The Lyric Feature

Conductor David Brophy, an Irishman in Cologne: The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature production Der Musikmann follows conductor David Brophy's progress over his first six months with the WDR Funkhausorchester, on his new podium in Cologne...

The forgotten true tale of Ireland's Black Syren - Lyric Feature

This Sunday's Lyric Feature, Black Syren, is presented by journalist Saibh Downes and tells the neglected story of a Georgian era star of the Irish stage.

Lyric Feature: The Chicago Police Chief who collected trad tunes

Derry-born composer Seán Doherty is best known for his choral compositions, but in Sunday's Lyric Feature, 1001 Gems, he goes back to his roots in Irish traditional music.

Feather & Flock - Anja Murray on her lyrical love letter to birds

Ecologist and programme maker Anja Murray writes here about her new six part series for RTÉ lyric fm, made in collaboration with folk musician and member of Ye Vagabonds Brían MacGloinn

Across The Shaky Bridge with Louis de Paor - The Lyric Feature

For the new Lyric Feature documentary The Shaky Bridge - the second of two programmes broadcast during Seachtain Na Gaeilge with bilingual Irish poets - poet Louis de Paor explores his childhood home town of Cork.

Lyric Feature: Annemarie Ní Churreáin brings it all back home

For the new Lyric Feature documentary Among the Heather Rocks, the poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin took the radio producer Claire Cunningham back to the Donegal Gaeltacht

Poet Jane Clarke on where the river rises - The Lyric Feature

On the Lyric Feature on Sunday 2nd February, at 6 pm, poet Jane Clarke presents Where the River Rises, exploring the Avonmore River in County Wicklow through poetry and conversation.

Celebrating The Pogues' Rum Sodomy & The Lash at 40

The Lyric Feature preview: On the eve of the 40th anniversary of The Pogues' second album Rum Sodomy & The Lash music critic Mike Glennon set out to make a documentary to mark the occasion.

A Lament for Art O' Leary: new Irish opera on the Lyric Feature

The Lament for Art O' Leary (2024) a new opera by Irene Buckley with text by poet Vona Groarke will be premiered on the Lyric Feature this week.

Meet Galway's Romanian musicians in residence - The Lyric Feature

Documentary maker Eoin Brady writes for Culture on the genesis of his forthcoming Lyric Feature about Galway's Romanian musicians in residence, the ConTempo Quartet.

Skylarking - the return of the Lyric Feature's Feather and Flock

Poet Martin Dyar reflects on the experience of contributing to the Lyric Feature's IMRO Award-winning Feather and Flock series, in which poetry, ecology and music work hand in hand.

Poet Gerald Dawe remembered - From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire

The Lyric Feature: Can music help us face the climate crisis?

Jonathan Grimes introduces We Only Want the Earth, a two-part exploration of how contemporary composers in Ireland are responding to the climate and biodiversity crisis through their work

The Lyric Feature: The untold tale of the National Ballet Company

It seems extraordinary that Dublin's National Ballet School & Company has been forgotten.

The scandalous Miss Meyrick - meet the Queen of Nightclubs

The Lyric Feature: Kate Meyrick was a trailblazer: a business woman, a nightclub owner, a mother and a celebrity prisoner.

A Portrait of an Artist as a Radio Documentary – Lyric Feature

New Years Eve on The Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm presents an audio portrait of the acclaimed portrait artist James Hanley.

For the Record - The Lyric Feature reclaims the recorder

Laoise O' Brien has spent the last twenty-five years championing the recorder - a much maligned musical instrument which is often considered to be an instrument of torture.

Maria, La Callas - The Lyric Feature's tribute to an opera legend

As a teen, it was me and Callas against the world.

Magic on a Winter's Night: The Lyric Feature goes to the opera

An official selection at this year's Tribeca Festival in New York and now airing for Irish audiences, this week's Lyric Feature goes behind the scenes in the run-up to the 71st Wexford Festival Opera in 2022.

Jessica Traynor's poetic history of an Offaly town

In the Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm, poet Jessica Traynor sets out to write a poetic history of the town of Banagher in County Offaly.

Irish poets on Writing Yourself Home - The Lyric Feature returns

The Lyric Feature returns to the airwaves on RTÉ lyric fm on Sunday 8th of October at 6 pm.

Morning, Noon and Night Revisited - how we spend our hours

On the first, third and fourth Sunday this June, Regan Hutchins brings us his second series of meditations and observations on those rituals, big and small, that make up our daily lives.

Kerry's Castaway Composer - The Lyric Feature on Arthur O'Leary

On this Sunday's Lyric Feature at 6pm, Brian McIvor explores the music of the neglected 19th Century Kerry composer Arthur O'Leary

The Bard of Armagh: the legend of Mick Quinn - The Lyric Feature

Otto Schlindwein previews his new Lyric Feature documentary The Bard of Armagh, celebrating the folk arts practitioner Micil Ned Quinn.

Searching for the the music of Sliabh Luachra - The Lyric Feature

Paul McDermott previews An Draíocht – the music of Sliabh Luachra, his new Lyric Feature documentary.