First broadcast as a Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm on Sunday 6th January 2019; repeated Sunday 6th October 2019. Since it was launched as a national competition in 2006, Poetry Aloud has grown into a national phenomenon, involving students in second-level schools around the whole island of Ireland. Students stand up in front of judges […]
290 years after poet, cleric and satirist Jonathan Swift made what he called ‘A Modest Proposal’ to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland, six Irish poets – Jessica Traynor, Mary O’Malley, Kevin Higgins, Sarah Clancy, Rita Ann Higgins and Nick Laird – make their own modest proposals to tackle the social inequalities of today. […]
A programme to mark the 200th anniversary in 2017 of the publication of Thomas Moore’s epic oriental poem Lalla Rookh and the music it inspired. The programme is being made in collaboration with Project ERIN, which is based at the School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast, and will feature new performances by mezzo […]
Poet Gerald Dawe brings us on a poetic odyssey through the west of Ireland. To be broadcast as a Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm on Sunday 22nd December at 6 pm. The programme features poems by Gerald Dawe and contributions from actor Cathy Belton, Tom Kenny of Kenny’s bookshop and gallery, journalist Judy Murphy, […]
The story of a rare collaboration between the Irish composer Brian Boydell and American poet John Berryman. To be broadcast as a Lyric Feature on Sunday 22nd March at 6 pm on RTÉ lyric fm. Back in 1937, when both were students at Clare College in Cambridge, the Irish composer Brian Boydell and the American […]
Biographer Susan Manly explores the radical life of the Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849). Broadcast as a Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm on 19th May 2019 at 6 pm. Repeated 24th May 2020. Why the name of Maria Edgeworth is not as well known as that of Jane Austen is a question that Susan […]
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, Sunday 3rd May 2020, 16:30 Repeated BBC Radio 4, Saturday 9th May 2020, 23:30 Irish poet Jane Clarke lives in Glenmalure, a remote and rugged valley in County Wicklow, Ireland. The valley marks the start of the Miners’ Way, a long-distance path developed by a local community group, traversing three […]
A poetic exploration of Bull Island by poet Pat Boran. First broadcast: RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 4th October, 2020 at 6 pm. Available to podcast at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bull-island-haiku-the-lyric-feature/id1494103315?i=1000493618719 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Eus9JuUfzqhVlzPMjeKxQ or wherever you get your podcasts. Pat Boran is an Irish poet, writer and broadcaster. Born in Portlaoise in 1963, he lives on the northside of Dublin, […]
Words Lightly Spoken is a podcast of poetry from Ireland. Beginning in January 2019, the podcast broadcasts a weekly poem, with an introduction. You can subscribe to the Words Lightly Spoken podcast on i-tunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/words-lightly-spoken/id1449844470 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/search/results/words%20lightly%20spoken Libsyn: http://wordslightlyspoken.libsyn.com/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also follow the podcast on our Facebook page […]
Presenter Olivia O’Leary explores the diverse and vibrant world of poets and poetry in the Poetry Programme on Sundays on RTÉ Radio One at 7:30 pm. The programme is broadcast on Sunday at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1 and the start date for the autumn 2020 series will be confirmed shortly. Listen back to […]