Seán Doherty explores the life and music of Chicago Police Chief and Irish music collector Francis O’Neill. FIRST BROADCAST: 4th […]

Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin explores the folklore, history, landscape and language of Donegal that inspire her poetry. Among the Heather […]

Poet Louis de Paor explores the Cork of his childhood, where he first learned Irish, and the Cork that his […]

Poet Jane Clarke explores the Avonmore River in County Wicklow through poetry and conversation. FIRST BROADCAST in The Lyric Feature, […]

The premiere of a new opera by composer Irene Buckley, inspired by the poem Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, preceded by […]

A profile of contemporary music composer Jane O’Leary. First broadcast: The Lyric Feature, RTÉ lyric fm, 20 October 2024; re-broadcast […]

In a series of The Essay on BBC Radio 3, poet Michael Longley (1939 -2025) talks with Olivia O’Leary about […]

FIRST BROADCAST: 17th March 2024, BBC Radio 4; re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Xtra on 16th March 2025. Link to […]

Bairbre O’Hogan tells the story of the life and writing of Winifred Letts, poet, playwright and novelist, in ‘These Things […]

Ten people each choose a favourite poem by Seamus Heaney. First broadcast daily in September 2023 on Niall Carroll’s Classical […]