The Lyric Feature

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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Kate Meyrick was a trailblazer: a business woman, a nightclub owner, a mother and a celebrity prisoner. In spite of the fact that she made 100s of newspaper headlines there has never been a full length documentary made of her life.

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In a change to our schedule, we rebroadcast Generational Resistance: Granny’s Intentions and the Birth of the Irish Beat Scene, featuring interviews with lead singer Johnny Duhan, who sadly died this week.

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Ireland has white tailed sea eagles as well as golden eagles, both having been recently reintroduced. In this episode Anja Murray and Brían Mac Gloinn travel to Garinish Island in west Cork and also hear from National Parks and Wildlife Service Ranger Clare Heardman about the nesting and breeding habits of these wonderful birds.

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