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Roger Doyle and Olwen Foueré were at the heart of Operating Theatre, a rare group in Ireland using a Fairlight synthesiser in the 1970s. They even had Bono helping out on their single/EP, Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth 

Selected by David Wheatley In the fourth installment of The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, curated by 2008 Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize-winner David Wheatley, five Irish poets – the experimental Trevor Joyce, religious celebrant Aidan Mathews, elegist Peter McDonald, modern poet Ailbhe Darcy, and Irish speaker Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh – receive their official publication debut among North American readers. In the anthology’s preface, Wheatley notes that despite his chosen poets’ regional variance and differences in age (37 years separate Joyce, the eldest poet in the collection, an...

Updated / Tuesday, 26 Jan 2021 10:00 Kevin Reynolds, producer of Drama on One on RTÉ Radio 1, pays tribute to one of the giants of Irish radio drama, as he bids adieu after four decades on the airwaves... Listen to Drama On One's tribute to Aidan Matthews above. Drama on One celebrates our colleague - poet, playwright, essayist, editor and producer Aidan Mathews who retired from RTÉ on Saturday, January 16th, after thirty-seven years of service.  Aidan began working in the Radio Centre in 1984, writing and producing drama and religious programmes. In normal circumstances, like other goo...