Beginning a week of Late Show programmes on contemporary Ireland is a look at some of the radical changes affectingthe Republic, shattering many of the old certainties about what it means to be Irish. New writing, film-making and music are flourishing even as traditional perceptions of Ireland alter. Fintan O'Toole finds out how the nation can absorb such rapid change, with Irish President
Mary Robinson , writers Paddy Doyle and ColmToibin, journalist
ConorCruise O'Brien , historians, politicians, artists and representatives of the Church. Producers David Kerr and Andrea Miller ; Series editor Michael Poole
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