BBC show pays tribute to Cork-based classical composers

Seán Ó Riada, the Fleischmanns, and Linda Buckley are among the figures featured in a BBC Radio 3 show presented by Róisín Ní Dhúill

Róisín Ní Dhúill presents Irish Classical – Hidden in Plain Sight. Picture: BBC

Just as Irish literature is seen as distinctive, classical music from Ireland can and should be seen in this way too, and Cork has played a major role in developing that Irish classical music voice.

Róisín Ní Dhúill puts forward this argument in a three-part BBC Radio 3 series, in which she plays a selection of recordings and traces their roots in song, folk music, and history.