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The Lyric Feature

Irish broadcaster RTÉ lyric fm"s weekly documentary slot. Programmes about music, literature, visual arts and other areas where creativity is manifest. Broadcast on Sundays at 6pm on RTÉ Lyric FM.

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Feather and Flock - The Skylark | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/10/27

Skylark is a charismatic bird of open ground and the uplands, widely celebrated for their impressive singing ability. In this episode, ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinnbegin with the Skylarks’ fame in poetry, with poet Martin Dyar.

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0:58:02

The Musician That Is Me | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/10/20

US-born composer Jane O'Leary, who has lived in Ireland since 1972 and has made an immeasurable contribution to contemporary Irish classical music, looks back on her career.

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0:51:06

Magic on a Winter’s Night | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/10/13

Mary Brophy goes behind the scenes at the 71st Wexford Festival Opera as Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi and her teams orchestrate their particular brand of alchemy.

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0:52:42

Building a Ballet | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/10/06

The Lyric Feature returns for a new series opening with Building a Ballet one of the five Lyric Features shortlisted at the 2024 IMRO awards.

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0:52:22

From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/06/30

On this week’s Lyric Feature, we remember the poet, lecturer and regular contributor to our programmes Gerald Dawe who died last month.

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0:57:27

No Journey’s End | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/06/23

Michael O’Shea was a musician from Carlingford, Co Louth who released one self-titled album in 1982 that is now regarded as a masterpiece of the Psychedelic Folk genre. Performed on oak door rescued from a skip in Munich.

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0:51:11

Maggie from Mayo | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/06/16

‘Discovered’ by Guglielmo Marconi while singing at a fashionable soiree in London, the famous inventor subsequently brought Sheridan to Italy, to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer.

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0:54:11

These Things I Wish | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/06/09

As a child, Bairbre O'Hogan remembers her mother bringing an elderly friend to do her weekly shopping in Dún Laoghaire. Bairbre knew her as MrsVerschoyle, she only later appreciated just how successful and prolific an author she had been.

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0:57:33

Imogen Stuart and Michael Coady

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/06/02

The sculptor Imogen Stuart and the poet Michael Coady died within a day of each other on the 24and 25thof March this year. Each is remembered with a programme from the RTÉ archive in this evening’s Lyric Feature.

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0:57:49

Maria, La Callas

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/05/26

To mark the centenary of her birth, Liz Nolan explores the life and legacy of Maria Callas, the iconic Greek soprano, widely regarded as the most significant, inspiring and provocative opera star of the modern age.

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0:51:46

Feather and Flock Pt 3 - Lapwing

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/05/19

Lapwings are any of various ground-nesting birds akin to plovers and dotterels. They range from 10 to 16 inches in length, and are noted for their slow, irregular wingbeats in flight and a shrill, wailing cry.

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0:50:44

Feather & Flock - Pt 2 Jay | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/05/12

Jays are colourful, vocal, and highly intelligent woodland birds. In this episode ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinn meet ornithologist Seán Ronayne in an autumn woodland to listen to stories these birds’ incredible capacity for mimicry.

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0:45:39

Feather & Flock - Pt 1 The Cuckoo | The Lyric Feature -

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/05/05

Feather and Flock is a new six part series delving in to the ways of six iconic native Irish birds. Each episode combines ecology, folklore and history to uncover the incredible lives and journeys of these wild creatures. We begin with the Cuckoo.

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0:58:16

For the record | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/04/28

Laoise O’Brien has spent the past twenty-five years championing an instrument often unfairly perceived as an instrument of torture, the recorder. Join Laoise as she embarks on a journey to tell the story of the recorder and its development during the ages.

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0:46:17

A Portrait of the Artist as a Radio Documentary

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/04/21

An audio portrait of painter James Hanley, told through the eyes of his sitters, fellow artists, buyers, family and friends, a story of being creative, connecting and making a life in the uncertain world of the arts.

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0:56:02

The Bard of Armagh | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/04/14

Micil Ned Quinn from Mullaghbawn in Co. Armagh was immersed in the folk arts from childhood and grew up to be a renowned traditional singer and songwriter. This programme celebrates and reflects upon the rural life and culture from which he came and that he himself embodied. (First tx 190323)

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0:55:21

Calling the Curlew Home | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/04/07

Ireland is on the verge of losing its population of breeding curlew, but could our songs, stories and art help us to save it?

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0:56:29

Chorus Noster Recolat | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/03/31

An examination of the earliest notated music in Ireland: Medieval Monastic Chant.

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0:54:26

We Only Want The Earth: Episode 2 | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/03/24

We Only Want The Earth: Can music help us face the climate crisis?

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0:53:59

We Only Want The Earth: Episode 1 | The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature ·

2024/03/17

We Only Want The Earth: Can music help us face the climate crisis?

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