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JJ O Shea (Centre) with his sister Maureen O Shea (L) and cousin Myra (R)

The Golden Museum - a special Lyric Feature for Christmas Day

Lyric Feature • 26 Dec 22

The Lyric Feature - how a community opera set sail in Galway

Lyric Feature • 26 Dec 22

The story behind Kavanagh's On Raglan Road - The Lyric Feature

Lyric Feature • 14 Apr 23

Explorer Ernest Shackleton is the subject of this week's Lyric Feature

Lyric Feature: Shackleton, his men, and the power of music

Ernest Shackleton • 05 Dec 22

Ireland's Changing Nature - The Lyric Feature

Lyric Feature • 13 Sep 21

Kevin Barry recording Island Time on Inis Oirr, July 2020

Kevin Barry's tales from a lighthouse - Lyric Feature

Long, long ago, a melancholy lighthouse keeper on Inis Oírr dreams of a different life and of distant lands ... and of a woman in Ennistymon...

Galway 2020 • 17 Oct 21

The Wild Irish Girl and Her Harp: Sydney Owenson

Lyric Feature: Una Hunt on The Wild Irish Girl and Her Harp

Lyric Feature Preview: Join pianist, broadcaster and professor of Music Performance Research at TU Dublin Conservatoire, Una Hunt as she introduces the story of writer and patriot, Sydney Owenson.

Lyric Feature • 16 Nov 20

Lyric Feature: A wild journey through Irish nature

Lyric Feature Preview: Join ecologist Anja Murray on a journey through time, exploring the ever-changing relationship between people and nature in Ireland

Lyric Feature • 12 Oct 20

Lyric Feature: Poet Pat Boran's Bull Island Haiku

In these strange and challenging times, more of us find ourselves sticking close to home, and re-exploring on foot places we might have flown over or driven past in previous years...

The Lyric Feature • 05 Oct 20