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Frances Wilde
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Musician and cinephile working in arts marketing 🎞️ multi-instrumental marxist
💼 Previously Irish Film Institute, currently RTÉ Concert Orchestra
My EP Autofiction is out now!
she/her #actuallyautistic
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Final rehearsal for Classical Greats • Grieg and Schubert
October 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
There are less than 15 tix left for the Museum of Curiosities at the Bram Stoker festival - I’ll be playing some sad spooky tunes on guitar.

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Wunderkammer at Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival
Discover Dublin’s weirdest new attraction, the Museum of Curiosities, in this evening of unhinged storytelling and surreal performance.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Now on sale: Sunday Miscellany Celebrates Christmas with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra 🎄 @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social

Tue 2 Dec, 8pm | NCH Dublin
Early booking is advised to avoid disappointment

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September 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Very exciting 25/26 school year ahead here @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social

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IFI Schools Programme 2025-26 | Trailer
YouTube video by Irish Film Institute
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September 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Announced on-air yesterday📢

Sunday Miscellany celebrates Christmas with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on Dec 2 - in the NCH at 8pm.

Tickets go on sale this Friday 26 September at 10am from the NCH Box Office/ nch.ie. Mark your calendars!

@rte.ie @rteradio1.bsky.social @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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⭐ The Art of Swing with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Callum Au & Claire Martin OBE ⭐

𝑆'𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑠 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝐴𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤-𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑗𝑎𝑧𝑧'𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠

Oct 2, NCH Dublin

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September 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social Doc Fest programme is v strong! Looking forward to this fest kicking off next week.
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Supported by @rte.ie ✨ RTÉ Supporting the Arts ✨
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2025 - Irish Film Institute
IFI Documentary Festival 2025, its annual celebration of non-fiction filmmaking taking place from Wednesday 10th to Sunday 14th September. Bringing together bold voices, urgent topics, and inventive f...
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September 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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IFI@Home is now on JustWatch which means you can see what films are on IFI@Home via Letterboxd!

Explore the films on IFI@Home and experience the finest cinema from the comfort of your own home! - www.ifihome.ie
August 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Conductor spotlight on Callum Au who joins us for The Art of Swing 💃🎺

Callum Au is a British composer, arranger, orchestrator, and trombonist. He writes music across a wide range of genres, with a particular passion for orchestral and large jazz ensemble music.
August 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Dublin City Council & NEIC Dublin present RTÉ Concert Orchestra at Culture Night with @patrickdexter.bsky.social on cello
📅 Fri 19 Sept
📍 Our Lady of Lourdes, Sean McDermott Street
⏰ Doors 6pm, concert 6.30-7.30pm
August 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Celine Song reinvigorates the rom com with razor-sharp writing and mastery of tone.

MATERIALISTS is now previewing at the IFI!

Book now 🎟👉 ifi.ie/film/materia...
August 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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📢 The Dedication to Phil Lynott is coming to the 3Arena on 4 January

The RTÉ CO join the line-up to perform Thin Lizzy classics, joined by guest vocalists including Peter Smith from “Moonlight – The Phil Lynott Enigma.”

Tickets on sale Saturday 16 August
August 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Not long to go now until the 2025 Culture Night Dublin programme launch! ✨🎉

Be the first to hear the latest news as it drops – sign up to our newsletter here: eepurl.com/hzmHcf
August 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Performing at this year's Electric Picnic on Sunday 31st 🚨

"May 2017 saw The Cranberries perform at the London Palladium, sadly proving to be the band’s final performance. Since then, their music has continued to be as enduringly popular today as it was during the lifetime of The Cranberries."
August 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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We are deeply saddened at the news that our colleague and friend Seán Rocks has died. Our profound sympathies to his family and friends. May he rest in peace.
July 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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𝗧𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗸𝗼𝘃𝘀𝗸𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗧𝗘́ 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮

Join us for a special RTÉ CO classical concert featuring Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, the beauty of Strauss's Oboe Concerto and the power of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.

📍 NCH
📅 Aug 8

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July 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Tonight brings the first full moon of summer: the Hay Moon 🌕🌾

Named by Anglo-Saxons for the hay harvest, it’s also called the ‘Buck Moon’, a Native American name marking the time young deer bucks grow new antlers.

Celts knew it as the Wyrt or Mead Moon, for herb gathering.

Moonrise: 22:15*
July 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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One of the world's finest jazz singers, Claire Martin brings her rich vocal sound and deep musicality to timeless classics made famous by the great divas of jazz: Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, and Billie Holiday.

📅 Thur 2 Oct
📍 NCH
📷 Kenny McCracken

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The Art of Swing
RTÉ Concert Orchestra Callum Au, conductor Claire Martin, vocalist The internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning jazz singer Claire Martin joins the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, led by...
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July 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Was recently at a gig at the Crowbar where security shut it down early, turned on all the lights and stopped the music.
There sure is a dire need for more 80-150 capacity venues, but I'm really put off by that experience + the cost to hire it means there's a lot of pressure to sell out or lose out.
July 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Get paid to write about film!

@filmireland.bsky.social, with support from CNaM, are currently accepting applications for the 2nd Journalism Mentorship Programme, supporting new & under-represented voices in film writing.

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June 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Autofiction is out now on Spotify/ Apple Music/ YouTube/ Bandcamp/ wherever you get your music.
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It examines the stories we tell ourselves to try and create meaning. For fans of Joan Baez/ Joni Mitchell/ Phoebe Bridgers/ Laura Marling.
June 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Well this is very special news for somebody who works in RTÉ audio and keeps their horse with Georgia! 🩷🩷🩷
We're delighted to be nominated in the Broadcast Journalism category of today's Justice Media Awards for Heart and Soul Horses. www.rte.ie/radio/docono...
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Sean-nós dancer Edwina Guckian joins the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and celebrated trad musicians for Anam Éireann | The Soul of Ireland this Septmeber 🌾🌻🍂✨ @zoeconway.bsky.social

Edwina hails from outside the village of Drumsna in Co. Leitrim.
June 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM