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John Kelly is joined by artist Jesse Jones, writer / director Peter Sheridan and journalist Marion McKeone.

What’s on … a new film by Peter Weir, The Way Back … Arrah na Pogue at the Abbey… Elizabeth Day’s debut novel, Scissors Paper Stone … and new art publication A Visual Feast: Irish Street Art…

Film: The Way Back directed by Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Picnic At Hanging Rock)
Inspired by a true story, seven soldiers including Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris and Colin Farrell escape a Siberian gulag in 1940 and undertake a dangerous journey thousands of miles long. Saoirse Ronan co-stars.

Book:  Scissors Paper Stone by Elizabeth Day
Knocked off his bike in a traffic accident, Charles Redfern is brought unconscious to hospital. His wife Anne and daughter Charlotte are summoned and find themselves face to face, not only with the dying man, but also with each other and a complicated mutual past that overhangs the present. Scissors Paper Stone is the debut novel by Elizabeth Day, an award-winning London-based, Northern Irish journalist.

Theatre: Arrah na Pogue by Dion Boucicault
Love and skulduggery are in the air as night falls in the Wicklow Mountains in 1798. An impressive cast including Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan and Mary Murray as the titular Arrah flesh out the comic heroes and villains of a Boucicault drama last seen on the Abbey stage some 30 years ago. Mikel Murfi directs.

Art: A Visual Feast: Irish Street Art
Maser, Will Saint Leger and Jef Aerosol are just three of the artists whose street art populates this handsome book by Rua Meegan and Lauren Teeling. The work, often political, often humorous, is photographed in situ in Dublin, Galway and Cork.