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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
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
THE WORKS - A Poem For Ireland Image Name: THE WORKS - A Poem For Ireland Description: THE WORKS - A Poem For Ireland
RTE A Poem for Ireland 02 Image Name: RTE A Poem for Ireland 02 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

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/