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1 How To Replace A $100,000+ Salary Within 6 MONTHS Through Buying A Small Business w/ Alex Kamenca & Carley Mitus 57:50
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Pianist Guy Livingston takes us on his quest for silence in music, from medieval chant to the future sounds of a trip to Mars. Presenter : Guy Livingston
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1 Feather and Flock - Eagles | The Lyric Feature 52:41
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Ireland has white tailed sea eagles as well as golden eagles, both having been recently reintroduced. In this episode Anja Murray and Brían Mac Gloinn travel to Garinish Island in west Cork and also hear from National Parks and Wildlife Service Ranger Clare Heardman about the nesting and breeding habits of these wonderful birds.…
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1 Feather and Flock - The Skylark | The Lyric Feature 49:18
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Skylark is a charismatic bird of open ground and the uplands, widely celebrated for their impressive singing ability. In this episode, ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinnbegin with the Skylarks’ fame in poetry, with poet Martin Dyar.
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1 Feather and Flock - The Lapwing | The Lyric Feature 51:28
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Lapwings are any of various ground-nesting birds akin to plovers and dotterels. They range from 10 to 16 inches in length, and are noted for their slow, irregular wingbeats in flight and a shrill, wailing cry.
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1 Feather and Flock - The Jay | The Lyric Feature 50:53
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Jays are colourful, vocal, and highly intelligent woodland birds. In this episode ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinn meet ornithologist Seán Ronayne in an autumn woodland to listen to stories these birds’ incredible capacity for mimicr
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1 Feather and Flock - The Cuckoo | The Lyric Feature 45:13
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Feather and Flock delves in to the ways of six iconic native Irish birds. Each episode combines ecology, folklore and history to uncover the incredible lives and journeys of these wild creatures. We begin with the Cuckoo.
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1 Among the Heather Rocks | The Lyric Feature 46:54
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Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin goes back to the Donegal Gaeltacht, where she grew up, and explores the folklore and history, landscape, language and personal experiences that all influenced her poetry.
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1 Until a World Comes to Life | The Lyric Feature 53:54
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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. Made possible through the support of Monaghan CC & Creative Monaghan.…
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1 Stranger Than We Thought | The Lyric Feature 50:24
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The legacy of avant-garde art practice in 20th century Ireland is often considered a blank space. Yet the work of a remarkable archive is proving this to be a memory lapse.
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Pianist Guy Livingston takes us on his quest for silence in music, from medieval chant to the future sounds of a trip to Mars. Presenter : Guy Livingston
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1 Music Mystery and Manuscripts | The Lyric Feature 57:44
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Zoë Comyns tells the story of the relatively unknown Cork born writer and composer Ethel Voynich who sold millions of copies of her anti-Catholic novel The Gadfly in Russia in the early 1900s, campaigned with Russian anarchists to overthrow the Tsar.
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Poet Jane Clarke explores the Avonmore River in County Wicklow through poetry and conversation.
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In “The Golden Museum” J.J. O`Shea reflects on his experience as the child of Irish immigrants in London in the mid-twentieth century. The story is told through interweaving threads of original music and song, poetry.
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1 We Only Want the Earth - Part 2 | The Lyric Feature 56:25
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In episode two, presenter Jonathan Grimes joins Nick Roth in Massey’s Estate in the Dublin mountains, where the composer and saxophonist leads a music and nature workshop with children.
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This two-part documentary series, presented by Jonathan Grimes of the CMC, explores how Irish composers are responding to the climate and biodiversity crisis through their work. Episode 1: Once Heard You Can't Unhear It
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This Friday 10/01/25 sees the Irish release of Maria,a biopic of Maria Callas with Angelina Jolie in the title role. But Liz Nolan got there first with a 2023 radio documentary where she told the story of the singer who she first encountered as a teenage soprano.
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Poet Gerald Dawe explores the enduring appeal of the west of Ireland landscapes to writers and artists.
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1 A Dream of Foreign Lands | The Lyric Feature 50:30
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A Dream of Foreign Lands commemorates the 40th anniversary of Rum Sodomy & The Lash, the groundbreaking album by The Pogues. Musician and musicologist Mike Glennon delves into the album’s enduring creative and cultural significance.
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The premiere of a new opera by composer Irene Buckley, inspired by the poem Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire.
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1 Dorothy's Prison Notebooks | The Lyric Feature 44:55
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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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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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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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1 Generational Resistance | The Lyric Feature 59:05
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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.
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1 Feather and Flock - Eagles | The Lyric Feature 53:14
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Ireland has white tailed sea eagles as well as golden eagles, both having been recently reintroduced. In this episode Anja Murray and Brían Mac Gloinn travel to Garinish Island in west Cork and also hear from National Parks and Wildlife Service Ranger Clare Heardman about the nesting and breeding habits of these wonderful birds.…
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1 Feather and Flock - The Tern | The Lyric Feature 50:03
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In this episode ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinn visit a busy nesting colony of little terns on the Wicklow coast and talk with ternprogramme conservation manager from BirdWatch Ireland, Brian Bourke, about the lives of these beautiful birds.
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1 Feather and Flock - The Skylark | The Lyric Feature 50:02
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Skylark is a charismatic bird of open ground and the uplands, widely celebrated for their impressive singing ability. In this episode, ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinnbegin with the Skylarks’ fame in poetry, with poet Martin Dyar.
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1 The Musician That Is Me | The Lyric Feature 58:02
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US-born composer Jane O'Leary, who has lived in Ireland since 1972 and has made an immeasurable contribution to contemporary Irish classical music, looks back on her career.
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1 Magic on a Winter’s Night | The Lyric Feature 51:06
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Mary Brophy goes behind the scenes at the 71st Wexford Festival Opera as Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi and her teams orchestrate their particular brand of alchemy.
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The Lyric Feature returns for a new series opening with Building a Ballet one of the five Lyric Features shortlisted at the 2024 IMRO awards.
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1 From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire | The Lyric Feature 52:22
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On this week’s Lyric Feature, we remember the poet, lecturer and regular contributor to our programmes Gerald Dawe who died last month.
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Michael O’Shea was a musician from Carlingford, Co Louth who released one self-titled album in 1982 that is now regarded as a masterpiece of the Psychedelic Folk genre. Performed on oak door rescued from a skip in Munich.
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‘Discovered’ by Guglielmo Marconi while singing at a fashionable soiree in London, the famous inventor subsequently brought Sheridan to Italy, to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer.
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As a child, Bairbre O'Hogan remembers her mother bringing an elderly friend to do her weekly shopping in Dún Laoghaire. Bairbre knew her as MrsVerschoyle, she only later appreciated just how successful and prolific an author she had been.
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The sculptor Imogen Stuart and the poet Michael Coady died within a day of each other on the 24 and 25 th of March this year. Each is remembered with a programme from the RTÉ archive in this evening’s Lyric Feature.
To mark the centenary of her birth, Liz Nolan explores the life and legacy of Maria Callas, the iconic Greek soprano, widely regarded as the most significant, inspiring and provocative opera star of the modern age.
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1 Feather and Flock Pt 3 - Lapwing | The Lyric Feature 51:46
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Lapwings are any of various ground-nesting birds akin to plovers and dotterels. They range from 10 to 16 inches in length, and are noted for their slow, irregular wingbeats in flight and a shrill, wailing cry.
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1 Feather & Flock - Pt 2 Jay | The Lyric Feature 50:44
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Jays are colourful, vocal, and highly intelligent woodland birds. In this episode ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinn meet ornithologist Seán Ronayne in an autumn woodland to listen to stories these birds’ incredible capacity for mimicry.
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1 Feather & Flock - Pt 1 The Cuckoo | The Lyric Feature - 45:39
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Feather and Flock is a new six part series delving in to the ways of six iconic native Irish birds. Each episode combines ecology, folklore and history to uncover the incredible lives and journeys of these wild creatures. We begin with the Cuckoo.
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Laoise O’Brien has spent the past twenty-five years championing an instrument often unfairly perceived as an instrument of torture, the recorder. Join Laoise as she embarks on a journey to tell the story of the recorder and its development during the ages.
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1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Radio Documentary 46:17
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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.
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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)
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1 Calling the Curlew Home | The Lyric Feature 55:21
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Ireland is on the verge of losing its population of breeding curlew, but could our songs, stories and art help us to save it?
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An examination of the earliest notated music in Ireland: Medieval Monastic Chant.
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1 We Only Want The Earth: Episode 2 | The Lyric Feature 54:26
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We Only Want The Earth: Can music help us face the climate crisis?
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1 We Only Want The Earth: Episode 1 | The Lyric Feature 53:59
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We Only Want The Earth: Can music help us face the climate crisis?
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The story of the women behind Dublin's forgotten National Ballet Company.
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