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Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland telling real life stories. With over 1,800 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One Podcast has the largest archive of documentaries available in the world, dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. Winner of over 340 national and international awards. Producer of podcast series 'Tiger Roll, The People's Horse', 'GunPlot' and 'The Nobody Zone'. Immerse yourself in a world of sound, story and character.


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A Song For Kathleen from 2023-11-24T03:00:06

The story of 87-year-old Kathleen Tierney who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, but finds her spirit lifted and her health improve when she joins ‘The Forget Me Nots’ - a choir welcoming those affect...

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Los Preciosos from 2023-11-17T11:27:04

A beautiful story of adoption from rural East Cork. Two children from Guatemala, Jacobo aged 4 and Natalie aged 5. Their father, Vittorio, is Italian. Their mother, Jools, is English. A family from...

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Fear and Mistrust from 2023-10-28T08:11:23

What happens when people stop having trust in the system? Two people who lost faith in the things they previously believed are Phil and Jean. Phil is a former conspiracy theorist. He spent ove...

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Skyhope from 2023-10-20T02:01:45

In 1977, a giant ship named Skyhope paid a visit to the west Kerry village of Baile na nGall or Ballydavid. The ship was calling into the village on the promise of a few pints having helped out som...

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Girl From The Letter from 2023-10-13T04:46:49

John Richards is on a quest to solve a mystery. He's looking for a girl who he only learned about through a letter written to his father. And he last saw his father over 50 years ago. At the age of...

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Missing Gerard from 2023-10-06T02:01:51

Irish man Gerard Mooney vanished near his home in Sydney, Australia in 1996. Despite extensive searches, a major investigation by Police and television appeals, the only trace of him found was his ...

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The Lost Mountaineers from 2023-09-29T02:00:55

Why climb Mount Everest? " Because it's there". The words of explorer George Mallory in New York in 1922. But was he the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in t...

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Feminist Dress from 2023-09-22T02:00:54

In 1972, Maura O'Reilly walked up the aisle wearing a wedding-dress her mother had made for her. It was white, lace crochet, with a high neck and bell sleeves. 50 years later, her niece w...

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Act 5, Scene 2 from 2023-09-15T02:01:09

Ten years ago, actor Conor Madden was stabbed in the eye, on stage in front of an audience of hundreds. He was playing the part of Hamlet when a fight scene went badly wrong. When he fell to the...

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A Dark Night In Foxford from 2023-09-01T02:01:02

The Irish Civil War was shrouded in silence for decades. In one of the last atrocities of the war, we tell the story of Maggie Doherty and through her witness testimony explore the rarely discussed...

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What If She's Prettier Than Me? from 2023-08-25T02:01:37

Would you bring a third person into your relationship?  Polyamorists do. They say having other romances actually strengthens their main relationship. But there are risks…and jealousi...

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Louder Than Bombs: The Smiths in Ireland, Nov '84 from 2023-08-18T02:01:25

1984 was a defining year in the history of the Irish Troubles. On the 12th October the IRA bombed the Brighton Hotel narrowly missing the British Prime Minister. Meanwhile a Manchester band...

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Finding Samantha: 07 – Who is Samantha? from 2023-06-09T02:01:23

The cycle of Samantha offending, being jailed, then released and re-offending seems never ending. So as we reach the conclusion of our series, and in an attempt to understand just what exactly is g...

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Finding Samantha: 06 - Child's Play from 2023-06-02T02:01:27

With Samantha out of prison in 2018, she was now turning 30 years old. She began working as an au pair again and was about to commit her most serious crimes to date. With access to children, she be...

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Finding Samantha: 05 - The One That Got Away from 2023-05-26T02:01:23

Sharon receives a strange phone call from a mystery woman with something to give her. Samantha receives her first full jail sentence as we hear from the Appeal Court Judge who decided on her case. ...

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Finding Samantha: 04 – Catch me if you can from 2023-05-19T02:01:05

With Samantha Azzopardi continuing to face police and judges, she fails to heed their warnings to change her behaviour. Instead, she continues to target people in Australia, then returns to Ireland...

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Finding Samantha: 03 - Samm Az from 2023-05-12T02:01:58

A 15 yr old Russian gymnast turns up hoping to be adopted by a new family. A Police Prosecutor in Perth is not quite sure what kind of an individual he's dealing with. One Samantha Azzopardi act...

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Finding Samantha: 02 - Webs of Deceit from 2023-05-05T02:00:50

As we follow the trail of the Girl at the GPO – who we now know is Australian woman Samantha Azzopardi - we dive into a surreal world where fact and fiction are often blurred. Samantha has conne...

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Finding Samantha: 01 - GPO Girl from 2023-04-28T02:01:48

A new 7-part podcast series from RTÉ Documentary On One. To listen to the series in full, subscribe to 'Finding Samantha' from wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes released weekly, on T...

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Finding Samantha: Trailer from 2023-04-22T02:10:34

A woman who has created more than 100 fake identities. A young girl found wandering the streets of Dublin. A teenager deported from Canada. Stories of sustained sexual abuse at the hands of many. K...

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Blackrock Boys from 2022-11-07T18:02

From the ages of 12 to 17, two brothers, Mark and David Ryan, were both repeatedly sexually abused in Blackrock College in South County Dublin. Their abusers were from the Spiritan community at ...

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Miss Folan's Last Wish from 2022-10-28T01:00:15

Mary Folan, long emigrated to America, made a dying wish to be buried back home on her native island of Inis Meáin. But after Mary’s death, the unthinkable happened when an attempt was made to tran...

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Minding Mary - Has Ireland forgotten Carrickmines? from 2022-10-21T02:20:53

A devastating fire at a halting site in South County Dublin on October 10th 2015 led to multiple members of three families losing their lives. We delve into the events of that night ...

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Spike Island - Spontaneous Madness from 2022-10-07T02:02:57

In September 1985, a riot erupted on Spike Island Prison in Cork Harbour. The island fort had been turned into a prison for 'joyriders', but within months, they rebelled against the regime and set ...

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Counterpunch from 2022-09-30T02:00:53

Reg Byrne grew up in Monkstown Farm, Dublin in the 1970s and was born with spina bifida, affecting his legs. Which makes what Reg Byrne is doing now all the more remarkable. His early family life w...

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Old Man Belfield from 2022-09-23T01:00:56

On the 11th of January 2021 the body of a homeless man was found on the grounds of University College Dublin’s Belfield campus. His passing was widely mourned because Michael Byrne, or ‘Old Man Bel...

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#JusticeForNoor from 2022-09-16T02:01:01

In July 2021, a 27-year old woman, Noor Mukadam, was violently murdered. Noor grew up in South County Dublin as her father established the Pakistani Embassy in Ireland. Noor loved Ireland and could...

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The Very Thought Of You from 2022-09-10T12:28:56

Susan and Ray were sweethearts in the early 1950’s. They broke up and Susan made a life for herself in Dublin; having five children, a divorce in 1960’s Ireland and a career as a tour guide. Ray me...

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Murder at La Mancha from 2022-09-02T03:00:55

The discovery of six bodies in a house at Malahide in County Dublin in 1926 led to a sensational trial and the execution of one man for the crime of murder. It remains the largest mass murder in th...

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The Taliban and Me from 2022-08-26T08:09:38

Three women describe the effects of the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on their work, and on their lives. An Afghan judge who fled to Ireland, an Irish aid worker who stayed in Afghanistan, a...

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Dancing Nancy from 2022-08-19T11:32:36

Nancy Murphy owned a dancehall in Claremorris, Co. Mayo. But its business started to fail, so Nancy pursued a “unique marketing strategy”.  “Dancing Nancy” – the woman who bombe...

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The Custom of the Sea from 2022-08-12T03:00:51

The story of a shocking and harrowing incident of cannibalism in 1835 aboard Limerick ship, the Francis Spaight, which floundered in the freezing North Atlantic on a return journey to Ireland fr...

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Zodiac's Alibi from 2022-08-05T03:00:14

The so-called Zodiac Killer terrorised the San Francisco community in the 1960s. Fifty years later, a man from county Louth is joining hundreds of online sleuths to try to crack the notorious unsol...

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Little Mouse in the Corner from 2022-04-14T03:30:22

Being a shy person is often seen as something that you will overcome as you get older. Many introverts feel that there is something wrong with them. Being an introvert is perfectly normal and defin...

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The Occupation from 2022-04-07T02:50:29

In August of 2006 a small group of anti-war demonstrators from Derry in Northern Ireland took on the might of a multi-billion dollar US defence and weapons contractor with ties to some of the most ...

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The Tattooed Irishman from 2022-03-31T08:12:25

In 1836, Dubliner James F O’Connell published a book which told of his incredible life story. Shipwrecked on the remote Pacific Island of Pohnpei, he was forcibly tattooed about the body by natives...

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A Man Out Of Time from 2022-03-24T08:48:04

Fr. Pat Noise died when his carriage plunged into the Liffey in 1919. His death is commemorated by a plaque on O'Connell Bridge, installed without permission by a mysterious group. This was also wh...

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Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: Ep5 - Staying The Course from 2022-03-02T03:03:25

As Tiger Roll matures, he’s ready for the next step up in jumps racing. But will patience and persistence from his owners and trainer give Tiger Roll a chance to fulfill his destiny as a champio...

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Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: Ep4 - Triumph from 2022-03-01T03:02:35

Tiger Roll gets another new owner, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary, a new training yard and a whole new set of challenges. He begins to make new friends for life as he enters his first Cheltenham f...

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Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: Ep 1 - A Star Is Born from 2022-02-22T03:02:01

A new 7-part series from RTÉ Documentary On One. To listen to all episodes, please subscribe to Tiger Roll, The People's Horse from wherever you get your podcasts. This series tells the remarkab...

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Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: Ep1 - A Star Is Born from 2022-02-22T03:02:01

A new 7-part series from RTÉ Documentary On One. To listen to all episodes, please subscribe to Tiger Roll, The People's Horse from wherever you get your podcasts. This series tells the remarkab...

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Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: Ep1 - A Star Is Born from 2022-02-22T03:02:01

A new 7-part series from RTÉ Documentary On One. To listen to all episodes, please subscribe to Tiger Roll, The People's Horse from wherever you get your podcasts. This series tells the remarkab...

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Frank Stagg's Three Funerals from 2022-02-10T09:00

When Frank Stagg died he had three funerals, not only that, he had two graves and three headstones. That's because when Frank Stagg died in 1976 there was a sort of tug of war over his body between...

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Ireland's First Superstar from 2022-01-27T09:00

Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore emigrated from Ballygar Co Galway to America in the 1840's. He went on to become a leading bandmaster and composer, writing the song ‘When Johnny comes marching home’. He ...

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The Battle Of Baltinglass from 2022-01-20T09:15

In November 1950, a letter was received by the sub postmistress in the tiny town of Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. She was to be sacked and replaced by a government appointee - but she wouldn't go down ...

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Ghosts of Grangegorman from 2022-01-06T10:51:53

In February 2013 St. Brendan’s Mental Hospital at Grangegorman, Dublin finally closed after 199 years. When artist Alan Counihan heard about the personal possessions left behind of people with ment...

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An Unholy Trinity from 2021-12-23T05:00

A baby girl is abandoned on a doorstep in Dublin in 1923. A priest and his housekeeper seen acting suspiciously are handed over to the police. One month later a young doctor is shot dead on the str...

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Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes from 2021-12-09T08:50

In October, 2013, a four year old blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl named Maria was discovered peeping out from underneath a blanket on a Roma camp in Greece. Her discovery would prompt a wave of near ...

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Sin-é: Jeff Buckley's Irish Odyssey from 2021-11-18T09:55

In the mid 1990s, Singer and Songwriter Jeff Buckley was set to become as big as Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen. But he died tragically aged just 30. With over 4 million record sales to his name, J...

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The Orwell Wheeler from 2021-11-11T08:50

Road cycling is one of the world’s toughest sports. In 1987, Stephen Roche did the unthinkable - winning the three biggest cycle races in the world, the Giro d'Italia, Tour De France and World Cham...

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A Caravaggio in Tuam? from 2021-11-04T09:00

10 yrs ago Nora Nic Con Ultaigh’s learned of an unusual family story – that her great-grandfather from Galway was once, reportedly, the owner of a Caravaggio painting. Could this be true? Did a wor...

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The Murderer, Me and My Family Tree from 2021-10-28T02:00

When Dylan Haskins was eleven years old he and his Dad were driving along an Irish road, when a voice boomed out of the radio: “James Haskins, you have been sentenced to death by hanging.” Listen

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Grace and Emmanuel from 2021-10-21T07:16:52

On February 19th, 2011, a young Irish woman named Grace Farrell froze to death on her makeshift cardboard bed in the doorway of St Brigid’s church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was the co...

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L'Agression from 2021-10-08T06:32:54

Maureen Kearney is an Irish woman living in France. Whilst working in the French Nuclear industry, in 2012 Maureen discovered something that seems to set in motion a chain of events that would f...

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Fire In The Sky from 2021-10-02T12:50

In 1979, 50 people were killed when a massive Oil Tanker the 'Betelgeuse' exploded at Whiddy Island, West Cork. With families of those who lost their lives about to launch High Court proceedings...

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Felix - Life And Limb from 2021-09-23T02:00

Charlotte Devlin and the Documentary On One team return to the remarkable story of Felix Gretarsson, with exclusive access to the Icelander who waited years to receive the world's first full dou...

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The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary from 2021-09-16T02:00

"Most harmless and yet the most dangerous woman in America” is how Irish woman Mary Mallon was once described after she was identified as the first known asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever in...

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Svyeta from 2021-09-09T07:30

In May of this year a Ryanair flight was grounded by two military jets in Belarus. The story behind this event involves a remarkable woman and brings us from the Belarusian capital, Minsk to Vilniu...

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I’ll Send You Butterflies from 2021-09-02T02:00

Margaret Tynan was a healthy, active woman in her seventies, a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Then she was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. She agreed to let her daughter record whatever ...

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I Am To Be Shot from 2021-08-26T02:00

When a Cork schoolgirl researched a 100-year old story about the local IRA and a British officer, she came across some remarkable information.  He had been held hostage near her home, in ...

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Shared Troubles from 2021-08-12T02:00

Journalists Peter Taylor and Fergal Keane have both been awarded OBE’s for their services to journalism. Both also reported extensively from Northern Ireland during the troubles. And both have...

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6.08pm Beirut from 2021-08-04T08:05

Mayo man, Colin Sheridan lived in Beirut. He and his neighbours had no idea that nearby tonnes of volatile chemicals were stored. Experts had warned that they could explode at any time. O...

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Miracle in Galway Bay from 2021-07-29T02:00

How a balmy summer’s evening quickly turned into a nightmare for cousins Sara Feeney (23) and Ellen Glynn (17) after they were swept out to sea on paddleboards last August. A miraculous rescue that...

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The Lost Millionaire from 2021-07-22T07:05:06

The death of American millionaire Arthur Kingsley Porter seems to have been the first inquest in Ireland to be held without a body. Together with his wife Lucy, Arthur was an art expert and a unive...

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The Life and Living Lady from 2021-07-15T02:00

When documentary-maker Chris Nikkel and his wife bought their little cottage in the Cooley Mountains in county Louth, they discovered that it had once been owned by a famous psychiatrist. Her name ...

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Crossing The Line from 2021-07-08T02:00

(NEW 2021 SEASON) In 1982 the Irish International Rugby Team won the elusive triple crown - beating England, Scotland and Wales for the first time in over three decades. They were national heroes. ...

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GunPlot: Bonus - Appendix Trial Tapes 4 from 2021-06-17T02:00

The fourth and final recordings we have from the Arms Trial. Taking place on the morning of October 20th 1970, this is the unedited courtroom tape recording of the closing address to the jury by Ne...

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GunPlot: Bonus - Appendix Trial Tapes 3 from 2021-06-16T02:00

The third of four recordings we have from the Arms Trial. Taking place on the morning of October 20th 1970, this is the unedited courtroom tape recording of a legal argument. This is something you ...

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GunPlot: Bonus - Appendix Trial Tapes 2 from 2021-06-15T02:00

The second of four recordings we have from the Arms Trial. Taking place on the afternoon of October 16th 1970, this is the unedited courtroom tape recording of the opening speech by Peter Maguire, ...

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GunPlot: Bonus - Appendix Trial Tapes 1 from 2021-06-14T06:30:23

The first of four recordings we have from the Arms Trial. Taking place on the morning of October 16th 1970, this is the unedited courtroom tape recording of Captain James Kelly being cross exa...

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GunPlot: Episode 9 - Fallout from 2021-06-07T08:53:23

More than 50 years after the Arms Crisis of 1970, the effects echo through to today. There was personal fallout, financial fallout, social fallout and political fallout. It was, and continues to be...

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GunPlot: Episode 8 - The Trial from 2021-05-31T02:05

A stunning period in Irish life comes to a climax. Four men stand before the High Court, charged with conspiring to import arms and ammunition illegally into Ireland. A Government Minister, an Army...

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GunPlot: Episode 7 - Implosion from 2021-05-25T03:00

The country is about to wake up to some shocking news. The plan to secretly import weapons is blown wide open and the dominoes are about to start falling with devastating consequences for some of t...

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GunPlot: Episode 6 - Closing In from 2021-05-18T03:00

Attempts continue to bring black market sub-machine guns and pistols into Ireland. But when an Irish policeman is shot on the streets of Dublin, everything changes. And the forces seeking to undo t...

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GunPlot: Episode 5 - Deeper from 2021-05-11T03:00

The hunt for guns leads to a meeting in Antwerp with a shady arms dealer. The Minister for Defence issues a directive that could lead to an invasion of Northern Ireland. A group of men wait at Dubl...

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GunPlot: Episode 4 - Muzzy from 2021-05-04T03:00

It’s October 1969 and the truth is becoming murky. A plan to buy weapons begins to come together. And a group of men go shopping for guns. But what happens when the arms dealer they meet is actuall...

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GunPlot: Episode 3 - Plan B from 2021-04-27T03:00

A secret plan by members of the Irish Government to import guns into Ireland begins to come together. But forces are gathering in the wings to scupper it. Will the plot survive? (Ep3/8). Released W...

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GunPlot: Episode 2 - The Invasion from 2021-04-20T03:00

As tensions continue to rise, the Irish Army is hurriedly moved to the border of Northern Ireland. Is this a sign that Ireland was going to take on the might of the British Empire? One Irish govern...

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GunPlot: Episode 1 - The Spark that Lit the Flame from 2021-04-12T03:00

An Irish Army Captain goes on holidays – a strange kind of holiday. To a city where he knows there is likely to be ‘trouble’. He arrives as a three-day street battle, now known as 'the Battle of...

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Trailer: Introducing 'GunPlot' from 2021-04-08T13:25

Lies, spies and betrayal led to the defining political scandal of modern Ireland. What happened to the truth? Questions still remain. GunPlot is our new 8-part podcast series and TV docum...

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Tiger Roll: The People's Horse - Ep2 - Good Mover from 2021-03-01T04:05

Bought by one of the richest men in horseracing, the young Tiger Roll becomes part of a global operation. But as he begins to grow up, and enters training, things don’t go according to plan. (Ep2/6...

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Tiger Roll: The People's Horse - Ep1 - A Star is Born from 2021-02-22T04:00

In March 2010, a foal is born. Growing up on a lake shore farm in Ireland, with his mother and the man who bred him, his whole world changed when he was sold at 8 months old - to begin his journey ...

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Trailer: Introducing 'Tiger Roll: The People's Horse' from 2021-02-15T16:10:25

In 2021, Tiger Roll aims to create unique sporting history by winning a third Grand National in a row. We follow his unlikely path to glory, from the very beginning, through the people and places t...

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The Nobody Zone: Episode 1 - "It Plays On Your Mind" from 2020-12-01T12:00

A homeless Irishman is arrested on Clapham Common in London for stealing a wedding ring, only to murder another man in his police cell. When interviewed by police, he confesses to multiple murde...

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100 Years, 100 Miles from 2020-11-13T03:00

On November 21st 1920, British security forces stormed a Gaelic football match in Croke Park Dublin, killing 14 and wounding dozens more. 100 yrs later, Vincent Murphy sets out on a 100 mile cycle ...

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The Little Shop of Secrets from 2020-11-06T07:21:53

Decades ago The Wallace Sisters, Sheila and Nora, ran a small newsagents in Cork city. While many bought their paper and tobacco there, few knew of the secrets it held as an IRA Brigade HQ during t...

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The Long Run from 2020-10-16T07:45

In January every year in a small Norwegian town, a race starts. It’s one of the longest, toughest dog sled races in the world and it’s dominated by tough Nordic men. In 2019, someone different turn...

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The Grief of a Nation from 2020-10-09T02:00

On November 22nd 1963, two shots were taken in Dallas, Texas. One was a gunshot, killing the President of The United States, John F. Kennedy. The other, was a camera shot which changed two families...

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Timor Leste: Coming of Age from 2020-10-02T03:00

In 1999, Sarah Mac Donald travelled to East Timor as a journalist undercover. Whilst violence erupted around her, Sarah became godmother to a little Timorese boy, Natalizio. But as the years went b...

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Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.2) from 2020-09-25T05:30

Part 2 of 2. As Derek Conlon finds out he’s been poisoned and dragged into a world of Russian espionage, he realises that’s just the start of his problems. With relations between UK and Moscow dete...

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Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.1) from 2020-09-18T06:00

Ep 1 of 2. When ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in a nuclear poisoning in London in 2006, an Irish man got caught up in the crossfire. Derek Conlon accidentally drank from the same rad...

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Age, Sex, Location from 2020-09-11T12:00

The amount of children being targeted by online predators is increasing every year. The strange man on the street used to be the person we warned our children about. Now, that stranger can be in yo...

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The Hospital the Irish Shipped to France from 2020-09-04T12:00

A pioneering adventure in overseas aid, when the Irish Red Cross assembled a 100-bed hospital and shipped it to bombed-out Normandy post-World War II. A group of young Irish doctors, nurses and sup...

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A Very Irish Coup from 2020-08-28T12:00

On a wet October Saturday over forty years ago a greyhound finished a race at Mullingar race track. The event was to turn Irish gambling upside down. Based in the small Irish towns of Listowel and ...

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The Seven Million Dollar Man from 2020-08-21T12:00

Sam Millar’s life reads like pure fiction. After joining the IRA as a teenager, he spent years on the notorious blanket protest in Northern Ireland. He later admitted to taking part in a massive, s...

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Substantial Helen from 2020-08-14T12:00

Helen Oxenham is getting a medal from the Queen of England – although Helen doesn’t have much time for the Queen. It’s for her work with victims of domestic violence in Australia. How did a woman, ...

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The Deadly Saris from 2020-08-07T12:00

Two 15-year old Dublin girls were mitching, drinking and shoplifting. Then they hear a group of handsome men singing - with shaved heads and saffron robes. Hare Krishnas. The girls decide to join t...

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Shane Healy - Back On Track from 2020-07-31T12:00

Shane Healy has gone the distance in life. After spending years in an orphanage as a child, he travelled widely before hitch-hiking around the US, where he discovered he was a naturally talented at...

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Green and Gold from 2020-07-24T12:00

In 1972, a group of Irish protest riders gate crashed the Olympic Games road cycling race in Munich, Germany. They’d hatched a secret plan to scupper the official Irish Olympic cycling team. But ev...

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We Say You Have To Go from 2020-07-10T12:00

In 1981, heroin took hold of certain parts of Dublin. It changed everything for the communities it was affected by. The impact of addiction on the people there was devastating. But these communitie...

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Nicolás Cruz Hernandez - Still Fighting from 2020-07-03T12:00

He was cheered on an open-topped bus through Dublin. Then he was homeless and jobless. He swept floors and slept on a campbed in the National Stadium. He stole his passport to flee Cuba - had a luc...

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Felix from 2020-06-26T12:00

Felix Gretarsson lost both his arms in a work accident in Iceland in 1998. In the years that followed, his life spiralled into an abyss as he lost his health, status, relationship and sense of iden...

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Conor Walsh - Passing Through from 2020-06-19T12:00

Conor Walsh was a minimalist piano composer from Co. Mayo, whose musical career was just beginning when he died suddenly of a heart attack in 2016 aged 36. Within days of his burial, Conor's sister...

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The Nobody Zone: Episode 8 - End Of The Line from 2020-02-20T03:00

Answers lead to more questions as we try to close the book on the Kieran Kelly story. And more stories come from the shadows of The Nobody Zone. But is it too late to find the truth?   Listen

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The Nobody Zone: Episode 7 - New Evidence from 2020-02-19T03:00

As new evidence emerges, we return to the first victim that Kieran Kelly claimed – to where it all began. A train. A death. A story.


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The Nobody Zone: Prologue to Episode 7 & 8 from 2020-02-18T16:07:17

With the release of two new episodes of The Nobody Zone arriving next week (Nov 24th & Dec 1st 2020), we explore the actions and behaviour of Kieran Patrick Kelly with a forensic psychologist and c...

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The Nobody Zone: Episode 6 - Bringing It All Back Home from 2020-02-17T12:00

What stories lie buried in Kieran Kelly’s home town of Rathdowney? Have we reached the end of the line? A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Production...

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The Nobody Zone: Episode 5 - Another Side from 2020-02-16T12:00

As Kieran Kelly descended into a life of murder and violence, he displayed a number of sides to his character. But what were they, and what do they tell us about him? An 8-part podcast series from ...

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The Nobody Zone: Episode 4 - True Confessions from 2020-02-15T12:00

The tape. In a smoke filled interview room in Clapham Police Station, Kieran Patrick Kelly confesses to multiple murders. Dates, times, locations. Should we believe everything he's saying? A new 8-...

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The Nobody Zone: Episode 3 - The Numbers Game from 2020-02-14T12:00

Why do claims of the number of Kieran Patrick Kelly's past victims keep on rising? Fresh information is put to the test. A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Thi...

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The Nobody Zone: Episode 2 - A Hidden Truth? from 2020-02-13T12:00

In 2015, amidst claims by a retired police officer of mass murder and cover up, the British Police reopen the case files of Kieran Patrick Kelly. But is the new evidence to be trusted? A new 8-part...

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Introducing 'The Nobody Zone' - Trailer from 2020-02-11T12:00

In 1983 Kieran Patrick Kelly confessed to multiple murders. We enter a dark world where killer and victims mask their identities and where evidence is as hard to find, as it is to trust. A new 6 pa...

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A Fight To The End from 2019-10-04T12:00

In December 2016, Eileen Kenny lost a long battle with cancer. It was not the only battle that Eileen fought in the previous years. Dissatisfied with her treatment, and seeking answers, she had bee...

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Return To The Green Line from 2019-09-26T12:00

In 1996, Gardaí deployed on UN peacekeeping duties in Cyprus saw two men killed. Unarmed, and caught up in the violence within the UN buffer zone, Garda Frank Flood witnessed both killings at close...

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The Undetectables from 2019-09-20T12:00

Thousands of Irish people live with HIV today. You can’t see it in their face. Many of them are living in the shadows, fearful of judgement. The numbers of people being diagnosed with HIV are highe...

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Death: Don’t Leave It To The Last Minute from 2019-09-13T12:00

When an 81 year old woman, in good health, pitched an idea into us about death and dying, we had to find out more. So in early 2019, we began following Gray Cahill as she put a plan in place for wh...

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Brendan Behan in Paris from 2019-09-06T12:00

Brendan Behan is one of Ireland's greatest writers. Some of his most important work was influenced by time he spent in Paris just after World War II where he mixed with some of the most important w...

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Reprisals from 2019-08-29T02:00

Set in South Galway against the backdrop of one of the bloodiest months of the Irish War of Independence, th dramatic story the short life and tragic death of 24-year-old Eileen Quinn who was shot ...

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Benjy The Little Gay Bull from 2019-08-23T02:00

The story of how a little bull from the west of Ireland made national & international headlines which soon became an online viral sensation. In 2014 Joe Kelly, a farmer in county Mayo bought Be...

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There's Something About Elephants from 2019-08-16T12:00

Amy Herron’s grandad was one of the most famous people in Ireland. He was Elephant-keeper at Dublin Zoo and entertained crowds with Sarah the elephant. Amy Herron finds out about the fun side of h...

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Thomas and Tess from 2019-08-15T08:00

Tess Murray never forgot her first love. She was a young teacher, engaged to Thomas McEver, a chemist who had moved to Dunmore Co. Galway as the Irish War of Independence was drawing to a close in ...

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Back To The Rock from 2019-08-09T12:00

In August 1979, a massive Atlantic storm turned the Fastnet Yacht Race into the greatest yacht-racing disaster ever witnessed. In spite of the biggest peacetime rescue effort at sea, 21 people died...

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I Hope You Will Be Home Soon from 2019-08-02T12:00

When Nan Delaney, from Co. Laois, died, her six children came across a small wooden box that she had kept private all her life. When they opened it, they discovered evidence of a time, in their fa...

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The Baron of Broadway from 2019-07-19T12:00

This is the near-unbelievable story of a man who, in the 1950s, tried to purchase the six counties of Northern Ireland and gift them to the Republic of Ireland. In 1914, West Limerick man John J Ha...

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Cigarettes and Samba from 2019-07-12T12:00

The Irish soccer team’s 1982 tour of South America during the Falklands War was a farcical episode in Irish sport. 4 games, 3 defeats, 2 cancellations. But how did half the squad end up being detai...

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The Whistleblower from 2019-07-05T12:00

In 1976 the Cork to Dublin mail train was robbed of £200,000. Cormac Breatnach’s brother Osgur was arrested for it, confessed and was jailed for 12 years. But there was a catch. He didn’t do it. Th...

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The Man From Tallahassee from 2019-06-28T12:00

Ed Randolph came to Ireland to play Basketball in the 1980s. While most of his fellow American players went back home, Ed met Ann, settled down and had a family in Bray. He made a sporting life coa...

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Inside Stories from 2019-06-21T12:00

Author Carlo Gébler, son of award-winning Irish writer Edna O’Brien, spent three decades teaching creative writing within the Northern Ireland prison system. Carlo was told that his job was not to ...

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The Case of Majella Moynihan from 2019-06-15T12:00

In 1985, an unnamed female Garda was threatened with dismissal from An Garda Síochána. Following an internal Garda investigation, she was charged with having pre-marital sex with another Recruit Ga...

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The Loophole from 2019-05-31T12:00

A story of betrayal, scheming, paranoia, money and one of the world's most prestigious law schools, The Loophole looks at the lengths people will go to in order to realise their dreams and the call...

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Return to Shark Island from 2019-05-10T12:00

When a group of people arrived on Achill Island in May, 1951 nobody foresaw that only two of them would leave alive. The film they had arrived to make – “Shark Island” - would end in tragedy. Actor...

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Dark Snow & Emma from 2019-04-05T12:00

Over the past decade Ireland has endured some extreme weather cycles from heavy snow to summer heat waves. There is an argument that these events are influenced by what's happening with the Greenla...

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Chasin' Roe from 2019-03-22T12:00

In the 1980's, Kildare man Michael Roe was amongst the quickest drivers in the world. Destined to become a global household name, the biggest teams in Formula 1 scrambled for his signature. However...

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The Pope's Prisoners from 2019-03-01T12:00

Just before the Papal Visit to Ireland in 2018, we look back at the first-ever visit of a Pope to Ireland in 1979. We've come across two intriguing stories which have largely been forgotten. One ab...

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The Last King of Ireland from 2019-02-22T12:00

Patsy Dan Rodgers is the last King of Ireland. He's ruled his fiefdom of Tory Island for more than 20 years and can trace an unbroken lineage back to the 5th century. Over time, Led by their Kinds ...

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Riverchapel Ladies On Tour from 2019-02-15T12:00

The Riverchapel Ladies Group go on a Golden Years holiday to Westport, County Mayo. They dance, pray, sing, give out about each other and the hotel, post stuff or Facebook, hold starfish, keep each...

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Johnny Cash's Lost Tour of Ireland from 2019-02-08T12:00

A Documentary On One listener shares a recording he had for safe keeping. It brings listeners closer than ever to Johnny Cash on his first tour of Ireland, twelve gigs in ten days. Few people remem...

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Does My Bum Sound Big In This? from 2019-01-18T12:00

Joyce, is by her own admission, only living a ‘half-life’. A funny, vibrant, creative person with lots of friends, she rarely leaves the house. She’s morbidly obese. Recorded over the last two year...

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New York - 1, David - 0 from 2019-01-11T12:00

David Atkinson, a cocky, 22-year old from Wexford goes to New York to find work after college. Which sounds great except that David’s going on a visa which gives him just 90 days to find work. Th...

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The Cut from 2018-12-07T12:00

Young girls throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East are subject to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) each year. A procedure where the genitals of young girls are deliberately cut for religious an...

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Notes From A Belfast Rape Trial from 2018-11-23T12:00

In 2018, 4 men, including Irish rugby stars Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding, were acquitted on all charges relating to the alleged rape of a 19yr-old woman. The trial provoked widespread media cove...

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The Summer of Astral Weeks from 2018-10-12T12:00

Van Morrison is one of the great musicians of his generation. His 1968 album Astral Weeks is said to be one of the finest albums of all time. We visit Boston, LA and New York to hear the story of t...

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The Hospital Always Wins from 2018-10-05T12:00

In 2005, American producer Laura Starecheski began recording at the Living Museum, an art studio for patients at Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital in New York City. Whilst there, Laura stumbled on to ...

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Finding Private Branch from 2018-09-28T12:00

This is a tale that spans 60 years. It begins in Dublin, travels to America, then onto Germany, before finally returning to Dublin. It’s about friendship and guilt - of bonds made and of bonds brok...

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The Yellow Line from 2018-09-22T12:00

Monday morning in an Irish town. Commuters are waiting for their train. For them, it’s a normal day, heading to school, work and elsewhere. But there’s a movement in the crowd. Some shouting – tho...

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A Tale of Two Sheelas from 2018-09-14T12:00

For years gangs have been looting the ancient treasures of Ireland. In 1990 Jim O’Connor is accused of being involved in stealing a Sheela Na Gig, a stone carving of a naked woman. Later another I...

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In Shame, Love, In Shame from 2018-08-16T12:00

In 1946, in an unprecedented act of defiance against the local clergy, a group of Listowel men from Co. Kerry forced open the locked gates into their Parish Church. What led to this – and what has ...

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Who fears to speak of '98? from 2018-08-07T12:00

For many, 1998 is still one of the best hurling championships of all time, not so much for what happened on the pitch, but for what happened off it. 20 years later, we relive one of the most dramat...

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The Announcement from 2018-07-20T07:14:27

In 2015, 22 year old student Laura Molloy sought medical help after discovering changes in her body she didn’t recognise - and that Google simply couldn’t answer. Laura’s doctor examined her myster...

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White Noise from 2018-06-29T12:00

What happens when sounds only exist inside your head? How do you cope with an internal soundtrack from which you can’t escape? We explore the mysterious world of tinnitus (a hearing problem), meet ...

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Sisters from 2018-06-22T12:00

Beginning in 1888, hundreds of Irish teenagers were sent to a convent in Texas that was dedicated to educating emancipated slaves after the American Civil War. A lifetime later, the grand niece of ...

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Prince At The Castle from 2018-06-15T12:00

On a Summer morning in 2011, a group arrived at Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin to work on a concert by Prince. They were nervous. That morning, the morning of the concert, Prince had fired his own c...

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Richard Hayes, Nazi Codebreaker from 2018-06-01T12:00

If you were battling Nazi Germany which individual would you chose to take on the role? A soldier? Perhaps a great statesman? How many of you would choose a librarian? Well, this is exactly what ha...

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A Talent For Life - The Fergus O'Farrell Story from 2018-05-25T12:00

Fergus O'Farrell was the Irish singer-songwriter behind the cult band Interferecnce, who died in Februrary 2016. His song 'Gold' featured in the soundtrack and Broadway adaptation of the movie Once...

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More Irish than the Irish Themselves from 2018-05-04T12:00

In the last 100 years, we Irish have struggled with our native language. Now in 2011, less than 5% of us speak it on a daily basis. This is a story of passion - from 'non-Irish' people who see the ...

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The Sweep and the Philosopher from 2018-04-20T12:00

Two unlikely men meet to swap jobs. One is a 70-year-old chimney sweep, who left school at 13, the other a professor of philosophy at UCD. The professor cleans a chimney while the sweep delivers a ...

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Looking for Fairytale Castles from 2018-04-13T12:00

This award-winning doc tells the story of Jenny Tyrell who was adopted in 1972. But, Jenny was almost 9 before she found out she was adopted. In this story, Jenny and her birth mother reunite and s...

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Dogman from 2018-04-06T12:00

Martin McKenna’s career began in a hay barn in Limerick and ended up with three best-selling books about dog behaviour in Australia - he could not read or write but he would become known as 'The Do...

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Don't Go Far from 2018-03-29T12:00

Two Dublin children, with a knack for bunking off school and fare dodging, embark on an unbelievable adventure. On a warm summer's day in 1985, they hop on a Dart and skip out to Dun Laoghaire, not...

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Heel, Toe Step, Together from 2018-03-23T12:00

A beautiful story. Forget your celebrity 'Strictly Come Dancing' - this is the real deal. A chance meeting in East London leads to an unlikely friendship through dance as 86yr old Bob teaches 28yr-...

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My Left Knee from 2018-03-09T12:00

Do you ever think much about your knees? Well, Taragh Loughrey-Grant didn’t - until one of them was being cut open…. Then she discovered that knees are worshipped and even appear in movies and song...

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Leo Maguire - Walton's Programme from 2018-02-27T12:00

The indistinguishable voice of Leo Maguire, the host of RTÉ Radio's Walton's Programme which stayed on the airwaves for almost 30 years until its cancellation in 1981. Born in Dublin's inner city i...

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Michael Gomez: The Irish Mexican from 2018-02-23T12:00

A documentary by former world champion Bernard Dunne about Michael Gomez – the controversial bad boy of Irish boxing and a night in the national stadium when something strange and inexplicable happ...

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Perfume Island's Fatal Lure from 2017-12-15T12:00

Douamour climbs into a small fishing boat to travel across the open sea to the Island of Mayotte - a lesser-known Southern border of the EU. The stretch of water around Mayotte has been described a...

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A New Niamh from 2017-12-08T12:00

Niamh has decided to turn over a new leaf for Christmas: she has decided to give up shoplifting. This time of year, it's no easy task - the festive season turns a tidy profit. Niamh wants to go s...

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Do No Harm from 2017-10-27T12:00

Have you ever thought about what might happen at the end of your life? Dr Luke Dillon explores the controversial and divisive subject of euthanasia. From the Netherlands to Co. Wexford, Luke discov...

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Colombia – Making the Peace from 2017-10-13T12:00

Almost 20 years on from the Good Friday agreement, the Colombian government has made peace with the FARC rebels. Veterans of the Northern Irish peace process are helping to make sure Colombia’s jou...

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Ireland and the KGB from 2017-09-23T12:00

Spy stories typically start on dimly lit streets in Eastern Europe, not in Dublin suburbia. But this isn’t your typical spy story. An Irish KGB ring, deadly poisonings, arms deals - Irish people ha...

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Cause Of Death from 2017-09-14T12:00

More than ten thousand deaths a year in Ireland are reported to the Coroner's office. Two thousand of those will proceed to an inquest hearing .Ruairi McKenna follows the work of two coroners, in K...

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The Brigadier from 2017-09-09T12:00

Eric Dorman-Smith was an Irish General in the British Army who outfoxed Rommel during the Second World War. Sacked by Winston Churchill, he then turned his back on the British and became an advisor...

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Pisusuuq, The One Who Walks from 2017-09-01T12:00

60 years ago, Mick Mallon left his home in Ireland, eventually settling in remote arctic Canada. Fascinated by language, Mick began to learn Inuktitut, the native language of the Inuit Eskimo. But ...

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Being Slaughtneil from 2017-08-25T12:00

Hidden in the hills of the Sperrin Mountains in south Derry is a tiny GAA club with a massive reputation. This year they were going for a hat trick of sporting achievements with their hurling, camo...

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Love Letter to Wezz from 2017-08-11T12:00

Mention “disco” and “Donnybrook” to people in Ireland and they’ll have a vague notion of a get together for teenagers. Numerous articles have been written speculating on what happens behind the doo...

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007, The Irish Connection from 2017-07-28T12:00

First appearing on cinema screens in 1962, James Bond brings many famous names to mind - Ian Fleming, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig - the list goes on. However, Dubliner Kevin McClory ...

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Polar Opposites from 2017-07-21T12:00

In 1935, Iceland legalised abortion making it the first Western nation to create what we might now recognise as an abortion legalisation policy. We travel to Iceland to meet Corkman Fr Denis O'Lear...

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The Man Who Played Offside from 2017-07-14T08:45

Patrick O'Connell was a superstar and a cheat. First Irish captain at Man. Utd; a manager who saved Barcelona FC. This Dubliner's soccer story is of passion, bribery and bigamy: he married two wome...

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Peshmerga Mick from 2017-07-07T12:00

Michael Martin went AWOL while on sick leave for an injury that he sustained during a training exercise with the British Army. People were shocked to discover that instead of returning to Ireland h...

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Roar and Pace from 2017-06-30T12:00

Ever thought of what it’s like to hurtle through the countryside at speeds in excess of 100mph - and not be in control? You rip out the seats and soundproofing of your car. Then what? Join us as we...

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Are you Tony Sheridan? from 2017-06-23T12:00

A radio documentary about a self-confessed 'Irish Vagabond' Tony Sheridan. In his turbulent and rich life he has worked with the Beatles, entertained the troops in Vietnam, played with Elvis Presle...

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JG Farrell:149 Days in the Life Of from 2017-05-26T12:00

JG Farrell - the 2 time Booker winning author moved to West Cork in March 1979. Shortly after, he drowned while fishing. Using interviews of neighbours, family and friends - this documentary tells ...

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You Can Stick Your World Cup from 2017-05-18T12:00

Five years ago, on the tenth anniversary of the Saipan sporting controversy Irish people still felt as divided as they did back in 2002. They were finding it very hard to get over it ! (2012)
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The Echo Chamber: The Story of Jihad Jane from 2017-05-12T12:00

One day three people in different parts of the world went online, the meet in a chat room, they talk with each other, it will change their lives forever. (2013)


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Surviving Ireland from 2017-03-16T12:00

Holly and Declan are a young couple addicted to technology, and in particular their smartphones. Comedy writer & producer Colm Tobin follows them to a digital detox centre on the island of Carnanan...

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Heroes of the Caribbean from 2017-03-10T12:00

John Kenny from RTE Sport tells the story of Irish Cricket. In particular, he looks back at the 2007 Cricket World Cup when the Irish cricket team bowled everyone over with some incredible performa...

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Saved! from 2017-02-24T12:00

Does your soul need saving? If so, John Purcell is the man for the job. A born-again evangelical preacher and a member of the travelling community, he travels the country spreading the word of the ...

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Down with jazz - Anti jazz campaign of the 1930's from 2017-02-03T12:00

January 1st 1934, Fr. Conifrey led a march through Mohill, County Leitrim, in which demonstrators shouted "down with jazz" and "out with paganism" and called on the government to close the dance ha...

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DocArchive (2004): Finders Keepers from 2017-01-23T12:00

An access all areas look at the mechanics of bringing a play from the page to the stage. How does the director get the most out of his actors, while collaborating with the playwright to make it a s...

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Peadar Mercier from 2017-01-13T12:00

Peadar Mercier, the first ever professional bodhrán and bones player, captured the pulse of Irish traditional music. 25 yrs after his death, his son Mel traces his father’s unique life story – from...

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DocArchive (1973): Last Christmas on Inishturk from 2016-12-17T12:00

Proinnsias O'Conluain spends Christmas with the only five families living on the island of InishTurk off the coast of Mayo. This is to be their final Christmas on the island. A quiet, simple life i...

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The Reindeer Santa Left Behind from 2016-12-16T12:00

Over the course of last Christmas Eve, an incredible series of events took place on a remote farm in Co. Wexford involving Santa Claus, his reindeers and the Mulready family. Recorded over the last...

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DocArchive (1977): Buskers, Ballads and Brown Pence from 2016-12-13T12:00

An examination of the art of busking. Dick Warner speaks to musicians on the streets of Dublin about the life of a busker. They describe the highs and lows of the job, including travelling around...

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DocArchive (1992): Opening of RTÉ Television from 2016-12-10T12:00

This documentary charts the development of Television in Ireland, since the first broadcast on Telefís Éireann in 1961 later renamed as RTÉ. On New Year’s Eve, the first programme was launched by P...

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Mayo Boy, Vietnam Hero from 2016-12-10T12:00

Patrick 'Bob' Gallagher emigrated to the United States from County Mayo in Ireland in 1962. He fought in the Vietnam War and for his bravery was awarded the prestigious Navy Cross medal. Just weeks...

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DocArchive (1983): Birth of a Pill – Testing New Drugs on Human Beings from 2016-12-06T12:00

An investigation into the ICP, a firm in America and Ireland that tests new drugs on volunteer healthy humans, before being used on people with diseases. Doctors, Professors of medicine, pharmacol...

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DocArchive (1991): Opera at Wexford 40 Years of Wexford Festival from 2016-12-03T12:00

This documentary looks to the history of the Wexford Festival Opera since its formation in 1951. From the outset the Festival became one of the world’s leading opera festivals. Under its founding d...

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A Backwards Glance at The Ballroom of Romance from 2016-12-02T12:00

Irish writer William Trevor passed away on Nov 20th 2016. To mark his passing we revisit his most well known short story, which was later adapted into a TV film, and which led to teenage obsession ...

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DocArchive (1990): I’ll See You Later from 2016-11-29T12:00

The story of Christine and Dominic Meenagh; a visually impaired couple. Their son Declan is also visually impaired. They go through their daily routines and the history of their health and disabi...

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Kicking The Bucket from 2016-11-25T12:00

We Irish think we handle death better than most. But two Limerick women, Sinéad and Katie, don’t necessarily agree. They want to explore death in a humorous, yet deadly serious way. By holding a se...

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DocArchive (1978): Oh What A Lot of Spongers from 2016-11-22T12:00

A look at the struggles for men and women on social welfare. Unfairly called ‘spongers’, these unemployed people talk about what it is like to be ‘on the dole’. Qualified teachers and tradesmen r...

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DocArchive (1978): Ashington Miners Radio Ballad on English Miners from 2016-11-19T12:00

Life in darkness, miners speak of life below ground dealing with explosives, accidents on the job, workplace strikes and real fact of those who die in the mines. The lack of death inquest and frust...

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DocArchive (1979): Whiskey With An E Doc On The Ball of Malt from 2016-11-12T12:00

Irish whiskey was once the most popular spirit in the world with distilleries located across Ireland. Presenter Al Byrne delves into the history of whiskey and its production in Ireland. Al visits ...

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DocArchive (1998): Alexandrias from 2016-10-29T12:00

Writer and Broadcaster John Theocharis presents a personal odyssey through the city of his birth, Alexandria in Egypt. After 30 years John revisits his old city and joins one barber in a small barb...

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No Time To Lose from 2016-10-28T12:00

Katie Cooke is from Dublin. At age 9 she developed epilepsy and suffers about 15 seizures every day. Since leaving hospital at 17 in a wheelchair, she has used running to help her recovery and deal...

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Help The Hallowe'en Party from 2016-10-28T12:00

The Documentary On One team selects extracts and short documentaries from their online archive to mark the spookiest night of the year. From being buried alive to making your own coffin. Bodysnat...

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Siege of Jadotville from 2016-10-22T12:00

A 2016 Hollywood movie tells the story about Irish soldiers besieged in Congo in the 1960s. Some years earlier, radio producer, Tom McGuire spoke to survivors of the battle. They told of the confu...

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DocArchive (1998): In Good Cheer from 2016-10-15T12:00

'In Good Cheer' goes beyond the bottle to meet the numerous personalities and the heritage involved in producing Ireland's very own liquid gold. Presenter Julie Duane who once worked in the laborat...

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The Prospector's Son from 2016-10-13T12:00

The unravelling of a story of an orphaned Irish boy lost in South Africa in the 1880s, who it's told was cared for by a local tribe, until he was found by a man who then traced his family back to I...

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DocArchive (1992): The Yarnspinners from 2016-10-07T12:00

The seanachai or storyteller has been part of the Irish folk tradition for years. In 1992 in The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Co. Down in Northern Ireland, ‘yarnspinners’ from the North and...

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DocArchive (1980): How to become an Entrepreneur from 2016-10-01T12:00

Brendan Keenan examines the support available to people who would like to setup a business by following the efforts of Harry Lynam as he engages with the Industrial Development Authority to try and...

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An Open Verdict from 2016-09-30T12:00

When Gardai entered a chalet on Mayo's Northwest coast in April 2014, they found a scene of desperation and solitude. Scattered amongst the rubbish lay the body of Marsha Mehran, 36. Marsha, an Ira...

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DocArchive (1977): Speckled Stones – Cursing Stones of Ireland from 2016-09-27T12:00

The history of cursing stones in counties Mayo and Sligo. There are many superstitions relating to the stones going back to pagan times. It is said that no matter how many people count the stones...

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The Green Fields of France from 2016-09-23T12:00

100yrs after the Battle of the Somme in WW1, Gerry Kelly sets out to discover the story behind his favourite song, The Green Fields of France. Also known as Willie McBride or No Man’s Land, Gerry t...

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DocArchive (1983): Mountjoy – A Day in the Life of a Prison from 2016-09-20T12:00

Mountjoy Prison in Dublin is the oldest prison in Ireland. In this documentary an ex-convict gives an account of the everyday routine for the incarcerated men. He gives the history of his crimes ...

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DocArchive (1989): Brides from 2016-09-17T12:00

Two women, born almost 50 years apart, recall meeting their husband, falling in love and marrying. We hear the contrast in experiences as they prepare for the big day and as time passes after the w...

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Bolt and my Belgian Blue from 2016-09-16T12:00

The world of pigeon racing has been transformed by big money deals and the €310,000 sale of a champion named Bolt. But where does the sport in Ireland figure in this world? We follow fast talking D...

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DocArchive (1988): Days in Moscow, Nights in Leningrad from 2016-09-13T12:00

In Gorbachev’s Russia of 1988, perestroika was a political movement which reformed the Communist Party and the country as a whole. The development had impacts on culture, religion and society in M...

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DocArchive (1997): Mexican Journal from 2016-09-10T12:00

John S Doyle describes life in Mexico as he travels through Mexico City and Oaxaca encountering different people and hearing their stories. John also speaks to UCD's Declan Kiberd on his unusual me...

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DocArchive (1981): Travels Without a Typewriter – The Story of Anna and Samuel Carter-Hall from 2016-09-06T12:00

The story of the author Anna Maria Hall; born in Dublin in 1800. She moved to the U.K in 1815 and married Samuel Carter-Hall, often publishing under the name of Mrs. S. C. Hall. Anna joined Samue...

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DocArchive (1984): George Best Story from 2016-09-03T12:00

Ed Mulhall looks at the football career of Belfast born George Best, who went on to become Ireland's best known footballer. Recalled as the fifth 'Beatle', George Best enjoyed a celebrity lifestyle...

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We Couldn't Understand the Peace from 2016-09-02T12:00

In 1972, a group of women fled Belfast, with their children, to take refuge in Glenstal Abbey. They came from trauma and violence to an exclusive boys’ boarding-school run by Benedictine monks in ...

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DocArchive (1980): Mariculture – Marine Fish Farming from 2016-08-30T12:00

A look at Mariculture in Ireland in 1980. Tracing the history of the culture in Ireland from salmon farms and mussel markets to the development of fish farms. Different factors involved in Maricu...

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Davy from 2016-08-26T12:00

People think they know Clare senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald because of what they see during the game of sport, but what about before and after? This documentary had unique access to follow ...

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We Decide Who Lives Or Dies from 2016-08-19T12:00

The highest risk group in Irish road deaths: young rural drivers. We visit Co.Donegal and meet drivers who refuse to wear seatbelts, drivers who drink, officials who work with ‘anti-social’ drive...

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Richard Fariña – from Lough Neagh to Monterey from 2016-08-12T12:00

Richard Fariña was well known in music and literary circles in New York in the 1960’s. He was a regular visitor to his Irish relations in Ardboe, Co. Tyrone in the 1950’s. He was on the cusp of gr...

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What to do with Clogheen? from 2016-08-05T12:00

Kathriona Devereux has inherited a small hotel in Clogheen, Co. Tipperary. ‘Vee house’ has huge emotional value to her, and it has been in her family for years. But the hotel has been closed sinc...

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The Sound of Sport from 2016-07-29T12:00

To mark the beginning of the Olympics in Rio, a documentary on a group of people who listen to the events more than watch them: TV Sport sound designers. They use their skills to enhance the pictu...

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Roger Casement's 'Apocalypse Now' - Africa & 1916 from 2016-07-28T12:00

In August 1916, the British executed a very unusual rebel figure: a knight-cum-Irish rebel who honed his nationalism in ‘Belgian’ Congo in Africa - Sir Roger Casement. From Dublin and Ballycastle...

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The Broken Hearted Farmer from 2016-07-22T12:00

Joe Flynn and his wife Mary from Westmeath wrote ‘The Broken Hearted Farmer’ in the late 1960s - a song that told the story of farming protests at that time. They were hoping for a No. 1 hit, but i...

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Then There Was Light from 2016-07-22T07:45

On November 5th 1946, the ESB erected the first pole of rural electrification. This was the beginning of a promise to bring electricity to every home in Ireland. 70yrs after this momentous change i...

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Ireland's Secret Hangman from 2016-07-15T12:00

In the 1940's the Irish state secretly recruited its own native executioner. Counted as one of Ireland's great historical mysteries, the true identity of this Irish hangman has never been revealed....

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Battle at the Bridge from 2016-07-15T08:20

The Battle of Mount Street Bridge was the most successful rebel engagement in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising. A detailed investigation leads to a modern re-imagining of the infamous battle th...

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Cairo Cellmates from 2016-07-15T02:00

After 4yrs in an Egyptian prison, Ibrahim Halawa, a 22yr old Irish student, was acquitted of all charges against him in Sept 2017. We revisit the documentary we made on Ibrahim’s story in June 2016...

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Tearoom, Taylor, Saviour , Spy. from 2016-07-07T12:00

Margaret Kearney Taylor was a woman who kept many secrets. She was known as the Irishwoman who ran an elegant tearoom in Madrid, Spain for more than fifty years . But she was also was part of a net...

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Waterford, Wimbledon, Monaco, Murder from 2016-07-01T12:00

Vere Goold was Ireland’s first tennis star, winning titles in this new sport in 1879. He was born into an aristocratic family in Waterford and met his wife Marie, who posted an ad for a husband wi...

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High Heels and Horses from 2016-06-24T12:00

Emma Cahill had a dream of representing Ireland at the Olympics on the National Showjumping team. But in 2011 those dreams were ended when Emma suffered an accident when a horse fell on her, paral...

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The Anaconda Road Massacre from 2016-06-17T12:00

In 1916, Thomas Manning left Ireland to work in the copper mines of Butte, Montana. Mining hotspots like West Cork were dying – emigration to America seemed the only choice. However, just 4yrs late...

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We've Got a Game to Win from 2016-06-08T12:00

With Euro 2016 about to begin, John Kenny from RTÉ Sport looks back to Euro '88 - when the Republic of Ireland qualified for their first ever major football tournament. The entire country came to a...

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The Loudest House on the Street from 2016-06-03T12:00

Cathy Moorehead opens up the door of her home to reveal an exceptional experience shared by just a very, very small group of people. Cathy is a C.O.D.A – a child of deaf adults. In a warm, intimate...

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Bruno the Chimpanzee from 2016-05-20T12:00

In 1988 an accountant came across a tiny chimpanzee tied to a tree in a rural village in the West African state of Sierra Leone. Its mother had been killed by hunters, and the accountant and his w...

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Sinking at Hangman's Point from 2016-05-13T12:00

In 2013, a beautiful 100 year old tall ship; The Astrid was shipwrecked off the coast of Kinsale, Co. Cork. Disaster was averted, as all 30 crew were rescued. Captain and Dutch man Pieter de Kam ...

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The Case That Never Was from 2016-05-06T12:00

In the most in-depth and far-reaching investigation RTÉ Radio has ever undertaken, an international recruitment company is taken to court by one of its workers. Referred to the European Court of Ju...

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Sand, Sea and Smugglers from 2016-04-29T12:00

Amas and Ammar Al-Kadry are two Syrian brothers who put themselves in the hands of ruthless people-smugglers to escape their war-torn country. From the deserts of Algeria to lawless Libyan towns a...

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My Uncle Jack from 2016-04-22T12:00

A story of emigration and sport. Jack Dowling survived an orphanage in Waterford and an industrial school in Cork. He moved to the UK to work in the mines and went on to become an international rac...

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The Brits, The Blitz and The Bedwarmer from 2016-04-15T12:00

Leeanne O’Donnell was browsing a market when she saw a bedwarmer from a Big House in North Cork, between Mallow and Mitchelstown. The landlady who owned it was successful author, Elizabeth Bowen wh...

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An Easter Re-Rising from 2016-04-01T12:00

Astonishing and largely unknown, this is the story of how the Irish 1916 Rising provided a blue print for one of the first armed uprisings of its kind in India, Britain's largest colony, bringing c...

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The All-Ireland Behind Barbed Wire from 2016-03-24T12:00

In 1916, a GAA match between Kerry and Louth footballers took place on a pitch named Croke Park, at a prisoner of war camp in Frongoch, Wales. 100 years on, three relations of men who played in tha...

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The Ballad of Patrick Folen from 2016-03-14T12:00

With a sung narration performed by Mick Flannery, this documentary delves into the life of an Irishman who lived in England. In 2006, Patrick Folens remains were discovered in Horton Woods in Kent....

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Sandbags not Handbags? from 2016-03-04T12:00

Longford/Westmeath was a controversial constituency in General Election 2016. Why? For two reasons. The count took a full six days – and before the election was even called, gender quota caused upr...

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Once Were Champions from 2016-02-26T12:00

In 1985, Kerry club Castleisland Desmonds won their first and only men’s Senior Football All Ireland club title. 30 years on, clubman Dan Kearney examines the David and Goliath journey that his loc...

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12 Miles from 2016-02-05T12:00

12 Miles tells the story of Guillermo Rigondeux and his Irish manager, Gary Hyde. Gary was a boxing manager from Cork, who risked over 20 years in prison to smuggle amateur Olympic and world champi...

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The Big Session on the High Seas from 2016-01-29T12:00

Since 2011, Joanie Madden (Cherish the Ladies) has organised a Caribbean cruise with a difference – over seven days she brings together dozens of Irish musicians, dancers and storytellers from all ...

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DocArchive (1978): Pilots, Lighters and Horse-Drawn Ships from 2016-01-28T12:00

The Newry Canal in Northern Ireland was built to link the Tyrone coalfields via Lough Neagh and the River Bann to the Irish Sea at Carlingford Lough near Newry. In this documentary we hear from tho...

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Put 'em under Pressure' from 2016-01-15T12:00

In 1990 the Republic of Ireland soccer team played in their first ever world cup finals. RTE Sports, John Kenny re-lives the games at Italia 90 where a country began to believe in itself and perhap...

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Through the Kilimanjaro Keyhole from 2016-01-08T12:00

An Irish surgeon's medical adventures in Africa involving Coca Cola gas, home-made fuses and a hotline to the Electricity Supply company. Emer Horgan gets to see at first-hand the impact of the tea...

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After the music - The Daughters story from 2015-12-19T12:00

Fran O'Toole, lead singer with the Miami Showband was murdered along with band members in a loyalist ambush in Northern Ireland in 1975. Soon after, Fran's young daughters were taken to live in Can...

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Mick Meaney - Buried Alive from 2015-12-10T12:00

To the watching world in 1968, Tipperary man, Mick Meaney was an ordinary Irish emigrant to the U.K., with the extraordinary dream of breaking the world record for time spent buried alive undergrou...

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For the Love of Star Wars from 2015-11-20T12:00

Matthew O'Brien from Meath has been counting down to Thursday 17th December 2015 for over a year - the day when the new Star Wars film ‘The Force Awakens’ opens in cinemas worldwide. Matthew has be...

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The Two Sisters from 2015-10-28T12:00

Two sisters in one Dublin family joined convents, one in Canada, one in Leitrim. Then both women left religious life. At the time, their ‘baby’ brother, Kevin, was too young to understand what was ...

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A Matter of International Secrecy from 2015-10-09T12:00

There’s talk that a papal visit might be on the cards in a few years time. We look back to that other papal visit in 1979, and how – all because of an attack of the poisonous yellow weed ragwort - ...

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From Carrick-on-Suir to the Côte d'Azur from 2015-10-02T12:00

Journalist Shane Stokes follows cyclist Sam Bennett on his first tour de France. Sam grew up in Tipperary and has battled injury, self doubt and the weight of expectation to perform at the highest ...

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Saudi Dreams of a Camper Van from 2015-09-25T12:00

An Irish nurse in Saudi Arabia records her life on her phone. At first, it’s the differences in the Middle East but the phone becomes an audio diary of her unravelling life back in Mayo and Kerry....

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After The Shock from 2015-08-14T12:00

April 2015, earthquakes in the Asian country of Nepal result in over 8,500 deaths. Half a million homes lost. Tim Desmond travels to see the destruction and poverty first hand. Meeting families who...

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Johnny Jameson from 2015-07-30T12:00

Johnny Jameson is a Meath born DJ living in London who entertains Irish emigrants with music and one-liners. He's also a man with an incredible past which includes working with Johnny Cash, Diana R...

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Fine Gaeilgeoir from 2015-07-24T12:00

In July 2014, Donegal TD, Joe McHugh became Minister of State with responsibility for Gaeltacht Affairs. Only problem? Last time Joe spoke Irish was in school. He had to learn the language fast. We...

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Seamus Darby and the Goal That Made Champions from 2015-07-16T23:01

Séamus Darby was the Offaly hero who scored a late goal in the All-Ireland football final of 1982 depriving Kerry of their historic 5-in-a-row. He tells the story of how one of the most famous goal...

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Band of Gold from 2015-07-10T12:00

With over 25,000 weddings taking place every year in Ireland, it’s a very competitive industry for wedding bands. We follow bands from Dublin, Cork and Limerick whose full time job it is to give ne...

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Living Outside The Box from 2015-06-26T12:00

Rachel Breslin is desperate to find a way around the spiralling rents that are being charged for Dublin property.And she thinks she has hit on the perfect solution - acting as a guardian for proper...

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Seven Years And Nine Months from 2015-06-12T12:00

After seven years of trying to have a baby, Dublin couple Rachel and Daniel have decided to try to complete their family through the emotionally turbulent and expensive surrogacy route. We follow ...

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And A Bit Off The Top from 2015-06-05T12:00

Galway barber, Michael 'Chick' Gillen of Dominick Street is known as one of Galway's most famous characters. A man with a larger than life personality, an accomplished boxing trainer and barber. Tw...

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With These Hands from 2015-05-29T12:00

This multi award winning documentary is about Tralee man, Eric Roche - a world class virtuosic guitarist - and his younger brother Bryan. Considered by many as Ireland's greatest ever guitarists, t...

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In Tom Crean's Footsteps from 2015-05-22T12:00

In 1916, Tom Crean was part of one of the greatest stories ever told when he joined Ernest Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic. 100 years later, in October 2016, his Granddaughter Aileen, trav...

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Mairead's First Communion from 2015-05-15T12:00

What do you do when you're not practising Catholics but your daughter wants to make her First Communion? daughter Mairead is excited about making her First Communion with all her school friends. Ma...

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The Secret Chicken Society from 2015-05-08T12:00

All around Ireland, people keep show chickens and with each one comes a dream, to become the next National Champion. This award winning documentary is a glimpse inside the wonderful world of Irish ...

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DocArchive: River of Dreams from 2015-04-09T12:00

An evocation of the River Sullane in West Cork through the music of Peadar Ó Riada. The River Sullane runs from the mountains between County Cork and County Kerry. Peadar and Julian Vignoles trace ...

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DocArchive (1991): What Will We Do When The Taxpayer Goes from 2015-03-26T12:00

Ireland has a long link with Africa after allocated millions of euro in foreign-aid over the past decades. Rodney Rice travels to one region that is being developed with help from the Irish Governm...

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DocArchive: Sowing The Seeds, Horace Plunkett & Co-op movement from 2015-03-24T12:00

Sir Curzon Horace Plunkett was an Anglo-Irish man who set up the agricultural co-operation in Ireland. This Co-Op encouraged farmers to process and market their own produce, to standards suitable f...

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Searching for Answers - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals from 2015-03-20T12:00

In 1975 and 1976 two fishing trawlers sank at the exact same spot off the coast of Donegal with the loss of 11 lives. Over 35 years later, Helena Gallagher, a daughter of one of the men who drowned...

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Come on Brigids from 2015-03-13T12:00

Damien O'Reilly charts the progress of the St. Brigid’s Senior Football team through the 2004 AIB club campaign, through the eyes of a supporter and includes interviews with players and supporters ...

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The Caretaker - Bronze Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals from 2015-03-06T12:00

This is a classic who dunnit story? When Islamic manuscripts came up for private sale around Europe in 1991 - that questions began to arise. Those questions led a path back to the Chester Beatty li...

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Valentines Bones from 2015-02-13T12:00

Irish comedian Maeve Higgins looks for people who write to Saint Valentine in Whitefriar Church Dublin. She meets people who are looking for love, asking for help, telling him their most intimate h...

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DocArchive (1980): Creel The Scrubber And The Knife from 2015-02-11T12:00

‘Once you got landed you where as healthy as a trout’ is the memory of life on board for one Donegal fisherman. Skilled workers and fishermen speak of their experience of working in the fishing ind...

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The Boys of Foley Street from 2015-02-06T12:00

This award winning documentary begins in 1975 when Pat Kenny recorded with a group of young men from inner city Dublin. Pat returned again in 1988 and then in 2008, Ciaran Cassidy revisited them to...

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Siege at Jadotville from 2015-01-23T12:00

An award winning documentary telling the story of a company of Irish troops who in 1961 came under siege at the isolated post of Jadotville, Congo and were forced to surrender to authorities in the...

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An Extraordinary Affair from 2015-01-16T12:00

The story of a scandalous liaison between two Irish women - Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby. Long before the civil partnership bill, were these lovers - two upper-class Anglo-Irish women from Kil...

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The Bells of St.Mels from 2014-12-24T12:00

Christmas morning 2009, a devastating fire destroys St. Mel's Cathedral in the heart of Longford town. 5yrs later, on December 24th 2014, after one of Europe's biggest restoration projects, the Cat...

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The Outsiders - Our Teenage Life Behind Bars from 2014-12-19T12:00

A unique view inside the Irish direct provision system through the eyes of two 13yr old girls, asylum seekers awaiting their fate from the state. Living in mobile homes on an industrial park near A...

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Diary of a Bad Year: A War Correspondents Dilemma from 2014-12-12T12:00

Kelly McEvers was a war correspondent in the Middle East during the Arab uprisings. Colleagues and friends were being kidnapped. Some were killed. It made her question why otherwise intelligent peo...

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The Bridge from 2014-12-12T12:00

This is the story of Joan Bullock and Betty Leonard - two women from either side of the Cavan/Fermanagh border (divide between north and south Ireland), who were deeply affected by a series of brut...

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DocArchive: To Boston and Back from 2014-12-08T12:00

Back in the days when air fares were unattainably high - America literally seemed like a million miles away. And so in 1959, Norris Davidson headed off on a journey of a lifetime - an adventure - t...

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A Humanist Milestone from 2014-12-05T12:00

Celebrating the milestones of life the non-religious way, Humanist ceremonies are currently seeing a boom as Ireland's secular population grows. What does it take to become a Humanist celebrant? Wh...

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Boyle For Congress from 2014-11-28T12:00

Aoife Kavanagh steps inside the political campaign of Brendan Boyle as he attempts to become the only American State Congressman with an Irish born parent. It’s a ‘David and Goliath’ battle – but B...

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Small Lives and Great Reputations from 2014-11-22T12:00

On the 25th anniversary of his release from prison, Paddy Armstrong of the Guildford Four visits London and Guildford with his wife. Wrongfully convicted and having spent 15 years in prison, Paddy ...

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Con Carey and the Twelve Apostles from 2014-11-14T12:00

The only man in Kerry to be buried twice they say. Con Carey was a bachelor labourer who died on his way home from the pub in 1978. His story is still spoken of. Why? Because of what happened him a...

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Walking The Line from 2014-11-06T12:00

The story of a family of 'the disappeared' – the Megraw’s, whose brother Brendan was murdered and buried in secret by the IRA and the man, Geoff Knupfer, whose job it is to find the body after thir...

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Palm Oil Republic from 2014-10-27T12:00

The rise in global demand for Palm oil is putting pressure on agricultural land and rural communities across the developing world. Palm oil is in half of all products we buy in the supermarkets. Ti...

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Bombs, Balls & Beyoncé from 2014-10-24T12:00

A football team and its billionaire owner - some bling and lots of politics: Before the world knew of Maidan Square in Kiev, we knew of Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk soccer teams - football has ...

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The Common Thread from 2014-10-17T12:00

The Bra turns 100 this year. From the Backless to the Bullet, the Demi-cup to the Push-up, the brassiere has evolved from a simple breast support to a symbol of desire. We unclasp the story of the ...

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Fantastic Beasts and the People who Love Them from 2014-10-10T12:00

Have you ever wondered about Ireland's mystery animals? Have you ever actually gone in search of one? Referred to by experts as Cryptozoology, Shane Dunphy goes ‘monster hunting’ in the wilds of Co...

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Power Light and Heat from 2014-10-03T12:00

The story of how Ireland became electric - a little later than most other countries. (1977)


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Thirty Years Later from 2014-09-05T12:00

Michael de Courcy died in 1984 following a football accident aged 29. Now dead longer than he was alive, his family and friends explore the influence his life had on them thirty years later.
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The Seventh Summit from 2014-08-29T12:00

2014 was Mount Everest darkest year. In April of this year, Irishman Paul Devaney was approaching Base Camp as the biggest tragedy to hit the legendary mountain struck.


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Info Lady from 2014-08-15T12:00

Why is a woman cycling around Bangladeshi villages with a laptop on her bike? Because she’s an “Info Lady”. A Bangladeshi innovation that's changing lives. Why is a woman cycling around Bangladesh...

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Never Knocked Down from 2014-08-15T08:00

Legendary boxing trainer Angelo Dundee said the two best chins in boxing belonged to Muhammad Ali and a Connemara man, Sean Mannion. Originally from Rosmuc, in County Galway, Sean was never knocked...

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They Had No Choice - The Irish Horse at War from 2014-08-08T12:00

The horse has been at the heart of Irish life for centuries, but its role, significance and relationship with humans was irrevocably changed during WWI when over 65,000 Irish horses were brought to...

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The Beach Boys of Rossnowlagh from 2014-07-11T12:00

The four brothers who discovered surfing in the 1960s - when nobody in Ireland even knew what it was - and have kept on riding the waves for almost fifty years.


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On the night of Sep 18 1988 Anne Gillepsie and her mother Annie were shot dead in the car park of Sligo General Hospital by John Gallagher, Anne's estranged boyfriend of three and a half years, Joh...

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Keeping the Door Open from 2014-06-27T12:00

Levis Pub in Ballydehob, Cork has been in the hands of one family for over 100 years. The next generation have taken on the challenge of keeping the pub alive and maintaining that legacy. With cost...

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The Irishwoman Who Shot Mussolini from 2014-06-19T23:00

Four people tried to assassinate Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Only one person came close - her name was Violet Gibson and she was Irish. Violet spent the rest of her life in mental in...

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The Rough With The Smoothie from 2014-06-12T12:00

What can you do if you're pregnant and dreading the aftermath of a rough labour? You could try eating your placenta. Mary-Elaine Tynan was dreading post-natal life and came across this as a possibl...

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Live Where You Learn from 2014-05-30T12:00

Cistercian College Roscrea invites Sixth Class boys to stay overnight to see if they like the idea of boarding-school. So, the Documentary On One did just that: spent 24 hours in Cistercian College...

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DocArchive (1975): A Universal Affliction, Loneliness from 2014-05-28T12:00

Often described as the worst form of human suffering, loneliness can affect anyone and any person of any age. Producer P.P McGuire traces the reasons why people feel lonely. In this documentary, pe...

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A Solemn Undertaking from 2014-05-23T12:00

Somewhere in Ireland today, a grieving person is picking up the phone to call a Funeral Director, but have you ever wondered what it is like to be that person in the black suit? We go behind the do...

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The Two Hundred Euro Racehorse from 2014-05-16T12:00

Maria Gallagher just wanted to give a rescue horse called Rolo a home - but she soon found out she had a racehorse on her hands.


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John's Move from 2014-03-21T12:00

John Maguire has a big decision to make. He has to move home. He's 59 years of age and has lived in the same type of home since he was just two: sheltered accommodation. John Maguire has a big deci...

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DocArchive (1959): Centenary of Lourdes from 2014-03-19T12:00

In 1858 Bernadette Soubirous, a fourteen year old girl had multiple visions of the Blessed Lady in a grotto in the outskirts of Lourdes, Frances. One hundred years later, The Catholic Church celebr...

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The Curious Ear (2008) - With Her Lipstick and her Keys from 2014-03-11T12:00

The Beatles were an English music rock band that formed in Liverpool, U.K in 1960. They became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. This is the remarkable stor...

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Rail Baggage - Part 2 from 2014-03-07T12:00

Everyday hundreds of people travel between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on the Belfast Dublin train. In part 2 John Toal explores opinions and perceptions whilst traveling south to ...

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The Curious Ear (2008): Eight Days a Week from 2014-03-06T12:00

Kilkenny man, Seán Kilkenny is a huntsman who’s devoted to his pack of hunting dogs - whose job it is to follow and kill the fox. We eavesdrop on Seán and his dogs and hear him talk about his passi...

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Rail Baggage (Part 1) from 2014-02-28T12:00

Everyday hundreds of people travel between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on the Belfast Dublin train. In part 1 John Toal explores opinions and perceptions whilst traveling north to ...

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Tangled Web, Part 2 - The Sound of Dissent from 2014-02-21T12:00

2nd part of a two part documentary on the history of adoption in Australia. Throughout the 1950's and 60's, adoption was widely accepted in Australian society - but the 1970's brought a change in t...

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Tangled Web - Part 1 from 2014-02-14T12:00

In the 1970's almost 10,000 babies a year were given up for adoption in Australia - it seemed unstoppable. Why? Single parents were invisible - families kept secrets - there was a suspicion of the ...

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Act Like a Lady, Lift Like a Beast from 2014-02-07T12:00

How does a petite, not-particularly-sporty advertising executive become a world record breaking power lifter? Clare Connolly is pushing herself to her physical and psychological limits to lose fat,...

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Clouds in Harry's Coffee from 2014-02-07T12:00

During World War Two, 32 Irishmen spent five years in captivity at the Farge Concentration labour camp. They became known as "Hitler’s Irish slaves". In 2014, we joined the last survivor of that gr...

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A Letter To Ann from 2014-01-31T12:00

In 1984, a 15 year old girl gave birth to a baby boy beside a grotto in Granard, Co. Longford. Bothe she and her son had died. This documentary looks at the impact this story had on the nation. (Br...

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Bound By Regulations from 2014-01-24T12:00

In Ancient Ireland, Fairs were a social gathering, for buying and selling - but they were also a place where you could hire labour - men, women and children. Claire Cunningham examines the intracie...

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Joe Browns Liffey Swim from 2014-01-20T12:00

Joe Brown has handicapped the Liffey Swim for 25 years. 2009 was his last year - The Curious Ear was there. Joe Brown has handicapped the Liffey Swim for 25 years. 2009 was his last year - The Curi...

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The Garda Who Limped from 2014-01-17T12:00

Garda John Wilson awoke one night to find a rat tied to the front door of his home. He was shocked but not surprised - John Wilson is a Garda Whistleblower; the man who exposed a culture of 'ticket...

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They Didn't Suit You from 2014-01-10T12:00

The world of a laughing Irish 'quizzer' - John Nolan runs table quizzes, he hosts a quiz show on his local radio station. In October 2013, John travelled to Liverpool to compete at the European Qui...

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The Champ from 2014-01-03T12:00

Sports people will tell you it’s not a real sport and actors will tell you it’s not acting - the world of Irish pro wrestling and the rise of one of its biggest stars 'Sheamus' from small Irish ven...

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Heavens Special Children from 2013-12-26T12:00

A beautiful, yet tragic story - of how the lives of two boys born profoundly disabled in 1960's Ireland took incredibly different paths - based entirely on how their families came to grips with the...

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Christmas Moments from 2013-12-23T12:00

The Documentary On One team travelled to various parts of Ireland to record memories of Christmasses past and wishes for this Christmas – in letters to Santa.


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DocArchive (1980): Mother and Child Scheme from 2013-12-11T12:00

Health Minister Dr. Noel Browne proposed a new mother & baby scheme that would lead an Irish government into political chaos in 1950. If introduced, it would have allowed free health care to mother...

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Sounds Mad from 2013-12-06T12:00

A story about hearing voices - and learning to live with them. About how your past shapes your future, until you begin to understand it. Do you think that people who hear voices are just plain mad?...

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DocArchive (1994): Return to Limehill from 2013-12-04T12:00

Irish writer Sheelagh Conway grew up in the village of Limehill, East Galway. A village in rural Ireland enriched with stone walls and flat green fields. Conway emigrated to Canada and became invol...

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Sunken Treasures from 2013-11-29T12:00

Diving for buried treasure no longer the story of fairy tales – with over 17,000 shipwrecks recorded in Irish waters, do we think about what lies beneath these seas?


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Lions on Tour - The Jersey Returns ! from 2013-11-22T12:00

In 1930 a boat set sail from Southampton carrying 29 Lions rugby players on a tour of Australia and New Zealand. 83 years later, a woman from New Zealand is delivering a very special relic from tha...

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Oswald Froze A Moment - Ireland on the day JFK died from 2013-11-15T12:00

If you search 'November 22, 1963', you get lots on the death of JFK, but lots more happened in Ireland that day: births, deaths, dinner in the middle of the day. Even small boys cheting their grann...

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Pregnant on my Lunchbreak from 2013-11-08T12:00

Angela has always wanted children, but in the absence of Mr Right, she took an alternative route to motherhood. She chose artificial insemination - and a sperm donor from Denmark. The question is, ...

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Tallaght District Court from 2013-10-31T12:00

Noelle Fitzsimons sits in Tallaght District Court every day the court sits. She's a volunteer with Victim Support and works with the Court Support Services.


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Michael Jackson's Irish Driver from 2013-10-11T12:00

In 2006 Westmeath taxi driver Ray O'Hara found himself with a VIP in the back of his cab, and a fare that would last 6 months with the King of Pop.


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Jim Barry's Ax from 2013-10-10T12:00

Jim Barry is from Portlaoise; he's spent his working life in technology and now he's set up a company with his children to produce products for bedroom DJs and musicians.


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The Hook: A People and a Place from 2013-09-19T12:00

In 2004, Wexford Co. Council built new public housing in the villages of Campile and Fethard-on-Sea and to mark this project the Council also commissioned a suite of music.


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Mike Fitz - Drifter from 2013-08-22T12:00

'Drifting' is the 'art' of driving a car sideways. Mike Fitz says he can park better with a handbrake than conventional manoeuvering. It sounds scary and looks chaotic but Mike explains that drifti...

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Life in La Modelo from 2013-08-16T12:00

In August 2001, three Irish men who were travelling on fake passports were arrested in Bogota Airport, Colombia. The men became known as the 'Columbia Three'. One of the men, Jim Monaghan, tells hi...

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Tallaght Treasures from 2013-08-15T12:00

The car boot sale in the grounds of Tallaght stadium every Saturday morning has people queueing from 3a.m. Salum is there for books, Calthe is looking for runners and Joe, John and Jeremy are tryin...

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Tusk: Hunting Irelands Wild Boar from 2013-08-09T12:00

The Wild Boar became extinct in Ireland during Celtic times, hunted into legend by our ancestors, but could it be making a comeback? Shane Dunphy seeks out the true story behind this enigmatic anim...

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The Man Who Makes Faces from 2013-08-08T12:00

PJ Heraty is a sculptor. One day, over 30 years ago, he was called to an interview with 14 other artists to a Dublin pub. This led to a career working up close with Irish celebrities as part of his...

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The Last Lonely Irish Idiophone from 2013-08-02T12:00

A look into the secret life of Richard Pockrich's Glass Harp, celebrating its music and exploring the strange career of its wild and wacky inventor and examining the myths surrounding its effect on...

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For the Burren ! To Death's Door ! from 2013-08-01T12:00

A coach among coaches - Gus O'Loughlin of The Burren tug-of-war team. He has sworn he'll bring a team from The Burren to an All-Ireland final and he's on his way. But Gus has his own to story to te...

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Sugar and the Blue Eyed Slave from 2013-07-26T12:00

Nicknamed the ‘Emerald Isle of the Caribbean’, for centuries the island of Montserrat has had connections with Ireland. However, lurking in it's history are stories of fierce Irish slave owners. T...

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Dún Laoghaire Doldrums from 2013-07-25T12:00

Four men go sailing out of Dún Laoghaire - there's no wind - nothing for it but to sit around and tell stories of whaling and banjaxed boats... Four men go sailing out of Dún Laoghaire - there's no...

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Number 3 - Lessons in History from 2013-07-19T12:00

What Joe Duffy finds in a 200-year old house on Mountjoy Square Dublin - a safe house, a Dáil chamber, a wealthy home and a fresh start for adult students ... What Joe Duffy finds in a 200-year old...

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Curious Ear - Mr Ball Control from 2013-07-18T12:00

A 68-year old Galway man with a passion for soccer tricks and a few Guinness world records to his name. In his last attempt, he managed 'keepie uppies' for over 4 hours. A former upholsterer, he al...

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The Comeback Kid from 2013-07-12T12:00

In October 2005, 25-year-old Shane Mullins drove drunk, crashed his car and sustained a catastrophic brain injury. He fought his way back from the brink of death,and developed his own self-help sys...

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Dromsligo's 'Three Amigos' from 2013-07-11T12:00

A visit to a horse rescue centre in Cork in the company of the bustling Julie Waters, the centre's manager. The mood is one of concern at the distress of the abandoned animals who come in and joy ...

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The Cure at Hand from 2013-07-05T12:00

Ireland has a long history of faith healers and cures. Many claim that certain individuals have the gift to heal - others say that remedies passed down through generations can cure. We look inside ...

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The Kindness of Strangers from 2013-07-04T12:00

What happens when a woman walks up to you on the street and gives you a bunch of flowers? The 2011 London riots shocked many Londoners but in Bernadette Russell's, they made her start an unusual pr...

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Hear, See, Feel from 2013-06-28T12:00

How do you experience music when you can't hear?


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Doc Archive (2006): The Nore Bar from 2013-06-26T12:00

What happens when they turn off the TV in the Nore Bar, Kilkenny City every second Tuesday night? The young folk leave after watching the football, the TV is switched off, the spotlight comes on in...

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An Angelman year from 2013-06-21T12:00

Zac, Luke and Clara are three children living in Ireland. In America, another little girl they don't know - Molly Brockie - is undergoing clinical trials that could change all of these childrens li...

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County London from 2013-06-20T12:00

For the first time since the 1970s, 'County London' have advanced to the Connacht semi-final in the GAA Senior Football Championships. Maybe not a big deal here but over there, Robert Mulhern, auth...

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Lucia Joyce - Diving and Falling from 2013-06-14T12:00

Imagine being the daughter of one of the world's most experimental and famous writers. Lucia Joyce was the troubled and talented daughter of James Joyce. Surrounded by bohemian life, he fragile men...

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Racing The Tide from 2013-06-13T12:00

There's more to one Connemara beach than sunbathing. Omey Island is off the coast of Galway. At every low tide you can travel to the island across a magnificent, broad strand. Once a year, this s...

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A Tale Told in Thread - The Ros Tapestry from 2013-06-07T12:00

Invasions, battles, romance - centuries of history brought to life in 15 huge embroidered panels telling the epic story of the founding of New Ross, Co. Wexford in 1207.



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The Undiscovered Country from 2013-05-24T12:00

This is a documentary about travelling theatre, about a childhood trauma, about a place on the border, and about a 70-something man's search for his father.


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Dalkey Meals on Wheels from 2013-05-16T12:00

A day out with the cooks, drivers and customers of the Meals on Wheels in Dalkey, Co. Dublin. (First Broadcast March 2006) A day out with the cooks, drivers and customers of the Meals on Wheels in ...

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Over There - Green Cab from 2013-05-10T12:00

A London taxi tour around the stories of the Irish in London, including the more recently-arrived.


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Banna Polar Bears from 2013-05-09T12:00

Now that the weather's picking up, you may be thinking about going for a swim. But, no matter how hardy you think you are, you'll have to go a long way to match the Banna Polar Bears who swim ever...

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Over There - The Green Line from 2013-05-03T12:00

The London Underground has The District Line, The Circle Line and so on. "The Green Line" is a notional Tube line that Robert Mulhern has taken to find Irish stories in the UK capital: the "Mammy"...

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Twigs from 2013-05-02T12:00

The artist who burns his art


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Hark ! from 2013-04-26T12:00

'Hark' takes our modern ears on a sound-rich journey through the acoustic world of Elizabethan England.


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The Curious Ear (2006): Patricia Cantlon's Unique Guesthouse from 2013-04-25T12:00

Cullintra House, Co. Kilkenny: a 250 year old farmhouse set amid 230 acres of farm and woodland, has been the home of Patricia Cantlon's family since the early 1900's.; She speaks about the history...

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DocArchive (1990): George Redmond Gentleman Piano Tuner from 2013-04-23T12:00

This is the life of 83 year old George Redmond from West Cork. He spent his lifetime tuning pianos for the great and good of Ireland, meeting many seasoned performers such as John MacCormack, Benia...

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The Curious Ear (2013): Ramble In from 2013-04-18T12:00

Like most places, Kerry had a tradition of 'rambling' houses or 'visiting' houses. This was where neighbours would gather in one house on winter evenings for story-telling, card-playing, singing a...

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The Echo Chamber from 2013-04-12T12:00

The Story of the Jihad Jane. 3 people go online, they meet in a chat room and their lives change forever.


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The Curious Ear (2013): Mill Creek Blues from 2013-04-03T12:00

Maurice Brennan has always wanted to visit America. As a child he loved the literature of Mark Twain. On his first visit headed to the Mark Twain Forest Park, Missouri, where he spent a day fly-fis...

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Two Miles An Hour from 2013-03-29T12:00

Writer Eugene O’Brien takes a trip on a barge through the heart of the midlands, experiencing his home county in a different – and much slower – way than usual.


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Frank the Poet - A Convict's Tour to Hell from 2013-03-22T12:00

Originally from Cashel, Frank McNamara's songs and poems were spread through convict Australia by his fellow prisoners. Today a new generation of musicians regard him as giving Australia a traditio...

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Michael Whelan - Air Corps Historian (2006) from 2013-03-21T12:00

Michael Whelan's museum in a huge hangar at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel stores hundreds of artefacts but also thousands of stories behind those objects.


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It's tough enough being a teenager, trying to work out who you are. But, say you're a teenager with African parents but you've grown up in Ireland. What are you? African? Irish? Or, a bit of both...

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Big Brother Big Sister from 2013-03-14T12:00

The joy of milkshakes, driving ranges and just 'chattin' '. Big Brother Big Sister is a programme where young adults meet up with young teenagers once a week for a year. How does it work and wha...

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Streets in San Francisco from 2013-02-28T12:00

Duncan McNiff is an Irishman who's an amateur podcaster. He wanders the streets of San Francisco meeting and recording people with interesting stories. Like the old woman with the police car, the...

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A Knock On The Door from 2013-02-15T12:00

The story of the kidnapping of German industrialist Thomas Niedermayer by the IRA in the 1970s faded from public memory – but affected one family for generations to come, with tragic consequences.<...

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Dads, Lads & Nicole from 2013-02-08T12:00

Would you go along at 60mph, your backside millimetres from the road surface? This 13-year old girl would: Nicole aims to be a Formula 1 driver; but first, she has to make her way to the top of the...

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Blue Cross Van from 2013-02-07T12:00

Every Thursday night in a Dublin suburb, people form a queue on an empty footpath. The only clue to what they're doing is the line of pets at their feet. They are waiting on the Blue Cross mobile...

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Our Man in Westminster from 2013-02-01T12:00

Enter the world of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy. Paul Staines - aka Guido Fawkes - is the number 1 political blogger in the British Isles. Paul is viewed by some as a scourge, and by...

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Agape from 2013-01-31T12:00

Every year, on the last Sunday in June, hundreds of people head out to the deserted island of Inchagoill on Lough Corrib in Co. Galway. They go for a Mass on the old monastic site and also for ‘Ag...

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DocArchive (2000): Lourdes from 2013-01-29T12:00

The small town of Lourdes, located at the foothills of the Pyrenees has been the destination for Irish pilgrimages to Lourdes for decades. Since the Apparitions in 1858, thousands of people have vi...

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Oiled: A Portrait of Henrietta from 2013-01-25T12:00

She was muse to artists like Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, she was known as the 'Queen of Soho', she toured with Marianne Faithfull and she lived for a time in a mansion in Laois - Henrietta Mora...

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Mag from 2013-01-24T12:00

Mag lived in Wexford in the 1990s. She started to get pains in her stomach. She was assured she was not seriously ill and continued to work - including pulling a plough for her father. Then, the pa...

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DocArchive (1998): Remembering Michael from 2013-01-22T12:00

Remembering one of Ireland's most famous actors Alfred Willmore also known as Micheál MacLiammóir. This dramatist, impresario, writer, poet and painter was a prominent figure who dominated the arts...

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The Voices of Vern Nash from 2013-01-18T12:00

A multi award winning portrait of an elderly jazz man and his long battle with schizophrenia. Vern has multiple voices that speak to him - and he talks right back. And then there's his accordian - ...

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The Leisure Centre from 2013-01-17T12:00

January is a busy time for gyms and leisure centres but, who are the regulars? Portlaoise Leisure Centre has a stream of people through it beginning with children eating breakfast at 7 a.m. Irish ...

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Dee from 2013-01-11T12:00

The remarkable story from 2007 of an Irish nurse who emigrated to America and ended up living on the streets there. She eventually regained control of her life but not without losing her children ...

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Waiting at the Railings II from 2013-01-04T12:00

Before Christmas there was the excitment of them coming home - choirs, banners and cheering in the emigrants' airport arrivals. In January, it's a very different story - all about the parents left ...

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"Ganbatte!" from 2013-01-01T12:00

An Irishman moves to Japan and learns about the place and its people from other Irish already there: a fake Catholic priest, a teacher on TV and a Roscommon Sumo wrestler. (Made with support of BA...

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Waiting At The Railings from 2012-12-29T12:00

Christmas, Arrivals Dublin Airport. Who is waiting at the railings for returned emigrants? The woman who's hiding from her family, the mother who hasn't seen her 19-year old 'baby' in months. An n...

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Message in a Bottle from 2012-12-28T12:00

The extraordinary story of Frank and Breda, an American GI and an Irish milk maid who 'met' via a message in a bottle which Frank threw overboard. In the early 1950s this story was a worldwide news...

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Little Molly O'Neill from 2012-12-28T12:00

1922, Alice O'Neill and seven of her children are killed by a suspicious fire in their home. One child survives, 8yr old 'Little Molly'. Now, 90 years later, Molly's family finally tell the story o...

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On A Christmas Morning from 2012-12-25T12:00

A woman is rushed to a maternity hospital...in the same hospital, another woman dreamt she'd hold a baby girl, called Lili....across the city a family are seeing children in Australia opening Santy...

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The Joy At Christmas from 2012-12-21T12:00

In December 2011, a prisoner in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin recorded the sound of the place during the Christmas period, the meals, Mass, present-making and the thoughts of individual staff and inmates...

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Dublin City Council Messiah from 2012-12-20T12:00

What links Handel's 'Messiah' and Dublin City Council. Well, there are lots of real links (it was written and first performed in Dublin, the annual open air 'Messiah' takes place beside the counci...

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Take No More from 2012-12-14T12:00

The extraordinary and desperate story of a standoff between teachers, subcontractors and parents. In September 2012, after 160yrs of waiting, Kilfinane in Co. Limerick got a new primary school - bu...

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Talking Statue? from 2012-12-13T12:00

Louis Wilson makes money standing still...very still. He's a 'human statue' in Dublin. He dresses up as writers James Joyce and Patrick Kavanagh and strikes a pose in Grafton St. What's it like? ...

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Superdog from 2012-12-07T12:00

Eoghan Clonan is ten and like many children of his age, he really wants a dog but when Eoghan gets his new pet, it's not your usual four legged mutt. It's Superdog.


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I Hate My Voice from 2012-11-29T12:00

Rosaleen McDonagh has a speech impediment. It makes dealing with people difficult. She is often frustrated with others, sometimes blames herself but she can't or won't change how she speaks.
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Nightscapes - Water from 2012-11-22T12:00

Soundscapes from Northern Irish night-times based on the classical elements - Air, Earth, Fire & Water. In this episode, Water: fishing, crying, sailing. (Made with the support of the BAI Sound & V...

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The Many Sides of Steve Menarry from 2012-11-15T12:00

Steve, from England, lives in Donegal. He took early retirement from one high-pressure job on health grounds. Then, gradually he got another job, and another, and another....(2007)


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Love Letters From The Front from 2012-11-09T12:00

To mark Armistice Day 2012 - A story of love and war - based on a collection of letters written by Eric Appleby from the trenchs of WW1 to Phyllis, an Irishwoman, who waited and waited for Eric to ...

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Wrong Way Across The Atlantic from 2012-11-08T12:00

They went against the flow. Tom McDonough and Ned Hammell immigrated to Ireland from the US in the early years of the last century - they left America as children to settle in Ireland. Tom left bef...

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No Place Like Home from 2012-11-02T12:00

Life inside a 'wet' hostel - where residents are allowed bring in alcohol. Sundial House, run by DePaul Ireland, a long-term housing project in Dublin for men and women who have lived for long peri...

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Shellacked! from 2012-11-01T12:00

It used to be that you could varnish your nails - now you can have 'shellac nails'. It's a hard protection that makes the colour last. However, it's applied by a nail technician which sounds like a...

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Daft Horror Movies from 2012-10-31T12:00

Horror movies that are so bad, they're good. Erik Threlfall is an expert on horror movies, trashy ones: 'Bloody Moon', 'Pieces', 'Slumber Party Massacre'. They scare you but they just make him lau...

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One World: Team Vietnam - Let the games begin! from 2012-10-29T12:00

Everyone got behind the Irish Paralympic team at the London 2012 games but we also had good reason to be cheering on another team - Vietnam. Irish Aid took the Vietnam team under its wing and broug...

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One World: Under the Mango Tree from 2012-10-26T12:00

Kiliwa is a community living with the aftermath of violence and child abduction by Joseph Kony’s Lord's Resistance Army. Della Kilroy records stories of survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

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German Soup Kitchen from 2012-10-25T12:00

In the week in which Angela Merkel put the frighteners on Ireland, The Curious Ear visits a place in Germany you may imagine didn't exist: a soup kitchen for hungry Germans, the Bahnhofsmission - t...

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If Music Be the Food of Life, Play On from 2012-10-19T12:00

Three professional musicians go on the wards of Ireland's hospitals to make live music part of the healthcare experience, but for one, a tragic accident shows just how fragile life can be. (Part of...

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Nightscapes - Fire from 2012-10-18T12:00

Four classical elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Producer, Laura Haydon makes a series of programmes from Northern Ireland recording nighttime sounds using the classical elements as themes. Thi...

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From Belief to Unbelief from 2012-10-12T12:00

In September 1980, twenty young religious men entered a seminary in Milltown in Dublin. Thirty years later, three of them tell their personal stories of a a journey from believer to unbeliever.
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Marge: cleaning, cancer and Dolly Parton from 2012-10-11T12:00

A woman's unexpected gift from cancer: Marge was obsessed with cleaning and tidying. That all changed in 1985 when she discovered a lump on her breast. A double mastectomy and implants followed. Sl...

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Thank you for having me (but I think you've been had) from 2012-10-05T12:00

The brilliant hoaxer Campbell McComas and his 'career' as a bogus after-dinner speaker. He created almost 2,000 fake characters that shocked and tickled Australia for years. From ABC Radio's "Radio...

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Picking No.11 at the Prince of Wales Hotel from 2012-10-04T12:00

What happens at a Gramaphone Society meeting? In 2007, the Athlone Gramaphone Society met every Tuesday evening. They played music for each other but also, turned out to be a pretty interesting b...

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Míne Bean Uí Chribín - My Granny from 2012-09-28T12:00

One of the most provocative and colourful public figures to hit the Irish airwaves in recent decades, who died lately. Even those who clashed with her had a grudging admiration for her tenacity. (I...

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A Forty Second Street Story from 2012-09-27T12:00

The shortest podcast we've ever published. Yet, it's full of character, tension and sound - just the kind of thing you're looking for in every full-length documentary. Sadly, we don't know the da...

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Sex, flights and videotapes. from 2012-09-21T12:00

How Ambrose Gordon - a man who claims to have more girlfriends than Rod Stewart ran a profitable but illegal pirating business in London during the eighties. The videos were of the GAA Show 'The Su...

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Donegal Football Sound Story from 2012-09-20T12:00

Donegal are in the GAA All-Ireland Football Final. Sound recordist, Guillaume Beauron, who lives in the county, has made an homage in sound to Donegal football - recordings made at a local club ga...

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Meggers from 2012-09-13T12:00

It could be an insult or a term of endearment; it actually means, 'horseshoe-pitching'. Terry Flanagan is at a league final in Knockananna, Co.Wicklow and discovers it's as much about 'grub' and '...

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Fighting on all Fronts from 2012-09-07T12:00

Last April 42yr old Cathy Durkin went public to campaign for access to the cancer drug Ipilimumab or 'Ippy' - This documentary tracks Cathy's life from then until the end of her life.


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The Visit from 2012-09-06T12:00

Joe Kearney has become lost in his own county, Kilkenny. Up and down lanes and by-roads looking for a man who, he's told, is a local legend, a fiddle player and philosopher: Jimmy Fanning. (Short ...

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A Farther Education from 2012-08-31T12:00

On a small island off the west coast of Ireland, three 13 year old boys are preparing for one of the biggest moments of their lives - leaving home. Inishturk has no secondary school so they must le...

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Stasi & Google Maps from 2012-08-30T12:00

Eavesdropping on eavesdroppers in Berlin while being eavesdropped upon. (50 Kilometres of Files; Rimini Protokoll). A short audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.


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Drop Into The Archives from 2012-08-16T12:00

There are over 1,000 documentaries on the RTE Radio Documentary On One site - Ronan Kelly drops in on a couple. (A short audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)


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Clonehenge from 2012-08-09T12:00

Achill Island has a new tourist attraction: enormous, brutal and totally illegal. But it has fans: It's fun, healing, artistic, archaeologically-interesting, annoying, a place to write graffiti.......

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Knowth Trowellers from 2012-08-02T12:00

In the summer of 1962, archaeological excavations began on the megalithic site of Knowth, Co.Meath. In the summer of 2012, there was a reunion there of all those archaeologists and students who hel...

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Fire and Water from 2012-07-27T12:00

By day, Feargus Callagy fits fireplaces; by night this Sligo man dreams of diving deep underwater on a single breath of air – Feargus is a freediver and can hold his breath for over five minutes. H...

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Abandoned from 2012-07-26T12:00

The forgotten victims of Japan's Tsunami and nuclear disaster: pets. Irishwoman, Kate O'Callaghan works to reunite pets from the exclusion zone with their owners. (Made by Julien Clancy with the as...

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The Animal Gangs from 2012-07-20T12:00

The so-called 'Animal Gangs' from the 1930's and 40's are a staple of Dublin folklore. Based around inner city Dublin, some remember them as Robin Hood figures who protected the poor - others remem...

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Bring Your Grandparents To School Day from 2012-07-19T12:00

Pupils from the tiny two-teacher school in Kilrusheighter, Sligo, brought their grandparents to school. They didn't have to bring books or lunch, just stories from their own schooldays. (Short au...

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Blind Ambition from 2012-07-13T12:00

The story of North Clare man Senator Martin Conway who, with just 16 per cent sight, recently became the first visually impaired Oireachtas member in living memory.


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Undoing The Folded Lie from 2012-06-22T12:00

South African freedom fighter Kader Asmal lived in exile in Dublin for nearly thirty years. Born in 1939, he was the driving force behind the Irish Anti-Apartheid movement, and fought for freedom a...

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Schools Out Forever from 2012-06-21T12:00

One teacher rural schools, nearly all gone. Mantua NS, Roscommon closes June 2012. Fealeview NS, Limerick closed 2010. Both had enthusiastic teachers and confident pupils as you can hear in this ...

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Border Beliefs from 2012-06-15T12:00

A Hare Krishna Island Community in Fermanagh, a Celtic Shaman in Leitrim, a Tibetan Buddhist Centre and Jehovah Witness Hall in Cavan - all found within a 25 mile radius of the town of Belturbet in...

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Father's Day from 2012-06-14T12:00

Bono, Imelda Kenny and Maeve Conran talk about their fathers: Bob, 'Gally' and Desmond; all since deceased. Bono slept beside his father as he died, Imelda learned to talk to her father and Maeve r...

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The Book Club from 2012-06-08T12:00

The story of one of Ireland's oldest book clubs. On the 3rd Tuesday every month, 12 women in rural mid Cork, meet to discuss a book - and they've been doing this for almost 40yrs. This Book Club ha...

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We wuz robbed! from 2012-06-07T12:00

The fable of the Irish 1965 World Cup campaign games against Spain. A story of brilliance, luck and dodgy decisions as told by Dermot Corrigan. (A short Irish audio documentary from RTÉ Radio Irel...

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Ber vs The Big Wheel from 2012-06-01T12:00

Ber O'Sullivan wanted new kitchen presses. She bought a scratchcard. Three stars came up and she was drawn to go on Winning Streak. A good day out on TV? You bet. Money for new presses? Listen...

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Wexford Huskies from 2012-05-31T12:00

Imagine being pulled by a dog across a truck-busy road. You don't have to imagine it, listen to this story from the RTE Radio Archives from 2003, in Oylegate, Co. Wexford. (A short Irish audio doc...

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Welcome to Holland from 2012-05-25T12:00

A story of hope, hard work, love and courage. In 2004, Grace Harper was born a healthy baby but within a year, her life, and the lives of her family changed dramatically. What happens when your exp...

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Joyce not Jedward from 2012-05-24T12:00

Ged Walsh is a housepainter with an odd-looking van. At first it looks like it's covered in gobbledegook words but when you look closer you see it's a rolling lesson in Irish literature. (A short ...

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DocArchive (1980): Alcoholism from 2012-05-22T12:00

A collection of stories from people who have struggled with alcohol. They speak about the effects on family, physical ruin and how it leads to depression. There's talk about the shock of being ca...

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Elvis and the Most Miserable Woman in Meath from 2012-05-21T12:00

Whatever the weather, the Irish summer starts with the first country fairs. Last week, the Dunderry Country Fair took place in Co. Meath. Animals, fairground rides, stalls and one laugh after anot...

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Letter to Ann from 2012-05-18T12:00

In 1984, Irish women wrote letters to Ann. She was a schoolgirl who had died giving birth in Granard, Co. Longford. The letters were read The Gay Byrne Show. 12 years after Ann's death, Lorelei Ha...

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Two Boxes from 2012-05-17T12:00

One story is unbelievable, the other poignant: Two boxes, belonging to an English lord, Morpeth and an Irish orphan, Barbara McDonough. Two different boxes but both serving the same purpose - remem...

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DocArchive (1984): Will You Still Love Tomorrow? - The Assassination of JFK from 2012-05-15T12:00

November 22nd 1963 is a famous date in history. It marks the day that the 35th President of America, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. We trace the events of that day, including a...

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Litter Pickers from 2012-05-10T12:00

The Celtic Tiger wasn't all about making money and looking after No.1. There were some Irish people who made it their business to go around picking up other people's litter, as this report by Rona...

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Silly Scully from 2012-05-03T12:00

A spoof caller, "Mr. Scully" with Gay Byrne on holidaying at home and why Brazil's soccer team were 'ballerinos'. We think this may be from 1973, Prescott's sponsored programme. (An audio short fro...

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Our Women's Hearts from 2012-04-27T12:00

20 years after the release of Ireland's best selling home-grown album 'A Woman's Heart', Kiara Murphy explores the effect this one album had on three generations of Irish women.


from 2012-04-20T12:00

In the deep night a public phone box rings. It could be Margate in England, the Florida Everglades or a tiny town in New Zealand. But who will pick up? And will this complete stranger share their l...

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The Finer Points of W's from 2012-04-19T12:00

A Whimsy of W's: shooting Weirs, Watching grass grow, Writing in stone, hanging out the Washing and Whistling. A series of random activities joined by only by the letter W. (A short audio document...

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Old School, New School from 2012-04-13T12:00

15 retired teachers from Ireland embark on a trip of a lifetime, as they travel to West Africa to bring over 500 years of teaching experience into the classrooms of The Gambia. A story of old life ...

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Ballroom Belles from 2012-04-12T12:00

Brian Gallagher's mother, Mona, loves dancing. Her heydey was during The Emergency. It was a time of clothes rationing and when a man could complain if you refused a dance. Then, there's the gre...

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Unsinkable - Ireland's Titanic Village from 2012-04-06T12:00

Will it sink? 100 years after 14 villagers left to travel on The Titanic, Lahardane, Co. Mayo, gets ready to commemorate the disaster. (An Irish audio documentary for RTE Radio, Ireland.)


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Dracula was Irish from 2012-04-05T12:00

100 years after Bram Stoker's death, DIT graduate, Fergal Browne finds the Irish influences on the "Dracula" story. (A short Irish audio documentary for RTE Radio Ireland.)


from 2012-03-29T12:00

50 years ago, Cork farmer, Dan Joe Kelleher, was helping RTE erect a TV transmitter on a nearby mountain. It gave him an idea: Why not erect his own transmitter and set up his own local station? ...

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My Bar Mitzvah in the Holy Land from 2012-03-23T12:00

Jerusalem was a scene of sadness this week. In poignant contrast, a joyful visit to the city: 13-year old Irish boy, Coby Baker, went there to make his Bar Mitzvah....and to get sweets thrown at t...

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Lanier Phillips - Survivor from 2012-03-22T12:00

How a 'joke' helped free a man from the racism of the U.S. Navy. The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips who survived a shipwreck and prejudice. He died last week and his story is told by Chris Br...

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DocArchive (1990): Sisters Under an African Sky from 2012-03-20T12:00

In 1984, the first TV reports from the famine in Ethiopia in Africa aired. They had a profound effect on the nuns of The Little Sisters of the Assumption. As trained nurses, they decided to go an...

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Rubber Swords from 2012-03-19T12:00

LARPing is a new 'sport'. Live Action Role-playing. Participants pretend to be mythical creatures the like of which you'd find in 'Lord Of The Rings'. Sounds crazy but suspend your scepticism and...

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000 Ambulance from 2012-03-16T12:00

Irishman, Les Dougan, worked as an emergency operator in Melbourne when, in 2008, radio producer, Kyla Brettle, eavesdropped on the kinds of calls he and his colleagues took. A tense, sometimes di...

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Frank X Buckley from 2012-03-15T12:00

He's a former Jesuit, former hotelier, an art lover, gay, contracted HiV - what more can be said? Lots. (A short Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)


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Frost is All Over from 2012-03-09T12:00

Pearse Hutchinson was a fiercely interesting man with hundreds of stories to tell. He spent his life as a translator, a poet, a broadcaster and a writer - travelling around the world from the 1950'...

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Radio Broccoli from 2012-03-08T12:00

An Irishman in San Francisco who relaxes from selling broccoli by going out and recording ordinary people with extraordinary stories: like the woman who makes erotic Barbies or the man who was the...

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On a Cape Clear Day from 2012-03-02T12:00

Why move to a rock in the ocean? Cape Clear Island, the most southerly inhabited part of Ireland, is home to Chuck and Nell Kruger. 20 yrs ago they moved to the island to write, to host a storytell...

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Batman Pyjamas from 2012-03-01T12:00

Dublin poet, Colm Keegan, lived in a Ballymun tower block until he was 5 years of age. Despite that young age, he has vivid memories of the place. While the towers were being demolished, Colm broug...

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"No One Shouted Stop" - 40 years on from 2012-02-28T12:00

In 1968, writer John Healy published a work that made Charlestown, Co. Mayo famous: "No One Shouted Stop: Death of an Irish Town". In 2007, to gauge the economic life of the town, RTE Radio reporte...

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"We've got your picture; now what's your name?" from 2012-02-28T12:00

In 2006, three people died tragically in the Dublin suburb of Firhouse. The media were criticised for distressing the local people with its behaviour; what actually happened was more nuanced. (A sh...

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Wedding Bus from 2012-02-27T12:00

The priest who married a man to his dead fiancée....and other stories on the wedding bus from Manchester to Galway. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland - 2006)


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Lessons in Love: the Breakup from 2012-02-14T12:00

Hate Valentine's Day? You'll love this: a student doc. on romantic break-ups. Ice-cream and a duvet...or laughing it off with the lads? Find out how the Irish like to leave a lover. (A short Irish...

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The Royal Irish from 2012-02-10T12:00

In recent years, record numbers from the Republic of Ireland have joined the British army. Why? We join the 'Royal Irish' as they fight the 'War on Terror' against the Taliban - in one of the most ...

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What Happened to Baby Peggy from 2012-02-09T12:00

At 19 months old, Diana Serra became a child film star in silent movies. She made $2 million in 1924. Her family lost it all and she had to go back to work again. The story of a bizarre childhood...

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New Beginnings from 2012-02-06T12:00

A horrible topic: Female circumcision. But it's part of a joyful community ritual. How do you change one without losing the other. In Londiani, Kenya they're trying. It's not straightforward, esp...

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DocArchive (1990): Day In The Life Of The No 16 from 2012-02-05T12:00

Many events can take place on a bus, but the drivers are the ones who see the whole show. Dealing with the public, grueling shifts, traffic and time pressures make it tough but the job is very rewa...

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The Continentals from 2012-02-03T12:00

A really uplifting and feel good story. In the 1950s this Australian cabaret band were hugely popular at weddings/parties. They eventually split up. Now, 36 years on, aged in their 70s and 80s, the...

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Wetsuits in Athlone? from 2012-02-02T12:00

May 2005, producer, Ronan Kelly, came across three 13-year olds walking along the street in Athlone wearing wetsuits. Wetsuits!? In a town miles from the sea?! At the time, Irish Rail said that th...

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Letters To Ann from 2012-02-02T12:00

In 1984, Anne Lovett, a 15yr old from Co. Longford died giving birth beside a grotto. Her baby son also died. After Anne’s death, the Gay Byrne show received so many letters, they devoted an entire...

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Rita Ann and Mitzie Got Married from 2012-01-27T12:00

A picnic in the woods, a walk on the beach - and a dream wedding. In the first year that civil partnerships for same sex couples were legalised, over 500 gay and lesbian couples tied the knot. Rita...

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The Busiest Month from 2012-01-26T12:00

For the Houlihan family in Nurney, Co.Kildare, January is the busiest month. They make a centuries-old Irish traditional favourite. What is it? The clue is in their location and the fact that th...

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My Dear Cousin from 2012-01-20T12:00

A charming and simple tale of life told through letters written over 50 years between two cousins - Marie Rutledge from Dublin and her cousin in America. The letters are a personal history of time ...

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Don't try to tell Irish schoolboy jokes to a Nigerian woman from 2012-01-18T12:00

Ronan Kelly attempts a bit of intercultural exchange on the streets of Dublin with a Nigerian woman, Majupe. She tells him about a time she had a boil on her bum - he counters with a joke about bo...

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A Bullet for the General from 2012-01-13T12:00

For 4 decades, Major General Hugh Tudor, scrupulously avoided publicity whilst living a careful quiet life in the shadows. But he lived in fear all his life - for during Ireland's most troubled per...

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"The Flying Enterprise" from 2012-01-12T12:00

The dramatic story of a sinking ship, the captain who wouldn't leave her and the 8-year old schoolboy, Pól Ó Duibhir, who followed the saga on radio. (A short Irish documentary, presented by Ronan ...

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DocArchive (1997): All The Tired Horses from 2012-01-07T12:00

James Whelan is a 15 year old from Dublin’s inner city. He is a horse owner and discusses the enjoyment he gets from owning the animal. Many youths in the area keep horses but face opposition from...

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Because You Can't Smell Someone On Skype from 2012-01-05T12:00

Ciarán got himself a new phone. On it he found a dating website. On that he found Kelly. Only problem - he's in Ireland, she's in the US. So, not much hope of romance then? Liam Nolan tells the...

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DocArchive (1986): New Irish in America from 2012-01-05T12:00

In the 1980s, many young Irish people emigrated to America due to unemployment. Paddy O’Gorman speaks to emigrants in New York, who have travelled to find work and many of them are in the country ...

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The Curious Ear (2011): Not Bill Gates from 2011-12-31T12:00

Freddie Stapleton and Graham Hickey love Dublin's windows. Graham loves history and has a passion for windows and Freddie is a window cleaner.Produced by Colette Kinsella (First Broadcast 2011) Listen

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One World: Catastrophe Level One from 2011-12-30T12:00

What's it like to live in a place where it hasn't rained in nearly 5 years? Welcome to Turkana, Northern Kenya, population 500,000. In 1961 the same thing happened and Irish nuns were amongst the f...

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Ballymitty Drive-in Bingo from 2011-12-29T12:00

Possibly the oldest drive-in bingo in Ireland - definitely the most fun. Sure, you can play in your slippers and not miss Corrie! (A feature from the mid-90's in Wexford by Ronan Kelly for 'Today w...

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Sing Kilcormac! from 2011-12-22T12:00

Lift up your hearts! Hear a village perform a cantata written just for them by composer, Vincent Kennedy and then there's an incredible story about two women and a statue. From Kilcormac, Co.Offal...

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The Long Goodbye from 2011-12-16T12:00

The award winning tender and loving story of a husband, Matt, and his wife, Mai, whose lives have changed entirely since Mai was diagnosed with alzheimers. This is a story of a solemn promise made ...

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"Moscow" Joe's Weird TV from 2011-12-15T12:00

'Moscow' Joe McKinley was eccentric. His Co. Antrim house, inside and out, was bizarre. His appearance was eye-catching. He was, simply, fascinating. In this extract from "Morning Glory" in 2001, p...

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One Fine Day - When Wexford Went to Croker from 2011-12-12T12:00

An account of the 1956 All Ireland hurling Final between Wexford and Cork, which is considered by most to be one of the finest games of hurling ever seen. (Broadcast 2007)


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Codename Paddy O'Brien from 2011-11-28T12:00

Jim and Donal O'Donovan are father and son. Unbeknownst to each other, both lived double lives, both connected to Germany and both at very crucial periods in the nation's history. (2007)


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Three Rivers - One Summer from 2011-11-25T12:00

One man's extraordinary promise to his dying father: that he would race in the Cork Lee Swim. Ger Philpott had swum competitively in pools but not in open water - he hated the idea. So, why did h...

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See, what you wrote? from 2011-11-24T12:00

A group of 10 and 11-year olds quiz author, Brian Gallagher, at the ILAC Library, Dublin: how he writes, keeping tension, the characters' names and, yes, how much he makes from them. Producer, Ron...

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DocArchive (1987): Boom Of The Lambeg Drum from 2011-11-22T12:00

Each July 12th, large parades are held by the Orange Order and Ulster loyalist marching bands across Northern Ireland. Streets are bedecked with British flags and bunting, and large towering bonfir...

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DocArchive: Somewhere My Love from 2011-11-21T12:00

The story of a 1961 fiesta red, Fender Stratocaster - it's life history and it's relationship with it's owner, who bought the item in Waltons, Dublin back in 1962.


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Last Summer in Grand Bruit from 2011-11-18T12:00

A personal story from rural Canada, about a community under threat in an increasingly urbanized world and a tender story about the meaning of home.


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Millionaire from 2011-11-17T12:00

A painfully-shy Irishman plucks up enough courage to go on a TV quiz show: he wins £250,000. This incredible award winning documentary from 2006 tells the story of Roger Dowds and the gameshow "Who...

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DocArchive: And Honour Closed the Tale from 2011-11-14T12:00

An account of one of the most significant moments in Irish history - the 1916 Rising, analysing its origins and its leaders, with extracts from Stephen McKenna. (Broadcast April 1969) An account of...

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DocArchive: The Bridge from 2011-11-13T12:00

A look at life along the Cavan/Fermanagh border told through the yes of two women who were both affected by a series of brutal murders in the area in 1972. (First Broadcast 2005)


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Letter to Olive from 2011-11-11T12:00

In 2001, John and Olive Quinn went for a trip to Rosslare. Olive went for a swim in the sea and as John watched from the shore - it was the last time he would see her alive. This is a powerful stor...

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Now, That's What I Call Local Radio! from 2011-11-10T12:00

The incomparable local radio presenter, John 'The Man' Frawley. The 1980s had Top 40 music and mid-Atlantic accents; he understood the value of conversational radio to the people of Limerick. (A sh...

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Wanted: Kidney from 2011-11-04T12:00

Regina Hennelly wants a kidney. She has been on the transplant list for over two years since being diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease in 2008. This is the story of the reality of life suspended ...

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Slow Shopping from 2011-11-03T12:00

A woman selling 'redneck wallets', a man selling marshmallow guns and an Irishman, in his 80s, selling Tayto. It's a day shopping in Portland Maine. Slow shopping. Drop into Mike Furey and have a...

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Skelligs Calling from 2011-11-02T12:00

“We’re perched on this vertiginous rock, out somewhere in the Atlantic in almost total darkness, with some of the strangest sounds you’ll ever hear in Western Europe all around us…” Skelligs Calli...

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Oisín's Story from 2011-10-28T12:00

8 year old Oisín has a rare genetic disorder called Prader Willi Syndrome - this is the moving story of his birth, his life, his family and the people who love him.


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A Programme For and About You from 2011-10-21T12:00

Do you remember life before phone-in radio programmes, texts or godhelpus Twitter? If you do, then you'll remember Frankie Byrne - sage agony aunt on Raidíó Éireann. Colette Kinsella tells the sto...

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30,000 ft. for Shane from 2011-10-20T12:00

Three years ago, Shane Geoghegan was murdered in Limerick - mistaken identity in a gangland attack. Nothing good comes of a tragedy like that? Not so, listen to Mark Quinn and the Shane Geoghegan...

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From a Jack to a King from 2011-10-14T12:00

A fantastically entertaining story with Ireland's No.1 Elvis impersonator, Kerryman Mark Leen. Full of humour, charm and lifes ups and downs, Mark's devotion to Elvis knows no bounds. From replica ...

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Big Music Docs from 2011-10-13T12:00

The music documentary is a very special type of documentary. To mark Big Music Week 2011, we're bringing you a taster of the selection of music documentaries on the Documentary On One website. (A s...

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From Brooklyn to Banja Luka from 2011-10-07T12:00

An award winning documentary - of an international love story that will make you laugh out loud. He's from New York. She's from Serbia. They meet in Amsterdam and fall in love. They visit each othe...

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See off the Summer from 2011-10-06T12:00

In Co. Meath they see off the Summer with competitive baking and animal husbandry contests. It all happens at the Oldcastle Show - producers Kate Garry and Derek O'Halloran went along to record the...

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Desperately Seeking Sam from 2011-09-30T12:00

A brilliant story of one fan's journey through the GAA football championship of 2011. Paddy Joe Burke is the ultimate inter-county fan - and a barber. Beginning in New York and ending in Dublin's v...

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All Those Funny Z's from 2011-09-29T12:00

Many of the Polish people who came to work in Ireland during The Boom, have gone back to Poland. They didn't go alone; they took a few Irish people with them. One of those is Liam Nolan, who rec...

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I Can Tell by Looking at You from 2011-09-23T12:00

The story of just how little looks count - an Irish woman gets mixed up in an international identity fraud that involves huge sums of money being laundered.


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One World: Moving On from 2011-09-05T12:00

Hilda Kawuki, the Ugandan aid worker who was kidnapped in Darfur along with Irish aid-worker Sharon Commins, has returned to development work. Producer, Elizabeth Laragy follows her during a week ...

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Victim No. 0001 from 2011-09-02T12:00

68yr old Fr Mychal Judge was the 1st official victim of the 9/11 attacks. As his true life story began to emerge, many sought to claim his heroic legacy - the Irish American community, the fire dep...

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Conversations In The Dark from 2011-09-01T12:00

Colette Kinsella captures a stunning soundscape: the sounds from Dublin Zoo at night. Most spectacular, the wolves; most endearing, the snuffling elephants. (A short Irish radio documentary from R...

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One World: Groundhog - The Irish In Lebanon from 2011-08-29T12:00

As the Irish army re-deploy to the region, Barry Bracken follows the personal journey of two soldiers from early preparation through to their ultimate destination - Tibnin, South Lebanon. (An RTE R...

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Still Waiting for Joe from 2011-08-26T12:00

As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, one Irish-American family still feels the loss of their son - 31 year old firefighter Joseph Hunter. This documentary follows Joe's story from the wilds...

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Joy of Afternoon Tea from 2011-08-24T12:00

A luxury, necessity, ritual, habit? Carla Simpson evokes the divine pleasures of afternoon tea through sound, music and words. (A short Irish radio documentary made as part of the degree in Media...

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One World: One City, One Day, Two Lives from 2011-08-22T12:00

Ann-Marie Green tells the incredible story of two boys in Rio de Janeiro: Jonathan and Patrick, one rescued, one at risk. The story of anti-poverty programme designed to leaven the huge social di...

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Logan Way - The Story of the Bulgers from 2011-08-19T12:00

An exclusive interview with William Bulger, who for the first time since 1992, speaks out about his political career and his brother - notorious gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger.


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One World: Malaria 2.0 from 2011-08-15T12:00

Microsoft's Bill Gates dreams of eradicating malaria; he's given millions to those working on the problem. In this fascinating story, Elizabeth O'Neill meets people receiving Gates' money, includin...

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Breaking Records from 2011-08-11T12:00

Can anything good come of riots? Maybe music. In the summer of the London riots, a new documentary from Delaney Hall on the New York riots of 1977 and their impact on hip-hop music. (Short radio...

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One World: Oil in Uganda - The trickle down effect from 2011-08-08T12:00

The largest onshore oilfield in sub-Saharan Africa has been discovered in Uganda with the involvement of Irish-founded company, Tullow Oil. Tim Desmond asks who benefits from this discovery and wil...

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Through A Chink Too Wide... from 2011-08-06T12:00

...there comes no wonder. Kavanagh's line applied to story-telling, well-illustrated by two radio students': Diane McSweeney's story of a flamboyant funeral and Bernard Reilly's of a train passeng...

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An Irishman Chained to the Truth from 2011-08-05T12:00

Delving into his family history, Allan Smith finds himself on a journey to Hollyood - his great great uncle Brian Desmond Hurst was the most prolific Irish film director of the 20th century - and A...

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Star Boy from 2011-08-04T12:00

An adventure without words - go on a magical audio journey with Joe Brennan's "Star Boy" and children in An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny during the 2011 Earagail Arts Festival. Music by Christofer ...

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One World: "Part of the Family?" from 2011-08-01T12:00

Philippinas are prized as the "BMW" of domestic workers in Ireland. What's their experience? One woman's story of work in Ireland to build a small empire back home. Producer, Kay Sheehy. Part of ...

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Mat the Goalie from 2011-07-31T12:00

Mat Greg loves a group of footballers he says are 'neglected': goalies. They get the blame, rarely credit and have one chance to be a hero: penalties. He talks of smells and mistakes. Learn about g...

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Ring Girls from 2011-07-29T12:00

Their uniform is a bikini; their workplace is the boxing ring - the life of the 'Ring Girls'.


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Kerry and the Tramp from 2011-07-22T12:00

The untold story of Charlie Chaplin and how he found shelter and solace from the world on the edge of Europe, and why the locals of Waterville, Co. Kerry felt the need to honour his presence with a...

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Mine's A Pint from 2011-07-21T12:00

The journey of a pint of blood from donation to patient - from vein to vein. Orla Rogers tells the fascinating story and hears from Susan who has every reason to be grateful to blood donors - so m...

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Cork's Hidden Village from 2011-07-15T12:00

A fabulously witty and charming journey into Cork City's English Market. Recorded over a year, this a story that weaves its way through two centuries - overcoming fires, famine, rebellion and war -...

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Made In Temple Bar from 2011-07-14T12:00

Give some artists and producers a topic and ask them to come up with a Curious Ear - then sit back and enjoy. Temple Bar Cultural Trust commissioned 7 programmes for the Made In Temple Bar Festiva...

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The House That Ronald Built from 2011-07-08T12:00

The Ronald McDonald House on the grounds of Crumlin Childrens Hospital in Dublin, provides a home from home for families of seriously ill children, as they attempt to create a semblance of a normal...

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Sinking of Asgard II from 2011-07-07T12:00

The incredible minute-by-minute story of the sinking of a tall ship. On Sept. 11, 2008, the "Asgard II" sank in the Bay of Biscay. Student radio producer, Stephen Long of DCU, tells the story of ...

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My Name is Lydia Foy from 2011-07-01T12:00

Lydia Foy was born in 1947 and registered as a baby boy. When she realised her true identity, as a woman, she discovered something missing - a birth certificate. This is the story of a woman who ha...

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Two Ears from 2011-06-30T12:00

A wonderful tale of good farming, good radio and a voice from the past. Radio producer Tim Lehane found an old tape in his attic. It was the favourite piece of RTE agriculture journalist Joe Murray...

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Cocaine Diaries: Story of a Drug Mule from 2011-06-24T12:00

August 2008, Dubliner Paul agrees with a local gang to conceal 6kg of cocaine in his luggage. He thought it'd be the easiest 15k he'd ever make. But not everything went to plan- landing him in the ...

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Hidden Sounds of Temple Bar from 2011-06-23T12:00

Wildlife sound recordist, Tom Lawrence, takes his microphones into Dublin City Centre and the Temple Bar area to find some of the weirdest and creepiest sounds you're going to hear. (A short Irish ...

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In The Same Boat - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals from 2011-06-21T12:00

This documentary has just won a coveted Gracie Award from Beverly Hills, LA! We tell the story of forty women and two dragons who take to the water for the launch of a unique project for breast can...

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Dogfight: Conor and Charlie - Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals from 2011-06-21T12:00

When the 2011 Irish General Election was called, Conor Lenihan and Charlie O'Connor were sitting TD's in Government. Battling through their 4 week campaign trail to retain their seats, the mood the...

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The Long Walk of Brother Benedict - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals from 2011-06-21T12:00

A Catholic brother walks out of monastic life in Sydney leaving behind him 25 years of religious service and a pot burning on the stove. Linda Neil tries to solve the mystery of Brother Benedict an...

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The Age of Attraction - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals from 2011-06-21T12:00

Bill and Tom are two 'ordinary' men battling a sexual attraction to children they've never understood. They defy the stereotype of paedophiles as predatory monsters. This documentary goes behind th...

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Never No More: Maura Laverty Remembered from 2011-06-17T12:00

Celebrity chef, agony aunt, novelist and the author of Ireland's first television soap Tolka Row: the remarkable life story of Maura Laverty who was a household name 50 years ago, one of very few w...

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A Good Day At Blackrock from 2011-06-16T12:00

A man fulfills a promise to his 13-year old self by visiting the place his grandfather died, Blackrock island, Co.Mayo. (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)


from 2011-06-06T12:00

Margaret Bulkeley wanted to become a doctor. It was the early 1800s and she didn't stand a chance. Unless.... she became a man..... And James Barry was one of the most brilliant doctors at the time...

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The Walsh Cassidys at Lissadell House from 2011-06-05T12:00

This doc just won top radio prize at the 2011 National Justice Media Awards. In 2003, Edward Walsh and Constance Cassidy bought Lissadell House, Sligo to make the estate into a flagship for tourism...

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Fryeburg Fair from 2011-06-03T12:00

You don't think of America for pilgrimages but, every year, thousands of 'pilgrims' head for the Fryeburg Fair in Maine. They go for the racing, the rides, the farm animals and the fast food. The ...

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The Diary of Leanne Wolfe from 2011-06-01T12:00

A multi-award winning documentary. In 2007, schoolgirl Leanne Wolfe committed suicide. The morning of her funeral, her older sister discovered Leanne's diaries and to her horror, she discovered tha...

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12 Steps on Abbey Street from 2011-05-28T12:00

Over 2,000 people visit the Dublin Central Mission every week. Some are dancing, some are praying, others are battling drug/drink/gambling/sex addiction and the list goes on - with a total of 56 gr...

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Lost In Holland from 2011-05-28T12:00

Getting lost can be fun. If you do it in HIlversum, Holland, you may come across a house with "Céad Míle Fáilte" on the front. It's owned by a Dutch couple who have fallen for Ireland so much, the...

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Foley from 2011-05-23T12:00

The story of Jack Foley, a former dock worker who, when working at Universal Pictures, created a method of adding sounds to films, known now as the 'Art of Foley'. Every film now has sound dubbed i...

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The Curious Ear (2011): Bray Roadshow from 2011-05-21T12:00

"Roadshows" in Bray, Co. Wicklow were a joy for holidaymakers. These were variety shows put on in temporary, 'fit-up' theatres around the town. They consisted of music, dancing and theatre. Brian ...

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Moneyless Mark from 2011-05-21T12:00

What would compel someone give away all of their material possessions, empty their bank account and commit to living a life with no money? Thrity-two year old Donegal man Mark Boyle has been living...

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The 1916 Room with Dr. Garret Fitzgerald from 2011-05-20T12:00

The 1916 room was set up with the premise of bringing 4 people back in time, and in their memories, to where they were in 1966, 50yrs after the Easter Rising, asking them what 1916 meant and what e...

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The Annotated Jack from 2011-05-19T12:00

This doc has just won a 2011 Prix Marulic award from Croatia. A tale of two "Jacks": one a hero of traditional folktales: the other a retired fisherman passing the time in his fishing stage spinnin...

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Obama on 145th Street from 2011-05-16T12:00

The night President Obama got elected 145th Street in Harlem, NY city rocked. It was a night of talk, memory, partying and singing with the local community, some of whom could trace their roots bac...

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Olivia's Farm from 2011-05-13T12:00

Ireland - a Farming Nation. But in the 21st century what's it like to be a single female farmer running a 200 acre farm? We follow 35-year-old Olivia Hynes, a beef and sheep farmer from Roscommon, ...

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Eulogy For A Sound from 2011-05-11T12:00

January 2011, foghorns went silent on Irish lighthouses. Student radio producer, Jason Murphy (www.boreenbroadcasts.com )weaves a lament with sounds, music and comments from Cork coastal people. S...

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TwitterOnTrial from 2011-05-06T12:00

A unique documentary experiment that, with the help of five experienced Twitterers and one complete Twitter newbie, attempts to put the much talked about social networking service through its paces...

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Obama '08 from 2011-05-02T12:00

As Ireland becomes gripped by 'Obama mania' ahead of a visit by the 44th President of the United States, RTE's Fergal Keane travels back to 2008 when Barrack H. Obama went on the campaign trail - f...

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Mitchin' With Dylan from 2011-04-30T12:00

Kevin Dolan, DCU student, tells the great story of Bob Dylan's 1965 song, "Like A Rolling Stone" and its impact on him as a teenager. (Radio people spend years trying to sound as laid back as Kevin...

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A Convict of the Road from 2011-04-29T12:00

One of our most popular docs ever with multiple awards, this doc tells the story of Mick Murphy, winner of the 1958 Rás - a cycle race around Ireland. It's an unbelieveable story - broken collarbon...

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Reluctant Comedienne from 2011-04-27T12:00

Alison Spittle tells audiences that she's half-Traveller, half-English. She hates that - not her background, the fact that she uses it in her act - she feels she's stabbing her family in the back. ...

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House from 2011-04-26T12:00

In the early 1990's, dance music in Ireland was a strictly word-of-mouth thing with virtually no 'rave' music played on the radio. It was a scene based on insider knowledge of clubs and music. This...

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Dr. Slotover Remembers The Rising from 2011-04-22T12:00

One of Max Leonard Slotover's earliest memory is of being stopped by an IRA man in St.Stephen's Green on Easter Monday 1916. His later memories are only slightly less exciting including a stint on ...

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Reflections on a Window from 2011-04-20T12:00

Fr.Colm Kilcoyne is a retired priest living in his home town of Castlebar. Over the years he has returned again and again to the stained glass window in his local church; seeking answers in the st...

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Hidden Heroes of the Belfast Blitz from 2011-04-15T12:00

70 yrs ago, on Apr 15th 1941, Germany rained down bombs on Belfast - part of their WW2 offensive on Britain. The hidden story of that night is how the Republic of Ireland put its neutrality at risk...

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Open FM from 2011-04-14T12:00

Summer 2010, 70 people got together in a hotel. They thought they were running a gay radio station until a man in a brown suit with great hair came into the room and said they would communicate wi...

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Mighty Mac - Prix Europa Winner 2009 from 2011-04-11T12:00

This doc won Best Radio Documentary in Europe for 2009. One of our all time great listens - this story has everything. Limerick man, Ger MacNamara ia master upholsterer and world champion power lif...

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Ballyfin - A boarding school memory from 2011-04-10T12:00

An award winning intimate, poignant and beautiful documentary from John Quinn as he remembers back to his 5 years at boarding school in the Patrician College, Ballyfin, Laois in the 1950's. A windo...

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Vinyl Fantasy from 2011-04-08T12:00

No-one ever says "Come around and listen to my latest download". D.I.T. student, Robert McDonald marks the passing of vinyl - its decline began when he was still a child. Featuring Irish radio leg...

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Did Michael Keogh Save Hitler? from 2011-04-01T12:00

Irish man Michael Keogh claims to have saved Hitler's life before he became 'Führer'. Could a Carlow man, who left home at 16 and lived a life of pseudonyms, disguise, conspiracy, and war, have ha...

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Beneath the pfffff... from 2011-04-01T12:00

Nick Coleman, Guardian music journalist, loses his ability to hear music. He tells producer, Yvonne Nolan. "I can hear beneath the pfffff a drowning choir, accompanied by a tiny monkey playing a te...

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The Curios Here from 2011-03-30T12:00

At the International Art and Antiques Fair in Dublin, dealers talk about the business: Stupid mistakes they made, clever deals they pulled and whether or not you can persuade anyone to buy anything...

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Raving Loons vs Northside Nightjars (The Curious Ear) from 2011-03-24T12:00

Forget your Formula 1 or the All-Ireland - these guys chase around looking for half a bird. The annual Dublin Bird Race for birdspotters. Terry Flanagan goes along. Guess how many they spot in a...

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My Dad from 2011-03-21T12:00

What is to be a single dad: by getting unique access to the intimate relationships between three single fathers and their children, this documentary is delves into the personal and emotional side t...

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To Love Two Countries from 2011-03-19T12:00

St. Patrick's Day, New York: A story of four witnesses to history; the adventures of leaving Ireland on ships, the friendships and matches, the Irish dancehalls and Saint Patrick's Day in the city ...

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Julie's Patrick's Day (The Curious Ear) from 2011-03-17T12:00

St. Patrick's Day Parade 2011, Monaghan Town (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)


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Groundhog & Mirror (The Curious Ear) from 2011-03-09T12:00

Jane O'Connor's story of her final years with her mother. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)


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Statuesque (The Curious Ear) from 2011-03-03T12:00

Maeve Taylor can be seen standing outside the Custom House, Dublin for the past 60 years. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)


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Bonesetter TD (The Curious Ear) from 2011-02-27T12:00

Thomas Burke's strange pact with the people of Clare. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)


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Meat Factory Ear Worms (The Curious Ear) from 2011-02-23T12:00

An award winning documentary from Richie Beirne as he reveals the techniques he used for dealing with a mind-numbing job on the killing lines. (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: Soundtory from 2011-02-18T12:00

Electroacoustic composer, Guillaume Beauron's take on Tory Island off the coast of North West Ireland. It's a very remote island, just two and a half miles long and three quarters of a mile wide. (...

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The Curious Ear: Delaney's Bikes from 2011-02-11T12:00

An Irish bike shop that's nearly as old as the bicycle itself... Producer: Nancy Previs (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)


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My Dad's Depression from 2011-01-30T12:00

An honest, open, and brave story about mental illness. Much is said depression and its sufferers, but how does depression affect families? This is Conor McGinnity's story of how his father's depres...

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Election 2011 - The Count Day from 2011-01-27T12:00

At the end of the 1st count day - As Ireland prepares for a new government, this is a mix of the highs and lows of a day that saw a seismic shift in the political landscape of Ireland. A new era ha...

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Sex Slave: A Survivor's Story from 2011-01-27T12:00

Iris is a 32yr old woman with a difficult past - a number of years ago, she was kidnapped and trafficked into the enforced world of prostitution. This documentary tells her harrowing story.
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The Curious Ear: What Can You See? from 2011-01-21T12:00

Look out over the rooftops of Cairo with Colette Kinsella. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)


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On the beach at Banna from 2011-01-20T12:00

Recorded over five days at Banna Beach in Kerry, this story follows 9yr old Brian Spillane as he takes part in a surf camp for autistic children. Trying new things can be extremely difficult for ch...

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The Curious Ear: Junction 16 from 2011-01-19T12:00

Farmer turned church minister, Trevor Stevenson, looks down on a motorway junction and reminisces. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland).


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The Curious Ear: They're Not All Gone from 2011-01-07T12:00

Paula Carroll's stories of traditional musicians in Co.Clare (Funded by the BAI Sound & Vision Fund). A short radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.


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DocArchive: A Long Way Home from 2011-01-01T12:00

Keiko was a male orca who starred in the three Free Willy movies. This documentary charts Keiko's journey from a Mexico city amusement park to the Westman islands in Iceland where he is preparing f...

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DocArchive: Pints and Parables from 2010-12-31T12:00

Irish pubs and their clientele are revered the world over for their charm, drink and general hospitality. We enter into the hearts of some Irish pubs and 'watering holes' - to hear conversations fi...

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DocArchive: Timmy the Brit McCarthy from 2010-12-30T12:00

Timmy "The Brit" McCarthy spent years of his life in England. He returned to Ireland in the 1960's and his interest in Irish Set dancing brought him in contact with people who were largely responsi...

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The Nightsingers of Brighton from 2010-12-29T12:00

Every year, villagers in a tiny village in Newfoundland ring in the New Year with an 18th century New Year's carol brought over from Europe with the first Irish and English settlers. This is a stor...

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DocArchive: Soldier Chorus Line Christmas Concert in Lebanon from 2010-12-23T12:00

Christmas time can be a lonely time for the soldiers who are away from home. To cheer them up Treasa Davison organised a Christmas concert with the talented Irish soldiers at Camp Shamrock in South...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Lumps of Coal from 2010-12-22T12:00

Adults complain that, when they were children, bold kids still got presents. College students make naughty and nice lists, study interview techniques and finally research and make a short documenta...

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Heel Up from 2010-12-19T12:00

A look at the art of traditional dancing or 'damhsa ar an sean-'nós. Rescued from near death almost twenty years ago it is now flourishing in its south Connemara heartland and spreading throughout ...

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DocArchive: What you may call it, Drugs and Liver Transplants from 2010-12-18T12:00

This is a documentary about what might have been. It's a story about the 1960's Dublin beat group The Movement. We go in search of them to try and get to the bottom of the stories about this one ti...

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The Curious Ear (2010) : Planespo...Aviation Enthusiasts from 2010-12-17T12:00

Sarah Jane and Keith Redmond are two listeners who got in touch to suggest that we make a programme about planespotters at Dublin Airport. In turn, we suggested that they make the programme. So, th...

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DocArchive: Walking on Water from 2010-12-11T12:00

Janet Gray is a blind Northern Irish Water Skier and 3 times World Champion. In 2003, she nearly died in a water skiing accident. This documentary follows Janet as she defies medical convention and...

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DocArchive: Address is Shelter from 2010-12-10T12:00

In 1970’s Ireland, the underworld of the poor and homeless was a hidden world known only to its inhabitants. However, 47yr old Duncan, who lives in a converted railway hut with 15 other people, all...

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DocArchive: Unfamiliar Families from 2010-12-09T12:00

An exploration of the difficulties and challenges faced by same sex couples in Ireland. Rachel and Michelle have been a couple for seven years. Despite the wedding rings they wear, this family is n...

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DocArchive: Two Ladies of Galway from 2010-12-04T12:00

Lady Augusta Gregory was at the centre of the Irish Literary Revival around the turn of the 20th century. Her grand-daughters Anne and Catherine revisit their ancestral Galway home in Coole – shari...

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Doc Archive: This is his life Eamon Andrews from 2010-12-03T12:00

Des Hickey takes us on a journey through the life of Eamon Andrews. Born and raised in Dublin, little did he know that his passion for boxing (he was an Irish Junior Middleweight champion) would le...

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Doc Archive: Tullaghmurray Lass from 2010-12-02T12:00

February 14th 2002 at 3.40am, the Tullaghmurray Lass set sail from Kilkeel, Co. Down. Michael Green (54), his son Michael (33) and his grandson Michael (8) were on board. 2hrs later, their boat san...

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Turn Right At Colorado Springs from 2010-12-02T12:00

Two miles high in the thin air of the Rocky Mountains, a group of Irish people arrive on a volunteer mission to repair the legendary Colorado Trail. This is a tale of high adventure, generosity of ...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Ice Road Trucker from 2010-12-01T12:00

Dave Miller from CBC Canada in Yellowknife, Northern Territories, records Alex Debogorski as he drives his load across the harsh environment of frozen lakes to diamond mines in northern Canada. (F...

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Fr. Paddy - A Young Man on a Mission from 2010-11-26T12:00

A documentary about 36-year-old Fr. Paddy Byrne, exploring one man's view on the challenges and complexities of life as a priest in 2010.


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The Curious Ear (2010): Girls On Wax from 2010-11-26T12:00

An extract from Louise Noone's final year documentary made as part of the Media Arts Course in the Dublin Institute of Technology. She tells the story of female DJs, as they discuss their love of m...

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The Curious Ear (2011): Making My Coffin from 2010-11-22T12:00

Tyrone woman, Winifred Thompson, is preparing for death, but is not ill. She is cutting willow to weave her own coffin. Stephanie Ritson contributes a piece of prose to the day. (First Broadcast 2...

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Yola - Lost for Words from 2010-11-18T12:00

The search for a lost language called Yola takes Shane Dunphy from a sunken island in Wexford harbour to the heart of rural Dorset and the ancient pathways of Cornwall.


from 2010-11-10T12:00

A gimmick? Yes, but worth a try - this entire programme was recorded, edited and sent for transmission on a smartphone. The programme speaks to different people in Cork City about their relationsh...

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The Little Cross of Bronze from 2010-11-09T12:00

Every county in Ireland, except one, has at least one winner of the Victoria Cross. This radio documentary delves into this little known aspect of Irish history to find out who these men were and h...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Winter from 2010-11-04T12:00

Evelyn McClafferty uses voices, music and sounds to evoke the meaning of Winter. Featuring contributions from the worlds of literature, geography, yoga and education. (First Broadcast 2010)
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The Runners - Prix Europa Winner 2010 from 2010-11-02T12:00

This radio documentary has just won a coveted Prix Europa - voted Best Radio Documentary in Europe for 2010. This is the story of a 'runner' - a child who escaped from industrial schools - Christy ...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Blue Door from 2010-10-27T12:00

Katriona McFadden follows the story of a cottage, a postcard and a song in rural Co. Donegal. The story of a man who kept the front door of his cottage open for 30 years... She speaks to Ian Smith ...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Littoral Living from 2010-10-22T12:00

Rachel Ní Chuinn's audio essay on the nature of the inter-tidal zone. (First Broadcast 2010)


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DocArchive (1981) Women and unemployment from 2010-10-19T12:00

This documentary looks at the effect that unemployment in the 1980s had on the people of Arklow, especially women. With most of the men were unemployed, women in Arklow started to look for opportun...

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Love Notes from 2010-10-14T12:00

A radio documentary celebrating 40 years of the National Youth Orchestra and all it has brought to its members: a passion for music; enduring friendships, first loves and marriages, great pieces of...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Big Music from 2010-10-11T12:00

Two archive pieces to mark RTE Big Music Week: one woman who still sings on the street and others who have the headphones on. (First Broadcast 2010)


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The Curious Ear (2010): Ten Tiny Audio Bombs - Part 2 from 2010-09-29T12:00

Every day, during the Dublin Fringe Festival 2010, a different artist or group of artists visited an empty shop unit in Temple Bar, Dublin. There, with an RTE Radio producer, they made audio for ra...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Ten Tiny Audio Bombs - Part 1 from 2010-09-29T12:00

Every day, during the Dublin Fringe Festival 2010, a different artist or group of artists visited an empty shop unit in Temple Bar, Dublin. There, with an RTE Radio producer, they made audio for ra...

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The Curious Ear (2010): One Eye on the World from 2010-09-24T12:00

Tom Shaw wound up in Rathdrum Co. Wicklow; he began his working life at 14, working in the coalmines of Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. In between he worked in Canada mining uranium and gold; in agricu...

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Your Long Journey from 2010-09-23T12:00

The story of the unique bond between a father and son - Danny and Connor Hughes in County Louth who run two shops side by side is told in this radio documentary.


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Bullfight at Inchicore1 from 2010-09-15T12:00

What lengths will a parent go to relieve their child's suffering? In this radio documentary, Eddie 'the Bull' O'Connor has has decided to offer himself as the headline event in a cage-fight in orde...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Crom Regatta 2010 from 2010-09-15T12:00

Crom Estate on the shores of Lough Erne Co.Fermanagh was famous for its annual regattas. They spurred design innovations in yachting that were adopted around the world. In 2010, the local classic y...

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No Stuntman Is An Island from 2010-09-10T12:00

In this radio documentary - the story of Paschal Whelan, the only full time resident of Omey Island and one-time professional wrestler and a stuntman.


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The Curious Ear (2010): Love Spectrum from 2010-09-02T12:00

From first kiss to a long marriage. Caroline Foran's and Hannah Quinn's documentaries for DCU and DIT respectively. These are stories about relationships and romance. (First Broadcast 2010)
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Lives Less Lived from 2010-09-02T12:00

In 1950's Ireland a young woman entered a psychiatric institution. Two years earlier she had been raped. Almost 60 years later, she is an elderly woman and still in a psychiatric institution - in f...

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Birdy from 2010-08-27T12:00

A radio documentary about a German paragliding champion who survived being sucked into a storm that pulled her higher than Mount Everest.


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The Curious Ear (2010): Waiting for... from 2010-08-25T12:00

Waiting for Jarod is the story of a woman waiting for her son to come home from war with a lifesized cardboard cutout picture of him. "Waiting for U2" features three teenagers who spent their days...

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The Curious Ear (2010): The Lonely Funeral from 2010-08-18T12:00

An edited extract from documentary by Michele Ernsting from Radio Netherlands about two men who deal with death. They look after the final journeys of those who die alone in Amsterdam. (First Broa...

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Songs from the Inside from 2010-08-14T12:00

This award winning documentary gained exclusive access to inside the confines of Cork Prison to meet with guitar teacher Noel Shine and his students who are all serving prisoners. This is an unexpe...

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Agatha Christie's Final Mystery from 2010-08-12T12:00

A radio documentary about how Dubliner John Curran's fascination with Agatha Christie has changed his life - and brought a new Hercule Poirot story to the world for the first time in 30 years.
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The Curious Ear (2010): Nobody's Child from 2010-08-10T12:00

Maggie Hurley describes herself as "Wexford's Molly Malone". She's been playing music, busking on the Main Street of the town for over 20 years. She says the locals know her as 'Nobody's Child' ...

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Biking Viking from 2010-08-06T12:00

An almost unbelievable documentary about the life journey of Peter O'Connor who has transformed himself from outlaw biker into a Celtic clan leader, film star and perhaps... just perhaps, the last ...

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The Bundoran Express from 2010-08-04T12:00

A radio documentary about a journey along the much-loved old Clones to Bundoran railway line that ferried holiday makers and pilgrims to the west.


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I Could Have Danced All Night from 2010-07-31T12:00

One of the last great characters of Co Clare, for decades Michael Tierney could be seen walking the streets of Ennis delivering newspapers on his daily round recognised by his wigs, hats, his choic...

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The Release from 2010-07-31T12:00

In the aftermath of homicide, what happens to those left behind? And what happens when the families of victim and perpetrator are separated by only a field? In 1997, 20-year old Marc O'Keeffe was s...

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One Hundred Years of Names from 2010-07-22T12:00

Every personal name has a story. Behind the top 100 Irish baby names list is a fascinating portrait of a changing country.This fascinating and beautiful documentary looks at the names we give our c...

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One Evening in July from 2010-07-22T12:00

A radio documentary about how a swim on a summer's evening at Dublin's Forty Foot changed one man's life forever.


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The Curious Ear (2010): Carlow's Rowdy Pensioners from 2010-07-22T12:00

A community of OAPs in Carlow waking the neighbours for the Bealtaine Festival by playing music and singing. (First Broadcast 2010)


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The Curious Ear (2010): Truckstop Love Affair from 2010-07-12T12:00

Sara Paul's short documentary; ‘Truck Stop Love Affair’ she made while a student at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Maine, America. It explores relationships at a truck stop off inters...

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The day they became men - How the story changes from 2010-07-02T12:00

For years Leinster rugby has been overshadowed by its stronger, more successful country brother, Munster. May 2009, Leinster beat semi-finalists Munster and go on to win the Heineken cup. But does ...

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Gentle Genius, Forgotten Poet from 2010-07-01T12:00

A radio documentary about Cork singer songwriter Ger Wolfe. Described by others as a genius, a poet, and even a prophet, Ger Wolfe possesses a rare ability to capture the hearts and minds of his li...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Rare 'Oul Times from 2010-07-01T12:00

Louise Kenny's final year documentary from her radio course at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. She talks to a Dublin family, the Hansards; a family of 16 children...

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DocArchive: Letter to Ann from 2010-06-30T12:00

This award winning doc tells the story of Anne Lovett, a 15yr old schoolgirl from Granard, Longford, who died giving birth beside a grotto in 1984. Her baby son also died. Her death began a nationa...

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Bachelor's Last Waltz from 2010-06-26T12:00

Jimmy Fleming was never meant to dance again. The 72-year-old bachelor farmer had a heart attack on the dance floor a couple of years back and the doctor warned him to take it easy. This is a story...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Novena from 2010-06-24T12:00

The Solemn Novena in Limerick is a local tradition, that’s about more than religion. Every year, it makes the national traffic news - it's hosted by the Redemptorist Community at Mount St. Alphonsu...

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Suburban hideaway from 2010-06-24T12:00

An award winning documentary that gives an insight into how a family copes after they discover their son sexually assaulted and raped two young school girls. He is now currently serving a ten year ...

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Achill Island Mobile Bank (The Curious Ear) from 2010-06-23T12:00

Jim Foody, driver and Anne McKnight, teller, take the Ulster Bank Mobile Bank around Achill Island twice a week. (2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)


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There Was Love from 2010-06-22T12:00

A radio documentary about two friends going through divorce in Ireland. Ann and Trish record their experience of divorce over a year.


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The Curious Ear (2010): A Taught Sound from 2010-06-17T12:00

The sound of tension for children during exam time at Ardscoil na Trionóide, Athy, Co. Kildare. (First Broadcast 2010)


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Mad About Ned from 2010-06-15T12:00

A radio documentary about 80 year old Traveller man Ned McDonagh whose passion for singing lifts spirits wherever he goes. Ned has not had an easy life but he can still rise above hardship and grie...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Harpie from 2010-06-10T12:00

Janet Harbison has had along-standing passion for harp music. She has always believed harp music can bring people together in Ireland but, believe it or not, it was a dangerous belief to hold. Jane...

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A Fair Exchange? from 2010-06-10T12:00

A radio documentary telling the story of a group of Irish businesspeople who are trying to bring clean water to the village of Illili Darartu - where the low price of coffee has led to many farmers...

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Deadly Sleeper from 2010-06-03T12:00

This award winning documentary tells the story of 54-year-old Ray. Ray's family have suspected for a long time that something is wrong. Could it be that he suffers from Sleep Apnoea, a disorder whe...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Flower War from 2010-06-03T12:00

Gerald Flower, from Dublin, lost his job when the factory in the U.K supplying the company he worked for was bombed in the world war. He decided to join the RAF for adventure and bailed out of an R...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Obsession from 2010-06-03T12:00

What’s the line between devotion and obsession Erica Mills tells the stories of four devotees who love, tattoos, Liverpool, "Supernatural" and gaming. Made as part of the MA in International Journa...

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The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper from 2010-06-01T12:00

An award winning documentary about the pressurised life of a goalkeeper, the one member of the football team who spends ninety minutes looking at the backs of his teammates, where one mistake can s...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Through African Ears from 2010-05-28T12:00

The Forum on Migration and Communications ran a training course with Róisín Boyd for 6 women who wanted to make radio programmes. These are all women from Africa who have arrived in Ireland through...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Shatila from 2010-05-28T12:00

Derek O'Halloran has never been to a refugee camp before. He visits Shatila 'camp', which has been home to displaced Palestinian refugees in Lebanon for 60 years.There he feels many emotions; he is...

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Dustcatchers (The Curious Ear) from 2010-05-23T12:00

Those little gee-gaws that people keep in their houses. They'd never appear in an interior design magazine, but they mean something special to the owners. Producer: Susan O'Loghlin. (A short Iri...

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The Curious Ear (2010): The Toastie Train from 2010-05-21T12:00

John, Maurice and Vinod travel to work by train every day - from Limerick to Dublin. A four-hour round trip. They talk of their loves, likes, dislikes...and toast. (First Broadcast 2010)


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The Dead News Network from 2010-05-20T12:00

A radio documentary about Anne, a 37 year old mother from Kildare who talks to spirits every day. Anne is a medium and conveys messages from the dead to the living.


from 2010-05-12T12:00

Ballyfermot Travellers' Action Project from Dublin has raised thousands of money in charity aid donations. In April 2010, they visited some recipients of that aid: a group of former lepers in the v...

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The Long Evenings from 2010-05-09T12:00

A charming look at rural life, past and present by Breandan O' Ciobhain. A charming look at rural life, past and present by Breandan O' Ciobhain.


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DocArchive: Fading Echoes from 2010-05-01T12:00

An award winning documentary that looks back at the boys who sold newspapers like the Evening Echo and Evening Herald on the streets of Cork and Dublin during the 1950s. (Broadcast 2003)


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The Search for Edna Lavilla from 2010-05-01T12:00

An award winning documentary from Australia, in which a woman traces the history of her grandmother who died as a result of a backstreet abortion.


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Secrets and Lies from 2010-05-01T12:00

Elizabeth O'Halloran's (36) life changed from a chat in a pub in Huddersfield at a relatives funeral. Nobody is certain where Elizabeth came from and nobody knows what happened to her Irish mother....

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The Curious Ear (2010): People First, Music Second from 2010-04-30T12:00

Producers Susan O'Leary and Jacqui Corcoran recorded two sessions, one in the Comeraghs, Co. Waterford and the other in Morro Bay,California, America. At both sessions, the musicians and students ...

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The Curious Ear (2010): On Summer from 2010-04-29T12:00

Evelyn McClafferty evokes the mood of the Summer season to mark May 1st. Speaking to children and adults, including Met Eireann's Evelyn Cusack, they describe what the season means to them. (Firs...

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Shuffle Up and Deal from 2010-04-29T12:00

This documentary tells the story of life as a professional poker player. Told through three Irish poker players: two of Ireland's best known professional players, Andrew 'the Monk' Black and Padrai...

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Stuart Rosenblatt - The Keeper of the Faith from 2010-04-26T12:00

This radio documentary maps and explores Jewish Ireland, and our guide is Dubliner Stuart Rosenblatt. Stuart is the author of the 16-volume Rosenblatt Series, the most comprehensive collection of g...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Stuck In A Big Lift from 2010-04-24T12:00

The Icelandic volcanic eruptions of April 2010 affected air travel and stranded millions of air passengers around Europe. This programme follows a small group of Irish passengers stranded in Istanb...

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David Hughes' Greenmarket (The Curious Ear) from 2010-04-23T12:00

David runs a market in a very unusual place. (2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)


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My Bones Won't Rest Here from 2010-04-20T12:00

A radio documentary telling the story of how, over 60 years ago, an cousin's wedding changed one Irish man's life by acting as the catalyst to send him on a journey to the United States where he fo...

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What's Love Got To Do With It from 2010-04-13T12:00

A radio documentary about domestic violence and the scars it leaves on both its victims and perpetrators. Two women-survivors of domestic violence give us a glimpse into what life was like with a v...

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Jungle Is Rough from 2010-04-13T12:00

A radio documentary telling the story of Brian and Michelle who both have been diagnosed as schizophrenic. Brian is a voice hearer. It is the story of how they cope on a day to day basis, the story...

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DocArchive (1996): Irony? An Essay on Irony from 2010-04-09T12:00

Why has the world become so Ironic now? from those who say one thing but hold another view. Although Irony, is used each day by thousands of people, it's also influenced our music, art and building...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Mullingar Military Museum from 2010-04-04T12:00

The military museum at Columb Barracks, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, where the guides and curators had an unusual passion for their exhibits. They came from the time of the British, through the War o...

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Axels of Evil from 2010-04-01T12:00

A sign of the times and how much we've all changed. Were we really this 'out of touch' in just 2008? Born and bred out of 21st century Ireland.The real question is, "If SUVs seem to be so universal...

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Witness At Checkpoint 300: My Time in Bethlehem from 2010-04-01T12:00

A radio documentary telling the story of Galway woman Barbara Walshe as she spends a three-month term as a human rights observer in the West Bank, seeing conditions at Checkpoint 300 and life for P...

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Marrying Out - Part 2 - Between Two Worlds (The Children) from 2010-03-30T12:00

Part 2 of a two part documentary about pre-multicultural Australia where marrying across the Protestant/Catholic Divide was to consort wth the enemy. Yet from the 1890s to the 1960s, one in five Au...

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Marrying Out - Part 1 - Not in Front of the Altar (The Spouses) from 2010-03-30T12:00

Part 1 of a two part documentary about pre-multicultural Australia where marrying across the Protestant/Catholic Divide was to consort wth the enemy. Yet from the 1890s to the 1960s, one in five Au...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Butter Bessie.... from 2010-03-24T12:00

...and The Priest with The Power. Funny stories of smuggling from Co. Monaghan’s Briain Mac An Bhaird of irishmusings.com. (First Broadcast 2010)


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Downtown - Pete Hamill's Manhattan from 2010-03-23T12:00

A radio documentary featuring acclaimed journalist and novelist Pete Hamill talks about his enduring love affair with the 'skinny little island' of Manhattan and his career in newspapers in the mos...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Berlin Salad from 2010-03-23T12:00

Brenda Tobin gets a taste of the German capital, Berlin courtesy of three Irish artists who live there: MJ Whelan, Declan Clarke and Myles Claffey. They discuss politics, geography, film, art and ...

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The Curious Ear (2010): The Turn in the Road Tells a Tale from 2010-03-22T12:00

Almost every field and turn in the road has a story - as revealed by retired teacher, farmer and storyteller, Briain Mac An Bhaird. He reveals stories about the geography and language of the loca...

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The Curious Ear(2010): Magnetic Mary & The Angels from 2010-03-16T12:00

Two Dublin shopkeepers Aideen Tarbet and Avril O’Brien sell and listen and sell and listen. In their shops, they sell spiritual artefacts, but provide so much more to customers looking for religio...

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The Carberrys - Running in the Family from 2010-03-12T12:00

An award winning doc on the Carberrys, one of Ireland's most famous horse racing dynasties. Grand National winning jockey and trainer Tommy Carberry is joined by his wife Pamela and 4 of their chil...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Shopping in Mullingar from 2010-03-10T12:00

Writer and journalist, Michael Harding goes shopping in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath but doesn't quite make it. He takes a wander through the town chatting to men in the community and shops; praising ...

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Two hundred shaves a day from 2010-03-03T12:00

A radio documentary about the life of eighty year old Mayo man, Larry Hingerton - one time barber to the stars and musician.


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The Balloon in Brosna from 2010-03-01T12:00

Con Curtin, a Kerry fiddle player and self-proclaimed living legend, is a unique character. Every year the Kerry village of Brosna holds a festival in his honour. Apprenticed as a blacksmith, he le...

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The Long Strike from 2010-03-01T12:00

The fascinating story of how, in 1968, on the Roscommon Leitrim border, the miners of Arigna went on strike for a five day week - a strike that divided the community when twelve men crossed the pic...

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My Cappoquin Chickens from 2010-03-01T12:00

As the Celtic Tiger era neared its end in 2008, many factories and businesses began to close. This story follows Ned Morrissey, a chicken grower from Cappoquin, County Waterford, as he prepares wha...

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Soul Wings from 2010-03-01T12:00

One of our most popular docs - A story of recovery - "I'm meant to be here, I'm meant to tell this story. It may help somebody else. I wasn't meant to die and I wasn't meant to go mad from drink wh...

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The Curious Ear (2010): Hot Irishman from 2010-02-26T12:00

Radio producer, Colette Kinsella, meets an elderly Irishman who hasn't given up on looking for romance; he's in an Irish Centre in America; New York and uses a drink called "Hot Irishman" to introd...

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Ten Minutes From Kenema from 2010-02-24T12:00

A radio documentary about Elayne, Nancy and Sombo, three pregnant women who gave birth in different countries with very different outcomes. We travel from Ireland, the safest place in the world to ...

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Stopped By Swans (The Curious Ear) from 2010-02-23T12:00

Colette Kinsella has found a place in Dublin it's very hard to pass without stopping...(2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)


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Anatomy of a Recession - The 100 Days from 2010-02-01T12:00

Back in the heady days of the affluent Celtic Tiger, it wasn't until 2008 that we began to get a sneaking sense that things were seriously starting to go wrong. This is the story of the first 100 d...

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The Tattie Hokers - The Migrant Workers of North Mayo from 2010-02-01T12:00

A radio documentary that tells the stories of migrant workers from North Mayo and their journeys to Scotland to pick potatoes during the 20th century to earn a meagre living and support their famil...

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Rebel City Reverts from 2010-02-01T12:00

Three Cork born Muslims relate their experiences of finding Islam, practising their religion in their home town, and worshipping at their Mosque, on an industrial estate on the outskirts of the cit...

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21 Years and 8 Days from 2010-02-01T12:00

August 2006, Gary Douche (21) was beaten to death in the holding cell of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. He was violently attacked by another inmate in a hot, overcrowded cell. The details of his death we...

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Mary from 2010-02-01T12:00

This is the colourful and initimate story of Mary Murphy, an extraordinarily talented woman with an intellectual disability, who never lets this stand in the way of what she wants to achieve in lif...

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The Curious Ear: "Silence" by Joan Schuman from 2010-02-01T12:00

A sound art and documentary piece about a couple who choose to live in silence. (www.joanschuman.com)


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About A Pop Song (The Curious Ear) from 2010-01-23T12:00

Learning all about the 2007 Sugababes hit, "About You Now". (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)


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Generation X Factor from 2010-01-21T12:00

Jedward-mania hit the country in the autumn of 2009. This radio documentary looks at life inside the pop bubble - and what happens when the bubble bursts, talking to previous Irish contestants of t...

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The Curious Ear: Peter Healy Luthier from 2010-01-20T12:00

Peter Healy makes stringed instruments and invites groups to his home to play them. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.


from 2010-01-08T12:00

Sounds and pictures from the old Russian town of Sergiyev Posad as emailed by Vladimir Kryutchev. (First Broadcast 2010)


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How Macroom Remembers from 2010-01-02T12:00

Politics in Ireland, like most other countries, has a long memory. We visit the Cork town of Macroom that still remembers the Irish Civil War. Even today in the run up to election time, those civil...

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After Belfast: Father Aidan in Paris from 2010-01-02T12:00

Fr Aidan Troy spent 7yrs in Belfast where his ministry spanned the time of the infamous Holy Cross Protest Walks and a blight of suicides. In 2008, Fr Aidan was sent to a new parish in Paris. This ...

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DocArchive: Rumours from Monaghan from 2010-01-01T12:00

Senator Billy Fox was murdered on March 11th 1974. Five members of the Provisional IRA were sentenced to life for the killing. The story of Billy Fox is largely forgotten. This documentary attempts...

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Peggy the Postmistress (The Curious Ear) from 2010-01-01T12:00

Peggy is on holiday - her first in 39 years. Well, it's not a holiday; it's retirement. Since the late 1960's, Peggy Moloney's been the postmistress in O'Callaghan's Mills, Co. Clare. (2008) (A s...

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DocArchive: The Siege of 64 Great Strand Street from 2010-01-01T12:00

The story of the attack on Connolly Hall, Great Strand Street, Dublin in March 1933, examining the background and political climate at the time. (First Broadcast 1976)


from 2010-01-01T12:00

19 members of the travelling community in Tallagh have died in 18 months through death by suicide. This documentary goes behind the statistics to look at the human stories of those most affected. Listen

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DocArchive: Fossetts Circus from 2010-01-01T12:00

The story of Ireland's National Circus - Fossetts Circus - We examine its history, the highs and lows of working and living in a travelling circus and of course the wanderlust! (Broadcast 1975) Listen

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DocArchive: From Val Vousden Till Now from 2010-01-01T12:00

Fifty years of entertainment recalled by Maureen Potter, Jack Cruise, Joe Linnane and many others, together with excerpts from radio shows down the years. (1976)


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DocArchive: Markey from 2010-01-01T12:00

Markey Robinson was born in Belfast in 1918 and died in 1999. Markey was a prolific Irish artist with a distinctive naïve expressionist style. His main passion was painting, but he also produced sc...

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DocArchive: The Glen Road to Carrick from 2010-01-01T12:00

Fiddle player Paul O'Shaughnessy's revisits The Glen area of Co Donegal which was a place of formative experience for him. This documentary is an exploration of a musical style told through this tu...

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Maria's Schooldays (The Curious Ear) from 2010-01-01T12:00

Four twenty-something women recall the good and bad of an Irish convent secondary school which they left in 2001. (Broadcast in 2008) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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DocArchive: The Guest from 2010-01-01T12:00

Cellist Richard Groocock lost his young son to suicide. Kevin, a promising trombone player, was 20 when he took his life. This story explores whether music can still be played and enjoyed in a fami...

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DocArchive: Like The Wings of a Butterfly from 2010-01-01T12:00

Emma Fogarty lives with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a painful genetic skin disorder which causes her skin layers to separate and blister at the slightest touch. This is a glimpse into the world of ...

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DocArchive: 50 Years of Radio Drama from 2010-01-01T12:00

Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976. Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative progra...

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DocArchive: Playing With Pride from 2010-01-01T12:00

This documentary tells the story of a girl's gaelic football team from Dublin's Sheriff Street during the run-up to a Cumann na mBunscoil semi-final during the month of November in 2005.


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DocArchive: The Strange Thing I Am from 2010-01-01T12:00

On Easter Monday 1916 Patrick Pearse stood on the steps of the GPO and read the Proclamation. John Cunningham questions how our view of Pearse has evolved from the adulation of the early years to h...

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DocArchive: The Blues and the Candy Stripes from 2010-01-01T12:00

The previous time Belfast soccer club Linfield FC travelled to the home of Derry City FC, was January 25th 1969. The two sides found themselves on opposite ends of the social spectrum in a time of ...

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DocArchive: The Cons are Coming from 2010-01-01T12:00

The story of the annual visit of a family from America and England to their homeplace in Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan. It's a story of enduring friendship among a family and their neighbours. (20...

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DocArchive: The Clare Champions from 2010-01-01T12:00

1995 was the first ever Ireland hurling success for Co. Clare. This documentary tracks both the success of that year and all that went before it - the curse of Biddy Early, Ger Loughnane's training...

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DocArchive: Pieces of the Wall from 2010-01-01T12:00

Twenty years after the extraordinary event of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Martin Duffy, an Irish writer and film-maker living in Berlin, meets Irish people who have been living in West Berlin sinc...

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DocArchive: Over the Waves from 2010-01-01T12:00

Gay Byrne looks back on the trends and changes in fashion in the development of light music on radio since the days of 2RN (1976). Gay Byrne looks back on the trends and changes in fashion in the...

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DocArchive: Pat's University Challenge from 2010-01-01T12:00

Twenty years years after it became a fully fledged university in 1989, Pat O'Mahony returns to his old alma mater, Dublin City University and spends freshers week there. (2009)


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The Curious Ear (2009): Gold Party from 2010-01-01T12:00

It's like an Ann Summers or Tupperware party, in that you have a group of people around to your place. Except, with gold parties; it’s about money; they come to sell and not to buy. (First Broadc...

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DocArchive: The Fathers House from 2010-01-01T12:00

An intimate and powerful story of heroin, hurt and friendship - of how four dads - John, Jimmy, Paul and Mousey -found a way to live with their child's addiction.


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DocArchive: The Tin Box from 2010-01-01T12:00

Upwards of 300,000 Irish men and women from the nationalist tradition fought in the Great War. This documentary focuses on the memories of the children of these people, including Mary Russell, whos...

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DocArchive: The Menai Suspension Bridge from 2010-01-01T12:00

A 1976 documentary celebrating 150 years since the bridge across the Menai Strait that connects Anglesey with the mainland - and how an Irish vehicle was the first to cross it.


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The September 11th attacks changed the world forever. 2,976 victims and 19 hijackers died in the attack. Cork woman, Ruth Clifford McCourt and her 4yr old daughter Juliana were passengers on the hi...

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The Curious Ear (2009): Grand Art from 2010-01-01T12:00

The story of the man who, anonymously, hid Lotto scratchcards in books in Waterford Library and why. Followed by the story of 13 college students from Leeds who blew a grant they'd been given for...

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DocArchive: Mary and Manor Street from 2010-01-01T12:00

Mary Gurr had been a promising footballer but she died an alcholic and homeless. Here, the Gurr family describe the helplessness of watching a cherished family member slowly die on the streets of t...

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DocArchive: O Commemorate Me from 2010-01-01T12:00

Marking the centenary of his birth, this programme is based primarily in Patrick Kavanagh's birthplace of Iniskeen and in other towns in South Monaghan featuring events as the inauguration of the N...

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The Curious Ear (2010): The Neighbours At 52 from 2010-01-01T12:00

Weafer St. (pronounced 'wafer') in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford and Rahel–Varnhagen-Promenade in Berlin, Germany share similar geography. They are both on 52 degrees 30 minutes north of the Equator. Bo...

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DocArchive: Who Is Izzy Baia? from 2010-01-01T12:00

This radio documentary won a prestigious Prix Italia - a story giving an insight into the world of Kevin Whelan and his relationship with Brian, an autistic teenager in Galway (First broadcast 1997...

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DocArchive: Do You Still Come Here Often? from 2010-01-01T12:00

Kevin Sheedy examines the fate of the strict-tempo ballroom dancer in an age of pop and Rock.


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A radio documentary recorded on the day that George Best was laid to rest in Belfast


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The Curious Ear (2009): Dole Volunteers from 2010-01-01T12:00

The Dodder Valley Partnership in Tallaght, Dublin, organises volunteers to work in the local Social Welfare Office. They 'signpost': they give out leaflets on local services like deals at sports ce...

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DocArchive: The Great Debate from 2010-01-01T12:00

The legend of Oisín and Saint Patrick is retold in this dramatisation from 1976.


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Doc Archive: Stone Cutters from 2010-01-01T12:00

Stone cutters, quarry men and the long tradition of masonry families in Barnacullia, Co Dublin, where granite has been its life blood for the past 200 years (first broadcast 1976).


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DocArchive: Last Brigadista from 2010-01-01T12:00

A documentary on Irish man, Ned Murphy, believed to be the last survivor of the Irish Brigade which fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil War. This is Ned's story, told in his own words and those ...

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DocArchive: The Orphans That Never Were from 2010-01-01T12:00

On February 23rd 1943, a fire in St Joseph's industrial school in Cavan Town, an orphanage run by an enclosed order nuns caught fire. 35 orphans and one elderly woman died that night. This is the s...

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DocArchive: The Ffrench Connection from 2010-01-01T12:00

This is the story of two great estates, one in Monivea, County Galway - the other in Simbirsk, Russia. It is also the story of the woman who owned those two estates - Kathleen Ffrench - and her cou...

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Stories from the black republic from 2009-12-31T12:00

Through the stories of the people who lived through the regimes of Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier, 'Stories from the Black' Republic traces the horrors of the Dubaliers' private army the Ton Ton Ma...

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DocArchive: How Far Have They Travelled? from 2009-12-31T12:00

The Donovan family are members of the travelling community and ten years on from a documentary where they moved into a house, the family describe why they have decided to go back on the road again....

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The appeal of the midnight court from 2009-12-31T12:00

The Appeal of the Midnight Court is a special documentary made by Cathal Póirtéir for RTÉ Radio 1 to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Clare poet Brian Merriman.


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DocArchive: The children at the bottom of the garden from 2009-12-31T12:00

An amazing documentary by John McKenna about being told by his mother on her deathbed that the children she lost at birth were buried at the bottom of their garden. This is a story of 1950s Catholi...

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DocArchive: Martha Graham - Mother of us all from 2009-12-31T12:00

Martha Graham, an American dancer/choreographer, was regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. She invented a new language of movement and used it to reveal the passion, the rage an...

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DocArchive: In Your Face from 2009-12-31T12:00

Lia Mills is an Irish writer. She writes novels, short stories and literary non-fiction. This is the story of her experience with oral cancer


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DocArchive: Wake me when I'm dead from 2009-12-31T12:00

A documentary about the dead, dying and death - told by the undertaker Thomas Lynch who is is an essayist, poet and funeral director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (Broadcast 20...

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Hitler's Nemesis - Georgi Zhukov from 2009-12-31T12:00

May 1st 2005, marked the 60th anniversary of Marshal Georgi Zhukov's victory in the Battle of Berlin in the Second World War. This is the story of a Russian man, a now largely neglected figure in t...

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Changing Faces from 2009-12-31T12:00

Clarie Taylor was born in his grandmother's caravan during an afternoon circus show. His family moved the day after and since that time he's travelled from village to village with his family's vari...

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DocArchive: Fire in the Earth - Poetry and Mythology from 2009-12-30T12:00

Poet David Whyte unravels the role of poetry and mythology in life. Author of six books of poetry, David grew up with a strong, imaginative influence from his Irish mother in the valleys of his fat...

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DocArchive: Swansong of a Toad from 2009-12-30T12:00

Dick Warner travels to west Kerry, one of the last habitats of the native Irish natterjack toad who is thought to be an immigrant from the end of the Ice Age. Dick soon discovers that the toads are...

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DocArchive: The Hudson Letter from 2009-12-30T12:00

A documentary with a difference - Derek Mahon's acclaimed poetry sequence of The Hudon River is read by a stellar cast including Stephen Rea and Dawn Bradfiled and put to a soundtrack of New York s...

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DocArchive: Good Job Base from 2009-12-30T12:00

Shannon Airport is unique in location and in the history of aviation. Of all European Airports it's situated at the most western point, making it the ideal stepping stone between the old world and ...

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DocArchive: My Eskimo Friends from 2009-12-30T12:00

In 1990 Irish woman Geraldine Osborne decided on an adventure - to move with her young family to an entirely new world - Ellesmare Island far up in Northern Canada. Deep within the artic circle, sh...

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DocArchive: Excuse To Be Evil from 2009-12-30T12:00

This is the story of two sisters who spent their childhoods growing up in a Satanic cult. This is challenging listening, sometimes upsetting, sometimes unbelievable - but all true. What is it like ...

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DocArchive (2008): Who Fears to Speak of '98? from 2009-12-29T12:00

This documentary relives a dramatic year in the life of Irish Hurling, when the summer's games became our national soap opera. The 1998 All-Ireland hurling championship was like no other - from the...

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DocArchive: By the Strands of Magilligan from 2009-12-28T12:00

Magilligan is a penninusla in Co. Derry with a unique history. Unusually, it is an area of Northern Ireland where the population is made up in the majority of families who are 'pre-plantation' stoc...

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DocArchive: Behind the pipes from 2009-12-28T12:00

Kenneth Jones has dedicated his life to building pipe organs. We visit Ken at his home, learn about the history of the organ and also hear him play some of the instruments he made including the org...

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DocArchive: First Language from 2009-12-28T12:00

A surprise to many, Dublin is Ireland's largest Gaeltacht and the area where the most amount of people speak Irish/Gaelic on a daily basis. But what is life like for a family bringing up children s...

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DocArchive: House Strictly Private from 2009-12-27T12:00

The Irish Wake is one of the iconic traditions associated with family, community and death - at least it used to be. From its origins back to an ancient Jewish custom, the wake which was part of ev...

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DocArchive: The Show People from 2009-12-27T12:00

The Bird family are 'Show People'. They move from town to town across the country, selling rides like the dodgems and the merry go round at their travelling fairground. (Broadcast 1979)


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DocArchive: Beer, Beer, Glorious Beer. from 2009-12-26T12:00

All you will ever need to know about one of our most popular tipples - beer. A look at the history and science of beer brewing through the ages. (Broadcast 1979)


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DocArchive: Fingers numb faces aglow from 2009-12-24T12:00

The enchanting story of a 7 year olds boyhood memories of Christmas in Co. Roscommon. Memories flood back filled with conversations, smells, tastes, humour - and all the magic of the festive time o...

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DocArchive: Last Christmas on Inisturk from 2009-12-24T12:00

The story of one group of islanders and their last Christmas on Inisturk, a small island off the coast of Mayo, as they face up to the harsh reality that they have no option but to leave their home...

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DocArchive: The Park Danes from 2009-12-24T12:00

Residents of the park area in Limerick have seen a lot of change - this documentary talks to the eclectic group of people that go there every day.


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DocArchive: A Palestrina Christmas from 2009-12-23T12:00

15 years ago, Mary Curtin spent Christmas with the Palestrina Choir of St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin. From 1982 until the Christmas of 1995, Ite O'Donovan was the choirs director. This documentar...

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DocArchive (1981): Care of Wild Animals In Captivity from 2009-12-22T12:00

Dublin Zoo was opened in 1831 by he Royal Zoological Society of Ireland and lies in the heart of Dublin's Phoenix Park. In this documentary, John Shkehan speaks to the people who work there about b...

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The Curious Ear (2009): Audio Christmas Card from 2009-12-21T12:00

The Curious Ear Audio Christmas Card. Recorded at the Farmleigh House Christmas Market, Dublin. The barbershop singers are: "The Mellowchords". (First Broadcast 2009)


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DocArchive: Dadland from 2009-12-21T12:00

A radio documentary that offers a very intimate portrait of what it is like to be part of an Irish farming family in rural Ireland - like all families, Richie Beirne's is no different - it has its ...

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DocArchive: Quick Quick Smile Smile from 2009-12-20T12:00

The modelling scene in 1970s Ireland was tough - work was scarce and pay was variable, models had to provide all their own accessories from shoes to tights and hats - and you had to get to jobs in ...

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DocArchive: Churchill and Ireland from 2009-12-19T12:00

His earliest childhood memories were of the Phoenix Park - and Winston Churchill described the years he lived beside the Viceregal Lodge in Dublin as the happiest years of his life. A look at Churc...

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DocArchive: Lorient from 2009-12-19T12:00

Since 1971, millions have been travelling to Lorient - a town in Brittany to attend its world famous International festival to celebrate Celtic culture, song and dance. (Broadcast 1979)


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DocArchive: Sean Lemass from 2009-12-18T12:00

A profile of Sean Lemass, one of the most prominent Irish Political figures of the 20th Century, and a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. (Broadcast 1971)...

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DocArchive: The Moles of Moneenroe from 2009-12-18T12:00

Castlecomer in Kilkenny is synonymous with coalmining. In 1802 alone - there was eighteen working pits and the miners who worked there were known as the ‘Moles of Moneenroe.’ (Broadcast 1979)
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DocArchive: These People from 2009-12-17T12:00

The story of a group of recovering drug addicts as they prepare to put on a play. We follow them from rehearsals, which are often disruptive, through to the performance on the night. (Broadcast 200...

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DocArchive: The Sons Of Molly from 2009-12-17T12:00

The ‘Molly Maguires’ were a 19th century secret society of Irish descent who were accused of kidnappings and other crimes in the rural coalmining areas of Pennsylvania. (Broadcast 1979)


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DocArchive: Guns and Roses from 2009-12-16T12:00

Every day for six months these women must wear a uniform and carry a gun. This documentary follows four women soldiers on duty with the Irish army in the Lebanon (Broadcast 1994)


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DocArchive: Gerry's Left Leg from 2009-12-16T12:00

A personal story of disability with an honest and lively portrait of a man named Gerry O'Brien - a teacher in CBS Monkstown in Dublin who has no arms and just one leg. (Broadcast 1992)


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DocArchive: Back from the Brink from 2009-12-16T12:00

In 1975, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Penh, Cambodia and defeated the ruling Lon Nol Army. Pol Pot declared 'Year Zero' and began his reign of terror. This documentary looks at how the Cambodia...

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DocArchive: Heart of Grace from 2009-12-16T12:00

A powerful story about the recipients of donor hearts, by Ireland's longest heart transplant survivor Bill Long. (Broadcast 1995)


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DocArchive: Markets Without Middlemen from 2009-12-14T12:00

The battle between market stall holders and big business and how the tide of business has obliterated the small man, the donkey and cart and the street singer whose music is drowned out by the soun...

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DocArchive: Mama's Baby from 2009-12-14T12:00

Four year old Charlotte was born with Rett's Syndrome - a rare neurological disorder resulting in physical and intellectual disability. It occurs in girls almost exclusively, and affects one in ten...

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DocArchive: Yeee Haaa from 2009-12-14T12:00

Dick Warner visits the wild west to discover bunkhouses, poets and other aspects of cowboy culture (Broadcast 1997)


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DocArchive: That Lady from 2009-12-14T12:00

The life and works of Limerick born novelist and playwright Kate O’Brien (1897-1974) featuring dramatised excerptsof the works of O'Brien (Broadcast 1997)


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DocArchive: World of Women from 2009-12-13T12:00

In this documentary from 1980, Marian Finucane travelled to Copenhagen for the second United Nations World Conference on Women where delegates gathered to assess the progress in women’s rights and ...

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DocArchive: Baby on the Way from 2009-12-13T12:00

In this revealing documentary we go behind the scenes at the Coombe Women's Hospital in Dublin to explore the world of pregnancy, from the anti-natal clinic to the birth of a child in the delivery ...

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DocArchive: Priests Leaving from 2009-12-13T12:00

In the 1970s numbers of priests were declining in their thousands. Former priests discuss their reasons for leaving - often the isolation and lonliness that they felt as a result of celibacy. (Firs...

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DocArchive: Meltdown from 2009-12-12T12:00

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Harrisburg power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28th, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear ...

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DocArchive: InterchurchMarriages from 2009-12-12T12:00

In 1975 the 'mixed marriage problem' was such a divisive issue in Ireland that a conference was held to try to figure out what should be done if a Catholic and a Protestant wanted to get married (f...

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DocArchive: Wicked Old Children of George Fitzmaurice from 2009-12-11T12:00

A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and short story writer George Fitzmaurice, with accounts from those who knew him personally. (Broadcast 1972) A look at the life of the Irish dramatist an...

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DocArchive: Stargazers from 2009-12-11T12:00

Patrick Moore boasted to friends that he was the only man to interview Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin but to his fans he was much more than a broadcaster. (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Pórt Na bPúcaí - The Music of Ghosts from 2009-12-10T12:00

A look at the career of the Irish traditional musician and TV producer, Tony McMahon. His contribution to Irish music worldwide over the decades has been remarkable, due in part to his uncomprimisi...

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DocArchive: To A Nunnery Gone from 2009-12-10T12:00

Thirty years ago, nuns played a prominent role in Irish society especially in the education and the medical sectors but what was daily life like for these women? (Broadcast 1979)


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DocArchive: Strawboys from 2009-12-09T12:00

A radio documentary about the Strawboy tradition in County Sligo (Broadcast 1998)


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DocArchive: Mount Street Club from 2009-12-09T12:00

A radio documentary about the Mount Street Club founded in Dublin 1934 (Broadcast 1997)


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A radio documentary about the role of the government press secretary by Niall Doyle (Broadcast 1999)


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DocArchive: To the Island - Mary O'Malley in Inishmore from 2009-12-09T12:00

A radio documentary profiling Galway-based poet Mary O'Malley and her writers workshop on Inishmore.


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DocArchive: My Mother and the Poet from 2009-12-09T12:00

In this radio documentary, we hear the story of Brid Manifold, who discovered that her mother Deirdre had a romantic involvement with poet Patrick Kavanagh before marrying Brid’s father (Broadcast ...

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DocArchive: I Don't Remember Me from 2009-12-09T12:00

A radio documentary about the effects of M.E. on sufferers (Broadcast 1998)


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DocArchive: Silver Strings from 2009-12-09T12:00

A radio documentary about Donegal Herring Gutters (Broadcast 1997)


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DocArchive: A & E - Accident and Emergency from 2009-12-08T12:00

An exciting 'fly on the wall' documentary about the accident and emergency department of the Mater hospital, Dublin (Broadcast 2001)


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DocArchive: Bulls Wool Coats and Nail Boots from 2009-12-07T12:00

Fifty years of the Forsa Cosanta Aitiuil, or FCA, is commerated in this documentary (Broadcast 1996)


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DocArchive: Glen and Me - Lifeline and Death Row Prisoner from 2009-12-07T12:00

In this radio documentary Hilary Huges shares her experience of letter-writing and visits to Glen, a prisoner on death row (Broadcast 1997)


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DocArchive: All Things Bright and Beautiful from 2009-12-07T12:00

The story of the acclaimed 19th-century hymn writer, Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander (Broadcast 1995)


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DocArchive: Shamrock Bar - The Irish in Moscow from 2009-12-06T12:00

Moscow might not be the most obvious spot for an Irish pub - especially back in the early 1990's. This is the story of Moscow's transition to a market economy and the Irish involvement in the city ...

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DocArchive: The Burning of Bridget Cleary - Witch Burning 1895 from 2009-12-06T12:00

A grisly story about the torture and murder of Bridget Cleary in Tipperary in 1895, whose husband believed her to be a witch or possessed by the fairies (Broadcast 1995).


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DocArchive: Orange The Purple and The Blue from 2009-12-06T12:00

Proinsias O'Conluain delves into the world of the Orange Order, its history and its role into the future (Broadcast 1973)


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DocArchive: Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange from 2009-12-06T12:00

The Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth in Co. Meath in Ireland were built around 3200BC - making them older than Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This docume...

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DocArchive: Unwritten Ireland from 2009-12-06T12:00

The rich oral history of Ireland could have been lost had the Irish Folklore Commission not preserved them for generations to come. From 1935-1971 they collected a treasure trove of photos, music a...

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DocArchive: In the Shadow of Death from 2009-12-06T12:00

Countess Mary de Galway O'Kelly was born Mary Cummins in Dublin in April 1905. She was teaching in Brussels during the German invasion of May 1940 and soon became involved with the Belgian resistan...

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DocArchive: Gordon Bennett Race from 2009-12-05T12:00

The Gordon Bennett Cup Race was the biggest annual motor race in the world in the early 1900s. Automobile clubs around the world competed. In 1903, in unusual circumstances, it became the first eve...

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DocArchive: To End It All from 2009-12-05T12:00

Ireland has one of the highest rates of suicide in Western Europe. It’s one of the major issues affecting Irish society but why is this and what can be done? (Broadcast 1979)



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DocArchive: With the Irish in the Middle East from 2009-12-04T12:00

30,000 Irish soldiers have been deployed since 1978 as peacekeepers for the UN in the Lebanon attempting to keep the peace in one of the most volatile regions on the planet. (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: Flight of the Enola Gay from 2009-12-03T12:00

The 'Enola Gay' was the bomber plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. This documentary meets the navigator of that deadly journey - Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk. 50 yrs, has h...

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DocArchive: Church and State from 2009-12-03T12:00

In 1978, Karol Wojtyla, a Pole was elected Pope John Paul II despite the fact that that at the time his homeland was under communist rule and an aesthetic state. (Broadcast 1978)


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DocArchive: Every man an Einstein from 2009-12-03T12:00

In 1978, John Skehan set out to capture how the young people of Ireland view the scientific future of the world. Did anyone predict that the world would be such a difference place by 2010? (Broadca...

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DocArchive: The Summer of the Moving Statues (2007) from 2009-12-03T12:00

A look back at the summer of 1985, when Ireland was in the grip of the phenomenon of 'moving statues'. Eyewitnesses give there accounts of what they saw in Ballinspittle, Co,Cork and Carns, Co. Sli...

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DocArchive: Fish Culture from 2009-12-02T12:00

As an island nation and for time immemorial, fishing has been part and parcel of Irish life. As times changed and needs changed, fishing and fishermen have changed too. The 'iasc' as we call them a...

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DocArchive (2003):The Thebes Road Movie from 2009-12-01T12:00

In ‘The Thebes Road Movie’, Documentary-Maker Kaye Mortley makes a journey across Europe, to Thebes in Greece. Kaye tells the story of her transcontinental travel and the varieties of mystery she e...

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DocArchive: Rock Of Ages from 2009-11-30T12:00

John Quinn experiences the magic and mystery of Skellig Rock, the monastic settlement off the south-west coast of Kerry (Broadcast 2003)


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DocArchive: Georgie from 2009-11-30T12:00

A radio documentary about the death of Georgie Moore at West Kensington Station in London in 1972, as told by his sister Peggy (Broadcast 1994)


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DocArchive: Satellite to Nenagh from 2009-11-30T12:00

In this radio documentary, Ronan Kelly takes us behind the scenes of RTÉ's coverage of the 1992 General Election. (Broadcast 1994)


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DocArchive: If You Don't Want A Catholic from 2009-11-30T12:00

A radio documentary that tells the story of a Belfast woman’s pilgrimage to see her idols Glasgow Rangers playing Celtic (Broadcast 1993)


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DocArchive: Soviet Voices from 2009-11-30T12:00

In 1973, Sean MacReamoinn travelled to the Soviet Union to view everyday life. He looked at places of cultural significance, thriving communities, religion, sports, hard working conditions, peoples...

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DocArchive: No Meadows in Manhattan from 2009-11-30T12:00

An award winning documentary by the writer Brian Leyden, inspired by a short story of rural decline, produced by Julian Vignoles. (Broadcast 1991)


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DocArchive: Sonny's Story from 2009-11-30T12:00

Radio documentary on songwriter and musician Sonny Condell. Presented by Dave Fanning, produced by Julian Vignoles. (Broadcast 1982)


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DocArchive: The Swallow From Egg to Africa from 2009-11-30T12:00

Eric Dempsey looks at the amazing journey of the swallow, which sees in the space of five months, the bird go from being an egg to arriving in Africa. (Broadcast 2004)


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Tommy Walsh talks of the last days of his wife Jo who died from cancer in November 1993 and recalls happier, earlier years. (Broadcast 1995)


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DocArchive: Invisible Prince from 2009-11-29T12:00

From Huguenot nobility Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a 19th century Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of his period and was central to the develop...

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DocArchive: Simple Simon lives here from 2009-11-28T12:00

This doc traces the birth of the Simon Community in Ireland. We meet the people whose vision helped shape a community for the homeless of Ireland. In the early '70s Simon offices were opening up al...

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DocArchive: Disaster at Whiddy from 2009-11-28T12:00

The French oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded in West Cork, at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal in January 1979. 50 people lost their lives. This is the story of that disaster - bro...

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DocArchive: When the trees were green from 2009-11-28T12:00

A dramatised account of an 8yr who was first diagnosed with appendicitis, then rediagnosed with cancer - and given just weeks to live. It turned out that both diagnoses were wrong - and that's only...

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DocArchive: How Do You Say from 2009-11-27T12:00

A look into the ups and downs of learning a new language and the benefits of being multilingual. The programme talks to students and teachers about what the major obstacles are and recommends techn...

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DocArchive: The Cowslips from 2009-11-26T12:00

The cattle way of life in Dublin is a way of life that now only exists in memory. From fairs and farms throughout Ireland, cattle arrived into Dublin each week - being driven through the streets an...

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DocArchive: The Man on the Moons from 2009-11-26T12:00

The story of how a farm labourer from Carrickmacross ended up having his name inscribed on a plaque that now resides on the moon. (2009)


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DocArchive (1999): Sweetbreads in Soho from 2009-11-24T12:00

Richard Corrigan started his working life as an unpromising and shy 14 year old, in the kitchen of an Athboy hotel. This job marked the beginning of a love affair with food and many years later, h...

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DocArchive: On The Roslea Pad from 2009-11-23T12:00

Roslea is a village in Co. Fermanagh surrounded by small lakes and the river Finn. About 500 people live there. Former US President Bill Clinton claimed his forebears came from Roslea. This is the ...

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DocArchive: The Political Death of a Religious Man from 2009-11-22T12:00

In 1681 Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, was the last in a series of Irish martyrs executed for their faith by the English crown. In 1975, he became the first Irish...

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DocArchive: Scattery of Senan from 2009-11-21T12:00

Scattery Island Cathedral and monastery was an early Christian place of pilgrimage in the Shannon estuary, Co.Clare. Named after St. Senan, the Bishop and confessor who founded the monastery, much ...

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DocArchive: The Age of De Valera from 2009-11-21T12:00

Recorded during the Merriman Summer school of 1973, this is a documentary discussion on Eamon De Valera. We discuss and listen to extracts of his speeches that span 50yrs and examine one of Ireland...

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DocArchive: Out of the Darkness from 2009-11-20T12:00

What's it like to have eyes but not be able to see? What's it like to live in a world of black, where your ears guide you through the world? This documentary examines blindness - yesterday, today a...

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DocArchive: Island Exodus from 2009-11-19T12:00

The Western Islands off the coast of Mayo were, for years, home to thousands. But over time the population declined gradually - today only a few remain on these remote islands. This documentary tel...

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DocArchive: Alive, Alive O from 2009-11-19T12:00

In 1970's Ireland, the fishing industry was growing, yet fishermen 'battled' with foreign trawlers. We visit the port of Killybegs in Dongeal who wait for the government to impliment a 50 mile limi...

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DocArchive (1978): Taking the Waters from 2009-11-17T12:00

It was once claimed that Ireland has over three thousand healing springs and more than any other country in Europe. In Taking the Waters, we hear about the springs that are no longer and those that...

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DocArchive: After the Fleadh from 2009-11-16T12:00

The Fleadh Cheoil is an Irish music competition run by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ) each year. The premise of the competition is to find the best players/singers of Irish traditional Music. Th...

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DocArchive: A Servant of God from 2009-11-15T12:00

John Charles McQuaid (1895–1973) was the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland from December 1940 and February 1972. This is his life story and of how he was viewed by his friends, h...

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DocArchive: The Smith - A Mighty Man from 2009-11-14T12:00

What is the difference between a farrier and a blacksmith? In this documentary, we go in search of this answer - finding out along the way that these two related trades have more in common than we ...

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DocArchive: After Bloom from 2009-11-14T12:00

In 1973, an International James Joyce symposium was held. It attracted speakers from the world over. The language used, its place in popular literature, the places, the characters and the humour ar...

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DocArchive: Night with a Showband from 2009-11-13T12:00

"The Indians" are a showband who, you've guessed it, played music and dressed up as Indians. This documentary chronicles one weekend with "The Indians" where we learn of the highs and the lows of l...

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DocArchive: All the Children from 2009-11-12T12:00

A look at the overall attitudes and treatment towards children in Ireland in the late 1960s, looking at the rights of children via charity organistations such as the ISPCC and UNICEF. (First broadc...

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DocArchive: Coping in Crisis from 2009-11-12T12:00

In the late 1960's and early 1970's as the troubles in Northern Ireland were deepening, many lost their lives. This documentary focuses on the community and social workers who helped the bereaved t...

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DocArchive: The Catacombs from 2009-11-11T12:00

'The Catacombs' was a night club that operated from Fitzwilliam Place in the centre of Dublin, in the late 1940's - here, 4 of it's patrons are taken back to the site to reminisce about what it was...

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DocArchive (1972): Henry Morris Rediscoverer of Gaelic Ulster from 2009-11-10T12:00

Henry Morris was an Irish scholar who dedicated his life to education. Henry was aware that the Gaelic language and culture was dying out in Ulster, so he devoted his life to teaching the Irish lan...

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DocArchive: Why Doesn't Someone Explain? from 2009-11-09T12:00

The turbulent and often violent landscape of Northern Ireland in 1973 (first broadcast 1973)


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DocArchive: Tip of the Icebeg from 2009-11-06T12:00

In 1978 Jim Fahy visited Greenland where he learns of the Eskimo peoples way of life and how they've adapted to 20th century living in the ice and snow. Stories of cultural gatherings to hunting an...

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DocArchive: The Settled Family from 2009-11-05T12:00

This is the story of a former traveller family now living happily in the west of Ireland. A minority community indigenous to Ireland, travellers have existed on the margins of Irish society for cen...

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DocArchive: The Making of a Bishop from 2009-11-05T12:00

A look at the ordination of Archbishop Joseph Cunnane of Tuam in which we hear about his hopes for the future in his new post. Insight into what he could expect from his appointment is provided by ...

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DocArchive (1972): Between the Mountains and the Gantries from 2009-11-04T12:00

Seán Mac Réamoinn speaks to the people of Belfast in Northern Ireland about their city and their lives. He learns about the history of the city, the generosity of the people & speaks to the people ...

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DocArchive: The Irish in Birmingham from 2009-11-04T12:00

Donncha Ó Dulaing talks to people who have left Ireland to set up a new life in Birmingham, the UKs second largest city. (Broadcast 1968)


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DocArchive: Glenlea from 2009-11-01T12:00

A journey to the heart of the Glenlea Valley in Co. Kerry in a documentary by Pat Feeley, looking at the history and folklore of the place, as well as the present for people who live there who meet...

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DocArchive: The Gralton Affair from 2009-10-31T12:00

Jim Gralton was born in Leitrim in 1886. His political beliefs saw him join the Revolutionary Workers Group, the forerunner to the Communist Party of Ireland. In 1933, Jim became the only Irishman ...

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DocArchive: Bird Trappers from 2009-10-30T12:00

This documentary explores the curious and controversial hobby of Bird Trapping and tells us of the passion, patience and dedication needed to be an expert in catching and trapping a bird out in the...

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DocArchive: The Moody Manners Partnership from 2009-10-30T12:00

An account of the famous husband-wife Opera Touring Company formed in 1898 by Charles Manners and Fanny Moody. (Broadcast 1968)


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DocArchive: I Was Hungry from 2009-10-17T12:00

Lack of material resources, lack of education, lack of opportunity, inadequate income - a documentary from nearly 40 years ago about breaking the cycle of poverty and hunger in Ireland (Broadcast 1...

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DocArchive: A Mass of Difference from 2009-10-16T12:00

A documentary on the religious community of Taize in the south of Burgundy, France. Taizé is the home of an international, ecumenical community, founded in 1940 by Brother Roger. (broadcast 1992) Listen

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DocArchive: Bob Bernen From the Blue Stacks from 2009-10-16T12:00

In the early 1970's American-born author and classical scholar Robert Bernen swapped his academic gown, for a working sheep farm in the hills of Donegal (Broadcast 1977).


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DocArchive: Not Just Spare Parts from 2009-10-15T12:00

A documentary about the scandal concerning the disposal of deceased children's organs in Irish hospitals. (Broadcast 2000)


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DocArchive: Vietnam - A Country Not a War from 2009-10-15T12:00

This documentary tells the story of producer Chris Erickson's personal perspective on the Vietnam of today (Broadcast 2001)


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DocArchive: Freefalling Funny Man from 2009-10-14T12:00

Michael O'Kane observes the would-be comics night world as he follows his friend over a 6 month period from pub joker to the dizzy and scary heights of London's comedy store. The stand up comic is ...

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DocArchive: I Love You Love Lonely Hearts Club from 2009-10-14T12:00

Adrian Smyth finds out what lonely hearts clubs are all about. He visits a Dublin friendship club and down in Kilkenny, he learns from some members what the club does and why they became involved w...

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DocArchive: Unlaced - A Passion for Shoes from 2009-10-14T12:00

A toe tapping documentary that explores the desire for beautiful shoes that transforms us magically into the creatures of our imaginings - whether it be for stiletto heels, patent leather, or silk ...

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DocArchive: Dear Old Daddy from 2009-10-14T12:00

Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of a 'DJ' who worked on the English language propaganda radio program Germany Calling broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain during WW2. This is ...

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DocArchive: The Internationalists from 2009-10-14T12:00

In the 1980s a significant number of Irish people, students, workers and unemployed, went to Nicaragua to assist the Sandista revolutionary effort (Broadcast 1999)


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DocArchive: Come Back to Afghanistan from 2009-10-14T12:00

US teenager Hyder Akbar travels to Afghanistan to the province of Kunar, where his family is from and where his father is working as governor. In this audio diary, Hyder has amazing access to all s...

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DocArchive: Biography of President de Valera from 2009-10-14T12:00

A biography on Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland from 1959 to 1973, and an insight into one of the most influential Irish political figures of the 20th Century. (First broadcast 1967) A biogra...

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DocArchive: From Galway to Graceland from 2009-10-14T12:00

Graceland is the birth place of Elvis Presley - a large white-columned mansion set amongst an estate at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard about twelve miles from Downtown Mississippi. This is the story ...

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DocArchive: Cats and Dog Collars from 2009-10-14T12:00

Since 1795 St. Patrick’s College Maynooth has been the National Seminary of Ireland. It has a proud and unique tradition of service to the Church in Ireland and throughout the world. This is a stor...

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DocArchive: That Others Might Live from 2009-10-13T12:00

The Irish Air Corps is the air component of the Irish permanent Defence Forces, based at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Co. Dublin. Approximately 850 men and women serve in the Air Corps. This is t...

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DocArchive: Bus Home Long Distance Buses from 2009-10-13T12:00

For many of us long distance bus journeys are part of our lives - returning home or heading to far flung places. Each journey has its own story. In this short doc we hear the stories from both tra...

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DocArchive: If You Know Your History from 2009-10-13T12:00

The history of Celtic Football Club is pretty unique in football in that it was conceived out of wish to raise money for charitable purposes. That was way back in 1887. One hundred years on, this d...

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DocArchive: The Dismissal of Eileen Flynn from 2009-10-13T12:00

In 1982 Ms Flynn was dismissed from her teaching job at a Convent in New Ross, Co Wexford - unmarried with a baby son, she was living with the baby's father. This is Eileen's story "for failing to ...

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DocArchive (1971): Rock Among Men from 2009-10-13T12:00

We hear about the life of Arthur Griffith, who was an important figure in Irish history and politics. Arthur was an Irish politician and writer, who founded and led the Irish Republican party Sinn ...

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DocArchive: Herman from 2009-10-13T12:00

Herman is a bachelor farmer in Co.Galway. This documentary looks at his life on the farm, how he keeps his animals, his attitude to marraige, havesting through the emergency in times gone by. This ...

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DocArchive: Angels in Heaven from 2009-10-13T12:00

For parents, losing a child can be devastating. In this documentary we hear from parents who have had to bury their children - their lasting memories, the keepsakes they cherish, the sadness that n...

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DocArchive: Sounds Like Capetown from 2009-10-13T12:00

A short radio documentary that presents a montage of sound impressions of the South African city, Capetown (Broadcast 1994)


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DocArchive: Irija from 2009-10-12T12:00

This radio documentary follows Latvian woman Irija De Paor as she returns to the country that she left over 40 years ago as a refugee. Irija went on to work in England, marry an Irish man and make ...

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DocArchive: Left Wing from 2009-10-12T12:00

It's generally accepted that about 10% of the adult population are left-handed, and that left-handedness is more common in males than females. So is left better than right or right better than left...

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DocArchive: Meeting the Idol from 2009-10-12T12:00

Boyzone are one of the most successful bands ever to emerge from Ireland. A four-piece vocal pop group comprising of Ronan Keating, Mikey Graham, Keith Duffy and Shane Lynch. This is the story of o...

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DocArchive: Holy Angels from 2009-10-11T12:00

A moving documentary about the Holy Angels burial plot in Glasnevin, one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in concentrated ground. Over 50,000 infants were buried the...

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DocArchive: Reluctant Surrender from 2009-10-10T12:00

Boland’s Mill in Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock played an integral part in the 1916 Rising, when it was occupied by republicans led by Eamon De Valera. This documentary from 1972 features remarkable fir...

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DocArchive: Stamp Collecting from 2009-10-10T12:00

The world of stamp collecting, from the serious philatelist to the general collector, the first day covers and the thematic series (Broadcast 1978).


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DocArchive: Death and Nightingales from 2009-10-09T12:00

Eugene McCabe was born in 1930. His novel Death and Nightingales is described by some as 'a deeply moving, powerful and unforgettable book'. A farmer for most of his life, here he talks about resum...

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DocArchive: Alexis Soyer from 2009-10-09T12:00

The story of French chef Alexis Soyer, one of the most celebrated cooks in Victorian England, who tried to alleviate the suffering of the Irish poor during the Famine by setting up soup kitchens an...

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DocArchive: Stain Upon the Silence from 2009-10-08T12:00

Samuel Beckett is the famed and revered Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet who notably penned Waiting for Godot and a host of other works. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human c...

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DocArchive: A Royal Journey from 2009-10-08T12:00

A documentary which takes a journey from one end of the royal canal to the other. (Originally broadcast in 1990)


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DocArchive: Ninety Years a Corkman from 2009-10-08T12:00

In this documentary - ninety year old John Walshe of Doneraile who was born in 1877- talks about William Burke, Canon Sheehan and Charles Stewart Parnell. (Originally broadcast 1967)


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DocArchive: Butler's Bottle from 2009-10-08T12:00

A documentary on the controversial method of treating alcoholism pioneered by Irish American Pat Butler. (First broadcast 1989)


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DocArchive: Forging Traditions from 2009-10-08T12:00

A documentary telling the story of the national folk theatre - Siamsa Tire in Tralee. (Originally broadcast in 1991)


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DocArchive: The Rising in Galway from 2009-10-08T12:00

When the rising of 1916 is mentioned, one almost always associates it with Dublin and the G.P.O. This tells the often forgotten story of the Easter Rising which took place in Galway. (Broadcast Apr...

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DocArchive: The Old Abbey Theatre as the New Begins from 2009-10-07T12:00

A look at the old Abbey Theatre, and the influence it had on Irish culture.It originally aired the day that the new Abbey Theatre opened its doors to the public in 1966, whioch was also 15 years to...

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DocArchive (1971): Bloom Sunday from 2009-10-06T12:00

Seán Mac Réamoinn discusses James Joyce, who was one of the greatest authors in Irish history. We also hear about Bloomsday, a celebration of Joyce's life that takes place in Dublin and around the ...

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DocArchive: Orange and Green in a Land of Black and White from 2009-10-05T12:00

A Dublin school and a Belfast school join forces in rugby. This is 1995 Ireland - and the first time that an Catholic and Protestant school team toured together. This historic tour takes them to So...

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DocArchive: Poet and Preacher from 2009-10-04T12:00

Belfast born William Robert Rodgers, known as Bertie, is best known as a poet - even though he was an essayist, a book reviewer, a BBC radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and teacher as...

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DocArchive: A tale of Seán and Mick from 2009-10-03T12:00

This is the life and times of Seán O'Casey and his family through the memories and thoughts of their neighbours. O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist and the first Irish playwright of note ...

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DocArchive: The Irish Post from 2009-10-03T12:00

“If it’s Irish in Britain, we’ve got it covered” - a profile of The Irish Post newspaper established in 1970 to report on news affecting the Irish diaspora in Britain (Broadcast 1978).


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DocArchive: Tartan Skirts and Tins of Salmon from 2009-10-02T12:00

In 1970’s Ireland, the most popular items to shoplift were tartan skirts and tins of salmon! A look at the rise in shoplifting from the perspective of the shop owner, and how it became part of 'ret...

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DocArchive: The Boys of Wexford from 2009-10-02T12:00

A different look at the events of 1916, this account tells the little known story of how Enniscorthy had its own uprising days before the rising in Dublin. Those who were just young men at the time...

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DocArchive: A Complex Cocktail of Love Hormones from 2009-10-01T12:00

The title of this doc is taken from the French Obstetrician Michel Odent who speaks of a time when women had to release a "complex cocktail of love hormones" in order to give birth. This story is a...

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DocArchive: The Newfoundland Connection from 2009-10-01T12:00

Cathal Póirtéir discovers some of the connections which, since the 1700s have linked the South-east of Ireland with Newfoundland's Talamh an Éisc. Farmers, fishermen, storytellers and musicians hel...

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DocArchive: The Chaplain's Diary from 2009-10-01T12:00

This is a story of female political prisoners. The inspiration for the documentary came from a book by Raymond Murray called Hard Time: Armagh Gaol 1971-1986, which recounts his time as Catholic ch...

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DocArchive: The Fiddler's Frenzy from 2009-10-01T12:00

In The Fiddler's Frenzy, Aoife Nic Cormaic presents a bi-lingual documentary about fiddle players and the magic of fiddling in Ireland - clár dhátheangach a bhreathnaíonn ar an ndraíocht a bhainean...

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DocArchive: The Jonah Project from 2009-10-01T12:00

Triston Jonah was born deaf, with a heart problem and partial blindness. Later he was diagnosed with autism. This is the story of a search for a school for Jonah - which led to setting up a small s...

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DocArchive: Promised Land of the Saints - Real or Imaginary from 2009-10-01T12:00

In this award winning documentary, Newfoundland producer Chris Brookes sets out in a boat of his own for what he calls "a 21st century radio archeology project, excavating the chronicle of Saint Br...

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DocArchive: Enemies of the State from 2009-10-01T12:00

For over 20 years Kathy Sinnott and her autistic son Jamie Sinnott lived in a world of pain, bewilderment, courage and perseverance. This is the stories of the journey Kathy went on through the Iri...

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DocArchive: Mermaids Out of Water - Nuala Ni Domhnaill agus an Mhuruch from 2009-10-01T12:00

The best known living poet of the Irish language, Nuala Ni Domhnaill draws upon images from Irish folklore. An important recent image has been the mermaid - symbols of cultural and personal trauma,...

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DocArchive: Becoming Hugo Hamilton from 2009-10-01T12:00

This bilingual documentary tells the story of how Dublin-born Hugo Hamilton made sense of his own story and went on to become a novelist and short story writer and most recently the author of his j...

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DocArchive: Ice from 2009-10-01T12:00

Life in Newfoundland is full of ice. It's everywhere - underfoot, hanging down, pointing up. In this radio documentary Lorelei Harris brings us an audio-visual feature about living with and the pla...

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DocArchive: Abbeyleix Unplugged from 2009-10-01T12:00

In April '02, fiddle player Angela, jazz singer Dorothy and guitarist Jonathan travelled to the District Hospital, Abbeyleix, Co Laois. 6 weeks later a public theatre performance took place. This d...

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DocArchive: Gael Linn from 2009-10-01T12:00

For 50 years Gael-Linn has been to the fore in promoting Irish language and culture projects including music, film and language courses. This documentary is a celebration of 50 years of Gael Linn. ...

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DocArchive: Confession from 2009-10-01T12:00

A documentary about confession as a cultural phenomenon in modern Ireland. Catholics believe that confession is an outward sign of absolution - the inward grace is the reconciliation of the peniten...

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DocArchive: Living To Tell The Tale from 2009-10-01T12:00

Every year hundreds are killed in road traffic accidents. Thousands more are injured - but we rarely hear these stories. This documentary meets with survivors of road traffic accidents, some of who...

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Doc Archive: If It's Sunday It Must Be Ireland from 2009-10-01T12:00

42 American tourists embark on a coach trip around Ireland. But what attracts them to the Emerald Isle? What do they make of what is on offer, and of our Céad Míle Fáilte? (Broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: Roger Casement as Seen by his Contemporaries from 2009-10-01T12:00

Roger David Casement was an Irish nationalist, activist, patriot and poet. Here, we listen to reminiscences of the man by those who knew him. (Broadcast 1965) Roger David Casement was an Irish nati...

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DocArchive: All Those Wasted Years - Saol Amú from 2009-10-01T12:00

A bilingual documentary about drug addiction that ravages Dublin and its surrounds. (Broadcast 2003)


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DocArchive: A Walk in the Pyrenees from 2009-10-01T12:00

In September 1940, German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin walked over the Pyrenees to escape from occupied France into Spain, from where he planned to journey to Portugal and then the United Sta...

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DocArchive: A Knuckle in Your Back - A Note in Your Ear from 2009-10-01T12:00

Many of Ireland's best know female voices once stood in the lines of the Young Dublin Singers Choir. This documentary hears some of their stories which we born in one of the finest young choirs thi...

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DocArchive: Anew McMaster from 2009-09-30T12:00

For nearly 45 years Anew McMaster toured Ireland, acting in plays and theatres throughout the country. He first took to the stage in London where he made friends with Noel Coward, Ivor Novello and ...

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DocArchive: Pope in Ireland from 2009-09-30T12:00

Originally broadcast in 1999, this documentary tells the story of John Paul II's visit to Ireland in 1979 and the lasting impression that it left with many. the Pope's visit still accounts for the ...

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DocArchive (1971): Meanings of Easter from 2009-09-29T12:00

Easter is the most important and oldest festival of the Christian and Catholic Church. We hear from various contributors, about their thoughts and recollections. We also hear some passages from Exs...

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DocArchive: Up the Church from 2009-09-28T12:00

Village life - This is a trip down memory lane into the life, pastimes, games and customs of the village of Upperchurch in North Tipperary. Like every village around Ireland, it has its own charact...

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DocArchive: Alone in Belfast from 2009-09-27T12:00

During the Northern troubles, thousands were interned. The is the story of the families left behind. From hunger strike to interrogation to brute force to just missing home, families struggled with...

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DocArchive: The Coarb of Patrick from 2009-09-26T12:00

Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1977 until his death in 1990. This documentary tells of the man and his work as seen by his...

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DocArchive: Tomorrow we'll gather rushes from 2009-09-26T12:00

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. This documnetary was made to celebrate his 90th birthday in Decemeber 1971...

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DocArchive: Paddy the Cope from 2009-09-25T12:00

Ever wonder about the origin of the name 'the Cope' in Pat the Cope Gallagher? The story of Patrick 'the Cope' Gallagher who died in 1966 and his place in the Irish co-operative movement. (First br...

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DocArchive: 1916 in Ulster from 2009-09-25T12:00

Proinsias O'Conluain speaks to some of the men of Ulster, about what it was like to live in the North of Ireland during the year 1916. Some were sent back to the North, whilst others made their way...

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DocArchive: Hands High from 2009-09-24T12:00

The west of Ireland is famous for pony racing - this documentary meet the people the race their ponies, the people who breed and keep ponies and who are passionate about the Sunday afternoon pony r...

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DocArchive: A Salute to the Colours from 2009-09-24T12:00

A tribute to our national flag and everything it represents, and an insight into one of Ireland's most recognised symbols worldwide. With contributions from the Army Band of the Southern Command an...

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DocArchive: Pictures in a Theatre from 2009-09-23T12:00

Francis MacManus presents a nostalgic look back at the Abbey Theatre, during the time that it was closed as a result of fire damage, and presents to us Lennox Robinson's conversational piece about ...

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DocArchive (1971): Catholic Church Renewal from 2009-09-22T12:00

Do we need to make changes to the Catholic church? This documentary question’s whether the Catholic Church in Ireland should hold a renewal conference like the one that is held in the U.K. (First B...

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DocArchive: My Father Rudolf Hess from 2009-09-22T12:00

A radio documentary about the infamous Nazi Rudolf Hess as told by his son Wolf Rudiger Heiss. (First broadcast May 1995).


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DocArchive: The Hurling Men (Part two) from 2009-09-21T12:00

Part two of the 1973 radio documentary on Hurling. (First broadcast 1973)


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DocArchive: For better, for worse from 2009-09-20T12:00

The iconic Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival runs each September in Clare, but this only began in 1978. For centuries before that, Irish people have gone into arranged marraiges or being partnered ...

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DocArchive: One Potato, Two Potato, Three from 2009-09-19T12:00

This documentary was recorded in the 1977 ‘hula-hoop season’. Pat Ingoldsby goes looking for the street songs and games sung and played by Dublin children, in what is now a fascinating oral history...

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DocArchive: From Cyclinder to Disc from 2009-09-19T12:00

The story of the Gramophone record. From 1856 people have been trying to put voices and music onto a recordable device so they could listen at their leisure. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the pho...

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DocArchive: 35th President of the United States from 2009-09-18T12:00

A look at the coming to power of John F Kennedy, his family background where the seeds of the man to be were sown. His studies at Harvard college where he excelled, and his time spent serving in th...

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DocArchive: Our Lady's Island from 2009-09-18T12:00

This documentary goes on the annual August pilgrimage at Our Lady’s Island - an ancient place of pilgrimage in the south east corner of Ireland in the diocese of Ferns where apparitions and cures h...

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DocArchive: The Women of the Rising from 2009-09-17T12:00

After the Easter Rising had taken place, over 100 women were arrested for their part in the 1916 event. We hear personal recollections from members of Cumann na mBan and The Irish Citizen Army. (Br...

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DocArchive: Pagan Flames from 2009-09-17T12:00

Keryman Sean Healy has been a turf-cutter, a railway worker and a farm labourer. Throughout his life he has written poems about people and places that were around him and about the ancient gods and...

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DocArchive: When Everyday is Good Friday. from 2009-09-17T12:00

A radio documentary where Joe Duffy talks to people who are living out of passion everyday becuase of suffering or loss. (First broadcast April 2001)


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DocArchive: The Mossy Banks from 2009-09-17T12:00

A radio documentary on the men who earned a living working on Irish bogs. (First broadcast in 1975)


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Doc Archive: Days and Nights of the Fit Ups. from 2009-09-16T12:00

A radio documentary on the era of travelling theatres which visited the towns and villages of Ireland a long time ago. (First broadcast 1989)


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DocArchive: Drawing from Life from 2009-09-16T12:00

A radio documentary about a life drawing class in Dublin. What happens when a naked man or woman trots into your classroom - and you have to paint them on canvass? (First broadcast April 2001)
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DocArchive: Silenced Voice from 2009-09-16T12:00

A radio documentary on the great Irish soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan who graced many an opera house around the world including the famous 'La Scala'. (First broadcast in 1981)


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A radio documentary about Dublin born naturalist Tom O'Beirne and his work in Australia. Tom was a man ahead of his time who travelled around the world learning his trade. (First broadcast 1991) Listen

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DocArchive: I remember those Dublin Days from 2009-09-16T12:00

Three talks by Dermot Coffey on early 20th century Ireland. Of the Gunrunners in 1914, of George Moore and his neighbours (Yeats, Gogarty) and of the great talkers of Dublin like Douglas Hyde, Lady...

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DocArchive: Pottles of Paddington from 2009-09-16T12:00

A radio documentary on radicalism movement in Ireland and beyond during the ninety sixties. (First broadcast in 2001)


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DocArchive (1971): Bus To Coleraine from 2009-09-15T12:00

Seán Mac Réamoinn sets off on a journey to Coleraine in Northern Ireland, on the new CIE Express bus. Seán is joined by three other men who want discover the history and lore of the countryside, on...

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DocArchive: A Girl called Maria from 2009-09-15T12:00

This award winning documentary tells the story of a young woman who kept a diary of a time when she battled with depression and her own life. Then, in 2001, she was tragically murdered in Belfast. ...

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DocArchive: Pink On Green from 2009-09-15T12:00

For generations, Ireland has struggles to grasp change. Homosexual acts were illegal in Ireland up until the summer of 1993. This radio documentary tells the story of a blossoming gay scene in Irel...

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DocArchive: Two Tongues of the Dragon from 2009-09-15T12:00

Welsh is a language that is still fluently spoken by almost 25% of people in Wales. That's in excess of 600,000 people - and so Welsh is referred to as a 'Living Language'. But where did the langua...

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DocArchive: The Burning of Cork from 2009-09-15T12:00

A radio documentary on the burning of Cork in December 1920 during the war of independence as recounted by men who were on the streets on that faithful night. (First broadcast April 1960)


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DocArchive: Sweet Bells Jangled from 2009-09-14T12:00

Our mental health is a vital part of all of us, in our day to day lives and across our entire lifetime. In this documentary from 1971, sufferers of mental illness speak openly and honestly about th...

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DocArchive: Ragmans Ball from 2009-09-14T12:00

A journey through one of Dublins most historic areas, the Liberties. We meet some of its most revered residents and learn of its connections to the Titanic. (Broadcast 1982)


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DocArchive: Oftner You Come - Killarney from 2009-09-12T12:00

1000s of words have been written and sung about Killarney. From the horsedrawn jaunting cars to the boatmen of the Gap of Dunloe and the blacksmiths at Muckross House, tourists in 1977 were coming ...

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DocArchive: From The Ground Up from 2009-09-11T12:00

A documentary broadcast on the day of RTÉ's first ever television broadcast - From the Ground Up is an insight into the work that went into bringing Ireland its first ever national television servi...

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DocArchive: In the Shades of Knockma from 2009-09-10T12:00

Ciaran Mac Mathuna presents the story of Amhráin Mhuighe Seóla - a collection of traditional songs in the Irish language written by Mrs Eileen Costello in Co Galway. It's one of the relatively few ...

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DocArchive: Ready Ready Go from 2009-09-10T12:00

What would possess any sane person to jump out of airplanes on a regular basis? Conor McNally has done over 300 skydives and is hooked on the speed, the freedom and the 'aloneness up there' (first ...

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DocArchive: Death of a Lord Mayor from 2009-09-09T12:00

Terence MacSwiney was elected Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920. Shortly after, he was sentenced to 2ys in a British prison. He began a hunger strike in protest - which drew international attention and la...

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DocArchive (1969): Assembly At Chur from 2009-09-08T12:00

In 1969, Seán Mac Réamoinn travelled to the second European Bishop’s symposium in Chur, Switzerland. We hear from various members of the Catholic Church who discuss everything from religion, to pro...

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DocArchive: Jubilee for Children from 2009-09-07T12:00

UNICEF is the world's leading organisation protecting the rights of children. It's primary aim is to reach a day when no children die from preventable diseases. This doc was made 30yrs ago, celebra...

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DocArchive: Dublin for Myself from 2009-09-06T12:00

A profile of Irish writer and poet James Stephens (1880-1950), known for his novel 'The Charwoman's Daughter' and his many retellings of traditional Irish myths and legends (Broadcast 1970).
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DocArchive: Power, Light and Heat from 2009-09-05T12:00

The story of how Ireland became electric. By the time the Irish Free State came into existance in 1922, the country stilll only limited availability to this new power source - until an Irish engine...

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DocArchive: First Days Final Days from 2009-09-05T12:00

The first day of national school from a child's point of view. Little 5-year old Ultan wore a microphone on his jumper to capture the sounds (yes, including crying) inside a Junior Infants' classro...

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DocArchive - I Was There, Eyewitness 1916 from 2009-09-04T12:00

The 1916 Easter Rising was mounted by Irish Republicans with the aim of ending British rule in the country. We hear accounts of the infamous moment in Irish history told by those who were there on ...

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DocArchive: Panorama USSR from 2009-09-04T12:00

In a country where every shop is state-owned and where every day a long queue of people winds around Red Square to see the body of Lenin , this documentary finds out about the realities of life in ...

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DocArchive: Cardinal From The Falls from 2009-09-03T12:00

Cardinal William Conway played a key role in the social, religious and political life of Northern Ireland - this documentary, made in the year of his death, looks back on his life (Broadcast 1977)<...

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DocArchive: Hugh Lane and his Pictures from 2009-09-03T12:00

A drama-documentary on the life of Hugh Lane, best know for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, the first known public gallery of modern art in the world. He died in 1915 onboard...

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DocArchive: This Place Speaks To Me - Daingean Reformatory from 2009-09-03T12:00

Dublin actor/musician Don Baker spent 2 years at Daingean Reformatory in Offaly from 1963 to 1965. 35yrs after leaving, Don revisits the now notorious institution. This is a story of a damaged chil...

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DocArchive: Pastor Angelicus from 2009-09-02T12:00

This drama-documentary by Phillip Rooney gives us an insight into the life of Pope Pius XII, his time as head of the Catholic Church, his despair at the rise of Nazism in the late 1930s and the leg...

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DocArchive: Death of a Farmer from 2009-09-01T12:00

This award winning documentary tells the story of farmer Tom Oliver from Riverstown, Cooley, Co.Louth who, in July 1991, was murdered by the IRA. On July 18th that year, Tom aged 37, went out to te...

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DocArchive (1969): Bloomseve from 2009-09-01T12:00

James Joyce is still considered to be one of the most influential writers in Irish history. His work is world renowned and celebrated every second year at the International James Joyce Symposium. ...

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DocArchive: Pighomage from 2009-09-01T12:00

A radio documentary by John Quinn in celebration of the pig - and they are animals to be celebrated! (Broadcast 2001)


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DocArchive: After Death from 2009-09-01T12:00

Fanny Parnell was a poet and patriot who died aged 34 in 1882 in USA. Her body was laid to rest temporarily in a Boston vault in expectation of being brought home to Ireland. 190 years later, this ...

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DocArchive: Fragments of Sharon from 2009-09-01T12:00

In this radio documentary Sharon Murphy talks about being a black woman in a white society and about using her songs and music to express herself. (Broadcast 2001)


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DocArchive: Two Lord Mayors from 2009-08-31T12:00

Broadcast to mark the 50th anniversary of their deaths, this is the story of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, both Lord Mayors of Cork in 1920. Those close to the men speak of their life, be...

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DocArchive: Mutiny at Solon from 2009-08-30T12:00

The Connaught Rangers (1881-1922) was an Irish regiment in the British Army. In June 1920 whilst in Solon, India - 5 men from the 1st battalion began a protest against British atrocities in Ireland...

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DocArchive: End of Term from 2009-08-29T12:00

The final day of term at Glentstal Abbey School, a boarding school in Limerick is a busy time for staff and students as they prepare for holidays. (Originally Broadcast 1977)



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DocArchive: All the Queens horses from 2009-08-28T12:00

Michael Curtin from Clare worked in London as a farrier - a trade dedicated to equine hoof care. Amongst the many horses that Michael shod were Queen Elizabeth II's - including her own horse, Burme...

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DocArchive: The Green Jacket from 2009-08-28T12:00

A feature on the politician, revolutionary nationalist, sufragette and socialist - Countess Markievicz. The Countess participated in the Easter Rising of 1916 where she was second-in-command at the...

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DocArchive: A Tree in Coole from 2009-08-27T12:00

The life of Lady Gregory, one of the key personnel involved in the Irish Literary Revival. She co-founded the Irish Literary and Abbey Theatres and her home at Coole Park was a meeting place for ma...

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DocArchive: Darkly Grows the Quiet Ivy from 2009-08-27T12:00

A snapshot of life in the village of Ballinafad, County Sligo as a small rural community copes with emigration and stagnation. (Originally Broadcast 1975)


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DocArchive: A Poet and his People from 2009-08-26T12:00

Antoine Ó Raifteirí was born Co. Mayo in 1779. He was the only child in his large family to survive a smallpox outbreak although the disease left him blind. A travelling bard, he was known as the ‘...

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DocArchive: The Calligraphers' Song from 2009-08-26T12:00

A radio documentary about different ways of seeing the Book of Kells (Broadcast 2002).


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DocArchive: Corner of Paradise from 2009-08-26T12:00

A radio documentary on Florence in Italy on love and literature (Broadcast 1999).


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DocArchive (1969): Morning Papers from 2009-08-25T12:00

Seán Mac Réamoinn investigates the world of Irish journalism. He looks at how the Irish daily newspapers are produced, the roles of the editors and what it takes to craft a strong headline. He als...

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DocArchive: Caring for Mam from 2009-08-24T12:00

A beautiful radio documentary about a young carer and her mother (Broadcast 1999).


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DocArchive: A Tap on the Shoulder from 2009-08-24T12:00

A radio documentary profiling Gusty Spence, former UVF leader turned peace-maker (Broadcast 1996)


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DocArchive: Forbidden Voyage from 2009-08-24T12:00

A radio documentary tracing the solo voyage by American anthropologist Dr Earle Reynolds through the U.S. Pacific nuclear testing zone (Broadcast 1998)


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DocArchive: Special Olympics from 2009-08-24T12:00

In this radio documentary Richard Collins tells the history of the games from inception in 1968 to the present day and interviews Eunice Kennedy Shriver founder of the Special olympics (Broadcast 2...

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DocArchive: Saint Anne from 2009-08-23T12:00

Shrines all over the world are named for the mother of Mary - this documentary looks at the devotion to St. Anne from the holy land to France to Canada.


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DocArchive: Every Inch an Irishman from 2009-08-21T12:00

A portrait of the composer and conductor Charles Villiers Stanford. (Originally broadcast 1974)


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Comrade Pavlik from 2009-08-19T12:00

The story of how an unhappy, troublemaking child was made into a hero for Soviet children.


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DocArchive: Hunting with the crowd from 2009-08-18T12:00

A radio documentary that goes inside the social studies class in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin and sees what if any impact it can make. The prison, nicknamed The Joy, is a closed, medium security priso...

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DocArchive (1969): Miracles and Mysteries from 2009-08-18T12:00

Miracle and mystery plays were a form of medieval drama. These plays were mostly about religion and were used to teach people about the bible. The Abbey Theatre in Dublin ran a series of these pl...

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DocArchive: Historical Society Trinity from 2009-08-18T12:00

Established in 1770, the Trinity Historical Society is the oldest undergrad debating society in the world and has a long and eventful history. It has hosted guest speeches from some of the most inf...

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DocArchive: Movement on Rock from 2009-08-17T12:00

A radio documentary which explores the world of the rock climber through the face of Clogwybdu'rarddu in Wales, graded a virtually impossible E9 climb. Enter into an esoteric world where ropes, pic...

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DocArchive: From Clooneen To Ilkley Moor Ba'tat from 2009-08-17T12:00

A radio documentary about family mythologies in Ireland (broadcast 1999)


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DocArchive: The Larkin Way from 2009-08-16T12:00

The story of social and industrial change in Ireland inspired by the life and work of Labour Party politician and trade union official James Larkin Junior (First broadcast 1969).


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DocArchive: Something Changed from 2009-08-16T12:00

A radio documentary about the artist Brian McGuire and the effect of his art classes in the maximum security prison located in Portlaoise - a prison which houses Ireland's most dangerous criminals ...

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DocArchive: Response - 50 Years of the Legion of Mary from 2009-08-15T12:00

The Legion of Mary- a volunteer organisation for lay Catholics has grown from its Dublin foundation in 1921 to having three million members worldwide (Originally Broadcast 1971).


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DocArchive: Testament of Freedom from 2009-08-14T12:00

An indepth insight into the the events that led to the 1916 rising, an era that would become one of the most significant moments in Irish history. The story is told through narration and song. (Bro...

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DocArchive: Cove of Cork from 2009-08-13T12:00

Known as Queenstown from 1850 to 1920, Cobh is home to one of Ireland, and indeed the world’s most famous harbours. This is of course for very good reason – The Titanic. This 1954 documentary exami...

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DocArchive: Gritty City from 2009-08-12T12:00

An exploration of the network of illegal Irish immigrants who now call New York home. Many arrive on 90 day tourist visas yet have no intention of ever leaving. (Broadcast 2002)


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DocArchive: The Men of Inishark from 2009-08-10T12:00

In October 1960, the last remaining inhabitants of Inishark evacuated the small island off the coast of Connemara. In this documentary, the former islanders talk about their memories of life on Ini...

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DocArchive (1970): Remembering Eoin from 2009-08-09T12:00

Cork’s Eoin 'The Pope' O'Mahony was an Irish barrister and political satirist. An Honorary life member of the TCD philosophy society, he occasionally broadcast on Radio Eireann. He entered politics...

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The Curious Ear (2009): Close Call from 2009-08-09T12:00

Kate O'Flynn's documentary about two expert climbers who got into difficulty in an environment and a mountain they knew too well, Lugnaquilla, Co.Wicklow. (Made as part of the course in Media Arts...

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DocArchive (1988): Ulster at the Crossroads from 2009-08-08T12:00

In 1968, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was born - a rally was held, then followed the first civil rights march. This documentary examines the history of the Northern Ireland Civil ...

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DocArchive (1999): The Night Stairs from 2009-08-07T12:00

An abstract and interesting examination of the terror of the night, fear of the dark and power of religion and prayer. We learn that the dark evokes many emotions. Some love the dark, like astronom...

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DocArchive (1999): Wind and Water from 2009-08-06T12:00

Mike Ladd and Stuart Hall present a very unique feature on the passage of time and sound. (First Broadcast 1999)


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DocArchive (1998): Anno's Wardrobe from 2009-08-05T12:00

A celebration of one of the unsung heroines of Dublin's Gaiety Theatre; Anno the wardrobe mistress. We go backstage and learn what goes into this essential role in the world of the arts. (First Bro...

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DocArchive (1974): Brendan Behan, The Writer, The Rebel and The Rollicking Boy from 2009-08-04T12:00

Brendan Behan was and still is regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest writers. Born in Dublin city in 1923, Brendan wrote poetry, novels and plays, in both English and Irish. This is his story, told...

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DocArchive (1954): The O'Dea Story from 2009-08-03T12:00

Dublin’s Jimmy O'Dea was one of Ireland's most legendary comedians and actors. He was known for his role in the film Darby O’Gill and the Little People. Made 10 years before his death in 1965, this...

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DocArchive (1966): Moran of the Leader from 2009-08-02T12:00

A biography of P. Moran, founder of 'The Leader' that takes a look at the history of the magazine, its readership, its subject matter and its influence on Irish culture. Contains contributions from...

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DocArchive (1975): Three Times Under the Ass' Belly from 2009-07-31T12:00

A look at some of the often unusual Irish folk remedies that have been passed down through the generations, such as crawling under the belly of an ass foal that hasn't been ridden as a cure for who...

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DocArchive (1992): The Late MacBeth from 2009-07-31T12:00

A biography of the poet George MacBeth who lived his last few years in Co. Galway. His wife Penny discusses how he coped with poor health and Motor Neuron disease. Born in 1932 in Lancashire, UK, ...

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DocArchive (1991): About Ruth from 2009-07-30T12:00

The Book of Ruth is a book of the Old Testament. It is named after its central figure, Ruth the Moabitess, the great-grandmother of David and according to the Gospel of Matthew, and ancestress of J...

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DocArchive (2006): Like Feathers on the Breath of God from 2009-07-30T12:00

The singing of hymns and religious music holds great importance for various people. Co. Galway man Sonny Molloy, first sang at the Augustinian church as a boy and began conducting the choir in 1955...

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DocArchive (1996): Daughter of the Sun from 2009-07-29T12:00

A drama documentary about the fascinating history of Maria Gertrudis Hore, an Irish-Spanish poet from the 18th century. Wed at 19, her husband often away at sea, she began a romance with a brigadie...

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DocArchive (2004): Life With a Catch from 2009-07-29T12:00

This is the story of county Waterford woman Zeta Woods, a 26 year old who has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Zeta discusses living with the disability, how it affects family, work and soci...

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DocArchive (1971): Big One, The Jumbo Jet from 2009-07-28T12:00

In 1971, Aer Lingus took delivery of its first Boeing 747 aircraft, the Saint Colmcille. This event was huge for Irish aviation. This flight was documented from start to finish, as it made its jour...

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DocArchive (1985): The Permanent Way from 2009-07-27T12:00

A documentary on railway men as told by people who have worked the tracks, telling the story of rail transit in Ireland from steam to electric. (First Broadcast 1985)


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Tommy Walsh talks about his wife Jo's last days (Broadcast 1995)


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DocArchive: David's Diary from 2009-07-10T12:00

In 1904, Fr. John Creagh gave two sermons that expressed unfounded hostility towards Limerick's Jewish community. This led to boycott and intimidation, forcing the them out of the city within a yea...

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DocArchive: Indian Ocean Tsunami - One Year On from 2009-07-10T12:00

The story of 23 yr old Wexford man, Michael Murphy who lost his life in the Indian Ocean tsunami. Michael's mother, Theresa, his sister Anne Maria and his two brothers Paul and Kevin, speak publicl...

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DocArchive: Fire and Ice from 2009-07-10T12:00

The land where ice and fire dominates the way of life - a perspective on Iceland as seen by those who go to visit, and the side of life as experienced by those who live there (Broadcast 1978).
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DocArchive: Soshin Godness of Mercy from 2009-07-09T12:00

In 1979, 24-year-old Maura O'Halloran began her study of Zen in Japan and became a Buddhist monk. Her life was tragically cut short, and today she is revered as a Buddhist saint (Broadcast 1997). Listen

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DocArchive: The Magic Rod from 2009-07-09T12:00

The mystery behind the ancient art of water divining, used for thousands of years for locating well, springs and other water sources (Broadcast 1978).


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DocArchive: Brown Envelopes with Three Pounds from 2009-07-08T12:00

A profile of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul in Ireland, the largest, voluntary, charitable organisation in the country, who aim to tackle poverty through the provision of practical assistance t...

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DocArchive (1976): American Journey Pt 1 from 2009-07-07T12:00

A journey by John Skehan across America in 1976. This documentary includes impressions of Washington, a visit to FBI Headquarters, St. Louis Missouri, Wisconsin black on black farmers, Milwaukee's ...

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DocArchive: Vietnam Wall from 2009-07-05T12:00

The Vietnam War was fought from 1955 to 1975 with a death toll exceeding 2 million soldiers and civilians. This is an essay in music and voice on the American experience of that war - centred aroun...

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DocArchive (1989): Survivors of the Somme from 2009-07-05T12:00

Lasting between the 1st of July and the 18th of November 1916, The Battle of the Somme was to become one of the defining moments of the First World War. Recollections of the great watershed battl...

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DocArchive: Baldoyle Racecourse from 2009-07-04T12:00

For most of the 20th century, Baldoyle was famed for its racecourse, a seaside track in County Dublin that witnessed many stars in its history, both on the Flat and over Jumps (Broadcast 1979).
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DocArchive: Dreaming of Prawns from 2009-07-03T12:00

The Susannah G is a fishing trawler based in Dunmore East, Waterford. The skipper, Denis Harding, has 4 in crew. Heading for 'The smalls', a fishing ground 55 miles off the Irish coast, would this ...

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DocArchive: Market Values from 2009-07-03T12:00

Stock markets and money markets - what are they for, and who runs them? While we struggle for the bare necessities, are the people in the markets making millions? Sean Moncrieff takes a look at th...

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DocArchive: Bring Me a Unicorn from 2009-07-03T12:00

The story of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), pioneering aviator, writer, and spouse of Charles Lindbergh, as told through her letters and diaries (Broadcast 1998).


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DocArchive: By Appointment from 2009-07-02T12:00

George Redmond from West Cork spent his lifetime travelling around Ireland tuning pianos for the great and the good. In this documentary he explores the musical tastes of former Governor-Generals a...

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Documentary on One: Innocence for Sale from 2009-07-01T12:00

The issue of child trafficking into prostitution in the Philippines as a result of sex tourism, and how Irish missionary priest Fr. Shay Cullen has fought to combat the problem through his organisa...

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DocArchive (2004): The Irish at Eureka - Rebels or Riff Raff? from 2009-06-30T12:00

The Eureka affair of 1854 has been described as everything from a tax whinge to the birthplace of Australian democracy. Some 30 people died in the half-hour battle, most of them goldminers who had ...

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DocArchive: Samoza Sandinista and Beyond from 2009-06-29T12:00

Nicaragua was ruled for four decades by the Somoza dynasty. This is the story of how the people overthrew an oppressive regime in 1979 - and what happened next. (First broadcast 1983)


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DocArchive: The Presidency and the Presidents from 2009-06-29T12:00

Oct 2011, the 9th President of Ireland will take office. In this documentary, we travel back 52yrs to the day that Eamon De Valera was inaugurated as the 3rd President of Ireland. This is the story...

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DocArchive: Like Flies to a Light - FBD Milk Rás from 2009-06-28T12:00

Covering 1247 kilometers over 8 stages, the Irish FBD Milk Rás, now in it's 59th year, is one of the longest amateur stage races held annually in the world. In 1996, Roy Willoughby tracked the race...

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DocArchive (1991): Immigrating to Ireland – Americans from 2009-06-28T12:00

The Vietnam War caused great upheaval in America in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Bill Warren wished to avoid the draft into the defence forces, so he decided to leave with his wife Patricia and moved to...

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DocArchive: Who's a Pretty Boy Then? from 2009-06-27T12:00

From pigeons to hens, we meet the people whose passion in life is keeping birds (first broadcast 1982)


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DocArchive: Death by drowning from 2009-06-26T12:00

Every year countless lives are lost around the coast of Ireland. This is a story about fishing families who have lost their loved ones to the treacherous waters off the Irish Coast.(Broadcast 2002)...

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DocArchive: Dossers Priest from 2009-06-26T12:00

The everyday life of Father John Cusack, an Irish priest from County Cavan who looks after London's down and outs in the 1980s.


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DocArchive: Down with jazz - Anti jazz campaign of the 1930's from 2009-06-26T12:00

January 1st 1934, Fr. Conifrey led a march through Mohill, County Leitrim, in which demonstrators shouted "down with jazz" and "out with paganism" and called on the government to close the dance ha...

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DocArchive: The Argentina Connection from 2009-06-26T12:00

In the early 1800s a large migration of Irish farmers settled on the Pampas of Argentina. Joe Murray travells to Argentina and discovers his cousins and many other Argentinos who trace their connec...

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DocArchive: Look at the Camels from 2009-06-26T12:00

Paddy O'Gorman takes a trip to the United Arab Emirates where some 4,000 Irish people have, for whatever reason, made it their home. This is the story of some Irish people who work, rest and play i...

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DocArchive: When the bloom was on the flax from 2009-06-26T12:00

This documentary focuses on the tradition and history of flax growing and the linen industry in Ireland. The contributors include the late poet John Hewitt on the rhyming weavers of Co. Antrim. (Br...

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DocArchive: One May day from 2009-06-26T12:00

May 17th 1974, one of the most tragic events of the Troubles took place-three no-warning car bombs exploded in Dublin City Centre at 5.30pm, and another no-warning bomb exploded in Monaghan Town at...

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DocArchive: Chanter bag and bellows: Family notes from 2009-06-26T12:00

This documentary explores the rich musical history of an extraordinary Belfast family, the McPeakes, from humble beginnings when Francis Joseph McPeake, born in 1885 became the first piper in Belfa...

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DocArchive: Ithaca from 2009-06-26T12:00

A documentary about the island of Ithaca in myth and reality. Ithaca is an island located in the Ionian Sea, Greece, with an area of 45 sq. miles and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. ...

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DocArchive: The two sides of Dolly's Brae from 2009-06-26T12:00

On the morning, of July 12th 1849, the Protestant Orange order peacefully marched thorugh Dolly's Brae, an exclusively Catholic village in Co. Down.However, on their return journey home that evenin...

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DocArchive: The Road to Polnagollum from 2009-06-26T12:00

This documentary takes an underground journey in the Polnagollum cave system beneath the Burren, Co. Clare. The system has been carved out of limestone by a series of underground rivers. What is li...

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DocArchive: Mucho Corazon from 2009-06-26T12:00

A Dutch man visiting Havana falls in love with a Cuban woman, but their path is blocked at every turn. Recorded in Amsterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands and Havana and Holguin in Cuba. This is a st...

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DocArchive: Classmates of Pinochet from 2009-06-26T12:00

A documentary about Chile during the period of the military junta. Producer, Jan Diego Spoerer, lived for many years as a refugee in Chile. He came from a prominent Chilean family and went to the s...

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DocArchive: On the street from 2009-06-26T12:00

An impression of street life in one area of Paris from the award winning documentary maker Kaye Mortley. (Broadcast 2004)


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DocArchive: A century of learning in Kerry from 2009-06-24T12:00

A story that documents over 100 years of eduction whilst traceing the evolution of the VEC in Kerry from its origins in Technical Instruction (Broadcast 2004)


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DocArchive: Gibraltar from 2009-06-23T12:00

A documentary about a journey to Gibraltar - the southern border of Europe and the plight of refugees passing through there. (Broadcast 2002)


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DocArchive: No surrender from 2009-06-23T12:00

Lorelei Harris goes marching with the York Road No Surrender Band on the 12th July and speaks with band members. (Broadcast 1997)


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DocArchive: The Stonies from 2009-06-23T12:00

A documentary on Irish stonemasons, stonecutters and sculptors. (Broadcast 1978)


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DocArchive: The rising that didn't take place from 2009-06-23T12:00

A documentary by Prionnsias O Conluain about what didn't happen in Ulster in 1916 - whilst the rest of Ireland was uprising against home rule, Ulster remained subdued. (Broadcast 1966)


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DocArchive: To the stonebreakers yard from 2009-06-23T12:00

A documentary about Kilmainham Gaol and its place in Irish history. Built in 1792, Kilmainham Gaol is Ireland's most famous disused prison. It held, throughout the years, many famous Nationalists a...

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DocArchive (2005) : Speaking of Grief from 2009-06-23T12:00

Air India Flight 182 was operating on the Toronto-Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay route. On 23 June 1985, disaster struck - it was blown up in midair, by a bomb, just off the south coast of Ireland. M...

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DocArchive: Heartland from 2009-06-23T12:00

A documentary set in Ireland and South Africa about Afrikaners that tells the story about the Verwoerd family, descendents of H.F Verwoerd, the Prime Minister of South Africa widely regarded as bei...

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DocArchive: Sometime in New York city from 2009-06-23T12:00

Julian Vignoles visited New York for the first time in 1987 during a hot week in June. He brought a tape recorder with him and "Sometime in New Yor City" was the result. This documentary is a fast-...

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DocArchive: Peader O'Donnell from 2009-06-23T12:00

A documentary with Peadar O'Donnell on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Peadar O'Donnell (1893-1986) was an Irish novelist and political activist and a major figure in the history of the Irish. (...

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DocArchive: Irish Mail from 2009-06-22T12:00

Made 57 years ago, this is the story of Irish mail, and the pivotal link between London and Dun Laoghaire port in Dublin. Before the age of technology, the written letter and the Dublin London link...

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DocArchive: Grand Canal and Canals of Ireland from 2009-06-21T12:00

Ireland has has a long and rich history of inland nagivation through its canals. Over time they've transported people, goods, animals and much else besides. The working days of the canals are large...

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DocArchive: Readin' and Writin' from 2009-06-20T12:00

This documentary is about what many people take for granted – being able to read and write (first broadcast 1985).


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DocArchive: Four in a row from 2009-06-20T12:00

What does it take to become a pop radio DJ? Almost 30yrs ago, four djs tried to answer that question - Simon Young and Larry Gogan from RTE Radio 2, Janice Long from BBC Radio 1 and Declan Meehan f...

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DocArchive: Home Is The Hero from 2009-06-19T12:00

In 1963, a descendent of famine emigrants returned to his ancestral home - President John F. Kennedy arrived in Ireland to a rapturous and emotional welcome (first broadcast 1985).


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DocArchive: Three Rock Mountain from 2009-06-19T12:00

Three Rock Mountain is 450 metres tall. Located on the edge of Dublin City, it's the ideal site for radio and television transmitters. This is a portrait of the Mountain as seen through the eyes of...

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If you're new here, listen to this - it'll give a flavour of what we're about from 2009-06-19T12:00

This is a montage of clips from over 30 of our documentaries. It gives a flavour of the type of stories we tell and the type of people involved in telling those stories.


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DocArchive: A Martin Lavan Story from 2009-06-18T12:00

Martin Lavan went on the run to the USA in 1922 following his involvement in the Irish Civil War killings in Mayo. He became a lawyer, grew wealthy, was a colourful pillar of the community in Brigh...

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DocArchive: American Indians from 2009-06-18T12:00

Donncha O’Dulaing goes to America and talks to native Americans that live on reservations in St. Louis about what it is like to be born and bred on a reservation (first broadcast 1985).


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DocArchive: The lost world of Art Ó Laoghaire from 2009-06-18T12:00

An exploration of the death of Art Ó Laoghaire and the lament written by his wife Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, 'Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire'. One of the greatest laments ever written, this poem captur...

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DocArchive: The Thin Green Line (1989) from 2009-06-18T12:00

The 1948 Olympics, held in London, was the first games Ireland had taken part in since 1932. A major dispute between the Irish Olympic Council and the organising committee saw many Irish athletes b...

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DocArchive: Sands a hoor from 2009-06-17T12:00

In 1989, fifty Gardaí travelled to Namibia on an overseas mission with the United Nations. The members who travelled were to become part of one of the UN's most successful mission, an historic mome...

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DocArchive (1989): Waiting for U2 from 2009-06-17T12:00

U2 are not only an Irish rock band, but one of the biggest in the world. This is the story of three young girls whose lives are totally bound up with their fascination with the Irish rock group U2....

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DocArchive (1991): Immigrating to Ireland - Germany and Brittany from 2009-06-17T12:00

The Second World War caused many people to seek refuge from the conflict in Germany. Immigration was often the only option. Four people who escaped from Germany and Brittany in France to Ireland ...

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DocArchive: Bite Down on that Gumshield Son from 2009-06-17T12:00

Based in the heart of inner city Dublin, this documentary gives a unique insight into the life of St. Saviours Olympic Boxing Academy, one of Ireland's most famous amateur boxing clubs. (First Broa...

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DocArchive: Our Father, Séamus Ennis from 2009-06-15T12:00

Séamus Ennis is revered as one of Ireland's best known Uilleann Pipers and Music Collectors who amassed thousands of tunes before his death in 1982. In this documentary he is remembered by his son ...

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DocArchive: They were our Ecstasy from 2009-06-14T12:00

On Nov 7th 1963, The Beatles paid their first visit to Dublin to play two concerts at the Adelphi cinema. Mania ensued. The key people involved in that memoral day and night look back and share the...

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DocArchive (1991): Immigrating to Ireland - Nigeria and Lesotho from 2009-06-14T12:00

The first in a series of documentaries by Lorelei Harris investigating immigration to Ireland. In this episode Abiodan Odomosu from Nigeria and Camilla Dorsey from Lesotho speak about how they mov...

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DocArchive: I remember Henry Ford from 2009-06-13T12:00

The story of Fords in Cork. For generations this was a hugely successful company with an amazingly loyal workforce. Everything dates back to the Model T - yet despite surviving through most of the ...

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DocArchive: Sounds From Inner Space from 2009-06-13T12:00

This documentary listens in on the sounds that can be heard under the sea – the squeaking, creaking, groaning, singing, whining noises of aquatic life (first broadcast 1985).


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DocArchive: Fairy, Faith and Folk from 2009-06-12T12:00

The belief in Fairies who hover about the physical world in a harmless way - that is, unless they are disturbed (First broadcast 1984).


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DocArchive: An Injury for Life from 2009-06-11T12:00

Each year in Ireland, approximately 10,000 people receive an acquired brain injury - from then on, they face a dramatically altered life. We get a glimpe of what life is like for Ned, Dermot and No...

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DocArchive (1984): Elected Silence from 2009-06-11T12:00

Franciscan nuns adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of St Francis of Assisi and his main associates and followers including St Clare of Assisi, St Anthony of Padua and St Elizabeth of...

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DocArchive: Ruths Story (1989) from 2009-06-11T12:00

The moving story of one girls battle in the final days of her life. (Broadcast 1989)


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DocArchive (1997): Essentially for Women from 2009-06-09T12:00

Belly-dancing is a type of Middle Eastern dance that requires movements of the torso. It has become very popular with young women in Ireland. In this documentary we meet some Irish women who talk a...

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DocArchive: Aspects of America from 2009-06-07T12:00

In 1971, Seán Mac Réamoinn, set out to examine contemporary life in America. What he found was a country full of character, with a difference approach to life, but with its problems too. Makes for ...

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DocArchive: De Valera Remembered from 2009-06-06T12:00

Sean Macentee and De Valera first met in Dartmoor Prison in July 1917. It was the beginning of a long friendship and time spent together in politics. John Bowman presents a documentary remembering ...

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DocArchive: Albert and Adolf were friends from 2009-06-05T12:00

Between 1932 and 1939, Dr Adolf Mahr, a Nazi Archaeologist occasionally based in Dublin, and his Jewish friend, philanthropist Albert Bender, exchange dozens of letters - and some of these survived...

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DocArchive: Leeside Clinic from 2009-06-05T12:00

Jack Lynch was a TD for 33 years and served for two terms as Taoiseach but each week he held a clinic for his constituents in Cork to deal with their queries. (Broadcast 1978)



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No Bull In a China Shop (1986) from 2009-06-04T12:00

An insight into the character behind soon to be Commander-in-Chief of the UN Observer Corps, Bill Callaghan (Broadcast 1986).


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DocArchive: A Woman Called Auntie from 2009-06-03T12:00

Alice was 13 years old when she was trafficked by an 'aunt' from Ghana, through Togo and by boat to Gabon in Central Africa as we go on a journey from Ireland to West Africa along the child traffic...

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DocArchive: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1985) from 2009-06-03T12:00

A fly on the wall account that follows a weekend shift of a crew of The Dublin Fire Brigade Ambulance Service (Broadcast 1985).


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DocArchive: One Man's Century from 2009-05-29T12:00

Dubliner Alf McKenzie was born in 1897 and offers a unique perspective on the 21st century. It’s a life that takes in the 1916 rising, depression era Chicago, the Blitz in London and India under Br...

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DocArchive:A Strange Blessing from 2009-05-29T12:00

The joy that heralds the arrival of a Hijra is a regular part of India's special occasions. The sight of their masculine features wrapped in a female sari surprises many. Even more surprising is th...

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DocArchive: The Burning of Ennistymon from 2009-05-29T12:00

A look at the ambush of the County Clare town of Ennistymon in September 1920. (Broadcast 1985)


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DocArchive (1981): Profiles in Happiness from 2009-05-28T12:00

About the moments and memories that make people happy. We hear how happiness is defined, the importance of a happy youth, happiness within convent life, Maureen Potter on keeping audiences happy an...

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DocArchive: A Light from the Grave from 2009-05-27T12:00

A story of mystery - of the 18th century grave of Father Andrew Mullen in Offaly. Fr William Dempsey has made it his life's work to have Father Mullen beatified. But why in 21st century Ireland is ...

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DocArchive: Bell, Bike and Saddle (Broadcast 1985) from 2009-05-27T12:00

A look at the history of the bicycle and life as a cyclist in Ireland in 1985. A look at the history of the bicycle and life as a cyclist in Ireland in 1985.


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DocArchive: Time Piece from 2009-05-24T12:00

Time passes us all by - day and night. But what of time itself? When did it come about? How did it come about? Where are its origins? We meet people whose whole lives are spent working with time, s...

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DocArchive (1982): The Living Bog from 2009-05-24T12:00

Ireland’s bogs are very important for our environment, economy and tourism industry. The Living Bog is about turf cutting and explores life on the bog and the surface below the bog. (1982)
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DocArchive: Some Rain Later from 2009-05-23T12:00

It began in very primitive circumstances centuries ago but meteorology - the science of weather forecasting has evolved over the years into a highly sophisticated operation. (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: A Fathers Story from 2009-05-22T12:00

A story of survival. 20 years ago, Jerry Dennehy was told to say goodbye to his family. In this documentary, he talks openly with his daughter, Susan Dennehy, about his battles, his unusual methods...

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DocArchive: What's on Sunday Mr Fitz? from 2009-05-21T12:00

A documentary on the first cinema to come to Mullingar and the role it played in the social history of the town. (1985)


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DocArchive: Boot Boys Rule - OK from 2009-05-21T12:00

Pat Kenny investigates the rapidly emerging 'Boot Boy' movement that was appearing around Ireland in the 1970s, looking at how they are perceived by the public along with the reality of belonging t...

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DocArchive: A Dream for Fatima from 2009-05-20T12:00

In 1995 the residents of Fatima Mansions, one of Dublin's most notorious and deprived communities, came together with the start of a dream. This story tracks that dream as it becomes a reality in 2...

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DocArchive: Barrios of Trujillo from 2009-05-20T12:00

The story about life in the shanty towns of Trujillo in Peru (Broadcast 1985) The story about life in the shanty towns of Trujillo in Peru (Broadcast 1985)


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Plastic surgery is a now a billion dollar industry but is this a symptom of a society that has lost the run of itself and its obsession with beauty and perfection? (Broadcast 1980)


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DocArchive: Is This The End of the Story? from 2009-05-15T12:00

"Is This the End of the Story?" looks at how we communicate over a pint in the pub. What will happen to our stories and how we tell them if we can't get to the pub or if the pubs disappear? (2008)<...

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The Curious Ear (2009): Through Cairo Airport from 2009-05-15T12:00

The story of two women, Magda and Bridgit. Magda is from Port Said in Egypt, Bridgit is from Caherciveen, Co. Kerry. Bridgit emigrated to Egypt for marriage; Magda moved to Dublin to do the same t...

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DocArchive: Rose - A Day in The Life from 2009-05-15T12:00

Rose Aherne is many things to many people. A general legend around the Camden Street area. She is a practical joker, cleaning lady and the star of this charming documentary. (Broadcast 1987)
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DocArchive: Royal Hospital Kilmainham from 2009-05-15T12:00

When it was finished being built in 1684, the Royal Hospital was one of Ireland's finest buildings. When it came out of service in 1927 however, the building began to fall into disrepair. Here we l...

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DocArchive: On The Rocks from 2009-05-14T12:00

The work of a lighthouse keeper is something that few people are cut out for, although advances in technology mean the job is not as lonely as it was in the past. Keepers at Bailey Lighthouse tell ...

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DocArchive: Teresa of Calcutta from 2009-05-14T12:00

Jim Fahy travels to Calcutta to meet Mother Teresa and see the work she is doing there (Broadcast 2001)


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DocArchive: Ancient Fraternal and Friendly Order from 2009-05-14T12:00

Proinsias O' Conluain examines the history of the Ancient Hibernian Order, its presence in the North of Ireland, its links to America and its future significance. (Broadcast 1976)


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DocArchive: On the Street Where they Sell from 2009-05-14T12:00

For generations, especially on market days, Irish towns the breadth and length of the country would be taken over by street traders or hawkers as they were known who would set up their stalls to ba...

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DocArchive: Gentle It Was, Revolution It Was Not from 2009-05-13T12:00

In the winter of 1968 Ireland had it's own student rebellion. The Doc on One catches up with the four main ringleaders forty years on.


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DocArchive: Robert Farren Remembered from 2009-05-13T12:00

A look back at the life of Robert Farren. From his poetry to his time in broadcasting, this documentary takes a look at an extrordinary life. (Broadcast 1985) A look back at the life of Robert Farr...

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DocArchive: Here be Monsters from 2009-05-12T12:00

For centuries, strange creatures have been sighted in the Clifden area in Galway. And so in 1979, Myles Dungan went to investigate. Noted in history, could these creatures still exist? Could it be ...

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DocArchive (1983): All That Trouble Just to Get to Brooklyn from 2009-05-12T12:00

This documentary was recorded during the centenary year of Brooklyn Bridge. The New York bridge has become more than just a bridge - this is a story told through music, poetry and dialogue. (First ...

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Doc Archive (2003): Truckstops from 2009-05-10T12:00

Paddy O’Gorman speaks to truck drivers at Mother Hubbards restaurant, Co. Kildare about their lives and work. These men travel throughout Europe driving, in what can be described as a lonely exist...

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DocArchive: Low Hills in the Evening from 2009-05-10T12:00

What will happen any us when we grow old? Where will we live and whom will we live with? This documentary goes inside the nursing homes and institiutions of Ireland, meeting both residents and the...

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DocArchive (1979): This Man Had Kept a School from 2009-05-09T12:00

A bilingual documentary on Scoil Eanna - the boy’s school founded by 1916 leader Padraig Pearse. Pearse was committed to the preservation of the Irish language. The school would prove to be a succ...

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DocArchive: Giant on the Lagan from 2009-05-09T12:00

Belfast was once the greatest shipyard in the world. This is the story of those glorious days stretching back to the 19th century. In particular, the Harland and Woolf yard is renowned for building...

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DocArchive: Before the Beat from 2009-05-08T12:00

A look at what was involved in training up the members of Ireland's Police Force in the 1980s. (Broadcast 1985)


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DocArchive: The Birth of The Express from 2009-05-08T12:00

‘The Express’ was a regional tabloid set up in Louth in 1978 and this bilingual documentary charts the creation of the publication; from the initial idea, to the very first edition and its delivery...

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DocArchive: Dudley Kane: Darach O'Cathain is here in Leeds from 2009-05-08T12:00

In 1963 the Sean Nós singer Darach Ó Cathain emigrated from Connemara to Leeds, England with his wife and family. This documentary follows their journey. "When you've music in you, you're hearing m...

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DocArchive: Pighouse at Cornafean from 2009-05-07T12:00

Mrs Phyllis Faris opened a museum in 1968 in a disused pighouse at her home in Cornafean, Cavan after receiving an inheritance and was to build it up over the years to become one of the biggest tou...

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DocArchive: The Hidden River from 2009-05-07T12:00

The Bradogue river has always been associated with the Cabra area, in north Dublin - yet locals in Cabra know little of the river. It is concealed from the public gaze. This is the story of a 'hidd...

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DocArchive: High on a Broad, Infertile Land from 2009-05-07T12:00

Pádraic Dolan visits the Gaeltacht area of Connemara to ask the people living there about their own unique attitudes to life. (Broadcast 1975)


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DocArchive: Two New for Europe from 2009-05-06T12:00

In 1984, Ray McSharry (Fianna Fail) and Mary Banotti (Fine Gael) became members of the European Parliament (MEP). For both this was unchartered territory - both stepping into the unknown. This docu...

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DocArchive: Dreaming Of Fat Men from 2009-05-06T12:00

Dreaming Of Fat Men won the 1995 Prix Italia for Radio documentaries. In the documentary, 5 very fat women meet to feast and discuss their relationship with food, which is both funny and sad. (1995...

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DocArchive (1997): I Am What I Would Be from 2009-05-06T12:00

"I Am What I Would Be" is an unlikely title for a documentary on trees, but that is exactly what John Quinn - offers the listener - a lyrical evocation of the beauty and wonder of trees. (First Bro...

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DocArchive: Mayday Mayday from 2009-05-04T12:00

A celebration of the first day of an Irish summer in song, word and music. (Broadcast 2002)


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DocArchive: Radio Graffiti from 2009-05-04T12:00

A radio documentary presented by the late Gerry Ryan on the rise of The Beatles from skiffle boom to rock in the late '50's in Liverpool (Broadcast 1980)



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DocArchive: The Ghosts of Oven Lane from 2009-05-01T12:00

The poet Michael Coady tells the story of his Great Grandfather who emigrated from Oven Lane in Carrick on Suir over a hundred years ago. (First broadcast 2001)


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DocArchive: Globetrotter from 2009-04-30T12:00

A documentary by Dick Warner on an incident packed bus trip from London to Kathmandu. The five thousand mile journey includes stops in Greece, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Broadcast in 1979) Listen

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DocArchive:The Irish Sugar Company from 2009-04-30T12:00

The interesting history behind the Irish Sugar Company, and the many characters who have passed through its doors through the years. (Broadcast 1984)


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DocArchive (2003): Lost Children - Children In Irish Workhouses from 2009-04-30T12:00

The story of children in Irish workhouses in the 19th century. This documentary looks at the conditions and lives of those children at that time and the government assisted emigration of young girl...

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DocArchive: And a Bit Off The Top from 2009-04-29T12:00

The story of a famed Galway barber - Chick Gillen of Dominick Street. We hear from both Chick and his clientele as they talk their way through the world of hair and life. (2000) A look at the ever...

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DocArchive: Inside Bacolod Prison from 2009-04-29T12:00

Fr. Niall O'Brien gives us an insight into what life is like in Bacolod prison, located in the Philippines.We hear of how life in this prison is a far cry from that in Ireland, and the role that th...

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DocArchive (2001): Famine Girls from 2009-04-29T12:00

Over one hundred and fifty years ago, twenty boats left Ireland for Australia carrying orphaned girls. This is the story of the thousands of girls who travelled to Australia. Its focus is especiall...

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DocArchive (2006): House of Song from 2009-04-28T12:00

The story of the last professional song collector in Ireland, Tom Munnelly. Employed by the Department of Folklore in University College Dublin as a collector of songs since 1971, Tom's retirement ...

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DocArchive: Irish Hospital in Baghdad from 2009-04-26T12:00

The Ibn al-bitar Hospital was run solely by Irish medical staff for the Government of Iraq during the 1980's. A combination of tragedy and comedy, the hospital provided a high standard of care to I...

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DocArchive (2002): Facts about 'Facts from Gweedore' from 2009-04-26T12:00

During the famine, in Gweedore in Donegal, English landlord Lord George Hill released a pamphlet called ‘Facts from Gweedore’. This was a report on the environmental aspects of the area and made su...

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DocArchive: Plague House Orchestra from 2009-04-26T12:00

Tobacco smoking is one of those habits full of contradictions. Smokers know of the myriad of complications from smoking cigarettes but choose to continue to smoke for a variety of reasons. This is ...

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DocArchive: History on Wheels from 2009-04-25T12:00

Wolsley, Silver Stream, Lanchester, Model T - collectors of veteran and vintage cars share their passion for their motors. Enthusiastic members of motor clubs around the country organise events thr...

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DocArchive: Homegrown Wings from 2009-04-25T12:00

The passion for flying that began in someone’s backyard. A documentary by Madeline O’Rourke about some of the enterprising people who managed to build viable aircraft in domestic hangers (Broadcast...

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DocArchive: Jews of the East End from 2009-04-24T12:00

After the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 there was a wave of pogroms in southern Russia against the Jewish community. This led to a large increase in Jews leaving Russia. Many fled to Englan...

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DocArchive: Eye and Ear from 2009-04-24T12:00

An exploration of the history of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear hospital in Dublin. (Broadcast 1984)


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DocArchive: Unappreciated Angels from 2009-04-24T12:00

A boarding school memoir in which time past and time present are stitched together in an intimate portrait of convent boarding school life in the 1950s and 60s (Broadcast 1998).



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DocArchive (1996): Thank You Mr Hitler from 2009-04-23T12:00

During the Second World War, over 3.5 million British people were evacuated from their homes and relocated as part of Operation Pied Piper, which was set up to save civilians, particularly children...

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DocArchive: The Reunion from 2009-04-23T12:00

A story which follows Jimmy Kinihan, who left Castleknock College in the early 60s to become a monk…. Five more of his classmates also entered the religious life.


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Opened 1848, Arbour Hill Prison in Dublin was a military prison during much of it's lifetime. Many of the 1916 leaders are buried in the military cemetary at the prison. Today, this prison the nati...

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DocArchive: One in Eleven from 2009-04-22T12:00

One in eleven Irish women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. This award winning documentary hears the stories of Irish women in their thirties, forties and fifties who are reco...

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DocArchive: On the Raft, All at Sea from 2009-04-22T12:00

An award winning documentary about the experience of three generations of asylum seekers It uses the metaphor of the famous 19th century painting, The Raft of the Medusa which depicts shipwrecked s...

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DocArchive (1996): A Woman's Voice, Eavan Boland from 2009-04-22T12:00

Helen Shaw weaves together the life & work of Irish of one of Ireland’s most esteemed and prominent poets, Eavan Boland. A strong and intelligent woman, her poetry is honest and speaks to the ordin...

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DocArchive (1996): Another New Dream for Beirut from 2009-04-21T12:00

Journalist Robert Fisk examines the civil war in Lebanon. By visiting its capital city Beirut, he looks back through war reports of his, how life has developed during the Lebanese civil war and how...

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DocArchive: Even The Walls Are Sweatin' from 2009-04-20T12:00

A documentary about one of the last functioning Irish ballrooms – the Charlestown Ballroom in County Mayo which had its final night in 1997.


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DocArchive: Return to Salzburg from 2009-04-20T12:00

On 4 May 1945, two days before the World War II came to an end, American troops took control of Salzburg, Austria. Former G.I. soldier Norman Smyth returns to Salzburg 40 years after its liberation...

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DocArchive: Lacrymosa from 2009-04-20T12:00

The most intense and difficult experience that most of us will ever know is the journey through the process of grieving after the death of a loved one. In this documentary people speak of their exp...

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DocArchive (2002): A Tale from Two Cities from 2009-04-19T12:00

What are the connections between Belfast and Cork city? Alf MacCarthy traces the similarities between the capital of Northern Ireland and the people’s republic. By speaking to the people of the t...

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DocArchive: I Was There from 2009-04-18T12:00

Each year, Easter marks a key moment in Ireland's history. The 1916 Easter Rising was an armed rising by Irish Republicans against English rule. 98yrs on, listen back to eyewitness accounts of that...

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DocArchive: Appleby Horse Fair from 2009-04-18T12:00

Each year the town of Appleby is filled with the sound of hooves and the sight of bow top caravans as it plays host to one of the biggest and oldest horse fairs in Europe (Broadcast 1978)


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DocArchive: Top Dog from 2009-04-17T12:00

John Skehan takes a look at the world of dogs. (Broadcast 1984) John Skehan takes a look at the world of dogs. (Broadcast 1984)


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DocArchive: Jame Gandon's Dublin from 2009-04-16T12:00

Some of Ireland’s finest building such as the Custom House & the Four Courts were designed by architect James Gandon, who worked in a classical, Palladian style in the late 1700s (Broadcast 1984).<...

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DocArchive: You Can't Live on Love from 2009-04-16T12:00

A fascinating insight into the recessional times which gripped Ireland in the 1980s and the housewives who had to learn to live with unemployed husbands. (Broadcast 1984) A fascinating insight into...

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DocArchive (1994): Time Up in Somalia from 2009-04-16T12:00

In 1993, Irish troops were part of the United Nations Operation in Somalia. Treasa Davidson joins the c.100 members of the Irish Army Transport serving in Somalia as part of UNOSOM II. We hear firs...

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DocArchive: Thoroughbred Horse Racing in Ireland from 2009-04-16T12:00

John Skehan delves into the world of Irish horse racing and asks 'what is it that distinguishes an Irish horse?' (Broadcast 1975)


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DocArchive: Tribute to Liam O'Flaherty from 2009-04-15T12:00

Liam O'Flaherty, an Irish novelist and short story writer, was a major figure in 20th century Irish Culture. Born on the Aran Islands, Liam was a native Irish speaker. Many of his works have the co...

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DocArchive (1994): Universe Story from 2009-04-14T12:00

Dr. Brian Swimme and theologian Fr. Thomas Berry, joint authors of "The Universe Story" explore Cosmology, History and God. (First Broadcast 1994)


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DocArchive: Pearse's People from 2009-04-13T12:00

Pádraig Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916 - which resulted in his death. This is an ac...

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DocArchive (2002): Cleggan Disaster from 2009-04-12T12:00

The Cleggan Disaster took place in the Galway fishing village in 1927. This tragedy took the lives of 45 fishermen from the local community. A hurricane struck, destroying the fishing boats at s...

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DocArchive: Congo Chronicle from 2009-04-11T12:00

A chronicle of the Irish army's first major peacekeeping deployment in June 1960 when the U.N. requested an Irish force to be sent to the fledgling country of The Congo (Broadcast 1984).


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DocArchive: Wine, Women and Turnips from 2009-04-10T12:00

The skill, the kit and the enthusiasts behind the craft of homemade wine (Broadcast 1983).


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DocArchive: Another County from 2009-04-09T12:00

Another County explores the lives and memories of Irish economic emigrants’ experiences in 1940’s and 1950’s UK . Programme contributors reflect on the horror of living in wartime Britain and how o...

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DocArchive: Man of Commitment - Sean Mac Entee from 2009-04-09T12:00

A tribute to Seán Mac Entee (1889-1984), politician and moving force in the Irish Government from independence until the 1960s (Broadcast 1984).


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DocArchive: I Choose Denmark from 2009-04-09T12:00

Francis Hackett is most well known for his work on Henry VIII but was also revered in Ireland and abroad as a critic and author of many autobiographies. This is the story of his fascinating life. (...

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DocArchive: Celts and Communication from 2009-04-08T12:00

An account on the use of Celtic languages in the media across Europe and illustrates just how difficult it is for some countries to promote the use of their native tongue within broadcast media. (B...

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DocArchive (1994): Woman For Our Times from 2009-04-08T12:00

Catherine McAuley was an Irish nun who was born in 1778. She had a comfortable life growing up in Dublin, but after she inherited a considerable fortune, Catherine used the money to set up the Sist...

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DocArchive: Seeking the Mother Lode from 2009-04-08T12:00

This story follows two individuals, Hugh, an armchair geologist and 'Kami', a third generation tunneller and explosives expert as they combine their expertise and set out to discover the source of ...

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DocArchive: A Belfast Game from 2009-04-07T12:00

This incredible story charts two decades of life and death in a Northern Ireland football team during the troubles. RTE’s entry into the 1989 prestigious Prix Italia, this story was adapted by And...

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DocArchive (1994): Ole Ole We're Off To See The Pope from 2009-04-07T12:00

1990 was the year that our soccer team made it to the quarter finals in the world cup. Italia 90 is still talked about by soccer fans across the country. We hear the story of our journey & we hear ...

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DocArchive: Fishamble Street, Then and Now from 2009-04-06T12:00

Fishamble Street within the old Dublin walls dates back to the 14th century. It's been the site of a fish market, an open-air slaughterhouse but is most famous as the site of the first performace o...

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DocArchive: Spreading the News from 2009-04-05T12:00

The Irish News Agency was set up in 1949 to channel Irish news worldwide, particularly on the issue of partition. However, foreign editors would not buy what they perceived as government propaganda...

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DocArchive (2002): High Atlas Challenge from 2009-04-05T12:00

Producer John Kenny departed from Dublin with one man and eight women to Morocco in Africa to take part in the ISPCC High Atlas Mountain challenge. Hiking up to seven and a half hours a day and sca...

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DocArchive: Jogging For The Mind from 2009-04-05T12:00

It was 1920s America when crosswords became the latest craze to sweep libraries across the country. Initially some hoped that it would be a short-lived fad. But the crossword was here to stay (firs...

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DocArchive: Vanishing Bookshops from 2009-04-04T12:00

Visiting a bookshop is a cultural experience, like visiting an art gallery than the local green grocer. A documentary made during the last recession about bookshops under threat (Broadcast 1982). Listen

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DocArchive: Dam-burst of Dreams from 2009-04-03T12:00

The extraordinary story of Irish poet and novelist Christy Nolan, who made a remarkable career despite being unable to walk, talk, or use his hands (Broadcast 1981).


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DocArchive: Mary Mercers Legacy from 2009-04-03T12:00

This is the story of a remarkable building, which was home to a number of remarkable people - the Mercers Hospital in Dublin. (Broadcast 1983)


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DocArchive: Women of the Rising from 2009-04-02T12:00

To mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Cumann na mBan, another chance to listen to some personal accounts from its members regarding the Easter Rising.


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DocArchive (1995): The Half Blind Quarter Poet from 2009-04-02T12:00

Owen Nestor is the toast of many Galway parishes for his poems and ballads. He lost the sight of one eye when a sod of turf fell off a cart and hit him. The explanation for his self deprecating sou...

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DocArchive: My Father Takes a Vacation from 2009-04-01T12:00

We revisit the journey a Swedish father took along the coast of Ireland on a Ferrari red bike - 6 years on his son retraces his fathers steps to try and understand his Dad. This documentary won the...

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DocArchive (1995): My Father Field Marshal Rommel from 2009-04-01T12:00

Manfred Rommel tells the story of his father Marshal Erwin Rommel. Called "the People's Marshal" by his countrymen, Erwin was one of Adolf Hitler's most successful generals and one of Germany's mos...

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DocArchive: Florries Follies from 2009-04-01T12:00

Florrie Rush-McGowan on her career in entertainment in America. In this programme from 1983, the 85 year old Florrie reflects on her life from the Easter Rising of 1916, to the stages of Speakeasie...

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DocArchive: Irish Down Under from 2009-04-01T12:00

A documentary based on the 1983 bicenntenial conference on Irish-Australian links held in Kilkenny - examining the importrance of Irish pioneers, the social advance of the Irish, and intermarriage ...

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DocArchive (1995): General George Patton, Old Blood And Guts from 2009-03-31T12:00

General George Patton was considered as one of the most successful combat generals in U.S history. He was the first officer assigned to the Tank Corps in WWI, but It was during WWII that Patton hit...

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DocArchive: Factory Lives - Digital from 2009-03-30T12:00

The story of the closure of Digital in Galway in the 1990s that left a city and its workforce devastated. Presented by Rachael English (Broadcast 2004)


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DocArchive: Heaven's Reflex from 2009-03-28T12:00

In the mid-1700’s, driven by the 4th Viscount of Kenmare, Killarney began to develop as a town and simultaneously as Ireland's first visitor destination. The Killarney Valley has since been recogn...

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DocArchive: Curtain Up from 2009-03-27T12:00

Oliver Goldsmith’s comedy ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ is one of the few 18th century plays to have an enduring appeal, and is still regularly performed today. We go behind the scenes of a performance a...

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DocArchive: Fishing the Blackwater from 2009-03-27T12:00

The river Blackwater in Munster is amongst the finest salmon rivers in Ireland - and the largest owner of fishing rights on the river is the Duke of Devonshire ... The river Blackwater in Munster i...

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Docarchive: The National Concert Hall from 2009-03-26T12:00

In 1981 the long-standing dream of many Irish music lovers was realised with the opening of the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin. Ian Fox looks at the history of the building and ...

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DocArchive (1995): Rough Justice from 2009-03-26T12:00

Sexual violence can have psychological, emotional, and physical effects on a survivor. Self-blame can be amongst the most common effect. We hear from a number of victims who speak of their attacks ...

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DocArchive: The Communist Party of Ireland from 2009-03-26T12:00

An account of the work of the Communist Party in Ireland in 1983, whose central goal is the ending of the capitalist system and implimenting a social system in which all means of production and dis...

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DocArchive: The Sally Ann from 2009-03-25T12:00

The Salvation Army, affectionately known as the 'Sally Ann', was founded in 1865 in England. This is an account of their operations in Ireland in 1983, and the many social issues members found them...

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DocArchive: The Belle of Ould Cork from 2009-03-25T12:00

The Cork Opera House went up in flames in 1955, when a fire destroyed the whole building within hours. It was a dramatic ending to 100 years of stage history. The loss of the iconic Opera house had...

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DocArchive (1994): Cistercian Christmas Glencairn Abbey from 2009-03-25T12:00

St Mary's Abbey, Glencairn is the only Cistercian monastery for women in Ireland. Glencairn Abbey is a working Abbey and in addition to the practical running of the monastery, the sisters work on t...

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DocArchive: The Ballad of Patrick Folen from 2009-03-25T12:00

With a sung narration performed by Mick Flannery, this documentary delves into the life of an Irishman who lived in England. In 2006, Patrick Folens remains were discovered in Horton Woods in Kent....

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DocArchive: From the outside in from 2009-03-24T12:00

A documentary which marks the first 50 years of the Irish Dept of Social, Community and Family Affairs tracing its past, present and future. By 2015, it's estimated that the number of welfare depen...

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DocArchive: Songs my Mother taught me from 2009-03-24T12:00

The story of a British war bride in Canada and her grown son, Chris, who retraces his own path in life via his mother's unusual history. Chris' parents marraige was a deeply unhappy one and he, the...

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DocArchive: Sawdust in their veins from 2009-03-23T12:00

Living a nomadic existence, circus life is like a small town on wheels keeping 60 to 70 people together for the duration of an 11 month tour. This documentary records the thoughts and emotions of v...

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DocArchive: Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee from 2009-03-23T12:00

A documentary that delves into the gruelling but rewarding world of the Matt Talbot boxing club in Dublin by following one 14 year old local lad, Patrick Dennan, who wins the Dublin boys title and ...

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DocArchive: Shirley Goldfarb - An American in Paris from 2009-03-23T12:00

When American-born artist Shirley Goldfarb died in Paris in 1980, most of her work was simply stored in her studio. She left New York in 1950 moving to Paris. This documentary examines the life an...

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DocArchive: Factory Lives - The Price of Bacon from 2009-03-23T12:00

In the fourth programme in the ‘Factory Lives’ series, “The Price of Bacon” tells the story of the closure of the Castlebar Bacon Factory in the 1980s.(Broadcast 2004)


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DocArchive (1983): Political Satire in Ireland from 2009-03-22T12:00

Mixing comedy and politics has a long tradition in Ireland. Beginning with the days of Dean Swift and taking in Dublin Opinion, this documentary talks to satirists about their work, and gauges the...

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DocArchive: Bantus, The Boers and The British from 2009-03-21T12:00

Rodney Rice gives a snapshot of apartheid in South Africa - a time when the system of separation denied some 22 million South Africans the right to vote, and a host of other human rights in the lan...

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DocArchive: Born Under The Cabbage Leaves from 2009-03-20T12:00

The story of twin sisters from Dun Laoghaire, Dublin who were born in 1950s Ireland with congenital rubella syndrome. (Broadcast 2008)


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DocArchive: Joxer in Jerusalem from 2009-03-20T12:00

Juno and the Paycock is a play by Sean O'Casey set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period.This is the story of when the Gate Theatre in Dubli...

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DocArchive: Smelter for Ireland from 2009-03-20T12:00

Ireland is the largest producer of zinc in Europe, and among the top ten producers in the world. The opening of Tynagh Mines in 1965 and Tara Mines in 1970 prompted a debate about the need for a na...

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DocArchive: 200 Years on the Nore from 2009-03-19T12:00

1983 marked the bicentenary of St. Kieran's College in Kilkenny, one of the Country's long standing educational institutions and one which has a very real sense of its long and historical past. (Br...

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DocArchive: She Made a Reality of Miracles from 2009-03-19T12:00

A look back on the life of Mother Mary Martin, the foundress of the Medical Missionaries of Mary (Broadcast 1975)


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Doc Archive: In the Public Service from 2009-03-18T12:00

One of Ireland’s largest and most powerful institutions – The Civil Service. An early 1980’s examination of this central core of power, and cog in the machine of development and growth (Broadcast 1...

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DocArchive: Follow that dream from 2009-03-18T12:00

A documentary about two lifelong Elvis fans, husband and wife Maurice and Maureen, who after a letter each from Elvis in 1960 realise a lifelong ambition to visit his home - Graceland - on the occ...

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DocArchive: Who Cares? from 2009-03-18T12:00

Mental illness is something which can affect any of us at any time. Medical help is always part of treatment. But what about human help and help within our locality? This documentary looks at the r...

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DocArchive: Thin Air from 2009-03-18T12:00

The story that over the space of 14 months Fermoy, a small town in Co. Cork with a population of 2,500 was shocked by the disappearances of three residents. (Broadcast 2008)


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This is a story of human survival and hope. Three survivors of tragedies speak of their own destiny - Debbie MacGuinness was involved in the Stardust fire, Larry O'Brien was onboard the Zeebrugge f...

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DocArchive: George Redmond Gentleman Piano Tuner from 2009-03-14T12:00

This is the life story of 83yr old George Remond from West Cork. He spent his lifetime tuning pianos for the great and good of Ireland - meeting many seasoned performers such as John MacCormack, Be...

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DocArchive: Personal Approach from 2009-03-14T12:00

As Ireland became firmly embedded within the EEC, in the late 1970's Terry Stewart moved his family from Ireland to Brussels. This story is a personal approach to their life in Brussels - a new lif...

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DocArchive: St. Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg Pilgrimage from 2009-03-14T12:00

In this documentary we hear the sounds and words that tell the story of the Lough Derg Pilgrimage, Co Donegal (Broadcast 1991) In this documentary we hear the sounds and words that tell the story o...

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DocArchive: I Try Not to Think of the Future from 2009-03-13T12:00

The story of the closure of the Fieldcrest factory in Kilkenny in 1982. With high hopes for the factory and surrounding community we hear directly from those who were affected most by its closure a...

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DocArchive: The sinking of the Graf Spee from 2009-03-13T12:00

Irishmen serving in the British Navy recount the sinking of The 'Graf Spee' - a German battleship at the helm of the German fleet in WW2. Weighing in at over 16,000 tonnes, she was a feared predato...

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DocArchive: The Look of the Irish from 2009-03-13T12:00

The Documentary on One team have put together four very different mini documentaries. Each promise to take a close look at some of the moods and motivations around the national holiday. (First Broa...

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DocArchive: Factory Lives - Ferenka from 2009-03-12T12:00

Ferenka was once a factory in Limerick - a stable resource of employment. But in 1977 it closed down leaving in its wake a depressed and mournful workforce. (Broadcast 2004)


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DocArchive: There's still coal in Coalisland from 2009-03-12T12:00

Coal has been mined in Tyrone since the mid 1600's and when it comes to the town of 'Coalisland' in East Tyrone, its name tells the story. Travel into the past, present and future of coal mining in...

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DocArchive: Inner City Island from 2009-03-12T12:00

In 1973, RTE Radio One Producer Seán Mac Reamoinn set out to capture life in the North Wall and Sherriff Street area of Dublin city.


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DocArchive (1994): Frederick Ryan, Writer and Thinker from 2009-03-12T12:00

Frederick Ryan was a Dublin born journalist, playwright and socialist. He was heavily involved in both theatre and politics. His involvement with politics and strong views often prevented him from ...

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DocArchive (1994): Mothers and Daughter - Story of an Adoption from 2009-03-11T12:00

Theresa was given up for adoption by her mother Terry. This tells the story of how Terry felt about the birth and giving her daugher up for adoption. We also hear how Terry and Theresa’s adoptive p...

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DocArchive: Bees and Their Keepers from 2009-03-11T12:00

An account of the long history Ireland has with beekeeping and how bees are so important to the farmers of Ireland .From the financial gain, to every sting, we hear from people who are passionate a...

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DocArchive (1994): To Somalia and Back from 2009-03-10T12:00

In the early 1990’s, vicious inter-clan fighting in Somalia led to the deaths of 30,000 Somalis, in addition to an estimated 200,000 who died as a result of famine. This is the story of the Irish s...

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DocArchive: Irish Brent Goose Expedition from 2009-03-09T12:00

Every October, 90% of the entire world population of Brent Geese fly into Dublin Bay on their annual migration. In this documentary, we follow them on their 4,000km journey from Bathurst Island in ...

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DocArchive: Far Cry from 2009-03-09T12:00

Mary Benson was a South African writer and antiapartheid activist. She rejected her privileged upbringing as a white in South Africa to campaign against her country’s racial policies and lived in v...

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DocArchive: It happens silently in the night from 2009-03-09T12:00

It took Ireland generations to fully open up to the sexual abuse of children within the state. Before the lid was blown open on this area in the late 1990s, this documentary made ten years earlier ...

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DocArchive: Factory Lives - The Price of Leather from 2009-03-09T12:00

Peter Woods tells of the closure of the Rawson’s Boot Factory in Dundalk in the 1960s. (Broadcast 2004)


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DocArchive (2004): Closing the Gaiety in Carrick On Shannon from 2009-03-08T12:00

The story of the final night at the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. The cinema fell on hard times and closed in 2004 after more than 70 years business. This documentary relives th...

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DocArchive: Headwaters - Cruising on the Shannon from 2009-03-08T12:00

The Shannon is Ireland's longest river. This documentary takes a relaxing and beautiful cruise on the upper Shannon, from Carrick on Shannon through to Knockivar lock to the Islands of Lough Key in...

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DocArchive: Out of the dark from 2009-03-08T12:00

The value of education in prisons is often debated worldwide. Made over 25 years ago, this is the story of education in Irish prisons, from both the educators and from the prisoners themselves. Edu...

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DocArchive: Old Yellow Gloves from 2009-03-08T12:00

Raymond Chandler was an Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter who had an huge stylistic influence upon the modern day private detective story. His main fictional character, Philip Marlowe, is co...

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DocArchive: Sunlight in the Garden from 2009-03-07T12:00

Louis MacNeice CBE (1907–'63), an Irish poet and playwright, was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden. His work recieved wide public praise during his lifetime due ...

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DocArchive: Dying with Love from 2009-03-07T12:00

Every day around the world people die. This documentary focuses on the last days of peoples lives and the help, support and love that can ease the passing of someone in the home environment or in a...

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DocArchive (1976): Zimbabwe from 2009-03-06T12:00

In 1976, Dick Warner travelled to Rhodesia in Africa to witness the last days of white rule. After a plan was initiated by the American and U.K governments, Zimbabwe was born with a new name, new p...

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DocArchive (1982): Flight 3306 To Strasburg from 2009-03-05T12:00

In 1982, Ireland had been a member of the EEC for 9 years. Hearing from those who work on the ground within the European Parliament, we gain an insight into how Ireland was still adapting to life ...

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DocArchive: Dismissal of Fr Michael O'Hickey from 2009-03-05T12:00

Fr O'Hickey was an Irish Catholic priest and a Professor of Irish at Maynooth College. In 1909 he clashed with the Bishops and establishment over his belief in Irish and duly dismissed. However, Fr...

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DocArchive (1975): Little Herring Fleet at Anchor Lay, Bantry from 2009-03-05T12:00

John Skehan talks to locals of Bantry, Co. Cork about their concerns for the welfare of the bay and the once thriving fishing industry that was based there in the wake of two major oil spillages. T...

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DocArchive (1981): Rabbit Overhead Mi Lord from 2009-03-05T12:00

Rabbit Overhead Mi Lord was recorded three years before Dunraven Estate in County Limerick was sold. It follows the last driven pheasant shoot on the estate. It features recordings of the then owne...

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DocArchive (1982): James Joyce - The Playboy of the Western World from 2009-03-04T12:00

The biography of one of Ireland's most celebrated talents in literature – James Joyce. Born in Dublin in 1882, and best known for Ulysses, this documentary takes a look at the literary legacy left...

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DocArchive (1994): Lost and Found from 2009-03-04T12:00

This is the story of how a lost mother was found. Michael O’Keeffe was put into care at aged 2. He did not have any contact with his mother growing up, but 50 years later he decided to look for her...

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DocArchive (2007): No Cure for Mickey Finn from 2009-03-04T12:00

A biography of fiddle player, Mickey Finn who was born in Co Kilkenny in 1951. His life was short and tragic for Mickey was addicted to alcohol and drank himself to death. This documentary explores...

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DocArchive (1977): Arts Frozen Sounds from 2009-03-03T12:00

The story of sound reproduction began in 1877 when Thomas Edison found a way of causing sound waves to vibrate and be recorded onto tin foil. Then in 1887 the first record was invented. This docume...

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DocArchive (2004): Factory Lives - Lockes from 2009-03-02T12:00

Part of Factory Lives; A six part series on factory closures in Ireland taking one example from each decade and examining the causes for the collapse against a backdrop of economic development in t...

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DocArchive (1991): Bread and Butter Man - George Bernard Shaw from 2009-03-01T12:00

One of Irish literature’s greats; George Bernard Shaw is celebrated in this documentary. Born in Dublin in 1856, Shaw initially struggled for success before plays such as Pygmalion brought him to...

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DocArchive (1982): Centre of Paralysis of Silence, of Importance from 2009-02-28T12:00

A biography of the fascinating life of James Joyce; a giant of literature in Ireland. We learn why he had such a strained relationship with Dublin and gain an insight into the creation to some of h...

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DocArchive (2007): Eddie and the Lone Bush from 2009-02-27T12:00

Storyteller Eddie Lenihan is a master of language. In 1999 Eddie began a campaign that lead to the NRA rerouting the Ennis Bypass around a lone bush at Latoon, near Newmarket-on-Fergus, co. Clare. ...

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DocArchive (2009): The Rebel Countess from 2009-02-26T12:00

Countess Constance Markievicz is known for her participation in the Easter rising in Dublin in 1916 and her time spent as part of the Irish Cabinet. Members of her family paint a picture of the wo...

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DocArchive (1974): O'Duffys Men from 2009-02-26T12:00

Maurice Manning traces the history of the Blueshirts in Ireland. The Blueshirts was the nickname for the National Guard which was an Irish extra-parliamentary security organisation active in the 19...

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DocArchive (1998): David's Diary from 2009-02-25T12:00

In 1904, Father John Creagh instigated an economic boycott against the small Jewish community in Limerick and forced a lot of them to leave the city. This documentary has the framework of a diary k...

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DocArchive (1982): The Making of an Orchestra from 2009-02-25T12:00

Since it was founded in 1948 the RTÉ Symphony orchestra has seen over 60 of success at the forefront of symphonic music in Ireland. Ever wondered what it takes to be a member of a world renowned or...

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DocArchive (2009): Finding Henry from 2009-02-25T12:00

The story of a homeless man who swapped the dangers of urban subsistence for the rural forest sanctuary of the Dublin Mountains. For three years he has made the woods his home; it is where he feels...

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DocArchive (1989): Fungie, The Dingle Dolphin from 2009-02-23T12:00

Barry Lang travels to Dingle in Co Kerry, to meet Fungie the Dolphin. Fungie is a friendly bottlenose dolphin, who has lived in the harbor since 1983. Barry talks to the locals about his story and ...

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DocArchive (1976): Famine in Ethiopia from 2009-02-22T12:00

In 1974, after severe drought, Ethiopia in Africa was devastated by the disaster of famine. Up to an estimated 1 million were left dead. Still under the rule of Emperor Haile Selassie, Ethiopia was...

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DocArchive (1978): Nobody ever went to America to learn how to kill a pig from 2009-02-21T12:00

This is an absolute must listen - a window into the Ireland that once was - and is perhaps gone forever? One of our real oldies but goldies - a documentary about how to kill a pig on a rural Co Gal...

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DocArchive (1976): Ancient and Fraternal Order from 2009-02-21T12:00

A journey into the realms of Catholic belief. The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) is an Irish Catholic fraternal organisation. Members must be Catholic and either Irish born or of Irish descent. ...

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DocArchive (1982): Paul Durcan's Mayo from 2009-02-21T12:00

A look at the fascinating life of Co. Mayo poet Paul Durcan. He talks us through his childhood and his award winning work and the experiences that have informed them, including mental health issue...

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DocArchive (2007): Birds of the Air - Immigration Mosaic from 2009-02-20T12:00

A story which follows a number of people who have left their homelands to seek a new life in the so called 'New Europe'. After emigration from Africa, Turkey and Eastern Europe, they tell of findi...

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DocArchive (1982): The Forthieth of Foot from 2009-02-20T12:00

Mention the words "The Forty Foot" around Dublin, and anyone will know exactly what you are referring to immediately. This bathing area in South Dublin has become an institute among bathers in the...

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DocArchive (1976): The Bargemen from 2009-02-20T12:00

What is it about Bargemen? Do they choose the lifestyle or does it choose them? The last working barge passed through the Grand Canal in Dublin in 1960. Yet the stories, memories and lifestyle stil...

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DocArchive (1981): With The Wind To Our Backs We Were Only Mighty from 2009-02-19T12:00

An insight into one of Ireland's most eccentric traditions - the Strawboys of Achill, Co. Mayo in the West of Ireland. Jim Fahy takes us on a journey through their musical, dancing and wedding tra...

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DocArchive (1979): A Dogs Life from 2009-02-19T12:00

In 1979 there were a great number of dogs living in sanctuaries around the country. ‘A Dogs Life’ looks at the day to day running of a sanctuary in Carlow. We also meet the owners and examine the m...

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DocArchive (1974): Every Inch an Irishman from 2009-02-19T12:00

A profile of the Irish composer and conductor Charles Villiers Stanford who is seen as a key player in the British musical renaissance. Born in Dublin in 1852, he composed seven symphonies, but his...

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DocArchive (2001): Moving from 2009-02-19T12:00

A radio documentary about Edel and Fergus, urban parents, who decide to move their family out of their cramped house in Dublin in the middle of the Celtic Tiger years to give their two children So...

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DocArchive (2009): I'll Find a High Mountain from 2009-02-18T12:00

The story of a Galway traveller family, one of a dwindling number who still take to the road. Their traditional routes took in rural Connemara. Mary McDonagh (not her real name) paints a picture...

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DocArchive (1981): Darkest Midnight in December from 2009-02-18T12:00

Documentary about the tradition of singing ancient Christmas Carols in Kilmore Church, Co Wexford. Singers consist of the local community, and the group of singers has always included a member of t...

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DocArchive (1979): The Catholic Gentry from 2009-02-18T12:00

The affluent Moore family moved from Antrim to Tipperary in 1850 and purchased the magnificent Mooresfort estate. This move played a huge role in the history of the family, one of the most importan...

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DocArchive (1996): Season from 2009-02-18T12:00

Cricket fanatic Conor O’Callaghan tells the story of cricket in Ireland and gives a poetic account of his own obsession with the sport. (First Broadcast 1996)


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DocArchive (2005): Two Trains To Achill from 2009-02-16T12:00

This programme tells the stories of migrant workers from Achill in Co Mayo, who would travel to Scotland to work picking potatoes in the 19th century. According to local folklore, the first and la...

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DocArchive (1974): Colmcille - The Real National Apostle? from 2009-02-16T12:00

Saint Colmcille was born in Donegal on December 7th, 521, the son of a chief related to princes then reigning in Ireland and Scotland. Today, many Irish and Scottish Catholics are still devoted to ...

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DocArchive (1981): Pipe that Song Again from 2009-02-14T12:00

A hobby for some, a career for others, the men and women behind the craft of musical instrument making in Ireland. Synonymous with Ireland is the Irish Harp - we hear about the creation of this in...

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DocArchive (1976): Mona's Isle from 2009-02-13T12:00

The Isle of Anglesey is the largest Welsh island in the U.K. Anciently know as the Isle of Mona, it lies off the north-west coast of Wales. Connected to the mainland by two bridges, it has the lon...

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DocArchive (1981): Bantry Hold on for Dublin from 2009-02-13T12:00

In the early hours of the morning on the 8th Jan 1979, tragedy struck just off the head of Bantry Bay, Co. Cork when an oil tanker exploded on Whiddy Island. A look at the aftermath of this disast...

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DocArchive (2008): Tuned In! from 2009-02-13T12:00

At the end of 2007, Donegal VEC had an idea: take 50 teenagers - lock them away in an adventure centre for 5 days. Throw in musical instruments, music teachers and a composer. The project was call...

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DocArchive (1981): Running Commentary from 2009-02-12T12:00

26.2 miles is a long way to run. Myles Dungan ran the Dublin City Marathon back in 1981. He takes us on the 26.2 mile journey from training to finish line and gives a play by play of his progress a...

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DocArchive (1973): Unhappy Christmas from 2009-02-12T12:00

A look into the darker side of Christmas - a season that can bring as much sadness as it does joy. Bereavement, homelessness, poverty, loneliness - this are all problems that can be magnified durin...

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DocArchive (1971): Bus to Glasgow Part 2 from 2009-02-12T12:00

A two-part programme made on the first CIE Express bus from Dublin to Glasgow. Sean Mac Reamoinn is joined by a host of people including their Scottish guide and philosopher, Hamish Anderson for th...

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DocArchive (2003): Saints Alive from 2009-02-11T12:00

The Catholic religion has thousands of saints. What is a saint? What characteristics does a person need to achieve this distinction? Are there too many saints already? This radio documentary, first...

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DocArchive (1992): Magdelene Laundry Institute in Galway for Outcast Women from 2009-02-11T12:00

Single women who became pregnant and women who were unwanted by their families for other reasons were sent to live and work in the Mary Magdelene Home Laundry in Galway. Some spent the remainder of...

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DocArchive (1971): Bus to Glasgow from 2009-02-11T12:00

A two-part programme made on the first CIE Express bus from Dublin to Glasgow. Sean Mac Reamoinn is joined by a host of people including their Scottish guide and philosopher, Hamish Anderson for th...

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DocArchive (1996): Tibetans from 2009-02-11T12:00

Robb Bradstock arrived in India just as it was announced that the Dalai Lama was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. This documentary is a personal encounter with a people struggling to main...

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DocArchive (1990): Close The Door from 2009-02-09T12:00

The story of the "fallen women" who spent most of their lives in the old Magdalene home and laundry, the Convent of Our Lady of Refuge on Lower Sean MacDermott Street, Dublin. At the height of its ...

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DocArchive (1991): Immigrating to Ireland - Middle East Immigrants from 2009-02-09T12:00

A growing number of immigrants from the Middle East have come to Ireland in the last 25 years. They are refugees, travellers and students. They come from a region of great political instability a...

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DocArchive (1976): The Three Candles from 2009-02-08T12:00

Kilkenny man Colm Ó Lochlainn was a printer, collector of Irish ballads and a piper. He founded his own press, At the Sign of the Three Candles Press in 1926. He later became a professor of Irish ...

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DocArchive (1989): Rue des Irlandais - The Irish in Paris from 2009-02-07T12:00

A documentary about the vibrant Irish community in Paris. We hear from those who have emigrated to the French capital and have made Paris their home including writer Jean O'Sullivan originally fr...

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DocArchive (1976): Hayfoot Strawfoot Dancing Masters from 2009-02-07T12:00

For centuries 'Dancing Masters' travelled throughout Ireland from village to village, teaching Irish dance to all they met. They were flamboyant characters, wore bright clothes and carried staffs....

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DocArchive (1976): John A. Costello from 2009-02-06T12:00

The history of Ireland's most reluctant Taoiseach ever. Dublin man John A. Costello was Taoiseach from 1948–51 and 1954–57, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926–32, and legal advisor to the gover...

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DocArchive (1981): Seán Ó Riada - Life in Coolea from 2009-02-06T12:00

One of the greatest Irish composers of the 20th Century, Seán Ó Riada is best known for his work with Irish traditional music and the group Ceoltóirí Chualann. From those in the community to his fa...

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DocArchive (2008): Egyptian Wonder from 2009-02-06T12:00

Colette Kinsella speaks to four elderly Irish nuns who have been living in Egypt in Africa for several decades. She learns from the women about their religion and reasons for emigration, as well ...

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DocArchive (1989): Sing Whatever Is Well Made from 2009-02-06T12:00

A radio documentary commemorating W.B. Yeats on the 50th anniversary of his death. Dublin’s William Butler Yeats (June 1865 to January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremos...

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DocArchive (1972): Mr President from 2009-02-05T12:00

A look at the history of the American Presidency, beginning with George Washington who took office in 1789 and traversing almost two centuries. Along the way the programme looks at some iconic figu...

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DocArchive (1981): Forget not the Field from 2009-02-05T12:00

It is estimated that close to 12% of the population in America has Irish roots. An insight into Irish-America at a time when Ireland was only beginning to realise the interest many Americans have ...

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DocArchive (2000): The McGraths from 2009-02-05T12:00

Dominic McGrath left the town of Lanesborough, Co Longford, in 1827 and went to America. Now, many generations later, the McGraths have returned to their Midlands town to meet Irish cousins at a pa...

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DocArchive (1994): From Zen to Karaoke from 2009-02-04T12:00

Seamus Hosey, accompanied By Marita Harve, visits the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto. Famed for its many Buddhist Temples, Zen Shrines, and rock gardens, there’s plenty of sightseeing on offer in K...

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DocArchive (1977): Long Tails, 50 Years of Greyhound Racing from 2009-02-04T12:00

Greyhound racing has been a popular sport in Ireland for over a century. In this documentary we hear an account of greyhound racing's beginnings in Ireland. We also hear stories from the tracks and...

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DocArchive (1981): Town in Brittany from 2009-02-04T12:00

Embracing all things Celtic, a look at the small town of Lannion in Brittany, home of the 1981 Celtic Congress. People from countries throughout Europe travel to promote and celebrate the language ...

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DocArchive (2008): The Wizard Oz from 2009-02-04T12:00

A radio programme adapted from Finnish about the Israeli writer Amos Oz, based on his memoir, A Tale of Love & Darkness. His literature included fiction, political commentary and literary criticis...

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DocArchive (1985): Breandan Bhreathnach from 2009-02-03T12:00

A look at the life and career of the Irish music collector and uilleann piper Breandán Breathnach. He is recognised as being responsible for saving numerous tunes and is seen as an important figure...

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DocArchive (1993): Till The Morning Comes - Night Life In Dublin from 2009-02-03T12:00

While most of us sleep at night, Dublin city is still alive and kicking. From taxi drivers to fire men and maternity hospitals to newspaper printers, we hear from the people who work through the ni...

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DocArchive (2001): Nivita from 2009-02-02T12:00

This is the story of Nivita, an all-girl band from Cork whose three members Niamh, Anita and Carmel and a twenty-month baby girl Emma were killed in a tragic accident, when their car crashed just o...

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DocArchive (1993): Loving Never Stops from 2009-02-02T12:00

The erosion of memory is something we all fear. For those left watching, there's nothing worse than seeing loved ones health fade away. Alzheimer's is most often diagnosed in over 65's and there's...

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DocArchive (1992): Suicide - A Cry for Help from 2009-02-01T12:00

Each year worldwide, over one million people commit suicide. This documentary meets with people who have attempted suicide and lived to tell the tale. They discuss their mental health and difficult...

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DocArchive (1976): WitchCraft from 2009-02-01T12:00

Witchcraft, the use of supernatural or magical powers, moves between fact and fiction depending on the believer or non-believer. We investigate the history of persecution suffered by ‘witches’ in...

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DocArchive (1992): Apocalypse Now from 2009-02-01T12:00

Tropical rainforests are 'jewels of the Earth'. Responsible for 28% of the world's oxygen turn over, rainforests are home to over 50% of all species in the world. So why are we destroying this envi...

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DocArchive (1992): Breaking Up Is Never Easy from 2009-02-01T12:00

For most people in life, love is at the core of living. Sharing one's life with a significant other is nearly expected. This documentary tells a story of people who choose differently - to opt out...

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DocArchive (1976): The Lewis Folk from 2009-01-31T12:00

The Isle of Lewis lies off the West coast of Scotland. It's said Scottish islands share a kindred Gaelic spirit with the Irish. In 1976 Kieran Sheedy went to investigate and unearthed a community t...

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Doc Archive (2005): The Euro Guru from 2009-01-31T12:00

This documentary looks back on some of the highs of fifty glorious years of the Eurovision song festival in the company of Paul G. Sheridan. Paul describes himself not as a fan but an aficionado, ...

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DocArchive (1992): Flight Of The Bremen from 2009-01-31T12:00

Until 1928, no one had flown from East to West over the Atlantic. In 1927, ten unsuccessful flights were attempted and seven lives were lost. Finally, in April 1928 a 3 man crew succeeded, one of w...

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DocArchive (1976): The Staunchest Priest from 2009-01-30T12:00

Fr. Michael O’Flanagan was born in 1876 in Roscommon. Known as 'The Republican Priest', he was president of Sinn Féin from 1933-35 but was expelled from the party for participating in a Radio Éire...

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DocArchive (1981): Raytown from 2009-01-30T12:00

Everyone in Ringsend, Co. Dublin has a nickname. Even Ringsend has a nickname - "Raytown". Find out why in this documentary about the social history of this very unique Dublin neighbourhood by the ...

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DocArchive (1992): If The Statues Stopped Moving from 2009-01-30T12:00

In July 1985, in the village of Ballinspittle, Co. Cork, a grotto statue of the Virgin Mary came alive and moved. As news of the phenomenon spread, thousands of pilgrims and spectators arrived. Se...

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DocArchive (2010): Song From The Slum from 2009-01-29T12:00

This doc tells the story of Steo, from the northside of Dublin, and Simo, a young homeless man from the slums of Nairobi, who find a common language though music and hip hop. Together they produced...

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DocArchive (1981): John Ennis from 2009-01-29T12:00

Westmeath’s John Ennis, is an award winning poet and one of Ireland’s finest talents. In this documentary he talks about the influence of his rural background and his family on his work. (First Bro...

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DocArchive (1992): Another Country from 2009-01-29T12:00

For everyone of us, the day will come when we hang up our working boots - no matter how important the work - and enter the world of the retired. This documentary tells a story of retirement, exami...

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DocArchive (1973): Twenty Five Years a Growing from 2009-01-29T12:00

Andy O'Mahony takes a look back at the work the Music Association of Ireland, on what was the occasion of its 25th anniversary, and asks if the association was successful in achieving its aims of f...

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DocArchive (1976): Rambler from Clare from 2009-01-28T12:00

In this documentary, Kieran Sheedy tells the story of the rambler from Clare, Johnny Patterson. Johnny was an Irish comedian, singer and songwriter. His career was so successful that he became a ho...

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DocArchive (2008): Sr Brid is Heading for High Places from 2009-01-28T12:00

Sister Brid Smith, from Blackrock, Co Dublin, is a 65 year old nun with a difference. Despite health problems and losing her sight six years ago, she has not lost her love for the outdoor life. She...

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DocArchive (1989): Rabia-a: A Life in Islam from 2009-01-28T12:00

Rabia Al Najairr grew up in a typical Irish Catholic family, but converted to the Islamic religion when she was still a teenager, giving up alcohol and changing what she wears. In this documentary ...

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DocArchive (1992): Immortal Memory from 2009-01-28T12:00

Robert Burns known in Scotland as simply 'The Bard' was an 18th century Scottish poet, artist and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. This...

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DocArchive (2009): Mr Farren Goes to Brussels from 2009-01-27T12:00

A family from Donegal travel all the way to the headquarters of the EU in Brussels in search of some help, and to get some answers about the death of their daughter, who was tragically killed in a ...

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DocArchive (1984): Today Tomorrow and The Day After – Life Without Work from 2009-01-26T12:00

This programme looks at families struggling with unemployment and poverty in the mid 1980’s in Dublin. Padraic Dolan goes to the working class areas of Coolock, Artane and Darndale and speaks to th...

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DocArchive (1976): Going, Going, Gone from 2009-01-25T12:00

Malahide Castle, parts of which date to the 12th century, lies close to the village of Malahide in the north of Dublin. This documentary tells the history of the castle and the family who owned it ...

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DocArchive (1976): Boss Croker of Glencairn from 2009-01-24T12:00

Richard Croker (1843-1922) was a politician in America born in the village of Blackrock, Cork. At the helm of Democratic Party politics, he became extremely wealthy receiving bribe money from broth...

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DocArchive (1981): Burning the Bones of the Earth from 2009-01-23T12:00

This documentary is based on an unpublished memoir and tells the story of the life and work of a lime burner- seen through the eyes of Matty McCaulife from Kerry and ‘the limeburner of Churchhill’ ...

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DocArchive (2007): Piano Lessons, Sliding Scales from 2009-01-23T12:00

Girls who want to learn to play the piano. Girls who do not want to learn to play the piano. Some of these girls are heard in this piece. It is the voice of the Maiden reaching back through time, t...

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DocArchive (1972): It Sprang From Uibh Laoire from 2009-01-22T12:00

An exploration of the literary history of Uibh Laoire - the lakeland between Macroom and Gougane Barra in West Cork. It's been written about by literary figures: O'Connor, Ó Faoiláin and Corkery.It...

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DocArchive (2009): A Piece of Cloth from 2009-01-22T12:00

A documentary about Muslim women wearing the hijab in Ireland. This programme hears the story of Shekinah Egan, a young girl from Gorey who found herself at the centre of a controversy around the w...

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DocArchive (1981): Knock Three Times And Ask For Joe from 2009-01-22T12:00

America attempted a nationwide ban on the sale of alcohol to try to transform a basic habit of millions of people. Prohibition was introduced from 1920 -1933. This documentary tells the story of sp...

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DocArchive (1976): Violent Export from 2009-01-21T12:00

Violent Export is a radio documentary by Kevin O'Connor that delves in to the thoughts of the people living in Britain during the times of the London bombings. Kevin speaks to both Irish and Britis...

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DocArchive (2007): Missing In Athlone from 2009-01-21T12:00

This story looks at events in 2005, when Gardaí from the Garda National Immigration Bureau drove from Dublin to Athlone, Co. Westmeath with orders to pick up six children and two adults for immedia...

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DocArchive (2001): This Island Nation from 2009-01-21T12:00

With the breakout of World War II, the Irish Merchant fleet became a vital part saving the nation from food shortages and Lemass said that we couldn’t have preserved our neutrality without it. The ...

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DocArchive (2003): Death in Kerry from 2009-01-20T12:00

A radio documentary that tells the story of John B. Keane's "The Field", and how a dispute between two farmers over bog land in mountainous rural Kerry during the 1950s culminated in Richard Harris...

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DocArchive (1976): Drop of the Craythur from 2009-01-19T12:00

A bilingual documentary on Poitín, the Irish alcohol traditionally and illegally distilled from malted barley or potatoes in rural Ireland for centuries. One of the strongest alcoholic beverages i...

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DocArchive (1979): Incidents in Colooney Street - Limerick Jews in 1904 from 2009-01-19T12:00

Pat Feeley tells the story of the pogrom against Jewish people in Limerick City. In 1904, a Catholic priest named Fr John Creagh instigated an economic boycott against the small Jewish community th...

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DocArchive (1976): Rabies from 2009-01-17T12:00

Rabies is a viral disease that attacks the brain. It's usually transmitted by a bite from an infected animal. For humans, it can be fatal unless an antidote is given. We examine the virus, its begi...

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DocArchive (1975): No.4 Checkout Please from 2009-01-16T12:00

In the mid 1970's one of the largest social changes in Ireland was born - Supermarkets! After centuries of corner shop shopping, changes were afoot. Here the pros and cons, reactions and of course...

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DocArchive (1999): The Tar Road to Sligo from 2009-01-16T12:00

A documentary about musicians Thom Moore and Vincent Harrison and their relationship to Ireland and America. Singer/Songwriter Thom Moore was born in California. Fiddle Player Vincent Harrison is f...

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DocArchive (2000): Where There Is Light from 2009-01-16T12:00

For many years Irish lighthouses have safely guided passing ships safely along our shores. This documentary tells the story of those whose job it was to look after the many lighthouses around the c...

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DocArchive (2009): On Hunting from 2009-01-15T12:00

A documentary from the Australian national broadcaster ABC that follows a group of professional hunters. It examines ideas about hunting and asks a question: if we kill an animal for food, is it mu...

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DocArchive (1974): The Relevance of St Thomas from 2009-01-15T12:00

A programme compiled to mark the 700 year anniversary of the death of philosopher and theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas.; He was born in Italy, but worked throughout Europe. Perhaps his greatest contr...

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DocArchive (1981): Limerick's Theatres from 2009-01-15T12:00

Limerick is a city steeped in culture and history. It also has a great history in amateur andprofessional dramatics. In this piece, Pat Feeley explores the theatre scene of Limerick in 1981. From t...

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DocArchive (1976): Living with Cancer from 2009-01-14T12:00

Thousands of people die from cancer each year in Ireland. Experts say that the earlier cancer is detected, the more treatable it can be. In this documentary, Ruth Buchanan looks at the different wa...

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DocArchive (2007): The Blue Watch from 2009-01-14T12:00

For a week in 2007, Liam O'Brien joined up with The Blue Watch, stationed at Anglesea Street in Cork. Their shifts change between day shifts and nights shifts, most are 12hrs. However, nothing is ...

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DocArchive (1981): Stand and Deliver from 2009-01-14T12:00

In 1981 there was a dearth of comedians in Ireland. In this documentary Des Hickey finds out from the people who put themselves on the line in front of an audience. He joins the search for comedy p...

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DocArchive (2009): This is Maria McCrae from 2009-01-13T12:00

Maria McCrae spent most of her life in foster care. When she tried to look for her family, social services made the search extremely difficult. This documentary raises serious questions a...

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DocArchive (1977): Mr Watson, Come here - I want to see you from 2009-01-11T12:00

On March 7th, 1874, Alexander Graham Bell, by just a matter of hours, wins the race in the development and patent of the telephone. What a coup! And the first words ever spoken on the telephone? B...

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DocArchive (1976): The Parish from 2009-01-10T12:00

Everything is local - We journey into the sounds and flavours of a typical parish in 1970's Ireland - into the community of St. Mary's, located in the heart of Limerick city. From the individuals ...

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DocArchive (1980): The Loneliness of Old Age from 2009-01-10T12:00

Being old in our society can be tough – apart from sickness and poverty, many old people can feel isolated and lonely. This documentary was made in 1980 when people were only beginning to consider ...

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Doc Archive (1975): Did you hear the one about? from 2009-01-09T12:00

We have a certain way of joking in Ireland - a certain type of comedy that is difficult to find in other places. Whilst laughing along (hopefully) Kevin O' Connor will examine a montage of language...

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DocArchive (1980): Irish Lights from 2009-01-09T12:00

The wave-swept lighthouse has always had an aura of romance, but this documentary covers the history of the lighthouses from the days of the medieval lighthouses in Youghal, Co. Cork to the Tuska...

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DocArchive (2005): Kidnapped - The Herrema Diaries from 2009-01-09T12:00

On October 3rd 1975 republicans, Eddie Gallagher and Marion Coyle, abducted and kidnapped a Dutch businessman, Dr. Tiede Herrema, from near his home in Castletroy, Co. Limerick. 30 Years later, Dr ...

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DocArchive (2006): The Week to Come from 2009-01-08T12:00

A documentary told by those who took part in the 1916 Rising. It is made from archive recordings made by Proinsias Mac Aonghusa in the 1960's, broadcast during the 50th anniversary commemoration as...

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DocArchive (1980): With Sincere Sympathy from 2009-01-08T12:00

Most people who die leave behind a circle of people who will be going on what can be a long journey through grief. Grief is a normal and natural reaction to the death of a loved one .This documen...

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DocArchive (1971): Women of the Revolution from 2009-01-08T12:00

Some of the women who were heavily involved in the conflict at the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. Contributors include Nora Connolly O'Brien, the daughter of James Connolly; Rosie Hackett who was...

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DocArchive (2009): Loss Can Build a Bridge from 2009-01-07T12:00

November 8th 2007 marked the 20th anniversary of the Enniskillen bombing in Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Eleven people were killed and sixty three were injured. In this documentary, two women ...

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DocArchive (1980): As Others See Us from 2009-01-07T12:00

Built on the river Lee, the Rebel county is the second biggest city in the country. But what is it like to experience this city though foreign eyes?; What makes Cork tick, what is it that brings th...

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DocArchive (1976): Fleeting City the London Years of Patrick Kavanagh from 2009-01-06T12:00

Irish poet and novelist Patrick Kavanagh fled Ireland numerous times. He went to London in search of freedom and to be recognised in English literary society. In this documentary, Kevin O'Connor ex...

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DocArchive (1995): Blue Rinse and Starch - 1945 Laundress Strike from 2009-01-05T12:00

In 1945, women laundry workers went on strike for a second week's holiday. The strike removed over 1,500 workers from 13 weeks of work, and affected 14 laundries in Dublin city. This documentary te...

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DocArchive (2008): The Partial Life of Mary X from 2009-01-05T12:00

‘’Mary X’’, an intellectually handicapped mother of nine, spent most of her life on the streets. Instead of receiving the one-on-one care that she needed, Mary fell through the cracks in the system...

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DocArchive (1975): You win some, You lose some from 2009-01-04T12:00

For some there's no greater high than a horse winning or a late goal or a royal flush in poker. But this is more than a thrill; it's a bet, the kind of high you get addicted to. Gambling can become...

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DocArchive (1975): Spin Slow and Deep from 2009-01-03T12:00

In 1975 Kieran Sheedy and Dick Warner headed off to discover the sport of coarse fishing. For those not in the know coarse fishing is river or freshwater fishing for species such as pike, bream an...

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DocArchive (1980): Valley of the Writers from 2009-01-03T12:00

In 1980, Ashford, Co. Wicklow became a popular destination for writers from all over the world. They arrived to nestle into their beautiful surroundings. But why? This documentary tells of the dra...

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DocArchive (1996): David from 2009-01-03T12:00

This award winning documentary tells the story of a sister and family who grow up with an intellectually disabled brother. This is an intimate and beautiful window into one families love for each ...

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DocArchive (1997): Springtime--It Brings on the Shearing from 2009-01-02T12:00

With over 110 million sheep, Australia is one of the most sheep-populated countries in the world. But what is life like carrying out the biggest job in the sheep calendar? Here, sheep shearers are ...

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DocArchive (1979): Whiskey with an E from 2009-01-02T12:00

Irish whiskey was one of the earliest distilled alcohol drinks in Europe, arising around the 12th century. Irish whiskey comes in several forms; grain, blended, single malt, pure pot still. An inve...

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DocArchive (1975): Bullets and Bowls from 2009-01-02T12:00

Irish road bowling is an ancient sport. It's centered in Ireland - in Co Armagh and Co Cork. The game is played by throwing an 800 gram bowl or "bullet" along a country road course, up to 4 km long...

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DocArchive (2005): Leaving Belmullet from 2009-01-02T12:00

The story of migrant workers from North Mayo and their travel to Scotland to pick potatoes during the 20th century. We hear about the history and tragic deaths of some of the immigrants. It had bee...

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DocArchive (1978): Bridges for the Bashful from 2009-01-01T12:00

The world of romance, relationships and dating is forever evolving. Long before the days of the internet, this documentary looks at the trend of computer dating in 1970’s Ireland. Speaking to memb...

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DocArchive (1985): Francis Street from 2009-01-01T12:00

A documentary on the inner city Dublin street, Francis St and the Iveagh Market. Francis St is in the heart of Dublin. We hear the stories from life in the old days, the Iveagh Market and its stal...

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DocArchive (1996): Moore's Melodies from 2009-01-01T12:00

Aodan O Dubhghaill presents some of the social issues addressed by the legendary Co. Kildare singer songwriter Christy Moore in his songs. This documentary touches on issues covered by Christy - a...

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DocArchive (1976): American Journey Pt II from 2009-01-01T12:00

Highlights from John Skehan’s journey across America. This documentary includes: the assimilation of Irish in the US, Young Indian on Indian rights, White view of Indians situation, Ecology and tou...

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DocArchive (1980): Naval service from 2009-01-01T12:00

Charged with minding our seas, our coastline and much else besides, this documentary tells the story of the Irish Naval service. Barraí Mecall explores the history of the military service and impor...

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DocArchive (1978): Good Enough Music For Them Who Love It - Pipers & Makers from 2009-01-01T12:00

The pipe has played a huge role in traditional Irish music for centuries and still does to this day. In this documentary we meet both Irish pipe players and pipe makers. They talk to us about their...

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DocArchive (1978): Bridge on the river Liffey from 2009-01-01T12:00

The Matt Talbot Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin city centre. It links Custom House Quay on the north bank of the river to City Quay on the south bank, and was completed...

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DocArchive (1984): History of the Irish potato from 2009-01-01T12:00

Sir Walter Raleigh's is revered as the man who brought the potato to Ireland from South America. In this documentary John Skehan looks at the importance of the potato in Ireland, as well as the hi...

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Patricia, Mary and Mary-Lou too from 2007-05-30T12:00

The story of three female candidates of Dublin Central in the run up for the General Election of 2007.


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DocArchive (2005): Early Doors, No More! from 2005-04-25T12:00

The 12th of December 1955, the opera house in Cork was destroyed by fire. The destruction of the Old Opera house affected the people on an emotional level. The burning is equivocated in the minds o...

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DocArchive (2004): The Little Eva Story from 2004-10-03T12:00

In 1962, a teenage singer called Little Eva was plucked from obscurity and shot to stardom with her number one smash hit, "The Locomotion". She enjoyed relative success with her next single but str...

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Doc Archive (2004): Bulldozer and Buckleppin from 2004-07-20T12:00

Two short documentaries. In ‘Break a Nail’, Camilla Duncan is a Westmeath grandmother who drives a bulldozer for her living. In ‘Jumping for Tanzania’, the Co. Meath Kells Heritage Buckleppin' Comp...

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Doc Archive (2004): Skerries 100 from 2004-07-13T12:00

Skerries 100 is organised by The Loughshinny Motor Cycle Supporters Club in Skerries Co. Dublin. The sport is dangerous and exciting for its participants. We wish offer our condolences to the famil...

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DocArchive (2004): D-Day 60 Years On - The Forgotten Heroes from 2004-06-18T12:00

To mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Derek Davis visits the Normandy Beaches where the largest amphibious invasion in military history was held on June 6th 1944. Paratroopers & g...

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Doc Archive (2003) Unconquered Champion from 2003-09-26T12:00

A look at the life and works of essayist William Hazlitt, the 18th century English writer best known for his humanist essays. Willett spent much of his childhood in Ireland. In particular we look a...

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DocArchive (2002): The Tallymen of Tralee from 2002-10-31T12:00

Tallymen have a passion for politics and most would have been canvassing in the run-up to this election. But today, the Tallymen are centre stage, it is all about compiling the data to make early p...

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DocArchive(2001): They Sang Freedom from 2001-11-21T12:00

A treasure of recordings found in producer, Bill Meek's attic. Untouched for over three decades, they tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement in America's Deep South. Journeying from heartland ...

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DocArchive (2001): The Mahrs of Dublin from 2001-07-30T12:00

The second of two documentaries by Gerry Mullins about the 1932 to 1939 correspondences between Dr Adolf Mahr, the great Nazi archaeologist based for some years in Dublin, and his Jewish friend, ph...

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DocArchive (2000): Sing Out Gloria from 2000-08-07T12:00

This documentary followed the progress of Ireland's only lesbian and gay choir 'Glória' from final rehearsals to their appearance on stage at GALA 2000, an international choral festival for lesbian...

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DocArchive (2000): 40 days and 40 nights on The Reek from 2000-02-07T12:00

Chris Doris spent 40 days and 40 nights camped out on top of Croagh Patrick. Doris, a local artist, envisaged this experience as a “social sculpture”. Acting as a type of tour guide, he met with th...

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DocArchive (2000): Where's Your Mamma Gone? from 2000-01-31T12:00

In 1971 Vincent Blackwell was strangled and killed, he was 8 years old. His body was found by Watery Lane, hidden under bottles in a pram. The person responsible for this crime was a 12 year old bo...

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DocArchive (2000): Spanish Room from 2000-01-16T12:00

The intensity of Flamenco music is brought to life in the town of St. John's in Newfoundland by the members of El Viento Flamenco troupe. Each member brings a flavour of their own musical influence...

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DocArchive (1999): Pope in Ireland from 1999-07-17T12:00

From papal stools to singing priests to a youth mass, all part of the papal visit to Ireland in 1979. This documentary celebrates the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul’s visit to Ireland. Over 2.5...

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DocArchive (1998): The Accrington Pals from 1998-11-07T12:00

Accrington, like a thousand towns across Europe, enjoyed the flaming summer of 1914, but life in the East Lancashire town was not one of contentment. The boom time was coming to an end and the Grea...

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DocArchive(1998): God's Own Farmers from 1998-02-06T12:00

Cistercian bells have been ringing across Europe since 1098. This religious order created the continent's first farmlands. In 1998, they celebrated 900 yrs of prayer and farming. Arriving in Irelan...

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DocArchive (1997): My Generation from 1997-06-27T12:00

Music in the 1960s was the form of articulation of a generation that was changing things and was quite aware that it was changing things. Flower power was short lived in Ireland but it had a profou...

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DocArchive (1997): Time Piece from 1997-06-05T12:00

Mary Mulvihill explores the concept of time. Along the way, Mary visits Dunsink Observatory, Timpiece Antique Clocks and the Institute of Horology where she meets those who are passionate about tim...

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DocArchive (1997): House, pianos and cups of tea. from 1997-01-30T12:00

Since its foundation in 1988, the Dublin International Piano Competition has grown in stature and now ranks among the most important piano competitions in the world. Previous winners acknowledge th...

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DocArchive (1996): Goodnight Ballivor, I'll Sleep in Trim from 1996-10-30T12:00

Goodnight Ballivor, I'll Sleep in Trim is an expression known to many across Ireland but for Radio Producer John Quinn, it is his memoir of a childhood in the Meath village of Ballivor. This docume...

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DocArchive (1996): In For The Feis from 1996-08-20T12:00

Since the first Feis Ceoil of 1897, students and musicians from across Ireland and beyond have entered the annual music Feis Ceoil competition. James Joyce won the Bronze Medal in the Tenor Competi...

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DocArchive (1996): Cricket: The Season from 1996-07-04T12:00

The season has kicked off in Knockbrack Cricket Club, members welcome their rivals, dressed head to toe in white, to join them in a game which still observes the old formalities of a colonial past....

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DocArchive (1996): Children at the top of the stairs from 1996-04-04T12:00

The Victorian house that loomed in the suburbs of Clontarf was the Children's Orthopaedic Hospital. With most of the children bedridden, they amused themselves with shadow plays, fairy tales and th...

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DocArchive (1994): Piano Passions from 1994-06-29T12:00

What does it take to become a great piano player? Pianists Billy Brown and Peter O’Brien share memories of when they started to learn to when they played piano in crowded bars with some of the grea...

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DocArchive (1994): War and Want from 1994-05-08T12:00

Two nations tell apparently separate stories, yet these are both tales of war and of want, and both trace their roots to the destructive effects of apartheid. Local villages in South Africa and Moz...

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DocArchive(1993): Fatal Attraction-Shining Path Movement Peru from 1993-11-28T12:00

Sendero Luminoso take their name from Peru's first prominent Marxist, José Carlos Mariátegui, who said that Marxism will open the shining path to revolution. That path has been tarnished by their b...

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DocArchive (1993): The Ferry People from 1993-11-20T12:00

The Ferry to France has always had a cherished place among families throughout Ireland who packed up the car for the dream of a sunshine holiday. Staff and ship crew of The Saint Killian II speak o...

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DocArchive (1993): Back To The Future from 1993-11-13T12:00

Marius Schoon, a long-time activist in the African National Congress who spent many years in Ireland as a political exile following the death of his wife and daughter. Nelson Mandela described him ...

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DocArchive (1993): Halfway House from 1993-10-09T12:00

A snapshot of relationships in Ireland at a time when they were considered to be scandalous ... Bill Long talks to people, involved with much older or much younger partners. All these relationships...

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DocArchive (1993): No Less Than Men from 1993-06-26T12:00

Almost 30,000 people were killed and 130,000 injured in German bomb attacks on London during the World War II. Four Irish women relive their experiences of living in London at that time. Having liv...

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Doc Archive (1993): Till The Morning Comes from 1993-06-18T12:00

Till The Morning Comes: Night Life in Dublin is a documentary portrait of Dublin while the city sleeps. Producer Yetti Redmond finds out about the night owls, shift workers and even heros that keep...

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DocArchive (1993): Claddagh Kingdom: Claddagh Villagers Speak from 1993-03-13T12:00

The ancient fishing village of Claddagh was once a self-governing community with its own elected King, who commanded the fishing fleet and upheld the community’s customs. The sight of a red-haired ...

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DocArchive (1993): Children of Belsen Story from 1993-03-07T12:00

Following liberation, five orphaned children from Belsen concentration camp were brought to Ireland by Dr Bob Collis and adopted by Irish families. They remember their lives before they were captur...

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DocArchive (1993) : The Golden Years from 1993-02-19T12:00

Free from the constraints of working life, retirement is the time to start embracing a new-found freedom and enjoying your life. Growing old should be celebrated; seen as a chance to explore new in...

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DocArchive (1993): Indian from Clare from 1993-01-23T12:00

Dr Moosajee Bhamjee became the first Muslim TD in Dáil Éireann when he was elected as a Labour deputy for Clare in 1992. Bhamjee was born in South Africa in 1947, he settled in Ireland in the 1970s...

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DocArchive (1993): Between the Devil and the Holy See from 1993-01-09T12:00

James Montgomery was the first Irish Film Censor between 1923 and 1940. Drawing on his memoirs this documentary details the life of one of Ireland's most important cultural gatekeepers. ( First Bro...

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DocArchive (1992): Counting the Days from 1992-03-28T13:00

The 12th of May 1989, Jackie Mann was snatched off the streets of Beirut and disappeared as if the earth had swallowed him up. He was taken hostage by terrorists and held for 865 days. His wife, Su...

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DocArchive(1992): Trail of Tears - A Vision Quest from 1992-03-27T13:00

Descendants of the Choctaw people return to their homelands in Mississippi to honour their ancestors, who had their land thorn away from them and were driven ruthlessly into a wilderness. What long...

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DocArchive (1992): Trail of Tears - The Choctaw March from 1992-03-20T12:00

Forcibly driven from their homelands in Mississippi, the Choctaw Indians trekked 500 miles on a journey that was to be known as the Trail of Tears. We retrace their footsteps and look at the hardsh...

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DocArchive(1991): Immigrating to Ireland - Fish and Chip Families from 1991-08-06T12:00

The Borza and Fusco families moved from the Lazio region of Italy to Ireland and set up very successful fish and chip shops in Parnell Street, Artane and Rialto in Dublin. They tell their stories. ...

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DocArchive (1991): Dark Is A Way Light Is A Place from 1991-07-01T12:00

Writer and broadcaster Bill Long traces the life and torturous spiritual journey of the 16th century Spanish mystic of Saint John of The Cross. A Carmelite friar and priest of Marrano orgin, orphan...

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DocArchive (1991): Keeping the Peace - His Story from 1991-04-17T12:00

Tommy O’Reilly remembers his passing out ceremony, proudly marching by his family in his Irish Army uniform. For Tommy, the decision to volunteer for active service in Lebanon was an easy one; he b...

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DocArchive(1991): Keeping the Peace - Her Story from 1991-04-10T12:00

Sgt. Sharon Duggan applied to join the Irish Army while she was in secondary school. She was part of a group of women who marched into history as the first female recruits to the Irish Defence Forc...

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DocArchive (1991): Countdown to a November Offensive. from 1991-03-21T12:00

On the 16th of November 1989, armed men broke into the University of Central America, pulled people from their beds, and shot them dead. The victims were 6 Jesuit scholars, their housekeeper, and h...

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DocArchive (1990): Steve Coughlan - Episodes of his Career from 1990-10-10T12:00

Veteran Limerick politician, Stevie Coughlan, and his wife, Peggy recall episodes from his long and colourful career; the Blueshirts and the 1932 election, standing as a Clann na Poblachta candidat...

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DocArchive (1990): The Wonderful Country Far Away from 1990-09-13T12:00

John Boyle O'Reilly (b.1844) was an Irish poet, journalist, author and activist. As a youth he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenians, for which he was transported to Western ...

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DocArchive (1990): Making of a President from 1990-08-31T12:00

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh president of Ireland. She is widely regarded as a transformative figure for Ireland and the presidency. This is a profile on the former pre...

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DocArchive (1989): 15th International Brigade Stands Down from 1989-02-14T12:00

Veterans of the 15th International Brigade who fought for The Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1938 reassemble in Barcelona 50 years following their final march through the city. ...

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DocArchive(1988): In Our Own Words from 1988-11-14T12:00

The experiences of Irish immigrants living and working in London are dramatised in this documentary. Arriving in London with nothing but the clothes on their back, sleeping rough in Victoria Statio...

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DocArchive (1988): Sheriff Street Flat Complex from 1988-05-15T12:00

In the shadow of the multi-million Custom House Dock's scheme, the people of Sheriff Street wonder if this development will provide much-needed employment to the area, which has fallen into serious...

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DocArchive (1987): The Story Fatima from 1987-10-24T12:00

The miracle of Fatima began in May 1917 when three children tending their sheep claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. She reappeared to them over the next 6 months, her final visit becam...

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DocArchive (1987): Wilkinson on Broadway from 1987-09-05T12:00

Irish tenor and actor, Colm Wilkinson, best known for originating the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in the West End and Broadway talks about his life in musical theatre and preparing to le...

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DocArchive (1987): Woman at the Window from 1987-08-08T12:00

Mary Leadbeater's letters tell the stories of real people from the village of Ballitore at the beginning of the 19th Century. Giving us an insight into the life of a remarkable woman, who wrote con...

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DocArchive (1966): Hidden Manna from 1986-08-22T12:00

Contemplative monks from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England speak about life behind the walls of the monastery and challenge common misconceptions about their vocation. What are th...

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DocArchive(1986): Afternoon Tea at the Athenaeum from 1986-05-29T12:00

Andy O'Mahony joins Dr. A. L. Rowse for afternoon tea at the Athenaeum in London on November 14th 1985. The many topics up for discussion include the left-wing politics of the Oxford scene in the 1...

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DocArchive (1986): Green Water Ribbon from 1986-04-02T12:00

Ireland is the perfect place to sail around, the course retains a magic all of its own for most sailors. However, when the ingredients include a modern ocean racing catamaran, extreme weather from ...

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DocArchive(1985): View from the Thames from 1985-12-12T12:00

A journey through the boroughs of London city meeting Irish people who left their home to seek fortune in this bright and fast-moving metropolitan. London offers many young Irish a life of opportun...

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DocArchive (1985): Mulligan from 1985-10-02T12:00

Mulligan was an Irish record company in the 70s and 80s with a catalogue ranging from traditional to contemporary. However, it was far from a typical 9 to 5 office. This collective had an idealisti...

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DocArchive (1985): With Pen and Paper from 1985-08-01T12:00

A profile of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies which was established in 1940 by the then Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera. We look at how DIAS became a world leader in advanced research and Celti...

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DocArchive(1985) Save the last dance for me from 1985-05-09T12:00

Ballroom dancing enjoyed a revival during the 1980s in dancehalls all over the country, especially in the west. People flocked to their local community halls to listen to music which brought back m...

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DocArchive (1985): Best Team In The World from 1985-01-21T12:00

For over four decades, TEAM Educational Theatre Company was one of Ireland's longest established theatres in Ireland. It earned national acclaim working within the primary and post-primary system, ...

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DocArchive (1985): East Germany Today from 1985-01-03T12:00

This 1985 documentary provides an insight into the former East German state, hearing from families and their opinions on a wide range of topics from housing and transport needs to holidays, educati...

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DocArchive (1983): A Town No God Could Please from 1983-10-16T12:00

This is a history of Belfast, from its beginnings as a river-crossing, through its centuries of radical politics and commercial enterprise to the nightmare of the Troubles. Based on the book "“Belf...

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DocArchive (1982): Families for Children Fostering from 1982-11-06T12:00

Ireland has a long tradition of fostering in Ireland. Families have always taken care of the young and vulnerable but many opt to foster children for long periods of time. An insight into fostering...

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DocArchive (1982): The Long Wait from 1982-10-04T12:00

Kidnapping has had a devastating effect on families in Ireland for decades. This documentary looks at cases of men and women in Northern Ireland and in the South, who have gone missing. Often the m...

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DocArchive (1982): Boy from Bruree from 1982-08-23T12:00

This documentary on the young De Valera and his limerick background is based on Donnagha O’Dulaing’s series ’A Boy from Bruree’. Presenter Donncha O’Dulaing speaks about how the recording came to b...

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DocArchive (1981): Three Wishes of John Bradburne from 1981-09-12T12:00

Three wishes in the life of John Bradburne. A mystic, pilgrim, and poet he joined the war in 1939 looking for adventure but instead, he found religion. He converted to Catholicism and began his pil...

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DocArchive (1981): Social Partners in Europe from 1981-06-25T12:00

Our Documentary archive from 1981 looks at the EEC's Economic and Social Committee, the organisation known before the European Union was formed. We hear from diplomats and politicians in Europe abo...

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DocArchive (1951): Wexford Scrapbook from 1981-06-13T12:00

Take a step back to the 1950's and ramble through the narrow streets of Wexford town where its rich and vibrant history can be stumbled upon at every turn. Over the centuries, the people of this me...

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DocArchive(1981): Forum, National School System 1831 from 1981-06-12T12:00

Established by the British Government in 1831, Irish National Schools were originally multi-denominational. The schools were controlled by a State body and the National Board of Education (mixed re...

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DocArchive (1981): Fastnet '81 from 1981-04-18T12:00

The Fastnet biennial race challenges the most experienced sailors as the unpredictable weather means it is one of the most dangerous races in the world. The 1981 race has an air of trepidation as t...

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DocArchive (1981): Digging for Gold from 1981-04-11T12:00

What are the chances of striking gold in your own backyard? What if your discovery turns out to be priceless? In 1979, Michael Webb and his son, also named Michael, unearthed a treasure hoard on an...

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DocArchive (1981): Man in the Wee Room from 1981-03-13T12:00

Bedridden following a serious accident on the Canadian railroads, playwright, George Shiels, was inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Paralysed and back in his native Ballymoney, he start...

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DocArchive (1981): London to Brighton - at 10MPH from 1981-03-06T12:00

Vintage cars of all shapes and sizes travelling at a speed of 10mph splutter and chug their way along the streets of London. Cheering crowds wave their flags while sipping on hot cups of tea. This ...

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DocArchive (1981): Down to Earth First All Ireland Arctic Expedition from 1981-02-28T12:00

Three Irish explorers set off on a 6-month expedition to The Arctic. How do they prepare physically and mentally, and what do they need to do to keep frostbite at bay? What links exist between The ...

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DocArchive (1980): Last Fiddle Master from 1980-12-04T12:00

Pádraig Ó Caoimh is regarded as one of the most influential fiddle players of all time and the greatest in the Sliabh Luachra style. Born in 1887 in Gleantán, he was the eldest of 8 children from a...

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DocArchive (1980): Image Makers from 1980-09-18T12:00

The art and science of Public Relations is explored. In Ireland, in 1980, there were 150 full time PR practitioners and it was a rapidly expanding industry at the time. The myth of a gin swilling, ...

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DocArchive (1980): Dark Clouds over the Cruacha Gorma from 1980-08-21T12:00

The Blue Stack Mountains also known as na Cruacha Gorma are the major mountain range in the south of county Donegal. There is a particular history to this area of traditional music, crafts and Iris...

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DocArchive (1980): McCarthyism; The Fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy from 1980-05-29T12:00

"McCarthyism", as defined by Senator McCarthy, means calling a man a Communist who is later proven to be one. The man, Joseph McCarthy, and the phenomenon, McCarthyism, were two essentially distinc...

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DocArchive (1980): McCarthyism-The Rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy from 1980-05-23T12:00

Senator Joseph McCarthy became synonymous with anti-communist persecution and paranoia in the United States in the 1950’s.This first of two documentaries explains the rise in power of the senator f...

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DocArchive (1980): Northside Swaddy - Seán O'Casey in Dublin from 1980-03-05T12:00

The Award Winning Seán O’Casey was one of Irish literature’s greats. Born in Dublin in 1880, this documentary takes a tour of the Northside of the city, tracing his life. With contributions from fa...

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DocArchive (1980): Great Art Beaten Down from 1980-02-13T12:00

Hugh Lane amassed a collection of pictures with his brilliant eye for art. A man whose life was surrounded by the sort of controversy which was only equalled by his untimely death onboard the Lusit...

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DocArchive (1980): World of Women from 1980-01-07T12:00

In 1980, Broadcaster Marian Finucane traveled to Copenhagen for the second United Nations World Conference on Women. Delegates assesed the progress in women's rights and equality and what was neede...

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DocArchive (1959): To Boston and Back from 1979-05-28T12:00

Back in the days when air fares were unattainable high. America literally seemed like a million miles away and so in 1959, Norris Davidson headed off on a journey of a lifetime. An adventure to Bos...

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DocArchive (1949): A Wine of the Country from 1979-05-16T12:00

It is thought that cidermaking in Ireland stretches back 2000 years, the religious orders were instrumental in its early production. In the 19th century, cidermaking became a business of some impor...

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DocArchive (1958): Hilton and Micheál from 1978-09-25T12:00

Two of the most recognizable figures in the arts in twentieth-century Ireland - Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir, cofounded The Gate theatre. Partners in life and in business, they had an amb...

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DocArchive (1978): Weapon of Choice from 1978-08-29T12:00

A day on the beat with Irish American detectives from the NYPD Homicide Squad who police the streets of Harlem. By the late 1970s, violent crime was a daily part of life in New York City, and the p...

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DocArchive (1978): With the Irish in New York - No. 1 Gaelic Park from 1978-08-15T12:00

Gaelic Park is the home of hurling and football in New York City, but for many Irish immigrants arriving in America, it is much more than a sports club. It was a place to meet old friends, sing son...

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DocArchive (1978): A Winter's Night On Arranmore from 1978-05-02T12:00

The island of Arranmore is one of the largest inhabited islands off the coast of Donegal. The winters are long and the wild ocean cuts the islanders off from the mainland. Community is vital to the...

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DocArchive (1978): He Might Have Won Fame In The End from 1978-01-16T12:00

At the age of 38 Thomas MacDonagh was executed for his part in the 1916 Rising. This documentary explores his role in shaping Modern Ireland through his literary works and political activism.
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DocArchive (1977): Painters and Sculptors from 1977-10-23T13:00

An exploration of the art scene in Ireland, particularly in Dublin. Contributors speak of the elitist image of the commercial gallery, the lifestyle and pressures of an artist and the public's enga...

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DocArchive (1977): The Garden of Eden from 1977-10-17T12:00

Originally from Manchester, Gill Gairdner and Rod Alston, moved to Eden in Leitrim with an idea to make a garden that is both productive and beautiful, and a farm that is capable of supporting thos...

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DocArchive(1977); Squirrel Catcher from 1977-05-22T12:00

Alyn Walsh has his dream job. He is a squirrel catcher. Dick Warner explores the unusual world of squirrel trapping with Alyn and finds out what drives him to do this job in such an isolated forest...

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DocArchive (1976): Yer Only Man from 1976-07-10T12:00

Who is the man Myles na gCopaleen? Brian O'Nolan was regarded as a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature. His novelswere written under the pen name Flann O'Brien, whilst his satirical ...

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DocArchive(1976): 80 Years of Cinema in Ireland: Sound Films from 1976-05-01T12:00

Sonny Boy, one of the most successful theme songs ever written, introduced the "talkie" picture to Ireland. It was sung by Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, the film has screened at the opening o...

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DocArchive (1976): 80 Years of Cinema in Ireland: Silent Films from 1976-04-24T12:00

A complete history of silent films in Ireland from one of the first moving pictures documenting Queen Victoria's visit in 1900, through to the pioneering feature films of Sidney Olcott, to the impo...

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DocArchive (1975): College of Art from 1975-08-13T12:00

NCAD was a scene of heated controversy and disturbance in the late sixties and seventies. This documentary meets the man who stepped in to the role of Director following that time. Welsh man Jonah ...

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DocArchive(1974): Leave Your Hat At The Sound from 1974-08-06T12:00

Achill - the largest island in Ireland, an inspiration to writers and artists for its wild Atlantic shorelines and its wide open spaces - and a place where men once raced up mountains to win a wife...

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