The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature

By RTÉ lyric fmSociety & Culture Documentary

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The Lyric Feature episodes

November 03, 2024 Feather and Flock - The Tern | The Lyric Feature
In this episode ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinn visit a busy nesting colony of little terns on the Wicklow coast and talk with ternprogramme conservation manager from BirdWatch Ireland, Brian Bourke, about the lives of these beautiful birds.
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51 min
October 27, 2024 Feather and Flock - The Skylark | The Lyric Feature
Skylark is a charismatic bird of open ground and the uplands, widely celebrated for their impressive singing ability. In this episode, ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinnbegin with the Skylarks’ fame in poetry, with poet Martin Dyar.
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51 min
October 20, 2024 The Musician That Is Me | The Lyric Feature
US-born composer Jane O'Leary, who has lived in Ireland since 1972 and has made an immeasurable contribution to contemporary Irish classical music, looks back on her career.
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59 min
October 13, 2024 Magic on a Winter’s Night | The Lyric Feature
Mary Brophy goes behind the scenes at the 71st Wexford Festival Opera as Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi and her teams orchestrate their particular brand of alchemy.
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52 min
October 06, 2024 Building a Ballet | The Lyric Feature
The Lyric Feature returns for a new series opening with Building a Ballet one of the five Lyric Features shortlisted at the 2024 IMRO awards.
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53 min
June 30, 2024 From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire | The Lyric Feature
On this week’s Lyric Feature, we remember the poet, lecturer and regular contributor to our programmes Gerald Dawe who died last month.
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53 min
June 23, 2024 No Journey’s End | The Lyric Feature
Michael O’Shea was a musician from Carlingford, Co Louth who released one self-titled album in 1982 that is now regarded as a masterpiece of the Psychedelic Folk genre. Performed on oak door rescued from a skip in Munich.
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58 min
June 16, 2024 Maggie from Mayo | The Lyric Feature
‘Discovered’ by Guglielmo Marconi while singing at a fashionable soiree in London, the famous inventor subsequently brought Sheridan to Italy, to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer.

Produced by Michael O' Kane.
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52 min
June 09, 2024 These Things I Wish | The Lyric Feature
As a child, Bairbre O'Hogan remembers her mother bringing an elderly friend to do her weekly shopping in Dún Laoghaire. Bairbre knew her as MrsVerschoyle, she only later appreciated just how successful and prolific an author she had been.
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55 min
June 02, 2024 Imogen Stuart and Michael Coady
The sculptor Imogen Stuart and the poet Michael Coady died within a day of each
other on the 24 and 25th of March this year.
Each is remembered with a programme from the RTÉ archive in this evening’s Lyric Feature.
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58 min

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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.