Root and Branch: Episode 1 - Birch | The Lyric Feature

An exploration of the powerful and enigmatic poem "The Song of Amergin" and the ancient Milesian legend in which it appears. Presented and Produced by JJ O’Shea Producer for lyric fm: Eoin O Kelly (First broadcast September 2020)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

A collection of four short radio features from artists in various disciplines taking the poems of Patrick Kavanagh as a jumping off point for their own new works. Incl' Annemarie Ní Churreáin, The Sons of Southern Ulster, Scott McKendry & Ceol Connected.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Derry-born composer Seán Doherty is best known for his choral compositions, but in this Lyric Feature, 1001 Gems, he goes back to his roots in Irish traditional music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This weeks Lyric Feature is -Black Syren, which tells the largely forgotten story of Rachel Baptist, a Black Irish soprano, who predominantly appeared in Irish "pleasure gardens” in the 1750s and 1760s performing arias by Handel and Arne among others.The feature is presented by journalist Saibh Downes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Ahead of her celebratory concert with the NSO, this feature reflects on the career of US-born composer Jane O'Leary, who has made an immeasurable contribution to contemporary Irish classical music since moving to Ireland in 1972."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constance "Connie" Smith was born in 1929 on Limerick's Wolfe Tone Street and would later become a star who burned brightly, but all too briefly, during the golden age of Hollywood cinema.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.