Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 52m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (3)
Since Feb 2024
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Weekly
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Episodic
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91%
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About This Podcast

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.

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Recent Episodes

Our half lost cousins - Lyric Feature

Jun 07, 2026 46m

Theo Dorgan explores poetic, mythical, historical and cultural links between Ireland and Galicia in north west Spain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Politics, Pleasure and Empire - Part 2 | The Lyric Feature

May 31, 2026 56m

Mary Brophy explores the influences, characters and obsessions that brought Ireland's historic gardens into being. Part 2.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Politics, Pleasure & Empire: Making Ireland's Grand Gardens - Part 1 | The Lyric Feature

May 30, 2026 57m

Mary Brophy explores the influences, characters and obsessions that brought Ireland's historic gardens into being. Part 1 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Corner of the Burren | The Lyric Feature

May 24, 2026 46m

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 Forgotten Migration | The Lyric Feature

May 17, 2026 57m

Chris Nikkel follows the story of a forgotten Irish migration to Canada through folk music passed down orally, and a special bicentennial commemoration.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…

Dead Reeds | The Lyric Feature

May 10, 2026 47m

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…

Me Dog is Buried in Thomond Park | The Lyric Feature

May 03, 2026 47m

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Sonic Arctic Return | The Lyric Feature

Apr 26, 2026 51m

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.See…

Green White Enamel | The Lyric Feature

Apr 19, 2026 57m

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…

Master of the Musick | The Lyric Feature

Apr 12, 2026 46m

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…

Tenducci in Ireland | The Lyric Feature

Apr 05, 2026 57m

An Italian superstar castrato in Georgian Ireland as reimagined by the Irish Baroque OrchestraSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Saucy Mistress Boldface | The Lyric Feature

Mar 29, 2026 45m

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.See…

The Blind Poetess of Ulster | The Lyric Feature

Mar 22, 2026 47m

Born in Donegal in 1816, Frances Browne was blinded by smallpox at an early age, but despite this became a prolific and well-known Victorian author of poetry, novels, essays, and a best-selling…

Without Dependence | The Lyric Feature

Mar 15, 2026 52m

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…

A living Voice - Donegal | The Lyric Feature

Mar 08, 2026 52m

Traditional Irish musicians from Donegal reinterpret scores collected by Séamus Ennis in the 1940s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Living Voice, Episode 1 | The Lyric Feature

Mar 01, 2026 52m

This two-part series presented by J.J. O'Shea brings us the fruits of a project initiated by folklorist Ríonach Uí Ógáin and supported by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. This episode revisits…

Out of the Marvelous | The Lyric Feature

Feb 22, 2026 47m

Out of the Marvellous asks what can artists learn from the monastic way of life? Writer Sara Baume visits St. Mary’s Cistercian Abbey in Glencairn, Co. Waterford. She speaks to the nuns there about…

Wanted, An Irish Novelist | The Lyric Feature

Feb 15, 2026 47m

Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921) was a best-selling Victorian author of ghost stories, novels and essays whose work has been largely forgotten. Dr Sara Lodge explores her life, work and forward-thinking…

You talkin to me? | The Lyric Feature

Feb 08, 2026 57m

Six artists create new radio art for The Mirror Lamp Press Radio Edition. With RTE lyric fm & Culture File this feature explores voice, performance, and the politics of being heard, using the…

Three men standing at the MET| The Lyric Feature

Feb 01, 2026 55m

A focus and celebration of the work of Author and Radio producer John Quinn who passed away recently.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Lyric Feature has published 100 episodes since February 2024, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.

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