Repro Free: 26/09/2014 John Kelly of RTÉ The Works is pictured at the launch of RTÉ A Poem for Ireland, a major new RTÉ campaign which aims to get the public talking about the poems they feel are the most-loved Irish poems of the past 100 years. The campaign will be spearheaded by The Works, RTÉ One’s flagship arts show, and RTÉ Radio 1’s The John Murray Show in partnership with Poetry Ireland and An Post. RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland will roll out over the course of six months, from its launch on The John Murray Show and The Works on September 26th to the final unveiling of the Irish public’s final choice in March 2015. It will be accompanied by a major digital site where the public can nominate, read and vote for poems. The digital site will build in scale and content as the campaign progresses. www.rte.ie/apoemforireland Picture Andres Poveda
RTE A Poem for Ireland 07 Image Name: RTE A Poem for Ireland 07 Description: Repro Free: 26/09/2014 What is your most-loved Irish poem of the last century? RTÉ A Poem for Ireland is a major new RTÉ campaign which aims to get the public talking about the poems they feel are the most-loved Irish poems of the past 100 years. Pictured at the launch is writer Niall MacMonagle, John Kelly and Anne Doyle. The campaign will be spearheaded by The Works, RTÉ One’s flagship arts show, and RTÉ Radio 1’s The John Murray Show in partnership with Poetry Ireland and An Post. RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland will roll out over the course of six months, from its launch on The John Murray Show and The Works on September 26th to the final unveiling of the Irish public’s final choice in March 2015. It will be accompanied by a major digital site where the public can nominate, read and vote for poems. The digital site will build in scale and content as the campaign progresses. www.rte.ie/apoemforireland Picture Andres Poveda

Broadcast Details: Friday 27th February, 8.30pm

This week, John Kelly chats to Richie Egan otherwise known as Jape about the release of his critically-acclaimed album This Chemical Sea and he performs new track “The Heart’s Desire”.

PRESS HIGHLIGHTS / THE WORKS – PROGRAMME 5

FRIDAY 27th FEBRUARY / RTÉ ONE / 8:30PM

This week, John Kelly chats to Richie Egan otherwise known as Jape about the release of his critically-acclaimed album This Chemical Sea and he performs new track “The Heart’s Desire”. John Kelly also goes along to the Irish Times Theatre Awards and chats to actor Stephen Rea about receiving the “Special Tribute Award”. And in RTÉ A Poem For Ireland, musician Paul Brady and actor Mary McEvoy chat about two of the poems on the final shortlist and discuss why the public might pick them as their Poem For Ireland.

 

MUSIC: JAPE

John Kelly chats to Irish electro-rocker Richie Egan about the release of yet another critically-acclaimed Jape album This Chemical Sea and Jape also perform new song The Heart’s Desire.

 

FEATURE: RTÉ A POEM FOR IRELAND

We take a look at two more poems on the shortlist and discuss why the public might pick them as their Poem For Ireland. This week musician Paul Brady chats about Louis MacNeice’s poem “Dublin” and actor Mary McEvoy discusses Eavan Boland’s “Quarantine”.

 

THEATRE: IRISH TIMES THEATRE AWARDS

John Kelly attends the Irish Times Theatre Awards to meet this year’s nominees and winners and we also chat to the recipient of the “Special Tribute Award”, actor Stephen Rea.