Irish broadcaster RTÉ lyric fm's weekly documentary slot. Programmes about music, literature, visual arts and other areas where creativity is manifest. Broadcas...
The premiere of a new opera by composer Irene Buckley, inspired by the poem Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire.
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Dorothy's Prison Notebooks | The Lyric Feature
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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Music on the Edge | The Lyric Feature
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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Queen of Nightclubs | The Lyric Feature
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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Generational Resistance | The Lyric Feature
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.
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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