PRESS HIGHLIGHTS / THE WORKS –PROGRAMME 7
FRIDAY 13th MARCH / RTÉ ONE / 8:30PM
FEATURE: RTÉ A POEM FOR IRELAND
So what is Ireland’s best-loved poem? In association with the John Murray Show on RTÉ Radio 1 and Poetry Ireland, we launched our national campaign RTÉ A POEM FOR IRELAND in September.
Tonight, we take a look back at the shortlist of ten – see below – and we reveal which of them topped the public vote.
A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford by Derek Mahon
Dublin by Louis MacNeice
Easter 1916 by WB Yeats
Fill Arís by Seán Ó Riordáin
Filleadh ar an gCathair by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
Making Love Outside Áras an Uachtaráin by Paul Durcan
Quarantine by Eavan Boland
The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks by Paula Meehan
‘When all the others were away at Mass’ by Seamus Heaney
The Works | RTÉ One | Friday 8:30pm
http://www.rte.ie/tv/theworks/