Theo Dorgan explores poetic, mythical, historical and cultural links between Ireland and Galicia in north west Spain.

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Mary Brophy explores the influences, characters and obsessions that brought Ireland's historic gardens into being. Part 2.

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Mary Brophy explores the influences, characters and obsessions that brought Ireland's historic gardens into being. Part 1

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The poet Moya Cannon takes us to A Corner of the Burren to a place she discovered through her reading of Tim Robinson's maps, the triangle formed by Corcomroe Abbey, St. Colman's Well, Ought-mama and the 'Seven Churches’.

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Chris Nikkel follows the story of a forgotten Irish migration to Canada through folk music passed down orally, and a special bicentennial commemoration.

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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 bound up in uilleann pipe reeds

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Brothers Ron and Greg Carey go back to Limerick, the city of their childhood, which holds memories that have inspired poems for both of them.

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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.

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After lying forgotten for decades, the poems of Ethna MacCarthy, linguist, doctor, poet, and life-long friend of Samuel Beckett, were finally published in 2019.

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Conductor Peter Whelan's fascinating research into the 18th century Irish baroque musician, Matthew Dubourg. Presenter : Máire Nic Gearailt Producer: Joe O’Dubhghaill 
Producer for lyric: Eoin O Kelly

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