The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature

By RTÉ lyric fmSociety & Culture Documentary

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The Lyric Feature episodes

May 17 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.
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58 min
May 10 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 bound up in uilleann pipe reeds
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48 min
May 03 Me Dog is Buried in Thomond Park | The Lyric Feature
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.

'A Rockfinch production for RTÉ lyric fm. Supported by Coimisiún na Meán and RTÉ from the television licence fee.'
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49 min
April 26 A Sonic Arctic 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.
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52 min
April 19 Green White Enamel | The Lyric Feature
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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58 min
April 12 Master of the Musick | The Lyric Feature
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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47 min
April 05 Tenducci in Ireland | The Lyric Feature
An Italian superstar castrato in Georgian Ireland as reimagined by the Irish Baroque Orchestra
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58 min
March 29 Saucy Mistress Boldface | The Lyric Feature
Saucy Mistress Boldface is a peek through a Georgian window at life for women from 1746 to 1751 through a series of 221 letters from the Bishop Of Elphin to his only teenage daughter Alicia.
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46 min
March 22 The Lyric Feature
Victorian author of poetry and children's stories Frances Browne, the Blind Poetess of Ulster.

A Rockfinch production for RTÉ lyric fm. Supported by Coimisiún na Meán and RTÉ from the television licence fee.
Producer: Claire Cunningham - Sound design by Regan Hutchins.

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50 min
March 15 Without Dependence | The Lyric Feature
Without Dependence tells the story of Críostóir Ó Floinn – bilingual Limerick-born poet, playwright, teacher, and perhaps the most censored writer you’ve never heard of.
Presented by Daragh O’Malley
Produced by Michael Glennon.
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53 min

About The Lyric Feature

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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.