If you can't make it to any of the nationwide events happening this Friday on Culture Night, join us live on RTÉ lyric fm for a cultural feast across the schedule! Here is what we have lined up to celebrate the day:
CULTURE 5 WITH DEREK O'CONNOR on Aedín in the Afternoon, 1-4pm
RTÉ Culture editor Derek O'Connor shares news of all the happenings across RTÉ Television, Radio and online, including RTÉ Culture Night Live broadcast live at 8.00pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player; RTÉ lyric Live at 7pm (information below) and RTÉ Culture online will be guest edited for the day by acclaimed novelist and playwright Belinda McKeon.
Photo | Rich Gilligan
LORCAN MURRAY'S CLASSIC DRIVE, Culture Night Special, 4-7pm
Lorcan presents a programme bursting with cultural celebration and music, live from the lyric fm studios in the heart of Limerick City. With a focus on Limerick and the wonderful variety of music and the arts produced there, we hear from folk singer Emma Langford and Adrian Mantu of the ConTempo Quartet on cello with Dermot Dunne on accordion performing pieces from their brand new album. There is also a live performance from the Irish Guitar Quartet, and a walk around the dynamic exhibition at the nearby Hunt Museum. A full programme of brilliant music, colour and of course the usual soundtrack and chat to keep your Friday evening lively with Lorcan!
RTÉ LYRIC LIVE WITH PAUL HERRIOTT, 7-10PM
As we celebrate Culture Night across the nation this evening. Paul Herriott brings us music bursting with colour and spirit from three continents from the National Concert Hall in Dublin. The programme includes the Irish premiere of Feodora Prize 2025 winner Michael Gallen's Bád ón Alltar with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland under the baton of David Brophy.
Copland: El Salón México
Paddy Kiernan: Crossroads of Twilight
Shahab Coohe: Cerulean
Ravel: Tzigane
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
Michael Gallen: Bád ón Alltar (Irish Premiere - Co-commissioned by National Symphony Orchestra Ireland,Ulster Orchestra, L'Orchestre National de Bretagne)
Kodály: Dances of Galánta
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland
David Brophy (conductor)
Nava
Sarah Brazil (violin)
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (voice, Irish flute)
Maria Ryan (voice, viola)
Michael Gallen (voice, piano)
Dónal O'Connor (voice, fiddle)
FROG ROUTES, POLKA-DOT NEWTS AND OTHER TREASURES OF IRISH NATURE
Ecologist Anja Murray has launched her new book Frog Routes, Polka-Dot News and Other Treasures of Irish Nature. The book, which is based on Anja's Nature File radio column (9.15, Saturday mornings on Evonne Ferguson's Daybreak on RTÉ lyric fm) will be launched this Friday, Culture Night at Books Upstairs, D'Olier Street, Dublin 2.
