Building a Ballet | The Lyric Feature

An audio portrait of painter James Hanley, told through the eyes of his sitters, fellow artists, buyers, family and friends, a story of being creative, connecting and making a life in the uncertain world of the arts.

Micil Ned Quinn from Mullaghbawn in Co. Armagh was immersed in the folk arts from childhood and grew up to be a renowned traditional singer and songwriter. This programme celebrates and reflects upon the rural life and culture from which he came and that he himself embodied. (First tx 190323)

Ireland is on the verge of losing its population of breeding curlew, but could our songs, stories and art help us to save it?

An examination of the earliest notated music in Ireland: Medieval Monastic Chant.

We Only Want The Earth: Can music help us face the climate crisis?

We Only Want The Earth: Can music help us face the climate crisis?

The story of the women behind Dublin's forgotten National Ballet Company.

The story of Irishwoman Kate Meyrick who operated the most decadent London nightclubs of the Jazz Age

Traditional Irish musicians from Donegal reinterpret scores collected by Séamus Ennis in the 1940s.

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. The project revisits The Irish Folklore Commission's collection of tunes and songs which were transcribed and notated by Séamus Ennis in Connemara and Donegal.