Poet Jane Clarke explores the Avonmore River in County Wicklow through poetry and conversation.

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In “The Golden Museum” J.J. O`Shea reflects on his experience as the child of Irish immigrants in London in the mid-twentieth century. The story is told through interweaving threads of original music and song, poetry.

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In episode two, presenter Jonathan Grimes joins Nick Roth in Massey’s Estate in the Dublin mountains, where the composer and saxophonist leads a music and nature workshop with children.

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This two-part documentary series, presented by Jonathan Grimes of the CMC, explores how Irish composers are responding to the climate and biodiversity crisis through their work. Episode 1: Once Heard You Can't Unhear It

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This Friday 10/01/25 sees the Irish release of Maria,a biopic of Maria Callas with Angelina Jolie in the title role. But Liz Nolan got there first with a 2023 radio documentary where she told the story of the singer who she first encountered as a teenage soprano.

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Poet Gerald Dawe explores the enduring appeal of the west of Ireland landscapes to writers and artists.

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A Dream of Foreign Lands commemorates the 40th anniversary of Rum Sodomy & The Lash, the groundbreaking album by The Pogues. Musician and musicologist Mike Glennon delves into the album’s enduring creative and cultural significance.

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The premiere of a new opera by composer Irene Buckley, inspired by the poem Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire.

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In 2018, actor Sharon Mc Ardle and playwright Declan Gorman set out to create a theatre piece based on diaries kept by revolutionary and writer Dorothy Macardle during her incarceration at the time of the Irish Civil War.

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Approaching thirty years together as an ensemble, the ConTempo Quartet spent their formative years in Romania in Central Europe before moving to the west coast of Ireland as Galway Music Residency's Ensemble in Residence in 2003

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