Rté - Arts Tonight Podcast

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