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THE WORKS

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RTE A Poem for Ireland Image Name: RTE A Poem for Ireland 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, Anne Doyle and John Kelly. 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
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Broadcast Details: Friday 6th March, 8.30pm

John Kelly chats to The Decemberists about returning with their first new album since getting a Grammy nomination and hitting no.1 on the Billboard chart four years ago. They also perform Philomena from the new album. Sinéad Gleeson meets celebrated author Kazuo Ishiguro to chat about his first novel in ten years, The Buried Giant. And in RTÉ A Poem For Ireland, musician Iarla Ó Lionáird and broadcaster Joe Duffy chat about two of the poems on the final shortlist and discuss why the public might pick them as their Poem For Ireland.

THE WORKS – PROGRAMME 6

FRIDAY 6th MARCH / RTÉ ONE / 8:30PM

John Kelly chats to The Decemberists about returning with their first new album since getting a Grammy nomination and hitting no.1 on the Billboard chart four years ago. They also perform Philomena from the new album. Sinéad Gleeson meets celebrated author Kazuo Ishiguro to chat about his first novel in ten years, The Buried Giant. And in RTÉ A Poem For Ireland, musician Iarla Ó Lionáird  and broadcaster Joe Duffy  chat about two of the poems on the final shortlist and discuss why the public might pick them as their Poem For Ireland.

MUSIC: THE DECEMBERISTS

John Kelly chats to The Decemberists about returning with new album What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World four years after a Grammy nomination and hitting no.1 on the Billboard chart. They also perform Philomena from the new album.

 

BOOK: KAZUO ISHIGURO

Sinéad Gleeson meets celebrated author Kazuo Ishiguro. The author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go has previously won the Man Booker prize and has seen his novels adapted into award-winning films, one of which received eight Oscar nominations. The Buried Giant is his first novel in ten years.

 

 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 Iarla Ó Lionáird chats about Seán Ó Ríordáin’s poem “Fill Arís” and broadcaster Joe Duffy discusses Derek Mahon’s “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”.