Nollaig na mBan is Women’s Christmas and all over the country women will hold parties and celebrate with their friends, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and aunts.

RTÉ Radio 1 will lead this celebration with a special recording on 5^th January 2020. Hosted by writer and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson, this event brings together a stellar group of women in Ireland for short readings and performances from Irish women’s literature, plays, poetry, letters, and music.

With Mary McAleese, Marina Carr, Marian Keyes, Tara Flynn, Eleanor McEvoy, Lisa O’Neill, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Sarah Breen, Emer McLysaght, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Amy Conroy, Joanne O’Riordan, Aoife Martin, Landless, Elaine Feeney, Alison Spittle, and Derbhle Crotty.

This event is being recorded for broadcast RTÉ Radio 1.

This production is funded by RTÉ Radio 1 and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision scheme.