A Place in the Choir

Chorus member and documentary maker Róisín Power opens the door into the world of the National Symphony Chorus of Ireland to ask why singers continue to give their time, their voices, and their hearts to this extraordinary ensemble as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Where the river rises | The Lyric Feature

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

Our half lost cousins - Lyric Feature

Theo Dorgan explores poetic, mythical, historical and cultural links between Ireland and Galicia in north west Spain.

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

Mary Brophy explores the influences, characters and obsessions that brought Ireland's historic gardens into being. Part 2.

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

Mary Brophy explores the influences, characters and obsessions that brought Ireland's historic gardens into being. Part 1

A Corner of the Burren | The Lyric Feature

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 'Seven Churches’.

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.

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

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 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.