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RT Unveils Content & Events Programme for 1916 Centenary
Unprecedented range of programming announced
Extensive content in Irish, and for younger people
Digital emphasis to guarantee accessibility of content
Major on-street events to follow in footsteps of RT Road to the Rising event
www.rte.ie/1916 Website Live at 5pm
RT today unveiled RT 1916, an ambitious programme of content and events across television, radio, mobile and online. RT 1916 invites people, at home and throughout the world, to watch, listen and take part as they commemorate and celebrate, debate and analyse the centenary of the 1916 Rising.
Featuring major television drama, groundbreaking documentary, curated on-street events and a slate of young people's programmes, RT 1916 will consider the event itself as well as the broader cultural, political and historical complexities of the Rising, and its impact on the decades and century that followed. Programmed in both languages, RT 1916 will reach out to Irish people of all ages.
Announcing RT 1916, Noel Curran, Director-General, RT , said: 1916 is a year of huge emotional and political significance in Irish history. In our approach to covering and commemorating the centenary of 1916, RT is embracing all of its complexity of by planning a range of diverse programming and events - across television, radio, mobile and beyond - where audiences can understand, debate, commemorate, and celebrate. Our coverage will include the many planned events that will commemorate and celebrate, but it is not limited to the Rising itself it will also look back at the last hundred years in Ireland and look to the decades ahead of us now. It will embrace music, the arts and street events, as well as historical programming. The scale and range of our programming is suitably wide-ranging and ambitious. I believe that in this special commemorative year, this is RT 's role and responsibility. We hope our audiences will join us for a unique series of programmes and events that chart, explain, critique and celebrate a century of Irish life.
Commenting at the launch of RT 1916, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny said: In commemorating 1916, RT has unique responsibilities as a public service media organisation. The various strands of programming planned by RT for the coming months will play an enormously important role in educating, enlightening and empowering the Irish public, young and old, with an authentic sense of our culture, history and identity. I am delighted to see that RTE has embraced the significant challenge of doing so and created an impressive and wide-ranging slate of programmes and events. I would like to thank Director-General Noel Curran and all those in RT who are involved in the creation of this diverse and imaginative suite of programmes which draws on our wealth of artistic talent.
Moya Doherty, Chair, RT Board, said: RT 1916 offers a unique opportunity to showcase the value and uniqueness of public service media. On radio, on television, on mobile and online, in both Irish and English, RT will offer a breadth of content across its 25 services, to audiences of all ages, in Ireland and across the globe. From the dramatic intensity of Rebellion to the intimacy of radio documentary; from the impressive scale of major choral and orchestral performances to the contemporary insights of younger audiences, this schedule will illuminate the deep complexities of that pivotal moment in the birth of our nation, and our complex relationship to it, through entertainment, spectacle, examination, discussion and, most importantly, participation. It allows RT to do what I believe it does best - make the good popular, and the popular good.
RT acknowledges that the extent of this programme has only been made possible through the cooperation and support of a wide range of State institutions, the national 2016 programme, and collaboration with Ireland's vibrant creative and artistic sector.
Follow content and information streams with #rte1916 on @rte on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Vine and Instagrm
NOTES: for full details in text format, see below.
ENDS
Images from the launch of RT 1916 will be sent to pictures desks by Robbie Reynolds
Programme images are available on request
For further information:
Joseph Hoban, Head of Communications & Brand Development, RT , 086 8128662
Neil O'Gorman, RT Communications, 086 2077192
Vivienne Flood, Corporate Communications Manager, RT , 087 7447455
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Foils onn RT Cl r Leathan bhair agus Imeachta maidir le Com radh Ch ad Bliain ir Amach 1916
F gra tear r imse cl r n os fairsinge n riamh
Cuid mh r bhair i nGaeilge, agus cuid mh r do dhaoine ga
B im ar r ims digiteacha ionas gur cinnte an t- bhar ar f il go furasta
Imeachta m ra ar na sr ideanna d fhonn lean int den rath a bh ar imeacht RT maidir le Road to the Rising
www.rte.ie/1916
D fh gair RT inniu RT 1916, cl r leathan bhair agus imeachta ar teilif s, ar raidi , ar an idirl on agus ar ghl asra p ca. Tugann RT 1916 deis do dhaoine, in irinn agus ar fud an domhain, cluas a thabhairt d bhar fuaime, s il a chaitheamh ar bhar f se agus p irt a ghlacadh in imeachta le linn d ibh ceili radh agus com radh, pl agus anail s a dh anamh ar bhliain an ch id tharla ir Amach 1916.
Beidh dr ma ocht teilif se den suntas, cl ir faisn ise den nuacht, imeachta sr ide faoi sti ir coime da agus cl ir do dhaoine ga mar chuid de RT 1916. Beidh bhar machnaimh ann ar an eachtra chinni nach f in chomh maith leis na gn ithe castachta n os leithne a bhain l i thaobh an chult ir, na polait ochta agus na staire de, agus ar an tionchar a bh aici ar na blianta agus go deimhin ar an gc ad bhliain ina diaidh. Beidh RT 1916 d rithe sa d theanga ar ireannaigh de gach aoisghr pa.
Ag f gairt RT 1916 d , d irt Noel C
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