The Lyric Feature - RTÉ Podcast
1) The Forgotten Migration | The Lyric Feature
Chris Nikkel follows the story of a forgotten Irish migration to Canada through folk music passed down orally, and a special bicentennial commemoration.
2) A place in the Choir | The Lyric Feature
Documentary maker Róisín Power opens the door into the world of the National Symphony Chorus of Ireland to ask why singers continue to give their time, their voices, and their hearts to this extraordi...Show More
3) Feather & Flock - Eagles | The Lyric Feature
reland has white tailed sea eagles as well as golden eagles, both having been recently reintroduced. In this episode Anja Murray and Brían Mac Gloinn travel to Garinish Island in west Cork and also he...Show More
4) Der Musikmann | The Lyric Feature
Our Gold award winner from this Years IMRO awards. 'Der Musikmann' presented by George Hamilton.
5) The Lyric Feature | Over nine waves
An exploration of the powerful and enigmatic poem "The Song of Amergin" and the ancient Milesian legend in which it appears. Presented and Produced by JJ O’Shea Producer for lyric fm: Eoin O Kelly (Fi...Show More
6) Our half lost cousins | The Lyric Feature
Theo Dorgan explores poetic, mythical, historical and cultural links between Ireland and Galicia in north west Spain.
7) Until a world comes to life | The Lyric Feature
A collection of four short radio features from artists in various disciplines taking the poems of Patrick Kavanagh as a jumping off point for their own new works. Incl' Annemarie Ní Churreáin, The Son...Show More
8) Dead Reeds | The Lyric Feature
Paddi Benson and Grace Lemon are two uilleann pipers who play and write music together in London. In their new Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric FM, The Dead Reeds, they explore the stories bo...Show More
9) A Sonic Artic return | The Lyric Feature
Composer and sound recordist, Karen Power and her microphones revisit the remote, magnetic spaces of the Arctic which she first visited and recorded more than a decade previously.
10) Black Siren - | The Lyric Feature
This weeks Lyric Feature is -Black Syren, which tells the largely forgotten story of Rachel Baptist, a Black Irish soprano, who predominantly appeared in Irish "pleasure gardens” in the 1750s and 1760...Show More