Rita O’Driscoll is from Skibbereen, and works in her hometown as development manager of Uilinn, West Cork Arts Centre. She worked with AIB in Cork before joining her husband in a family business for 20 years and also studied interior design, followed by a BA in visual arts on Sherkin Island.

Here are the best shows on TV tonight.

It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre — 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950.

Your spoiler-free guide to what's on the box tonight.

William Burroughs’ centenary occurs this month. The West Cork-based photographer John Minihan recalls meeting the controversial author in London

UNUSUALLY early for my interview with Daniel Radcliffe, I am making my way leisurely up the stairs at the BAFTA offices in Piccadilly, when a smartly dressed young man bounds up past me.

THE 58th Cork Film Festival catalogue will be launched at the Electric bar this evening. The festival is six weeks away, but its new creative director, James Mullighan — a former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival — says the lead-in will allow for as many tickets as possible to be sold.

A trove of Timothy Leary files, much of it previously unpublished, could shed new light on the LSD guru, his controversial research into psychedelic drugs and the emergence of the ’60s counterculture.

Our top baby names prove yet again that, when it comes to christening our children, we’re an intrinsically unimaginative nation.

Daniel Radcliffe has really left Harry Potter behind with a startling and explicit Sundance Film Festival role as poet Allen Ginsberg.

Kristen Stewart found her 'On the Road' character's old-fashioned diction "cute".

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Actress Kristen Stewart has made her first public appearance in nearly two months at the Toronto Film Festival.

Kate Bosworth has confirmed her engagement to Michael Polish.

Twilight star Kristen Stewart’s latest film On The Road was given a low-key UK premiere tonight in the absence of its leading female.

A Hollywood master and a young pretender go head to head for Cannes’ top prize tomorrow, as films starring Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson had their premieres this week.

Transformers, vampires, singing high-schoolers — they can be hard to outrun.

Arthouse directors and Hollywood royalty will converge on the French Riviera for two weeks from tomorrow as the Cannes Film Festival rolls out the red carpet for the giants and mavericks of the movie galaxy.

For those who follow his exploits closely, Jim Irsay admitting Sunday’s Super Bowl is the end of an era for the team he owns will come as no surprise.

Daniel Radcliffe is to play legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in new movie 'Kill Your Darlings'.

IN On the Road, Jack Kerouac wrote about “the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars”.

But rough streets frequented by prostitutes and dealers provided a potent breeding ground for his underlying talents

Katy Perry thinks the people working for her record label are “idiots”.

Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen have signed up to star in new movie 'On The Road'.

It is 44 years since Time Magazine placed London, The Swinging Capital on its cover and declared: “In a once sedate world of faded splendor, everything new, uninhibited and kinky is blooming.” The cast may change, but the characters remain the same, writes Allan Prosser

New York City officials have ordered the owners of Bob Dylan's former home at the famed Chelsea Hotel to stop their renovations following a flurry of complaints by fans insisting they were destroying the property

Reports suggesting Peaches Geldof's marriage is in trouble have been dented by the newlywed's memories of her honeymoon trek across America.

THIS could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt’s girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.

Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country’s literary conscience and provocateur, died of renal failure early today, his literary executor said. He was 84.

The Cape Cod house where Jack Kerouac once lived has been sold for $300,000 (€241,706), but the new co-owner said she wasn’t familiar with the Beat Generation author.

Jack Kerouac’s Beat generation classic On the Road is finally being made into a Hollywood film.

Al Aronowitz, a US pioneer of rock journalism who introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles, died yesterday in Elizabeth, New Jersey, his son said. He was 77.

A treasure trove of Marlon Brando’s most prized and personal possessions will go under the hammer today in New York.

A VAST collection of Marlon Brando’s most prized personal possessions, from bongo drums to his annotated Godfather script, goes on public display in New York tomorrow.

A vast collection of Marlon Brando’s most prized and personal possessions, from bongo drums to his annotated Godfather script, goes on public display in New York tomorrow.

Excerpts of a never-before-seen play written by beat legend Jack Kerouac will be published for the first time in the July edition of a US magazine, it emerged today.

George Plimpton, the self-deprecating American author of Paper Lion and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died, aged 76.

Cult novel On The Road was today taking a new journey - by becoming a film set to star Brad Pitt.