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Michael O'Shea, pictured on the cover of his album 'No Journey's End'

Cult musician Michael O'Shea's journey - The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature / 20 hrs

Actor Evanna Lynch as Lucia Joyce (Pic: Mella Travers, after Berenice Abbott's original 1928 image)

Reclaiming Lucia Joyce's legacy - The Lyric Feature

Rté Lyric Fm / 22 Jul

Music collector Seamus Ennis taking notes

Listen: The Lyric Feature celebrates Seamus Ennis

The Lyric Feature / 18 Jun

Maria Edgeworth, the Irish Jane Austen - The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature / 20 May

Alyce Mott and Guy Livingston seated at Victor Herbert's piano in the offices of ASCAP in New York.

Victor Herbert, Son of Dublin - The Lyric Feature

Rté Lyric Fm / 28 Jan

Gerald Dawe and Eleanor Shanley explore the idea of 'home' in poetry, prose and song.

Lyric Feature: What makes a place a home?

The Lyric Feature / 10 Jan

The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature / 24 Dec 18

Artist and cartographer Tim Robinson is featured in this weekend's Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature: Who we were and what we've lost

Rté Lyric Fm / 19 Nov 18

The Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra with leader Renzo Marchionni, circa 1953

The refugee virtuosos who changed Irish music - The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature / 12 Nov 18

The Life and Music of John Field - The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature / 05 Nov 18

Poet and sailor Mick Delap

Tales of Bantry Bay- The Lyric Feature

Rté Lyric Fm / 16 Sep 18

An image from a vintage poster promoting a minstrel show

The hidden history of Irish minstrelsy - Lyric Feature preview

The Lyric Feature / 10 Sep 18

RTÉ lyric fm celebrates legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein

Celebrating Leonard Bernstein at 100 with RTÉ lyric fm

Rté Lyric Fm / 23 Aug 18

Composer Amy Marcy Cheney (later Amy Beach), aged 16 - this week's Lyric Feature tells her story.

The woman who wrote the Gaelic Symphony - The Lyric Feature

Music / 04 May 18

Ludwig Wittgenstein - the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century?

Wittgenstein uncovered - investigating a philosophical enigma

The Lyric Feature / 16 Feb 18

Revolutionary composer Henry Cowell (1897-1965), the subject of this weekend's Lyric Feature.

The radical composer who changed American music - Lyric Feature

Rté Lyric Fm / 29 Jun 18

Irish war poet Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)

Poet Francis Ledwidge remembered - When the War is Over

Books / 26 Jun 17

The late, great Joylon Jackson, subject of a new lyric fm documentary.

Joylon Jackson - a forgotten king of Irish prog rock

Music / 06 Jun 17

Irish violin bow-maker Gary Leahy tests the camber on his latest creation

If the Stick Dances - the fine art of making a bow

Culture / 01 Feb 17

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