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 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.

Part 3 - The romantic imagination - Michael Lee explores the rich imaginative idealism that informed so much music in the Romantic Era.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part 2 - Virtuosity and PoetryIn this three-part series, Michael Lee explores the rich imaginative idealism that informed so much music in the Romantic Era.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this three-part series, Michael Lee explores the rich imaginative idealism that informed so much music in the Romantic Era. Part 1  - The SublimeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patricia Baker goes in search of the hidden history of a place behind a locked door in Dublin 8.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.