Lyric Notes

Máire Nic Gearailt

Please note: Lyric Notes has ended, effective Friday September 4th 2009.

Lyric Notes, presented by Máire Nic Gearailt, aims to provide a varied musical listening experience, ranging from early music through the baroque, classical and romantic eras through to music of our own time. Lots of great singers, as well as music for orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instruments.

For more about Máire, click HERE

Quiet Quarter

At 11.45am, we step into the Quiet Quarter, four minutes or so of contemplation on various subjects by a different writer each week.

Click here to download Quiet Quarter podcasts

You can now purchase The Quiet Quarter: Ten Years of Great Irish Writing, a new and exciting anthology celebrating the breath and quality of Irish writing first heard on Lyric Notes. Edited by Máire Nic Gearailt and published by New Island, it is available in bookshops nationwide.

Helen Dillon

Gardening on Fridays

Every Friday at 12.15pm, Helen Dillon world-renowned plantswoman, writer, lecturer and broadcaster, enthusiastically shares her knowledge and love of plants.

Click HERE to download or listen back to recent Gardening segments

Click HERE to visit 'The Dillon Garden' website

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