RTE Documentary On One Podcast
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The Documentary On One is the main weekly documentary slot on RTÉ Radio 1. Running at forty-five minutes, Documentary On One is the biggest arena on RTÉ Radio 1 to which listeners can tune to hear documentary work by RTÉ and independent producers. The fare is eclectic and varies greatly from week to week: human interest stories, issues, ideas, historical events, biography, music and literature - to name but a few - all find their home in The Documentary On One slot. In fact, the slot reflects the full spectrum of modern preoccupations and interests.
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Welcome to Holland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 25, 2012
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 expectations of life change forever? You adjust - over time...
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Joyce not Jedward
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 24, 2012
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 Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland).
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DocArchive: Some Rain Later
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 23, 2012
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: When You're Old and Grey
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, May 22, 2012
The Nazareth Home is a retirement home that caters for senior citizens in Malahide. It’s a friendly and close community that lives side by side as they grow old and grey together. (Broadcast 1980)
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Elvis and the Most Miserable Woman in Meath
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 21, 2012
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 another. (Short audio documentary RTE Radio Ireland)
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Letter to Ann
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 18, 2012
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 Harris, a producer on the show, revisited the story.
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Two Boxes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 17, 2012
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 - remembering. (Short Irish documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)
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DocArchive: What's Another Inch.
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 16, 2012
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: Rose - A Day in The Life
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, May 15, 2012
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: On the Street Where they Sell
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 14, 2012
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 bargain with locals. (Broadcast 1977)
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The Secret Chicken Society
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 11, 2012
All around Ireland people keep show chickens - and with each one comes a dream - to become a National Champion. This is a glimpse inside the wonderful world of Irish show chickens - and their keepers - in the run up to the 2012 National Poultry Competition
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Litter Pickers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 10, 2012
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 Ronan Kelly from 2009 shows. (Short audio RTE Radio, Ireland)
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DocArchive: This Man Had Kept a School
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 9, 2012
A bilingual documentary on Scoil Eanna - the boy’s school founded by 1916 leader Padraig Pearse. The school would prove to be a success but would never escape the shadow of its founder, its financial woes, relocations and police raids. (Broadcast 1979)
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DocArchive: The Birth of The Express
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, May 8, 2012
‘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 throughout the region. (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: Pighouse at Cornafean
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 7, 2012
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 tourist attractions in the North East.
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You Can Stick Your World Cup...
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 4, 2012
Are the Irish still going on about Saipan 10 yrs later? Of course we are. Go down any street, into any pub and the whole Mick McCarthy vs Roy Keane row is ready to be debated. They may have moved on but have we? Ten years is a bit soon. A humourous listen
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Silly Scully
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 3, 2012
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 from RTE Radio, Ireland.)
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DocArchive: Father Cares - The Last Days of Jonestown
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 2, 2012
In 1978 the deaths of 909 Americans in a forced group suicide and the murder of five people including a congressman in Guyana focussed the world’s attention on the cult of the People’s Temple and their shadowy leader the Reverend Jim Jones (Broadcast 1983)
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DocArchive:Sister Has Gone to the Races
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, May 1, 2012
An enclosed order of Carmelite nuns in Tallow, Waterford have to raise four hundred thousand pounds to build a new monastry. A task many people thought would be impossible. (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Globetrotter
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 30, 2012
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)
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Our Women's Hearts
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 27, 2012
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.
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DocArchive: Irish Hospital in Baghdad
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
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 Iraqi citizens during the Iran Iraq War. (Broadcast 1985)
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DocArchive: History on Wheels
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 25, 2012
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 throughout the year to showcase their cars (Broadcast 1985).
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DocArchive: Jews of the East End
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 24, 2012
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 England and settled in the East End of London (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: Horse Handler Horse Healer
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
A portrait of 72 year old horse breaker from Limerick, Davy Hogan, who was known far and wide in equestrian circles for his 'sixth sense' for training and taming horses (Broadcast 1978).
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Don't Hang Up: Nightlines
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 20, 2012
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 life under the cloak of darkness? (A BBC Radio 4 production)
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The Finer Points of W's
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 19, 2012
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 documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)
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DocArchive: Appleby Horse Fair
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 18, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] 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: In a Strange Land
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 17, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] A Finn, an American, a French man, and a Greek tell of their experience as immigrants to Ireland in the early 1980's (Broadcast 1981).
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DocArchive: Jame Gandon's Dublin
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] Some of Ireland’s finest building such as the Custom House and 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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Old School, New School
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 13, 2012
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 and new life, of hope, experience and a shared education.
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Ballroom Belles
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 12, 2012
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 great music. (A short radio documentary from RTE, Ireland)
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DocArchive: Congo Chronicle
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 11, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] 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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] The skill, the kit and the enthusiasts behind the craft of homemade wine (Broadcast 1983).
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DocArchive: Man of Commitment - Sean Mac Entee
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 9, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] 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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Unsinkable - Ireland's Titanic Village
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 6, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iPhone and Android.] 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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 5, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iPhone and Android.] 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.)
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DocArchive: Vanishing Bookshops
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 4, 2012
[Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android.] 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).
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DocArchive: Dam-burst of Dreams
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 3, 2012
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: The Pigeon Fanciers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 2, 2012
The joy behind the hobby of pigeon keeping. We meet the dedicated pigeon fanciers who are keeping the ancient sport of pigeon racing alive, hear why they do it, and how they do it (Broadcast 1982).
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Checking in at the Central Hotel
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Mar 30, 2012
Have you ever thought about what goes on behind the scenes when you stay at a hotel? This is the story of a day in the life of one Irish hotel - the Central Hotel in Dublin - now in its 125th year. Stories of poker bets, memorable guests and lots lots more
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Dan Joe's TV Station
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
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? Welcome to LTV Macroom. (From 2006 on RTE Radio, Ireland)
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DocArchive: Heaven's Reflex
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 28, 2012
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 recognised far and wide as “Heaven’s Reflex†(Broadcast 1981).
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DocArchive: Curtain Up
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 27, 2012
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 at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (Broadcast 1982)
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Docarchive: The National Concert Hall
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 26, 2012
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 talks to those involved in setting it up. (Broadcast 1981)
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My Bar Mitzvah in the Holy Land
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Mar 23, 2012
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 the back of his head. (RTE Radio Ireland documentary)
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Lanier Phillips - Survivor
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 22, 2012
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 Brookes. (Battery Radio documentary for RTE, Ireland.)
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DocArchive: Bantus, The Boers and The British
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 21, 2012
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 land of their birth. (Broadcast 1981)
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DocArchive: Smelter for Ireland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 20, 2012
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 national zinc refining plant or ‘smelter’. (Broadcast 1980)
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Rubber Swords
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 19, 2012
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 enjoy Robert McDonald's feature. (Audio documentary RTE)
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000 Ambulance
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Mar 16, 2012
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 distressing listen. (ABC Radio on RTE Radio Ireland)
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Frank X Buckley
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 15, 2012
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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DocArchive: Personal Approach
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 14, 2012
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 life - an EEC political working life (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: The sinking of the Graf Spee
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 13, 2012
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 predator - until the British Navy sunk her (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: There's still coal in Coalisland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
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 N. Ireland - through generations of time (Broadcast 1979)
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Frost is All Over
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Mar 9, 2012
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's onwards. He passed away on January 14th 2012.
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Radio Broccoli
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 8, 2012
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 Naughty Santa. (An audio documentary - RTE Radio Ireland)
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DocArchive: Sunlight in the Garden
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 7, 2012
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 to his relaxed, but socially aware style (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: Zimbabwe
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 6, 2012
In 1976, Dick Warner travelled to Rhodesia to witness the last days of white rule. After a plan was initiated by the US and UK governments, Zimbabwe was born with a new name, a new identity and with a black majority rule. White Mans rule had come to an end
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DocArchive: Dismissal of Fr Michael O'Hickey
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 5, 2012
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 O'Hickey didn't go down without a fight.. (Broadcast 1979)
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On a Cape Clear Day
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Mar 2, 2012
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 storytelling festival and to become part of one pretty large family
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Batman Pyjamas
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 1, 2012
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 brought reporter Daniel Carroll along for a visit to his past.
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"We've got your picture; now what's your name?"
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
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 short Irish documentary from Ronan Kelly, RTE Radio Ireland).
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"No One Shouted Stop" - 40 years on
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
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 reported on a day in the life of a local petrol station.
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Wedding Bus
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 27, 2012
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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Clearing the Killing Fields
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 24, 2012
The story of an unsung hero. Today, Irishman Carson Harte still battles the legacy of the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge Regime years after the wars are over. His aim? To get the wounded back on their feet in the most mined country in the world, Cambodia
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Satnav Rage
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
They're just little computers that sit on the dashboard to tell you where you're going. Except there's more: they have voices and irritating, intimidating 'personalities'. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland and ABC Radio Australia)
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Little Molly O'Neill
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 17, 2012
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 of that night - as we discover what really happened.
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Lessons in Love: the Breakup
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Feb 14, 2012
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 documentary from Domhnall Marnell for RTE Radio Ireland).
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The Royal Irish
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 10, 2012
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 dangerous places on earth - Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
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What Happened to Baby Peggy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Feb 9, 2012
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 and the remarkable woman who emerged from it. (Jan 2006)
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New Beginnings
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 6, 2012
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, especially with the men. (Producer: Mairead Cullen)
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The Continentals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 3, 2012
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 band has re-formed. However, not everything goes to plan
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Wetsuits in Athlone?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Feb 2, 2012
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 this report glorified crime. See what you think.
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Rita Ann and Mitzie Got Married
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
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 Ann Burke and Mitzie Murphy were one of those couples.
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The Busiest Month
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
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 they have to have it ready for February 1st.
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My Dear Cousin
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
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 passing for two friends on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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Don't try to tell Irish schoolboy jokes to a Nigerian woman
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jan 18, 2012
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 boils. Disaster. (Short radio feature from RTE Ireland)
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A Bullet for the General
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
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 period, he was the boss of the infamous Black and Tans outfit.
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"The Flying Enterprise"
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 12, 2012
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 Kelly on RTE Radio, Ireland)
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The Sinking of the Saint Patrick
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 6, 2012
We go in search of the truth behind one of Ireland's worst Maritime disasters - the sinking of the St Patrick, a cross channel passenger ferry on the Rosslare-Fishguard route targeted by the German Air Force during WW2, resulting in the deaths of 30 people
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Because You Can't Smell Someone On Skype
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 5, 2012
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 story. (Short Irish radio documentary - RTE Radio Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: Not Bill Gates
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Dec 31, 2011
Freddie Stapleton and Graham Hickey look at windows rather than through them. Producer: Colette Kinsella. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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One World: Catastrophe Level One
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 30, 2011
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 first to arrive to help. 50 yrs on, nothing much has changed
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Ballymitty Drive-in Bingo
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 29, 2011
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 with Pat Kenny')
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The Reindeer Santa Left Behind
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 23, 2011
On Christmas Eve night 2010, the most incredible set of circumstances led Santa to leave his injured reindeer, Blitzen, behind him in Wexford in the care of the Mulready family. This is the amazing story of how one Irish family saved Christmas.
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Sing Kilcormac!
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 22, 2011
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.Offaly, a short Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.
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The Long Goodbye
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 16, 2011
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 in marraige 'In sickness and health, till death do we part'
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"Moscow" Joe's Weird TV
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
'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, presented by Kay Sheehy, you can hear why.
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Sound Matters
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 9, 2011
A journey into sound and how it plays such an influential, yet often undervalued role in our lives - we explore the many ways sound interacts with us, and how we interact with it.
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Kobe Luminarie
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 8, 2011
At the end of a dreadful year for Japan, Julien Clancy has found the people of Kobe have a most unusual way of remembering their tragedies and lifting their spirits. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)
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This is it, Kiddo
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 2, 2011
The complex and emotional journey of one couple trying to complete their family and their ten-year dream. John and Mary are trying to have a baby through IVF and after many years, this is their last chance. A delicate story of life and hope
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Dave Time
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 1, 2011
You've heard of Greenwich Mean Time and Daylight Saving Time...but, Dave Time? It's an invention of one Dublin man. Actually, it's not, it's just that he's late all the time. Then there's the story of his granny checking out who he's sleeping with...
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Three Rivers - One Summer
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Nov 25, 2011
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 his father make this strange deathbed request?
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See, what you wrote?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
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, Ronan Kelly (Short Irish documentary, RTE Radio Ireland.)
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Last Summer in Grand Bruit
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Nov 18, 2011
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
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 Wants To Be A Millionaire?
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Letter to Olive
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Nov 11, 2011
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 story told through a letter written from a husband to his wife.
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Now, That's What I Call Local Radio!
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
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 short documentary from 1994 by Curious Ear's Ronan Kelly.)
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Wanted: Kidney
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Nov 4, 2011
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 on the transplant list and what happens in between.
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Slow Shopping
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Nov 3, 2011
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 chat - doesn't matter if you don't buy anything.
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Skelligs Calling
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Nov 2, 2011
“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 Calling is a beautiful sonic portrait of Skellig Michael.
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OisÃn's Story
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 28, 2011
8 year old OisÃn 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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Breaded or Battered?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 27, 2011
There's no sitting on the fence with the Wexford Town Rissole - the town is divided. Shane Dunphy has the story of the local chipper speciality. 'Delicacy' is too small a word for the lump of potato and herbs - it's a 'food grenade'.
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A Programme For and About You
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 21, 2011
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 RaidÃó Éireann. Colette Kinsella tells the story of Frankie, her listeners, their tears and laughs.
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30,000 ft. for Shane
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 20, 2011
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 Trust. (Go to rte.ie/doconone for the full documentary)
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From a Jack to a King
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 14, 2011
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 Graceland gates at his home right down to his velvet voice
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Big Music Docs
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 13, 2011
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 short radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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From Brooklyn to Banja Luka
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 7, 2011
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 others families - and only then realise how different they are.
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See off the Summer
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 6, 2011
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 event. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE, Ireland)
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Desperately Seeking Sam
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Sep 30, 2011
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 victory, this is a story of football and of all things Irish
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All Those Funny Z's
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
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 records his plunge into the Polish language and Warsaw.
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I Can Tell by Looking at You
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Sep 23, 2011
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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Maurice - A Final Journey
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Sep 16, 2011
This is a story of life and death - of a man, his partner and his family. Maurice Sullivan left his home in Galway for Malaysia in August 2010, never to return. His attack and the legal fighting that followed, have since been making headlines in Malaysia.
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One World: The Future of Food
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 12, 2011
Fergal Keane explores how closely subsistence farmers live to famine in Ethiopia. In a country of 80 million people and 80% of the population dependant on agriculture, famine has been an almost constant presence in the country. (Made with Irish Aid)
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My Dad's Depression
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Sep 9, 2011
A really honest, tender, open and brave story. Much gets talked about depression and its sufferers. But what about the family that live with that person? This is Conor McGinnity's personal story of how his father's depression has affected the whole family
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Nancy Wake and Harry Potter
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 8, 2011
The story of an extraordinary woman: Nancy Wake, WWII spy, French Resistance leader and saboteur who was determined to 'bugger up' the NAZIs. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland. Producer: Ronan Kelly)
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One World: Moving On
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 5, 2011
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 in her working life (With Irish Aid).
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Victim No. 0001
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Sep 2, 2011
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 department, the Catholic Church and the city's gay community
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Conversations In The Dark
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 1, 2011
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 RTE Radio Ireland).
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One World: Groundhog - The Irish In Lebanon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 29, 2011
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 Radio documentary made in partnership with Irish Aid.)
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Still Waiting for Joe
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Aug 26, 2011
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 of Connemara to Ground Zero in Manhattan.
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Joy of Afternoon Tea
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 24, 2011
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 Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology).
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One World: One City, One Day, Two Lives
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 22, 2011
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 disparities that exist there. (Made with Irish Aid)
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Logan Way - The Story of the Bulgers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Aug 19, 2011
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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Cork City Memory Map
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 17, 2011
Imagine being able to go up and touch the wall of a building and hear the stories associated with it. The Cork City Memory Map will be something like that for smartphones. Cliona O'Carroll of UCC Folklore Dept. and The Northside Folklore Project explains.
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One World: Malaria 2.0
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 15, 2011
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, including a Dublin man with an invention inspired by spy movies.
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Breaking Records
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Aug 11, 2011
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 documentary from inthedarkradio.org on RTE Radio Ireland)
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One World: Oil in Uganda - The trickle down effect
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 8, 2011
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 will it change the lives of Ugandans? (Funded by Irish Aid)
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Through A Chink Too Wide...
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Aug 6, 2011
...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 passenger who listens in on others' conversations.
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An Irishman Chained to the Truth
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Aug 5, 2011
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 Allan uncovers his adventures in Tinseltown.
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Star Boy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Aug 4, 2011
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 Walker. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Ireland)
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One World: "Part of the Family?"
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 1, 2011
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 the "One World" series in partnership with Irish Aid.
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Mat the Goalie
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jul 31, 2011
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 goalies and you learn about life. (Terry Flanagan reports)
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Ring Girls
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 29, 2011
Their uniform is a bikini; their workplace is the boxing ring - the life of the 'Ring Girls'.
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Walk Around The Village
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
Manchán Magann wanted to experience a different Africa so he went to a small village and stayed in a guesthouse. The night's entertainment included a tour around the village in the company of two boys who filled him in on all the gossip and characters.
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Kerry and the Tramp
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 22, 2011
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 permanent statue on the sea front.
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Mine's A Pint
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 21, 2011
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 much so that her husband has made a particular pledge.
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Cork's Hidden Village
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 15, 2011
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 - culminating with a royal visit by the Queen of England.
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Made In Temple Bar
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
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 Festival - here are a few wonderful extracts.
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The House That Ronald Built
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 8, 2011
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 life in extremely abnormal circumstances.
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Sinking of Asgard II
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 7, 2011
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 that night through eyewitness interviews.
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My Name is Lydia Foy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 1, 2011
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 has fought for her identity in life and in the legal system.
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Two Ears
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
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, about the early harvest in 1992. Joe died in May 2011.
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Cocaine Diaries: Story of a Drug Mule
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 24, 2011
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 deadly and violent compound of Los Teques prison, Venezuela
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Hidden Sounds of Temple Bar
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
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 documentary commissioned by Made In Temple Bar Festival)
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Don't go far - Grand Winner@ 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 22, 2011
..... Your Dinner's nearly ready! The mad adventure of two Dublin children in August 1985 who bunked off school, chanced a free ride on the DART and ended in New York.
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The Long Walk of Brother Benedict - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
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 and tells the story of a daughter's search for her father
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The Caretaker - Bronze Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
This is a classic who dunnit story? It was only in 1991 when priceless Islamic manuscripts came up for private sale around Europe - that questions began to arise. Those questions led a path back to the Chester Beatty library in Dublin to an insider theft
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The Age of Attraction - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
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 the hysteria to tackle a very difficult subject - paedophilia
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Searching for Answers - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
In 1975 and 1976 two fishing trawlers sank at the exact same spot off the coast of West Donegal with the loss of 11 lives. Over 35 yrs later, Helena Gallagher, a daughter of one of the men who drowned, goes 'Searching of answers'.
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Los Preciosos - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
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 three countries - making their home in a fourth, Ireland.
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In The Same Boat - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
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 cancer survivors, Ireland's first dragon boat racing team.
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Heroes of the Caribbean - Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
John Kenny (RTE Sport) tells the story of Irish Cricket. In particular, he looks back at the 2007 Cricket World Cup. After 150 years of being bowled out, the Irish cricket team bowled everyone over with incredible performances at CWC07 - A new era was born
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Dogfight: Conor and Charlie - Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
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 they faced was grim, the anger palpable and the outlook bleak
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Never No More: Maura Laverty Remembered
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 17, 2011
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 women in Irish public life at that time.
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A Good Day At Blackrock
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
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.)
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Survival of an Island
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 9, 2011
On Arranmore - one of the few inhabited islands off the Donegal coast - fishing has sustained a population for generations. Now, as the fishing industry there collapses under EU and Irish fishing laws, with it goes the life and community of the island.
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Amazing 'James Barry'
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jun 6, 2011
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..... (Extract of a Breege Brennan documentary)
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The Walsh Cassidys at Lissadell House
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jun 5, 2011
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 - but after an 18 month legal battle, their dream is over
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Heel Toe Step Together
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 3, 2011
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 year old Katie to waltz. Gold Award Winner @ UK Sony awards
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Fryeburg Fair
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 3, 2011
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 sounds are fantastic and the sight of the draught horses...
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The Diary of Leanne Wolfe
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 1, 2011
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 that her sister was bullied by 6 girls for the last 5 years
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The Catacombs
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 1, 2011
'The Catacombs' was a night club that operated from the basement of 13 Fitzwilliam Place, in the centre of Dublin, in the late 1940's. It attracted a bohmemian crowd. This is a snap shot of being young and talented in the Dublin of the 1940's.
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Lost In Holland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, May 28, 2011
Getting lost can be fun. If you do it in HIlversum, Holland, you may come across a house with "Céad MÃle Fáilte" on the front. It's owned by a Dutch couple who have fallen for Ireland so much, they want to move here. (Short radio documentary Ireland)
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12 Steps on Abbey Street
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, May 28, 2011
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 groups meeting weekly. Come inside with us to find out more
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Foley
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 23, 2011
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 in - yet the real sources of these sounds are unimaginable..
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Moneyless Mark
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, May 21, 2011
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 completely without money for over two years - by choice.
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Bray Roadshow
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, May 21, 2011
Before package holidays, Bray, Co.Wicklow was the Blackpool of Ireland for holidaymakers. Sea, amusements and "Roadshows" - variety shows put on in temporary, 'fit-up' theatres in the town of music, dancing and one-act plays. Oooh, the memories and craic..
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The 1916 Room with Dr. Garret Fitzgerald
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 20, 2011
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 effect it had on their lives and families subsequently?
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The Annotated Jack
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 19, 2011
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 spinning tales of his youth. You'll find them both in Newfoundland
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Obama on 145th Street
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 16, 2011
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 back just a few generations to slavery in the Southern States.
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Olivia's Farm
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 13, 2011
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, as new life comes to her farm over the busy Spring period.
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Eulogy For A Sound
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 11, 2011
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. See the amazing photo from photographer, 2c, on the website.
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TwitterOnTrial
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 6, 2011
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 - #Twitterontrial by @patomahony1 and @RTEDocOnOne
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Obama '08
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 2, 2011
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 - from the early primaries right through to the inauguration
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Mitchin' With Dylan
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Apr 30, 2011
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 does - something to do with listening to Dylan, perhaps.)
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An Extraordinary Affair
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Apr 30, 2011
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 Kilkenny - the first ever lesbians to 'come out' in Ireland?
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The Boys of Foley Street
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 29, 2011
This award winning documentary began in 1975 when Pat Kenny made a documentary about a group of young men from inner city Dublin. It was a subject Pat returned to again in 1988. In 2008, Ciaran Cassidy attempts to find out how these boys lives ended up.
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A Convict of the Road
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 29, 2011
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 collarbone, body-snatchers, stealing a bike, drinking cow's blood...
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Reluctant Comedienne
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 27, 2011
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. A comedienne with a very Irish background.
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House
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 26, 2011
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 story looks at the birth of the rave culture in Ireland
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Dr. Slotover Remembers The Rising
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 22, 2011
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 The Gate stage with Orson Welles and lessons in drinking.
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Reflections on a Window
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 20, 2011
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 stories there. (Short Irish radio documentary on RTE Ireland)
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Hidden Heroes of the Belfast Blitz
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 15, 2011
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 by sending its firemen to help their northern brethern.
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Open FM
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
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 with The Universe. Not just a gay station but a joyful one.
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Mighty Mac - Prix Europa Winner 2009
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 11, 2011
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 lifter, and we join him as he embarks on two challenges.
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Ballyfin - A boarding school memory
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Apr 10, 2011
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 window into the Ireland that once was and largely dissappeared.
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Vinyl Fantasy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 8, 2011
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 legend, Pat James. (The Curious Ear - short Irish radio docs.)
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Did Michael Keogh Save Hitler?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Apr 2, 2011
Irish man Michael Keogh claims to have saved Hitler's life before he became 'Führer'. Could this be true? Could a Carlow man, who left home at 16 and lived a life of pseudonyms, disguise, conspiracy and war have had such an impact on modern history?
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Beneath the pfffff...
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 1, 2011
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 teeny pipe organ..." (The Curious Ear, Broadcast 2008)
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The Curios Here
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
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. This is amusing, from the inside out (The Curious Ear)
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Raving Loons vs Northside Nightjars (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
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 day, 10, 30, 50? No, much much more. (Radio documentary)
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My Dad
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 21, 2011
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 to single or separated fatherhood.
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To Love Two Countries
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Mar 19, 2011
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 where it probably has most resonance: New York.
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Julie's Patrick's Day (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 17, 2011
St. Patrick's Day Parade 2011, Monaghan Town (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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Licking King: Oscars Well (for Today with PK)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 15, 2011
Mick Malone, widower, 87, has a dream....Jessica and Oscars are part of it. (A short feature from the home of radio documentaries in Ireland)
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More Irish than the Irish Themselves
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
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 beauty in the language and have been inspired to learn it
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Groundhog & Mirror (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 9, 2011
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)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 3, 2011
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)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Feb 27, 2011
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)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Feb 23, 2011
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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DocArchive: Nobody ever went to America to learn how to kill a pig
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 21, 2011
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 in rural Galway in the late 1970's. (Broadcast 1978)
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The Curious Ear: Soundtory
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
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. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)
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The Curious Ear: Delaney's Bikes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 11, 2011
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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Sex Slave: A Survivor's Story
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 27, 2011
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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Election 2011 - The Count Day
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 27, 2011
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 has begun - Compiled from RTE Radio 1's election coverage
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The Curious Ear: What Can You See?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 21, 2011
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 20, 2011
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 children with autism. Surely this will be a challenge too far
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The Curious Ear: Junction 16
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jan 19, 2011
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: Gleeless
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 14, 2011
What are US High Schools really like? (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)
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City of Tents
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
January 12th 2010, an earthquake hits Haiti killing over 230,000 and making 1 million homeless. 1yr on, this documentary focuses on the life of St.Gerard's, a Haitian school run by the Redemptorist Priests and funded by the Irish charity Misean Cara.
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The Curious Ear: They're Not All Gone
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 7, 2011
Paula Carroll's stories of traditional musicians in Co.Clare (Funded by the BAI Sound and Vision Fund). A short radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.
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8 Years On
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 1, 2011
A multi award winning documentary telling the story of a mother and son after a life seperated by drug addiction. Lynda Barton was born into 1960's Ballymun in Dublin, tried drugs at 13 and soon after had 2 babies. Her son Chris finally re-unites with her.
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The Nightsingers of Brighton
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 29, 2010
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 story of keeping beautiful old traditions alive and kicking.
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The Curious Ear: Lumps of Coal
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 22, 2010
Stories of bold children and vindictive Santys. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)
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JG Farrell: 149 Days in the Life Of
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Dec 18, 2010
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 the story of those 149 days in the life of JG Farrell.
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The Curious Ear: Planespo...Aviation Enthusiasts
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 17, 2010
A view from the layby beside the runway at Dublin Airport by Sarah Jane and Keith Redmond. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)
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Turn Right At Colorado Springs
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 2, 2010
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 spirit and selfless gallantry.
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The Curious Ear: Ice Road Trucker
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 1, 2010
Dave Miller's CBC Canada programme about Alex Debogorski who drives trucks across Northern Canada's frozen lakes making deliveries to diamond mines. (A short radio documentary from Canada on Irish Radio, RTE Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: Girls On Wax
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Nov 26, 2010
The story of female DJs as told by Louise Noone. (Made as part of the Media Arts Course in the Dublin Institute of Technology.) A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.
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Fr. Paddy - A Young Man on a Mission
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Nov 26, 2010
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: Making My Coffin
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 22, 2010
Winifred Thompson is cutting willow to weave her own coffin. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)
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Yola - Lost for Words
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
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.
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The Curious Ear: The Sound of Science
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Nov 16, 2010
The science club from Moyle Park College, Dublin visit a science lab for Science Week 2010. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: "World's First Programme on an iPhone (Possibly)"
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Nov 10, 2010
A gimmick? Yes, but worth a try - this entire programme was recorded, edited and sent for transmission on a smartphone. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)
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The Little Cross of Bronze
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Nov 9, 2010
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 how they won the most prized award for gallantry.
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The Curious Ear: We're told they're bad for us....
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Nov 6, 2010
We're told they're bad for us.... but they're worth the price of beauty - right? (Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad)
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The Curious Ear: Winter
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Nov 4, 2010
Evelyn McClafferty uses voices, music and sounds to evoke the meaning of Winter. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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DocArchive: Who Is Izzy Baia?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Nov 4, 2010
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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The Runners - Prix Europa Winner 2010
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Nov 2, 2010
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 Fagan and the man - Jemmy Gunnery - who helped him escape.
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The Curious Ear: Blue Door
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
The story of a man who kept the front door of his cottage open for 30 years... (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)
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The Curious Ear: Royal Canal
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
Six miles of stories from the newly-reopened canal. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: Littoral Living
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
Rachel NÃ Chuinn's audio essay on the inter-tidal zone. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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From Baltimore to Barbary - The Village That Disappeared
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
A radio documentary about the pirates who raided a quiet coastal village in West Cork and sold villagers into slavery in the Ottoman Empire in 1631.
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Love Notes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
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 music, hard work and hard play.
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DocArchive: Rebel Angel
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 12, 2010
This award winning doc tells the story of heroin - a highly addictive drug - and one addicts fight against it. Its abuse has repercussions that extend far beyond the individual user - sometimes having a devastating impact on society (Broadcast 2001)
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The Curious Ear: Big Music
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 11, 2010
There was a time people whistled on the street.... (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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Stuart Rosenblatt - The Keeper of the Faith
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 6, 2010
This radio documentary maps and explores Jewish Ireland, and our guide is Dubliner Stuart Rosenblatt author of the 16-volume Rosenblatt Series.
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The Forgotten Visit
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
The US presidential visit that seems to have faded in collective memory, despite the fact that it had people lining the streets - Richard Nixon's trip to Ireland in 1970 is remembered in this radio documentary.
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The Curious Ear: Ten Tiny Audio Bombs - Part 2
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 29, 2010
Artists making radio during the Dublin Fringe Festival 2010... (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)
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The Curious Ear: Ten Tiny Audio Bombs - Part 1
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 29, 2010
Artists making radio during the Dublin Fringe Festival 2010... (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.)
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The Curious Ear: Tom Shaw
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Sep 24, 2010
The life and thoughts of retired farmer and uranium miner, Tom Shaw
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Your Long Journey
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 23, 2010
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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The Unknown Nomad
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Sep 17, 2010
The life of Meme, a nomad in the Himalayas, as he witnesses modernisation coming to the mountains, is explored in this radio documentary, recorded over four years.
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The Curious Ear: Crom Regatta 2010
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 15, 2010
For the first time in 97 years, a regatta on Lough Erne with a poignant history. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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Bullfight at Inchicore1
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 15, 2010
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 order to raise money for his sick daughter.
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No Stuntman Is An Island
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Sep 10, 2010
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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Little Star
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Sep 5, 2010
A really great story. In the 1930s, when film was going from silent to speech - Jean Darling was one of the biggest child stars of the era. A member of Hal Roach's Little Rascals and star of Laurel and Hardy, Jean now leads a very different life in Dublin
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The Curious Ear: Love Spectrum
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 2, 2010
From first kiss to a long marriage - extracts from Caroline Foran's and Hannah Quinn's documentaries. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland).
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Lives Less Lived
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 2, 2010
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 fact she never left. This radio documentary is her story.
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DocArchive: Death of a Farmer
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 1, 2010
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 tend to a cow calving. He never came back (Broadcast 1992)
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Birdy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Aug 27, 2010
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: Waiting for...
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 25, 2010
Two stories of women waiting for men: a soldier at war and Bono from U2. (A short radio documentary from RTE Ireland.)
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The Curious Ear: The Lonely Funeral
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 18, 2010
An edited extract from Michele Ernsting's documentary for Radio Netherlands Worldwide about municipal funerals in Amsterdam. (An short Irish documentary series from RTE Radio Ireland.)
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Songs from the Inside
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Aug 14, 2010
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 unexpected story of talent from a teacher and his prisoners
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Agatha Christie's Final Mystery
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Aug 12, 2010
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: Nobody's Child
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Aug 10, 2010
Wexford town's answer to Molly Malone...Maggie Hurley. (A short radio documentary from Irish radio, RTE Radio 1, Ireland.)
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Biking Viking
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Aug 6, 2010
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 High King of Ireland.
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The Bundoran Express
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 4, 2010
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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The Release
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jul 31, 2010
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 stabbed on the field outside his home in Tallaght, Dublin.
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I Could Have Danced All Night
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jul 31, 2010
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 choice of jewellery, or the smell of perfume as he walked by.
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The Curious Ear: Close Call
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
Featuring an extract from Kate O'Flynn's documentary about two climbers who got into difficulty in Co. Wicklow (made for the DIT Media Arts course). Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: Lough Neagh Speaks
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
The remarkable underwater recording of Dr. Tom Lawrence of DCU. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: Carlow's Rowdy Pensioners
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
OAPs in Carlow waking the neighbours for the Bealtaine Festival. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: Bus Stories
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
Extracts from two documentaries on Dublin Bus - 20 years apart. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: Better than Harry Potter
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
The magical relationship of Theresa and Ron MacMillan. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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One Hundred Years of Names
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
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 children and what our names say about all of us.
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One Evening in July
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
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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Double D and a C
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jul 17, 2010
This is a glimpse into the lives of three women still mourning their husbands deaths - but they refuse to live their lives as widows, and together, strengthened by their friendship, they aim to live their lives to the full. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad.
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The Curious Ear: Shoes Fit For Dancing
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 16, 2010
Natalia McCarthy's charming documentary on 87-year old Michael Yeates who has run a shoe repair shop in Clontarf for the past 50 years. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: Foes Reunited
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 16, 2010
Northern Irish teenagers are spreading sectarian hatred using social networking sites like Bebo. Produced at the BBC in Belfast for Radio 4 by Rachel Hooper; reporter, Andy Martin. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: A Particular Love
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jul 12, 2010
Sara Paul's short documentary from the Salt Institute - "A Stop Along The Way". (Short radio documentarires from RTE Ireland.)
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Are You Tony Sheridan?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jul 12, 2010
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 Presley's backing band - all that and far more.
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Orangeman in Dublin
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 8, 2010
A radio documentary about three members of the Dublin and Wicklow Loyal Orange Lodge
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The Curious Ear: Man You're Green
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jul 5, 2010
Extracts from Nancy Previs' and Derek O'Halloran's programmes about alternative approaches to food. Full shows on rte.ie/doconone. (Irish radio documentary)
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The day they became men - How the story changes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 2, 2010
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 Leinster rugby have what it takes to move beyond the pale?
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Looking for Fairytale Castles
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jul 2, 2010
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 speak candidly about the hurt and pain and the love.
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The Curious Ear: Rare 'Oul Times
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 1, 2010
The memories of one Dublin family, by Louise Kenny of IADT, Dun Laoire (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Ireland.)
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Gentle Genius, Forgotten Poet
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 1, 2010
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 listeners.
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DocArchive: Letter to Ann
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 30, 2010
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 national debate about unmarried mothers (Broadcast 1996)
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Siege at Jadotville
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jun 26, 2010
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 province of Katanga.
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Bachelor's Last Waltz
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jun 26, 2010
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 of dancing at the crossroads.
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The Curious Ear: Novena
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
A Limerick tradition that stops the traffic once a year. Producer Ronan Kelly. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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Suburban hideaway
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
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 sentence in Arbour Hill Prison, Dublin.
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Achill Island Mobile Bank (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 23, 2010
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 22, 2010
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: A Taught Sound
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 17, 2010
The sound of tension during exam time at Ardscoil na Trionóide, Athy, Co. Kildare. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)
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Mad About Ned
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 15, 2010
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 grief to sing his heart out.
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The Curious Ear: Harpie
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
The remarkable story of a woman who braved intimidation to spread the word about harp music. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)
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A Fair Exchange?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
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 switching instead to growing a narcotic plant called khat.
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The Curious Ear: Obsession
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 3, 2010
Erica Mills meets four people who are obsessed about "Supernatural", gaming, tattoos and Liverpool. (An Irish radio documentary from the MAIJ course in DIT.)
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The Curious Ear: Flower War
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 3, 2010
Gerald Flower bailed out of an RAF bomber over liberated Holland in 1944 - the wind blew him back over German lines and into the hands of the Gestapo.
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Deadly Sleeper
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 3, 2010
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 where the sufferer frequently stops breathing during sleep?
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With These Hands
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 1, 2010
This multi award winning documentary tells the story of the world class virtuosic guitarist Eric Roche and his younger brother Bryan. It documents their relationship and brotherly bond. This is a story of love, music, life and brotherhood.
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The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 1, 2010
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 send him from hero to zero in a matter of seconds.
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The Curious Ear: Through African Ears
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 28, 2010
A group of programme-makers from fomacs.org tell the kind of African stories rarely heard in Ireland. (A short radio documentary from Irish national radio in Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: Shatila
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 28, 2010
Derek O'Halloran gathers sounds and surprising impressions on a visit to the Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. (A short radio documentary from Irish national radio in Ireland)
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Dustcatchers (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, May 23, 2010
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 Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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The Curious Ear: The Toastie Train
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 21, 2010
Three men who commute to work every day in Dublin....from Limerick
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The Dead News Network
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 20, 2010
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.
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The Curious Ear: Don't Bring Sweets
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 12, 2010
A group of Irish Travellers visit a group of former lepers in Ethiopia
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Return To Ypres
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 12, 2010
A radio documentary retracing the steps of three men who fought in World War I, including Dubliner Captain, Maurice C Walker. The Walker family visits the now-peaceful fields of Flanders where so many soldiers lost their lives almost a hundred years ago.
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The Search for Edna Lavilla
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, May 1, 2010
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, May 1, 2010
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. All that is certain are the secrets and lies.
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DocArchive: Fading Echoes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, May 1, 2010
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 Curious Ear: People First, Music Second
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 30, 2010
The story of two Irish music sessions; one in California, one in Waterford. (Recorded by Susan O'Leary of radioballads.com and RTE Radio's Jacqui Corcoran.)
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The Curious Ear: On Summer
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
Evelyn McClafferty evokes the mood of the season to mark May 1st. (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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Shuffle Up and Deal
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
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 Padraig 'Cantona' Parkinson and poker club owner Joe O'Neill.
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The Curious Ear: Stuck In A Big Lift
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Apr 24, 2010
The story of a group of Irish air passengers stranded in Istanbul during the Icelandic volcanic eruptions of April 2010. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Ireland)
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David Hughes' Greenmarket (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Apr 23, 2010
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 20, 2010
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 found love, hope and a resting place for when he dies.
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What's Love Got To Do With It
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 13, 2010
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 violent man, and one male perpetrator tells his own story.
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Jungle Is Rough
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 13, 2010
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 of how they met. It is a love story.
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The Curious Ear: Mullingar Military Museum
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Apr 4, 2010
Lt.Col. Arthur Armstrong and Gunner Noel Poynton in a new museum that tells the story of Irish military history through various donated items....
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Witness At Checkpoint 300: My Time in Bethlehem
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 1, 2010
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 Palestinians and Israelis on both sides of the 8 metre wall.
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Axels of Evil
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 1, 2010
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 universally loathed, why are their sales in Ireland on the increase?
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Marrying Out - Part 2 - Between Two Worlds (The Children)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 30, 2010
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 Australian weddings was a mixed marriage.
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Marrying Out - Part 1 - Not in Front of the Altar (The Spouses)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 30, 2010
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 Australian weddings was a mixed marriage.
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The Curious Ear: Berlin Salad
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 23, 2010
Brenda Tobin gets a taste of the German capital courtesy of artists, MJ Whelan, Declan Clarke and Myles Claffey. (A short radio documentary from Irish radio in Ireland.)
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Downtown - Pete Hamill's Manhattan
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 23, 2010
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 most exciting city in the world.
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The Curious Ear: The Turn in the Road Tells a Tale
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 22, 2010
Briain Mac An Bhaird follows stories on the roads and fields of South Monaghan. (An Irish radio short documentary from RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One - the home of Irish short radio documentaries.)
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The Curious Ear - Magnetic Mary & The Angels
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 16, 2010
Two shopkeepers who sell religious and spiritual artefacts but provide much more to their customers. A short radio documentary from RTE Ireland
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The Carberrys - Running in the Family
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Mar 12, 2010
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 children Paul, Philip, Nina and Peter - all champion jockies.
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The Curious Ear: Shopping in Mullingar with Michael Harding
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
A wander through the town of Mullingar in praise of Polish women, Midlands chat, Lady Diana and traffic wardens. A short radio documentary from RTE Ireland.
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Two hundred shaves a day
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 3, 2010
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 Long Strike
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 1, 2010
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 picket lines.
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The Balloon in Brosna
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 1, 2010
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 left for London at an early age. Con passed away in 2009
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Soul Wings
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 1, 2010
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 which so many people I know have done" Thomas Kinsella.
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Photo Rally (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 1, 2010
A group of motorcyclists who go around Ireland taking photos of their bikes at 24 landmarks. (2008) Producer: Susan O'Loghlin (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)
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My Cappoquin Chickens
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 1, 2010
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 what could be his last batch of chickens.
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Falling Slowly Is Banned
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 1, 2010
Every Saturday afternoon, Dublin teenagers crowd into the back room of Walton's music shop in Georges St. to play the musical instruments. However, staff in the shop are so fed up listening to the Oscar winning song, Falling Slowly, that they've banned it
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The Curious Ear: Hot Irishman
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 26, 2010
Radio producer, Colette Kinsella, meets an elderly Irishman who hasn't given up on looking for love; he's in an Irish Centre in New York and uses a drink called "Hot Irishman" to introduce himself.
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Ten Minutes From Kenema
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
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 have a baby, to Sierra Leone, one of the most dangerous.
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Stopped By Swans (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
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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The Curious Ear: Grand Dock Stories
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Three stories from three men who live on boats in Dublin's Grand Canal Docks; Nigel, 'Brew' and Séamas. (Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.)
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DocArchive: Famine in Ethiopia
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
In 1974, after severe drought, Ethiopia was devasted by famine. Up to an estimated 1 million were left dead. Still under the rule of Emperor Haile Selassie, Ethiopia was an inhospitable destination both politically and geographically (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: Ancient and Fraternal Order
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Feb 21, 2010
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. Its largest membership is now in the US (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: The Bargemen
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Feb 20, 2010
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 1960. Yet the stories, memories and lifestyle still live on amongst these bargemen and their families (Broadcast 1976)
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Behind the mic
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Feb 20, 2010
Hip Hop has traditionally been the music of the working classes, a vehicle for self expression for those that need it the most. This is a confronting doc with hardcore language about a young hip hop Irish act from Ballymun, Dublin, Urban Intelligence.
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DocArchive: Colmcille - The Real National Apostle?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
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 are still devoted to St Colmcille and absolutely revere him. But why? (Broadcast 1974)
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DocArchive: Mona's Isle
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Feb 13, 2010
The Isle of Anglesey is the largest Welsh island. 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 a unique 'personality'. It also has very strong Irish ties (Broadcast 1976)
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The Curious Ear: The Smell of Life
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Feb 10, 2010
Paddy Plunkett leads us, by the nose, down the Liberty Lane of his childhood. (An Irish short radio documentary from RTE, Ireland.)
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The Curious Ear: Neltah Tells A Love Story
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Feb 9, 2010
Neltah Chadamoyo tells the engaging story of her sister and a man named Taurai. A story of love, charm and sadness.
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DocArchive: The Three Candles
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 8, 2010
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 wrote and published 'Irish Street Ballads' in 1939 and More Irish Street Ballads in 1965 (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: Hayfoot Strawfoot Dancing Masters
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Feb 7, 2010
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. Now long gone - their history lives on (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: John A Costello
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Feb 6, 2010
John Bowman tells the story of Ireland's most reluctant Taoiseach ever. Taoiseach from 1948–51 and 1954–57, Attorney General of Ireland 1926–32, legal advisor to the government after independence (1922), Costello began life as a barrister (Broadcast 1976)
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Bright Lights Small Village
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Feb 4, 2010
A candid and often humorous radio documentary which goes behind the scenes of a Limerick amateur drama production to capture the compelling journey from the first readings through to the emotional final performance.
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The Tattie Hokers - The Migrant Workers of North Mayo
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
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 families at home.
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The Script of Hurt
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
The early 1950's are remembered in Mayo for their All-Ireland Gaelic football wins. However these dates also mark the beginning of 58 years of wandering around in the football wilderness as the county has failed to win a single Sam Maguire Cup since then.
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The Curious Ear: "Silence" by Joan Schuman
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
A sound art and documentary piece about a couple who choose to live in silence. (www.joanschuman.com)
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Rebel City Reverts
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
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 city.
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Mary
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
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 life.
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DocArchive: WitchCraft
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
Witchcraft, the use of supernatural or magical powers, moves between fact and fiction depending on the believer or non-believer. We've heard the stories of witches in league with the Devil. But what of witchcraft in Ireland? We investigate (Broadcast 1976)
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Anatomy of a Recession - The 100 Days
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
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 days of Irelands recession and fall of the Celtic Tiger.
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21 Years and 8 Days
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
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 were front page news. This documentary begins with his death
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DocArchive: The Lewis Folk
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jan 31, 2010
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 that worked by day and danced by night - well, not quite...
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DocArchive: The Staunchest Priest
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 30, 2010
Fr. Michael O’Flanagan was born in 1876 near Castlerea, 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 Éireann (2RN) broadcast in 1936 (Broadcast 1976)
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The Brady Bunch
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 28, 2010
This radio documentary takes you down a long and winding road to a small village in County Monaghan to meet the larger than life and renowned Irish horse trainer, Oliver Brady - a 'small man' competing in the 'Sport of Kings'.
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DocArchive: Going, Going, Gone
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jan 25, 2010
Auction Houses have come to the fore in recent times. The thrill of the bargain never fails to draw a crowd. In 1976 Kieran Sheedy attended Malahide Castle, Dublin, as its contents were auctioned off. If only we could buy those items at 1976 prices today!
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DocArchive: Boss Croker of Glencairn
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jan 24, 2010
Richard Croker (1843-1922) was an American politician born in the village of Blackrock, Cork. At the helm of the Democratic Party political machine, he became extremely wealthy receiving bribe money from brothels, saloons and gambling dens (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: Puck Fair
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 23, 2010
Each August a wild goat is caught up the Kerry mountains. Brought to the town of Killorglin, the goat is crowned 'King Puck' by the Queen of Puck Fair, traditionally the oldest virgin in the village! Irelands oldest fair dates back to 1603 (Broadcast 1976)
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About A Pop Song (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 23, 2010
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 21, 2010
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 the competition.
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The Curious Ear: Peter Healy Luthier
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jan 20, 2010
Peter Healy makes stringed instruments and invites groups to his home to play them. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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DocArchive: Drop of the Craythur
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jan 19, 2010
For lovers of all things Irish. A bilingular documentary on PoitÃn, the Irish drink traditionally and illegally distilled from malted barley or potatoes in rural Ireland for centuries. One of the strongest alcoholic beverages in the world (Broadcast 1976)
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Song From The Slum
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
This radio documentary is the story of Steo from the northside of Dublin and of Simo, a young homeless man from the streets and slums of Nairobi who find a common language though music and hip hop.
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The Curious Ear: National Gallery Volunteers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
A shorter radio documentary. Three volunteers from the National Gallery in Dublin talk about their favourite paintings in the gallery.
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The Curious Ear: Vladimir's website
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 8, 2010
The Curious Ear: Vladimir's website oontz.ru. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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Mr Farren Goes to Brussels
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 8, 2010
A radio documentary in which a Donegal family travel to the EU in Brussels in search of answers to their daughter's tragic death. Eight and a half years after her death, Sinead McDaid's family feels that all avenues in Ireland have been exhausted.
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The Curious Ear: Dead Snow
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 7, 2010
An extract from a series of podcasts about James Joyce's short story, "The Dead"...shorter radio documentaries on Irish radio from Ireland and abroad.
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A Piece of Cloth
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 7, 2010
An award winning documentary that tells the story of Gorey schoolgirl Shekinah Egan, who, at 14, found herself at the centre of a controversy over the wearing of the hijab. Could this young Wexford girl make a difference in standing up for her beliefs?
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Death in Kerry
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jan 5, 2010
A documentary that tells the Story of 'The Field' and how a dispute between two farmers over bog land in mountainous rural Kerry, Ireland, during the 1950s culminated in Richard Harris's nomination for an Oscar in 1991.
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On Hunting
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jan 4, 2010
Man and the hunt are inexorably linked - we are the hunter of the world and those around us. County Longford programme maker John O'Connell follows a group of hunters in Northern Australia as they hunt for Asiatic Buffalo. This story begins in a swamp.
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DocArchive: David
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jan 3, 2010
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 other. (Broadcast 1996)
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This is Maria McCrae
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 2, 2010
This award winning doc tells the story of an incredibly difficult journey. Of how 22 year old Maria Macrae spent most of her life trying to find her brothers and sisters. This doc recieved a special mention at the 2009 Prix Italia for courage in journalism
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The week to come
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 2, 2010
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 The Week of the Rising (Broadcast 2006)
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Mary X - A partial life
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 2, 2010
This is not just a story of an intellectually disabled woman and her family's struggle to find her nine children. It's the story of the failure of the state towards one woman, her children and her entire extended family
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How Macroom Remembers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 2, 2010
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 war memories mark a huge divide between FF and FG support
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After Belfast: Father Aidan in Paris
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 2, 2010
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 documentary follows his first year of life in Paris
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World Draughts (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The 2007 World Draughts Championships in Buncrana, Co. Donegal. Among those there: a man paid by his government to teach draughts to children and a man who was blown up in Scotland. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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What-you-may-call-it, Drugs and liver transplants
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This is the story of the 1960's Dublin beat group The Movement. They had a hit single in 1967, before implosion. Their story reads like an apocryphal tale of Ireland in the 60's. This is a tale of rock and roll, of lost innocence, of what might have been.
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Wexford Heimat
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The Falkenthals, Gunter and Karin and their parents became refugees in the wake of the Second World War. Their father was from what is now Poland and their mother was an ethnic German from Riga. They came to Wexford so their father could remain a farmer.
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Walking on Water
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Janet Gray is a blind Northern Irish Water Skier and 3 times World Champion. In 2003, she nearly died in an horrific water skiing accident. This documentary follows Janet as she defies medical convention and makes a comeback to competitive water skiing.
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Unfamiliar Families
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
A documentary on the lives of two women as they wait for the Zappone Judgement. Unfamiliar families explores the difficulties and challenges faced by same sex couples in Ireland. (Broadcast 2005)
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Two Ladies of Galway
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
A documentary in which Anne and Catherine Gregory, grand-daughters of Lady Augusta Gregory, revisit Coole in Co. Galway. They talk about the tree where visitors carved their names and share memories of visits to Coole by George Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats.
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Tullaghmurray Lass
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
February 14th 2002 at 3.40am, the Tullaghmurary Lass set sail from Kilkeel Harbour, Co. Down for a day fishing trip. Within a few hours the ship sank with the loss of three generations, Michael Greene, his son Michael and his grandson, also called Michael
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There's only one George Best
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Recorded on the day that the legendary George Best was buried. This story follows two groups of mourners, the first a group of lifelong supporters from Galway, the second, a father and son from East Belfast. This was a day of soccer, love and spitiruality
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There's a Darkness on the Edge of Town
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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.
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The Swilly
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The Lough Swilly Bus offers a network of services to some of the most remote parts of Donegal. Departing Derry City, the route travels along the old railway route of the Lough Swilly Railway Company. This is the story of the people who use the Swilly bus.
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The Sweep and the Philosopher
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 talk to the Philosophical Society at UCD.
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The strange thing I am
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
A documentary on Pádraig Pearse who was born on 10th of November 1879 and died on the 3rd of May 1916. Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916.
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The Starry Frame
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The story of one farming family, the Irwins, from Co. Tyrone, who were part of the great Irish diaspora left behind during the emigration of the mid 19th century.
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The Square Bench (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Who sits on the public benches in The Square shopping centre, Tallaght, Dublin? (2008) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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The sky ran away
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
A documentary with Tommy McKearney, a 1980's Provisional IRA prisoner - and John Nixon - a then member of the INLA - A story of two men's experience of their years on the blanket and the inevitability of hunger strike.
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The orphans that never were
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 story of the people who died and those who were left behind.
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The Long Way Home
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 for freedom - on his way back home.
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The last brigadista
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 of his family.
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The Guest
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Cellist Richard Groocock lost his young son to suicide. Kevin, a promising trombone player, was 20 when he took his life. This documentary tells his story and explores whether music can still be played and enjoyed in a family whose core has been shattered.
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The Glen road to Carrick
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Fiddle player Paul O'Shaughnessy's revisits The Glen area of Co Donegal which, as a child, was a place of formative experience for him. This documentary is an exploration of a musical style told through this tune and the memories of those who've played it.
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The French Connection
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 cousin Rosamunde ffrench.
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The Fathers House
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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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The Curious Ear: Under Stands
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Those at the match in Croke Park but not watching it. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: Ancient Jokes and Hot Gossip
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Philip Matyszak's book of stuff you didn't learn in school about the Ancients ... Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: The Secret Life Of An Australian Mother (ABC Radio National)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The Curious Ear: The Secret Life Of An Australian Mother (ABC Radio National)
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The Curious Ear: The Place I Call Home
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The Place I Call Home (extract) - Ann Henning. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: The Neighbours At 52
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The Neighbours At 52. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: Oh! What A Day In The Park!
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Oh! What A Day In The Park! Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: New Voices 2009
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Extracts from student documentaries. Included are programmes on Garbage, synaesthesia, the rhythm of street sounds in Dún Laoghaire and the assassination of a pianist. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: Joe Brown's Liffey Swim
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Joe Brown's Liffey Swim. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: Grand Art
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Two great stunts from the late 1990s. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: Dole Volunteers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Unemployed people who volunteer to help new visitors to the Social Welfare office in Tallaght, Dublin. (Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad)
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The Curious Ear: Dan Daly
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Dan Daly, one of the last of Ireland's boring men. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Curious Ear: Candidates
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Colin Murphy follows four immigrant candidates on the campaign trail during the 2009 local elections. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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The Cons are Coming
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This documentary tells the story of the annual visit of a family from America and England to their homeplace in Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan.
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The Clare Champions
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 methods and the irrepresible Anthony Daly.
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The Blues and the Candy stripes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The last time Belfast soccer club Linfield FC travelled to the Brandywell, 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 civil unrest - 26yrs on, they meet again.
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The Auction
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
'Victor Mitchell's' Auction House in Roscrea, Co Tipperary is widely respected amongst 'those that know' in the antiques trade. And in this documentary, we get to know a few things about the business. To which room shall the rocking horse return?
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Tango? Why? (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
It doesn't seem right. Independent, career-women going to a dance hall to be led around the floor by their male partners. Brenda Tobin reports. (2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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Stories from the Underground
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This story charts the changes that occurred in the tiny rural farming community of Tynagh in the west of Ireland from the 1960s when it became the location of one of the most important mines in Europe. The mines changed the way of life forever.
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Speaking of grief
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Air India Flight 182 was operating on the Toronto-Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay route. On 23 June 1985, it was blown up in midair, by a bomb, just off the south coast of Ireland. Many of Shalini Sinha's close family friends were affected by the crash.
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Silver Stars Unplugged
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
An award winning documentary that goes behind the scenes of a theatre production at the Dublin Theatre Festival. 'Silver Stars' is performed by an all male gay cast and was originally commissioned by Bealtaine, the celebration of creativity in older age.
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Ruth's Coin
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The September 11th attacks changed the world forever. 2,976 victims and the 19 hijackers died in the attacks. This is the story of one victim, Cork-woman, Ruth Clifford McCourt, who died in World Trade Centre, New York on September 11, 2001.
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Rumours from Monaghan
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Senator Billy Fox was murdered on the night of 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 to find out what really happened that night
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Recruits
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
In 2006, we gained exclusive and first time access to record the highs and lows of a platoon of young men as they try to make it through their basic Irish army training over a period of four months.
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Ports (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
How do you get a bunch of teenagers to jump into freezing cold water? Well, you tell them some outrageous lies; that's what outdoor education instructor, John "Ports" Porter does. (2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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Playing with Pride
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This documentary tells the incredible story of a young girl's gaelic football team from Dublin's inner city Sheriff Street, during the run-up to a Cumann na mBunscoil semi-final during the month of November.
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Pieces Of The Wall
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 since its days as a walled-in city.
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Peggy the Postmistress (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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Pat's University Challenge
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
20 years after it became a fully fledged university in 1989, Pat O'Mahony returns to his old alma mater, Dublin City University. Living on campus for Freshers Week, Pat finds out how the place has changed since his student days in the mid-1980s.
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Patricia, Mary and Mary-Lou too
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
What happens behind the cut and thrust of politics? Back in 2007 election, three female candidates were running for 1 seat in Dublin Central. Would any of them get a seat? Patricia McKenna (Greens), Mary Fitzpatrick (FF) and Mary Lou McDonald (SF).
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O Commemorate Me
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Marking the centenary of his birth, this documentary is based primarily in Patrick Kavanagh's birthplace of Iniskeen and in other towns in South Monaghan featuring events as the inauguration of the National Kavanagh Day and the Raglan Road Festival.
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Mary and Manor Street
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Mary Gurr had been a promising footballer - offered professional trials in her youth. 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 the Dublin city.
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Markey
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Markey Robinson was born in Belfast in 1918 and died in 1999, aged 80. Markey was a prolific Irish artist with a distinctive naïve expressionist style. His main passion was painting, but he also produced sculptures, and designed some stained glass panels.
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Maria's Schooldays (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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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Like the wings of a butterfly
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 Emma and her family - the world of Dystrophic EB.
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Like Feathers on the Breath of God
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Séamus Kelly visits various people for whom the singing of hymns holds great importance. "It's the power of sound and how a sound can bring you back to a memory, to a space in yourself which is above and beyond the here and now." - NoirÃn Nà Riain.
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Life with a catch
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This is the story of Zeta Woods, a 26 year old woman diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune response attacks a person's central nervous system. Zeta lives every day as the last - no matter what, life goes on.
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Leaving Care
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
For most, an eighteenth birthday is an important birthday. Even more so for young people who have grown up in care - this is the day that state care for them ends.This radio documentary tells the stories of how some of them are struggling to survive.
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Leaving Breaffy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
If 1996 was the best year of Noel Forde's life, 1997 was the worst. In '96, as Chairman of the Mayo County Football Board, he brought his side to its first All-Ireland Final in years and he met the love of his life, but Noel was a priest-1997 was difficult
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Just as there are parentheses within sentences
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
First published at the age of 17, Desmond Hogan was critically praised from the outset. He won a Hennessy Award and, with Niall Jordan, founded the Irish Writers Coop, which published his first novel, The Ikon Maker-yet he's an enigma amongst Irish writers
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Judith's best friend
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This documentary was recorded in Belfast against a backdrop of recent riots but the riots might as well be a million miles away. Judith comes from a good family, went to a good school and is attending university in Glasgow. Judith's best friend is Jesus.
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Indian Ocean tsunami - One Year on
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This award winning documentary tells 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 publicly for the first time.
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Gone too soon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Cormac McAnallen died of SADS, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Cormac was an icon of modern-day Gaelic football. Every death is a painful reminder of the unwelcome end for us all. It is even more harrowing when a young person and the promise of life is taken
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ElectionTime 2 (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
ElectionTime - Guess the year again? A look back at a general election in years gone by. Have times changes? Have votes changed? Has anything changed? Guess the year and hear for yourself what if anything has changed
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ElectionTime - (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
ElectionTime - Guess the year? A look back at an Irish general election in years gone by. Have times changes? Have votes changed? Has anything changed? Guess the year and hear for yourself what if anything has changed
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Dreaming of prawns
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The Susannah G is a prawn 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 turn out to be just another typical trip at sea?
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Dead People Don't Matter
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
On the night of September 18th 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. John Gallagher was found guilty but insane in 1989
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Curious Ear Gold Party
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
A new form of Tupperware party
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Closing the Gaiety in Carrick on Shannon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
The story of the final night at the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. In 1997 it was fully refurbished with new seating, a new screen and state of the art Dolby Surround sound. But it was never going to be that easy-and now its gone forever
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Children on the Veranda
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
A radio documentary that meets Rosemary Conry, who as a little girl, spent 3 years lying bound and strapped to a bed, a victim of the TB epidemic that was rife in Ireland in the 1940s.
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Blessed be the Fruit of the Loom
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Bridie Burns, a former factory worker at the Fruit of the Loom sewing factory in Donegal goes in search of the ‘factory girls of Morrocco’.
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Bite Down on That Gumshield
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
A radio documentary that looks at the life of St Saviours Olympic Boxing Academy, in Dublin's inner city. The late Darren Sutherland, the Olymic Bronze medalist, is one of their most prized graduates.
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Beethoven and Me
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
What happens when a professional musician begins to lose her hearing? This is what happened to Elizabeth Petcu, who was a flautist in the RTE Concert Orchestra for more than 25 years.
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Be Prepared!
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
A documentary about 8 young scouts from Killaloe Co. Clare , took part in a survival weekend at Ruan, Co. Clare as part of the Clare County Shield Scouting competition, held last May.
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An Injury For Life
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Ned, Dermot and Noel, who live with an acquired brain injury, are cared for within the Macroom house in Co. Cork, one of the assisted living services operated by Acquired Brain Injury Ireland.
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A woman called Auntie
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This is a documentary that tracks child trafficking routes. We travel from Dublin Airport, to the start of one of the routes, to the border points and on to the markets of West African capital cities where adults force children to work as modern day slaves
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A Strange Blessing
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 is one that surprises many. What is more surprising is that homosexuality is still illegal in India
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A light from the Grave
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This is 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 Fr Mullens grave still visited for hope and cures?
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A Father's Story
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
This is 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 of coping and the 'curse of an interesting life'.
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A dream for Fatima
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
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 2005. Leaving behind the past, it's all about the future now
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A Day With The Dutch (The Curious Ear)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 1, 2010
Three unusual stories from the Netherlands: A restaurant with beds...a museum where they lock you in a shipping container...and students whose homes are containers. (2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)
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The Georges
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
Georgiana Domsa is eight. She came to Ireland when she was three, to join her father George and her mother Georgette, who had already set up home in Dublin. This is the story of a day in the life of a Romanian family living in Dublin (Broadcast 2005)
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The appeal of the midnight court
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
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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Stories from the black republic
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
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 Macoutes on the island of Haiti. (Broadcast 2005)
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Songmakers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
A radio documentary on contemporary comic songmakers in the traditional idiom featuring the songs of Michael Marrinan, Sean Mone, Robbie McMahon, Tim Lyons, Con O'Drisceoil and Brian O'Rourke. (Broadcast 2005)
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Hitler's Nemesis - Georgi Zhukov
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
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 the West, who brought about Hitler's downfall.
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DocArchive: Wake me when I'm dead
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
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 and Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: The children at the bottom of the garden
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
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 Catholic Ireland and the burial of the unbaptised (broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: Martha Graham - Mother of us all
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
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 and the ecstasy common to human experience. (Broadcast 1991)
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Changing Faces
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
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 variety act as the circus clown, "Fiery Daniels".
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DocArchive: With the wind to our backs, we were only mighty
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
In this story, Jim Fahy investigates the strawboy traditions on Achill Island, off the coast of West Mayo. From music to dance from weddings to 'talent' competitions to family rivalry, why has this tradition become so popular? (Broadcast 1981)
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DocArchive: The Hudson Letter
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
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 sounds with specially composed music (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Swansong of a Toad
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
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 in a battle for survival. Is it too late? (Broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: My Eskimo Friends
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
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, she became part of the local Inuit community (Broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: Good Job Base
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
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 new. This is the story of its early days (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Fire in the Earth - Poetry and Mythology
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
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 father’s Yorkshire. He now lives in the US (Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: Excuse To Be Evil
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
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 to live with 'Satan' everyday? (First broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: First Language
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 28, 2009
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 speaking Irish in the Dublin of today? (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: By the Strands of Magilligan
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 28, 2009
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' stock. As a result, Irish still survives there (Broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: Behind the pipes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 28, 2009
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 organ at Dublin's National Concert Hall (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: House Strictly Private
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 27, 2009
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 every parish, has now sadly almost died out. (Broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: The Mind Travellers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Dec 26, 2009
What happens to people who have 'out of body experiences' and why does it happen to them? We examine some of the various theories behind 'physical separation' and the academic work done on this area at a research Lab in Arizona, U.S.A (Broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: Fingers numb faces aglow
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 24, 2009
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 of year (First broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: A Palestrina Christmas
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 23, 2009
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 documentary follows Ite's last weeks with the choir (Broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: Dadland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 21, 2009
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 ups and downs (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Christmas in an Alien Land
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 21, 2009
The personal stories of three people spending Christmas in Ireland who will be missing their homes in New York, Melbourne and Nigeria this year. (First broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Christmas in an Alien Land
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 21, 2009
The personal stories of three people spending Christmas in Ireland who will be missing their homes in New York, Melbourne and Nigeria this (First broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Quick Quick Smile Smile
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 20, 2009
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 the midst of a petrol shortage. (first broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: Churchill and Ireland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Dec 19, 2009
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 Churchill's relationship with Ireland. (First broadcast 1974)
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DocArchive: Pedals and Pebbles
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
Stone mad! Geology meets architecture when Mary Mulvihill takes her tape recorder and bicycle around Dublin to view some little-known stones in buildings and sites around the city (Broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: Heart of Grace
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
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: Guns and Roses
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
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 Cambodians are recovering from the Pol Pot years (Broadcast 1994)
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DocArchive: Ferns in Gorthaganny
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Dec 15, 2009
John Scally traces the history of an unmarked children's graveyard in Co. Roscommon, believed to be a burial ground since famine times (Broadcast 1994)
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DocArchive: Yeee Haaa
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Dick Warner visits the wild west to discover bunkhouses, poets and other aspects of cowboy culture (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Voices in the Air
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Orla Burke meets some of the people who ring into radio talk shows and asks what it is that turns some people into "serial callers" (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: That Lady
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
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: Somalia - River of Hope
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
In the early 1990's, a devasting famine that claimed up to 300,000 lives in Somalia. In this documentary Roisin Boyd travelled to Somalia with the then Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews to see the aid operation first hand (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: Markets Without Middlemen
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
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 sound of the delivery lorries. (first broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: Mama's Baby
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
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 thousand births. (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Lost Innocence
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Annie Maguire was jailed in 1976 with five members of her family and a family friend. She was alleged to have passed nitro-glycerine to the IRA in the seventies to make bombs. She talks about the events that changed her life (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Darkness of the Soul
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Ann-Marie Power visits Cordoba in Andalusia Southern Spain in search of the core of flamenco and its influences (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: World of Women
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 13, 2009
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 equality.
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DocArchive: Priests Leaving
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 13, 2009
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. (First broadcast 1974)
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DocArchive: Baby on the Way
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 13, 2009
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 room. (Broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: InterchurchMarriages
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Dec 12, 2009
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 (first broadcast 1975).
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DocArchive: To the Island - Mary O'Malley in Inishmore
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
A radio documentary profiling Galway-based poet Mary O'Malley and her writers workshop on Inishmore.
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DocArchive: Talking to Bricks - A Portrait of Norman Porter
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
A radio documentary about Norman Porter, Unionist and winner of the Ewart-Biggs Award (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Strawboys
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
A radio documentary about the Strawboy tradition in County Sligo (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Silver Strings
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
A radio documentary about Donegal Herring Gutters (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: My Mother and the Poet
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
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 1993)
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DocArchive: Mount Street Club
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
A radio documentary about the Mount Street Club founded in Dublin 1934 (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: I Don't Remember Me
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
A radio documentary about the effects of M.E. on sufferers (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Don't Shoot the Messenger
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
A radio documentary about the role of the government press secretary by Niall Doyle (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Days of the Servant Boy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 9, 2009
A radio documentary about hiring fairs, the life of the servant boy and the modern day small farm (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Vanished and the Banished
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Dec 8, 2009
Northern Ireland was plagued by civil unrest from the late 1960s until the Good Friday agreement of 1998. During a period which became known as the troubles, many people either vanished or were forced into exile. This is their story (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: To Boston and Back
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Dec 8, 2009
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 - to Boston and back in just 3 days (Broadcast 1959)
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DocArchive: Ripples in the Teacup
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Dec 8, 2009
From a different era - an insight into the changing role of women in the Japanese workforce (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: Retreat of O'Suilleabhain Beara
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Dec 8, 2009
The story of the epic historical march of O'Suilleabhain Beara from West Cork to Leitrim through the counties of Limerick, Tipperary, Offaly, Galway, Roscommon and Sligo in 1603 (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: A & E - Accident and Emergency
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Dec 8, 2009
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: Voices from a Vanishing World
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
Jim Fahy recalls some memorable encounters with people from big houses in the west of Ireland (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: The Story of Woodbrook (David Thompson's Book)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
A radio documentary inspired by the novel 'Woodbrook' by David Thompson (Broadcast 1986)
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DocArchive: St. Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg Pilgrimage
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
In this documentary we hear the sounds and words that tell the story of the Lough Derg Pilgrimage, Co Donegal (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Scenes from a Return Journey
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
In this radio documentary, writer Anne Kennedy takes a glimpse at the past, present and future through encounters in a Californian summer (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: On the Earth Below
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
A radio documentary on the life of Irish folk singer songwriter Liam Weldon, presented and produced by Julian Vignoles (Broadcast 1994)
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DocArchive: Man from Carrickmore
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
The story of Josephy McGarrity (1874-1940), the Tyrone-born Philadelphia businessman and ardent patriot who was a key player in the fight for a free Ireland (Broadcast 1979).
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DocArchive: Leave Your Hat At The Sound
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
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. (first broadcast 1974)
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DocArchive: Glen and Me - Lifeline and Death Row Prisoner
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
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: Flying for the Silver Screen
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
A radio documentary about the Irish Air Corps officers who flew for films shot in Ireland during the 1960s (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Bulls Wool Coats and Nail Boots
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
Fifty years of the Forsa Cosanta Aitiuil, or FCA, is commerated in this documentary (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: All Things Bright and Beautiful
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
The story of the acclaimed 19th-century hymn writer, Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander (Broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: A Butcher's Tale
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Dec 7, 2009
A radio documentary telling the story of the changing world of Eugene Kierans, Master Butcher (Broadcast 1989)
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DocArchive: Unwritten Ireland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
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 and stories from all over Ireland (First broadcast 1974)
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DocArchive: The Burning of Bridget Cleary - Witch Burning 1895
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
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: Shamrock Bar - The Irish in Moscow
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
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 at that time. (Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: Orange The Purple and The Blue
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
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: Neccessitys Child
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
This documentary tells the story of inventors and their inventions in Ireland in the early 1980's. Made and broadcast in an era of huge emigration and unemployment, it's a story of challenge, creativeness and sheer stuborness sometimes (Broadcast 1983)
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DocArchive: Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
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 documentary tells the story of them (Broadcast 1982)
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DocArchive: In the Shadow of Death
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
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 resistance in World War II. (Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: A Question of Faith
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
This is the story of a family's reaction to the news that their daughter has chosen to become a Catholic nun. In entering a convent, she has chosen to enter into an enclosed order - virtually shutting herself off from the outside world. (Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: Gordon Bennett Race
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Dec 5, 2009
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 ever international motor race held in Ireland (Broadcast 1974)
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DocArchive: Mengistu's shadow
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 4, 2009
From 1990 through to 1995, Ethopia journeyed from dictatorship to democracy. Helen Shaw visited Ethopia in 1990 when the country was under the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariamand. 5 years later she returns to see how life has changed (Broadcast 1995)
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The Curious Ear: Vladimir's E-mail
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 3, 2009
Sounds and stories from Sergiyev Posad, Russia. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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DocArchive: Flight of the Enola Gay
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 3, 2009
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 he any doubts on their catastophic actions? (Broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: Every man an Einstein
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Dec 3, 2009
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? (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: Fish Culture
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 2, 2009
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 are hugely important for many communities (Broadcast 1985)
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DocArchive: Tommy's Story
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
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: The Swallow From Egg to Africa
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
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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DocArchive: Soviet Voices
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
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 rights and a state coming to terms with its warfare past
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DocArchive: Sonny's Story
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
Radio documentary on songwriter and musician Sonny Condell. Presented by Dave Fanning, produced by Julian Vignoles. (Broadcast 1982)
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DocArchive: Shame on the Titanic
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
A dramatised radio documentary on Bruce Ismay, owner of the Titanic who found refuge in Connemara. (Broadcast 1987)
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DocArchive: Satellite to Nenagh
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
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: Rock Of Ages
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
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: No Meadows in Manhattan
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
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: If You Don't Want A Catholic
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
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: Georgie
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
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: Invisible Prince
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Nov 29, 2009
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 development of the genre in the Victorian era. (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: Simple Simon lives here
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Nov 28, 2009
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 all over - Cork, Dublin, Galway, Belfast (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: On The Roslea Pad
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
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 history, lore and music of Roslea (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: The Political Death of a Religious Man
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Nov 22, 2009
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 Irishman granted Sainthood in almost 700 years (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: The Age of De Valera
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Nov 21, 2009
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's most well known political individuals (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: After the Fleadh
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
The Fleadh Cheoil is an Irish music competition run by Comhaltas Ceoltóirà Éireann (CCÉ) each year. The premise of the competition is to find the best players/singers of Irish traditional Music. The 1969 fleadh was held in Cashel, Co. Tipp (Broadcast 1969)
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DocArchive: A Servant of God
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Nov 15, 2009
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, historians, colleagues and those around him (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: After Bloom
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
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 are all aspects of Joyce's work discussed (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: Why Doesn't Someone Explain?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 9, 2009
The turbulent and often violent landscape of Northern Ireland in 1973 (first broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: On Yonder Hill
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Nov 8, 2009
Michael O'Donnell follows the hunt, and finds out what it is that makes people go fox-hunting. With songs and tales from those who hunt in Keady. (First broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: Sport and the Irish
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Nov 7, 2009
Kieran Sheedy documents the Irish sporting landscape of 1973. With contributions from Michael O' Heithir, Bill Twomey, Phil Greene, Cyril White, Pat Fanning and Jack Rooney.
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DocArchive: Glenlea
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Nov 1, 2009
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 and play cards together (First broadcast 1977).
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DocArchive: The Gralton Affair
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Oct 31, 2009
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 to be deported from his own country. (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: Rue Rosemary
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
The history of herbs in Irish folklore, where their uses ranged from traditional remedies, ointments, tonics, insecticides, dying materials, and flavouring food to divination (Broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: Gorgeous Gael - Jack Doyle Remembered
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Oct 25, 2009
Cork born Jack Doyle, known as “The Gorgeous Gaelâ€, was a Hollywood actor, an accomplished tenor, and at one time a contender for the British Boxing Championship. This is his story as told by those who knew him (Broadcast 1979).
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DocArchive: The Long Evenings
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Oct 24, 2009
When a day’s work was done in rural Ireland, isolated communities were made more isolated by the darkness of the long evenings. This charming doc, full of songs and stories, looks at the tradition of house gathering in times past (Broadcast 1973).
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DocArchive: Mischievious Priest
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 19, 2009
Dubliner Peter Talbot (1620 – 1680) was a man of strange contradictions - a rare mixture of priest, ex-Jesuit, Bishop and diplomat. Bad press followed him like the plague, not only during his own lifetime, but ever since (Broadcast 1973).
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DocArchive: The 20th Dáil
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Oct 18, 2009
In 1973 after a break of sixteen years, Fine Gael returned to power in a National Coalition government with Labour, under the leadership of Liam Cosgrave. John Bowman presents a special programme on the day of the election of the new Taoiseach and 20th Dáil.
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DocArchive: I Was Hungry
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Oct 17, 2009
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 1972).
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DocArchive: A Mass of Difference
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 16, 2009
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)
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DocArchive: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
A documentary by Lorelei Harris about the founding of a Carmelite convent in Nairobi, Kenya. We hear from the nuns themselves, and members of their community. (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Vietnam - A Country Not a War
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
This documentary tells the story of producer Chris Erickson's personal perspective on the Vietnam of today (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Under The Wing Of
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
Kaye Mortley, an Australian long-time resident of France, looks at love and lonliness in the city of Quasimodo. (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Not Just Spare Parts
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
A documentary about the scandal concerning the disposal of deceased children's organs in Irish hospitals. (Broadcast 2000)
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DocArchive: Unlaced - A Passion for Shoes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
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 slippers enclosing tiny bound 'lotus' feet (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: True Adventures of a Blubber Woman
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
A documentary that follows a kissogram as she works - so what is life really like for a kissogram in 20th century Ireland? (Broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: The Internationalists
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
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: I Love You Love Lonely Hearts Club
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
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 with it. So, what's love all about? (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: From Galway to Graceland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
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 of that house and the people who visit it (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Freefalling Funny Man
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
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 31 year old Dubliner, James Gouldsbury (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Dear Old Daddy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
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 a documentary about his Galway connections (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Deadly Hopscotch
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
A documentary recorded in Ireland about the streets of Ireland - of how random street violence blights and destroys young lives. (Broadcast 2000)
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DocArchive: Come Back to Afghanistan
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
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 sorts of things few reporters get to see (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Cats and Dog Collars
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
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 story of priesthood and the famed Maynooth cat (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: The Dismissal of Eileen Flynn
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
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 maintain the Catholic ethos of the school" (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: That Others Might Live
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
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 the story of the Irish Air Corps. (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Sounds Like Capetown
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
A short radio documentary that presents a montage of sound impressions of the South African city, Capetown (Broadcast 1994)
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DocArchive: Moving Towards Krishna: A Tale of Love and Sorrow
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
The story of Ann's quest for a truly godly life which has led her to the ancient tradition of Krishna worship and the Irish Hare Krishna movement. (Broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: If You Know Your History
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
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 documentary look back and forward at Celtic (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Herman
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
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 is a story of a man content with life (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: Bus Home Long Distance Buses
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
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 travellers and long distance bus drivers. (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Angels in Heaven
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
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 never leaves them, their ideas on death. (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Meeting the Idol
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
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 one fans story about meeting her idols. (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Lifting the Veil
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
A Nun's Life - four former nuns talk about life in the convent, and life outside it as they make the transition from convent to the outside world. For some, depending on age or circumstances, their new life can present major problems. (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Left Wing
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
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? 'Leftys' believe there's only one answer (Broadcast 1994)
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DocArchive: Irija
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
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 Ireland her home (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Heart of the Mater
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
This radio documentary about the tragedy, the trauma and the triumph of a heart transplant operation recorded in the Mater Hospital. (Broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: From the Miners to Posterity
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
Miners talk about their work and their experiences mining in Arigna, Leitrim. They talk about the conditions in the mines before unionisation, the dangers, including diseases and accidents and the family tradition among miners. (Broadcast 1972)
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DocArchive: Attempt at a Homecoming
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
A look at the early perceptions of South African life, relations between whites/ blacks and coloureds. The documentary then moves to the present day to assess the effects apartheid has had on the self-confidence of blacks (Broadcast 1994)
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DocArchive: Holy Angels
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Oct 11, 2009
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 there up to the 1970’s. (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Reluctant Surrender
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Oct 10, 2009
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 first-hand accounts of those involved in the rebellion.
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DocArchive: I want to Hold Your Hand
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 9, 2009
Gay couples and individuals talk about their relationships, how their families react, how they try to set up ordinary family units, prejudice and lack of support (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Home Status
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 9, 2009
What it is like to be an asylum seeker in Ireland? This documentary features a Zairean woman and a Bosnian-Moslem refugee. They talk about leaving their home, their feelings on flighing to Ireland and how they keep in touch with home (broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Death and Nightingales
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 9, 2009
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 resuming writing in 1993 after a 13yr break (broadcast 1994)
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DocArchive: After Peter - Life of a Lockerbie Widow
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 9, 2009
How Elizabeth Delude has coped in the two years since the death of her husband Peter in the Lockerbie air disaster in 1987 (broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: Stain Upon the Silence
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
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 culture. (Originally broadcast in 1991)
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DocArchive: Quiet Please
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
A documentary recorded on and about an Irish movie set. (Originally broadcast in 1997)
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DocArchive: Ninety Years a Corkman
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
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: Nicer than Spice
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
A colourful documentary on three girls as they prepare for their debutants ball - a rite of passage out of secondary school. (Originally broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Nesting Instinct
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
For generations, women gave birth at home but with the advances in medicine, almost all now head for a hospital. So why is it that some still women choose to give birth at home? A documentary on home births. (Originally broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Forging Traditions
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
A documentary telling the story of the national folk theatre - Siamsa Tire in Tralee. (Originally broadcast in 1991)
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DocArchive: Butler's Bottle
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
A documentary on the controversial method of treating alcoholism pioneered by Irish American Pat Butler. (First broadcast 1989)
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DocArchive: A Royal Journey
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
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: Orange and Green in a Land of Black and White
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 5, 2009
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 South Africa and on a trip of a lifetime. (Broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: Poet and Preacher
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Oct 4, 2009
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 well as a former Presbyterian minister! (Broadcast 1972)
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DocArchive: A tale of Seán and Mick
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Oct 3, 2009
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 to write about the Dublin working classes. (Broadcast 1968)
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DocArchive: The Newfoundland Connection
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 help tell the story (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: The Jonah Project
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 self-funding school for autistic children (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: The Fiddler's Frenzy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 bhreathnaÃonn ar an ndraÃocht a bhaineann le ceol na fidile. (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: The Chaplain's Diary
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 chaplain in Armagh Gaol from 1971 to '86. (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: Promised Land of the Saints - Real or Imaginary
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 Brendan and his epic journey in 484AD." (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Mermaids Out of Water - Nuala Ni Domhnaill agus an Mhuruch
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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, communities in transition and denial (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Living To Tell The Tale
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 whom have suffered devastating brain injuries (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Ice
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 place of ice in Newfoundland life. (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Gael Linn
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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. (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Enemies of the State
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 Irish courts to fight for her sons education (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: Confession
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 penitent to God (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Becoming Hugo Hamilton
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 just published memoir - The Speckled People (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: All Those Wasted Years - Saol Amú
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
A bilingual documentary about drug addiction that ravages Dublin and its surrounds. (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Abbeyleix Unplugged
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 documentary tells the story of that journey (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: A Walk in the Pyrenees
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 States. Frances Donoghue retraces his steps (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: A Knuckle in Your Back - A Note in Your Ear
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 this country has to offer (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: A Complex Cocktail of Love Hormones
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Oct 1, 2009
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 about women who choose to have homebirths (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Pope in Ireland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
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 single biggest gathering of Irish people in the world
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DocArchive: Up the Church
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 28, 2009
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 characters, its own way and its own peculiarities (Broadcast 1972)
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DocArchive: Alone in Belfast
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Sep 27, 2009
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 these issues on an almost daily basis (Broadcast 1971)
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DocArchive: Tomorrow we'll gather rushes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Sep 26, 2009
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. Within a matter of weeks, Padraic died (Broadcast 1971)
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DocArchive: My Father Rudolf Hess
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 22, 2009
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: Tribute to General Mulcahy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 21, 2009
Richard James Mulcahy (1886–1971) was an Irish politician, Army General and Commander in Chief, leader of Fine Gael and Cabinet Minister. He fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and as Chief of Staff of the I.R.A during the War of Independence (Broadcast 1971)
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DocArchive: The Hurling Men (Part two)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 21, 2009
Part two of the 1973 radio documentary on Hurling. (First broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: The Hurling Man (Part One)
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 21, 2009
Part one of the 1973 radio documentary about the the game hurling and its impact in Ireland. (First broadcast in 1973)
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DocArchive: For better, for worse
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Sep 20, 2009
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 off by a matchmaker. A tale of Irish love (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: From Cyclinder to Disc
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Sep 19, 2009
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 phonograph, the beginning of a new aural era (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: When Everyday is Good Friday.
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
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: Voice from an Empty Classroom
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
In the mid 1980's in a small village in Galway, a school teacher had a falling out over teaching Irish. As a result, she turned up to school for months on end - with no pupils to teach. This is the story behind that incident (Originally broadcast in 1988)
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DocArchive: The Mossy Banks
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
A radio documentary on the men who earned a living working on Irish bogs. (First broadcast in 1975)
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DocArchive: Silenced Voice
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
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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DocArchive: Pottles of Paddington
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
A radio documentary on radicalism movement in Ireland and beyond during the ninety sixties. (First broadcast in 2001)
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DocArchive: Drawing from Life
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
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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Doc Archive: Days and Nights of the Fit Ups.
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
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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Doc Archive: Crocodile O'Beirne
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
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)
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DocArchive: Two Tongues of the Dragon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 15, 2009
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 language originate and how has it survived? (Broadcast 1972)
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DocArchive: The Burning of Cork
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 15, 2009
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: Pink On Green
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 15, 2009
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 Ireland. (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: A Girl called Maria
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 15, 2009
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. (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Sweet Bells Jangled
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
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 their experience, treatment and care.
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DocArchive: No Man Knows or Cares
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Sep 13, 2009
An insight into 1970's emigration by the Irish to London - Donncha O'Dulaing visits the Benburb Base, a home away from home to help the young Irish get set up with work and accommodation and integrate into the community (Broadcast 1971)
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DocArchive: Jubilee for Children
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 7, 2009
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, celebrating the 25th anniversary of UNICEF (Broadcast 1971)
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DocArchive: Dublin for Myself
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Sep 6, 2009
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: This Place Speaks To Me - Daingean Reformatory
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 3, 2009
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 childhood and the man who grew out of it (Broadcast 2000)
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DocArchive: Voicejazz
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 1, 2009
"Voicejazz", a radio documentary produced by Eithne Hand, is an exploration of the shape of a piece of jazz music using a number of key voices almost as separate instruments in an ensemble (Broadcast 2002).
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DocArchive: The Cellist of Sarajevo
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 1, 2009
A radio documentary on the life and music of Vedran Samilovic (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Pighomage
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 1, 2009
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: Fragments of Sharon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 1, 2009
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: Boghomage
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 1, 2009
A radio documentary by John Quinn in celebration of the bog (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: After Death
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 1, 2009
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 story finally lays Fanny to rest (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Two Lord Mayors
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
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, beliefs, work activities and their deaths. (Broadcast 1970)
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DocArchive: Mutiny at Solon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Aug 30, 2009
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 - ending in death and long imprisonments (Broadcast 1970)
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DocArchive: All the Queens horses
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Aug 28, 2009
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, Burmese. A quirky Irish link to the Monarchy (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: The Calligraphers' Song
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 26, 2009
A radio documentary about different ways of seeing the Book of Kells (Broadcast 2002).
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DocArchive: The Ballyfermot Co-operative
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 26, 2009
A radio documentary about the 1952 Ballyfermot Co-Operative by Michael Carolan (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Referendum
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 26, 2009
A radio documentary diary of the month leading up to the 2002 abortion referendum (Broadcast 2002).
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DocArchive: Opening the World
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 26, 2009
A radio documentary about the Anne Sullivan Centre for Deaf Blind young adults (Broadcast 2002).
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DocArchive: In the Shadow of New Forest
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 26, 2009
A documentary by Seamus Kelly about the New Forest estate in County Galway and the people who lived and worked there (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Corner of Paradise
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 26, 2009
A radio documentary on Florence in Italy on love and literature (Broadcast 1999).
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DocArchive: The Quiet Novelist
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Aug 25, 2009
E.M Forster is known for novels like Howard's End, A Passage to India and A Room With a View exploring themes of class differences and sexuality. In this documentary Elizabeth Bowen and Sybil Thorndyke explore his life and works. (First broadcast 1970)
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DocArchive: The Rainforests of Costa Rica
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
In this radio documentary, Eanna Ni Lamhna travels to the rainforests of Costa Rica (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Special Olympics
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
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 2003).
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DocArchive: If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
A radio documentary about the Dublin based lecturer and Israeli peace activist Ronit Lentin, set against events in Israel/Palestine during March and April 2002 (Broadcast 2002).
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DocArchive: Forbidden Voyage
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
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: Family Portrait
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
A radio documentary about Kenneth Nolan who has been in full time care due to his intellectual disability since he was seven years old (Broadcast 1999).
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DocArchive: Caring for Mam
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
A beautiful radio documentary about a young carer and her mother (Broadcast 1999).
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DocArchive: A Tap on the Shoulder
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
A radio documentary profiling Gusty Spence, former UVF leader turned peace-maker (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Saint Anne
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Aug 23, 2009
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: Hunting with the crowd
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Aug 18, 2009
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 prison and one of the oldest in Ireland (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Historical Society Trinity
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Aug 18, 2009
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 influential figures in the public sphere (Broadcast 1970)
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DocArchive: Movement on Rock
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 17, 2009
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, picks and champions are all that matters (broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: From Clooneen To Ilkley Moor Ba'tat
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 17, 2009
A radio documentary about family mythologies in Ireland (broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: The Larkin Way
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Aug 16, 2009
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
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Aug 16, 2009
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 (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: On The Mitch
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 12, 2009
Why do kids skip school? In this doc, mitchers reveal why they mitch and parents and teachers talk about children who decide for themselves to take the day off school. (first broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: The Men of Inishark
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 10, 2009
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 Inishark. (originally broadcast 1968)
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DocArchive: Remembering Eoin
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Aug 9, 2009
Eoin 'The Pope' O'Mahony was an Irish barrister and politcal satirist. An Honorary life member of the TCD philosoph, he occassionally broadcast on Radio Eireann. He tried and failed to be nominated in the '52 and '66 presidential elections (Broadcast 1970)
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DocArchive: The O'Dea Story
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Aug 3, 2009
Jimmy O'Dea was one of Ireland's most legendary comedian and actor. Made ten years before his death in 1965, this documentary looks back on 20 years of his comedy, songs and sketches including his most famous creation - Biddy Mulligan (Broadcast 1954)
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DocArchive:Moran of the Leader
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Aug 2, 2009
A documentary on David Patrick "D.P." Moran (1869 - 1936) who was a principal proponent for the early 20th century "Irish-Ireland" nationalism through his journal ‘The Leader’. (First broadcast in 1966)
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DocArchive: The Permanent Way
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jul 27, 2009
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. (Broadcast in 1985)
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DocArchive: The Bissextile Problem
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jul 26, 2009
A documentary on the history of leap years, examining the topic and the people who are affected by the bissextile problem. (originally broadcast 1965)
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DocArchive: The Count at Durrus
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jul 25, 2009
The story of Florimond Comte De Bestereaux (1836-1904) of Durrus Co. Clare. As told through the vivid memories of the locals that surrounded him during his time there. It was first broadcast in 1966.
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DocArchive: The Man from Carrickmore
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jul 20, 2009
The story of Joseph McGarrity, the Irish American business man who was a leading figure in the Irish independence movement in the early years of the 20th Century.
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DocArchive: View from Ballyherragh
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jul 19, 2009
The extraordinary within the ordinary. Ballyherragh is a tiny village on the Atlantic's edge in West Clare - and this story tells 80 years of that village's life. The farm, the priest, the matchmaker, the 'Tans', the turf - and the people (Broadcast 1982)
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DocArchive: Battle of Carrickshock
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jul 18, 2009
The Battle of Carrickshock toook place in 1831 in south Kilkenny. It was borne out of a tithe tax that was enforced despite difficult harvests. And so the peasants revolted - against what they saw as greedy landlords and greedy clergymen (Broadcast 1983)
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DocArchive: Bound by Regulations
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jul 13, 2009
Irish Fairs are where you meet and trade. But from the late 1700s until the 1940s, hiring fairs also took place - a fair where farmer and labourer arranged work - an employment exchange! This is the story of the one in Strabane Co. Tyrone (Broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: Taste of Grass Roots
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jul 12, 2009
In July 1980, Joseph Brennan, the Fianna Fail TD in Donegal, died - triggering a by-election. Four candidates battled it out. Clement Coughlan of Fianna Fail won - but his tenure was cut short. In 1983, he was killed in a traffic accident (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: Remembering Parnell
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jul 11, 2009
Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish Nationalist who led the fight for Irish Home Rule in the late 1800's. This documentary pieces together first hand accounts of Parnell and his life. Parnell was an Anglo Irish protestant born in Wicklow (Broadcast 1962)
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DocArchive: Disaster at Whiddy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jul 6, 2009
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 - broadcast just 10 days after the explosion. (Broadcast 1979)
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DocArchive: Vietnam Wall
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jul 5, 2009
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 around the War Memorial Wall in Washington DC (Broadcast 1988)
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DocArchive: Island Exodus
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jul 4, 2009
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 tells the story of the islands abandonment. (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: The Presidency and the Presidents
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
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 of the first 21yrs of Irish Presidents (Broadcast 1959)
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DocArchive: Like Flies to a Light - FBD Milk Rás
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jun 28, 2009
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 as the cyclists fought it out for glory (Broadcast 1996).
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DocArchive: In Fond Memory
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jun 27, 2009
May 2011, Queen Elizabeth II, whilst on a visit to the Islandbridge War Memorial Gardens, bows her head to honour the 49,400 Irish soldiers who died in WW1. Opened in 1988, this is the story of the garden and the soldiers they honour (Broadcast 1989)
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On the white death trail
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
Tuberculosis was the public health scourge of the first half of the twentieth century in Ireland. Michael Carolan surveys its effects with reports and interviews in this documentary (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: When the bloom was on the flax
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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. (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: The two sides of Dolly's Brae
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 evening, a fight ensued. (Broadcast 1985)
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DocArchive: The Sligo bus
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
The North Sligo rural transport scheme initiative is helping those living in isolation to get out and about, go shopping and visit their relatives. Kay Sheehy takes the bus herself and meets those availing of the service. (Broadcast 2005)
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DocArchive: The Road to Polnagollum
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 life really like in the Irish underworld (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: The black-tailed Godwit
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
A documentary in search of the black-tailed godwit, a large wading bird. Ornithologist Jim Wilson, travels to Iceland in search of the black-tailed godwit. The black-tailed godwit is a large wading bird that breeds in Iceland. (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: The Argentina Connection
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 connections to families still farming in Ireland (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Stuck for words
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
Stammering affects 45,000 people in Ireland, 80% of which are male. In this documentary Michael Carolan allows time and space to meet at talk with stammerers about the bullying, the loneliness and their fears. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: One May day
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 approximately 7pm. 34 people were killed. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: On the street
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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: No place for the weak-hearted
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
Storms can develop quickly and without warning. High winds and treacherous waves are frequent along the Irish coastline. When ferries, tawlers and yachts get caught at sea or when lives are at risk, they call on the Irish lifeboat services (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Mucho Corazon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 story of love and European Immigration (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Love letters from the front
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
A documentary telling a beautiful story of love and war based on a collection of letters writtern to an Irishwoman during World War I. (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Look at the Camels
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 in the the middle eastern sun (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Ithaca
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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. (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Down with jazz - Anti jazz campaign of the 1930's
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 halls and ban all foreign dances in Ireland. (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Death by drowning
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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: D Day 60 years on - The forgotten heros
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
To mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Derek Davis visits the Normandy Beaches where the Allies stormed ashore on June 6th 1944. He talks with some of the survivors, the Irish, who were part of the massive seaborne assault. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Classmates of Pinochet
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 same school as Pinochet. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Chanter bag and bellows: Family notes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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 Belfast for 116 years (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Primrose and blue
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 24, 2009
Primrose and Blue tells the story of John Scally as he vivdly recalls memories of his childhood in 1960's Roscommon in Ireland. This is a window into the Ireland gone by - into a different time in an almost different country (Broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: In search of Paddy Finucane
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 24, 2009
The story of Brendan "Paddy" Finucane - the Dublin born RAF wing commander pilot. By 21, Finucane was the youngest Wing Commander at war, a highly decorated WW2 RAF pilot, the scourge of the German Air Force and a hero in the Britain (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Constant present
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 24, 2009
More than one-in-eight people in Ireland suffer from a condition that causes frustration, withdrawal, anger and suffering and yet it is hidden, invisible. In Constant Present, Michael Carolan talks to people with chronic pain. (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: Come on Brigids
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 24, 2009
A documentary that charts the progress of the Dublin based St. Brigid's Senior Football team through the 2004 AIB club championship. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: A century of learning in Kerry
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 24, 2009
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: Wolf - Spirit of the Wild
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
In this documentary from the Mooney Goes Wild team, naturalist and author, Eric Dempsey fulfils a lifelong ambition when he comes face to face with one of the world's most elusive creatures, the Wolf. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: To the stonebreakers yard
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
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 and Republicans (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: The tin box
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
Upwards of 300,000 Irish men and women fought in the Great War. This documentary is about the memories of the children of these people - and a personal journey for Mary Russell whose father fought in the Great War (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: The Stonies
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
A documentary on Irish stonemasons, stonecutters and sculptors. (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: The rising that didn't take place
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
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: The Arctic Fox
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
In this documentary from the Mooney Goes Wild team, ecologist and lecturer Eanna Ni Lamhna looks at the life of the Arctic Fox. Turning white in winter to blend in with the white background of snow is a very successful adaptation (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Sometime in New York city
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
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-moving audio montage of the great city. (Broadcast 1987)
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DocArchive: Peader O'Donnell
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
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. (Broadcast 1983)
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DocArchive: No surrender
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
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: Kingfisher - King of Fishers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
In this documentary from the Mooney Goes Wild team, Dr Richard Collins explores the mysterious world of the kingfisher. Some creatures are so ridiculously beautiful that they just don't belong in the real world. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: In search of time
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
Documentary on the nature of time and how its measurement by the clock influences our lives (Broadcast 1988)
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DocArchive: Heartland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
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 being the architect of apartheid. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Gibraltar
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
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: Fallow deer
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
In this documentary from the Mooney Goes Wild team, biologist and Secondary schoolteacher, Terry Flanagan looks at that most majestic of animals that roams the Phoenix Park in Dublin, the Fallow Deer. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Early house
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 23, 2009
A documentary that goes to bed and wakes up in one of Dublin's early opening pubs - The Cobblestone. Ireland is 'famed' for its drinking culture - but why would anyone want to go drinking at 7am? (Broadcast 1999)
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DocArchive: Irish Mail
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jun 22, 2009
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 was key as Irish mail travelled the globe (Broadcast 1954)
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DocArchive: Grand Canal and Canals of Ireland
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jun 21, 2009
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 largely over, so sit back and enjoy the scenery (Broadcast 1981)
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DocArchive: Four in a row
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jun 20, 2009
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 from Capital Radio London. Top tips..... (Broadcast 1985)
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If you're new here, listen to this - it'll give a flavour of what we're about
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 19, 2009
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: Three Rock Mountain
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 19, 2009
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 those who have lived at the foot of it all of their lives.
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DocArchive: The Lino Crossing - Tales Of The Observed
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 19, 2009
This is a challenging documentary made by Mary Duffy, disabled artist and ex radio producer. This is a rare insight into the lived life of the disabled-unvarnished accounts of the struggle for rights, for tolerance, for acceptance, for love, for respect.
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DocArchive: When time stood still
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 18, 2009
When Sergeant John Parish dived into the water in the Greek port of Piraeus in April, 1941, life changed forever. Behind him there was chaos; the "Hellas", a ship that was evacuating Allied forces and civilians from Greece, had been bombed (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: The lost world of Art Ó Laoghaire
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 18, 2009
An exploration of the death of Art Ó Laoghaire and the lament written by his wife EibhlÃn Dubh Nà Chonaill, 'Caoineadh Airt Uà Laoghaire'. One of the greatest laments ever written, this poem captures the life and death of Art in 1773 (Broadcast 2003)
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DocArchive: A Martin Lavan Story
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jun 18, 2009
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 Brighton, Michigan and a vocal republican. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Our Father, Séamus Ennis
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jun 15, 2009
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 Christopher and his daughter Catherine. (Broadcast 1988)
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DocArchive: They were our Ecstasy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jun 14, 2009
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 their experience of the Beatles in Dublin (Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: I remember Henry Ford
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jun 13, 2009
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 20th century, its days were numbered (Broadcast 1982)
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DocArchive: Aspects of America
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jun 7, 2009
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 pretty interesting listening 40 yrs on.... (Broadcast 1971)
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DocArchive: Albert and Adolf were friends
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 5, 2009
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 - detailing an extraordinary era (First Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Irelands Polar Stars
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, May 31, 2009
Joe Duffy recalls the Antarctic expedition of Ernest Shackleton from Kildare and Tom Crean from Kerry, and talks to their relatives, friends and admirers, and those re-creating their Odyssey (First Broadcast 1996)
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The Curious Ear: Falling Slowly Is Banned
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 29, 2009
Staff at Walton's music shop are so fed up listening to 'Falling Slowly' that they have banned customers from playing the song while trying out the instruments. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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DocArchive: Ireland takes Wing - 21 years of Aer Lingus
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 29, 2009
As Aer Lingus celebrates its 75th birthday in May 2011, we travel back 54yrs to hear a story which told of its more youthful 21st birthday! Different times, a different era, different planes and different challenges but the same Aer Lingus (Broadcast 1957)
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DocArchive: Transocean Airway history of Aer Lingus
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 28, 2009
As Aer Lingus celebrates its 75th anniversary in May 2011, we return to 1983 to a time when the Irish American transatlantic routes were critised for their loss making. But the Irish American link is one which has always been valued (Broadcast 1983)
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DocArchive: Gillie
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 28, 2009
Two men in a boat - Frank Reilly and Conn McCool - go trout fishing on Lough Mask. Frank is the angler, deciding the method of fishing and taking advice from Conn - the Gillie, supplying the knowledge of local conditions. (Broadcast 2000)
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DocArchive: Day on the Bog
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 27, 2009
As the current cutting of turf debate rages in the Ireland of 2011, we travel back 15yrs to spend a day on the bog in Co. Meath. The conversation flows through age old traditions and characters and is only interrupted by cups of tea (First broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: All the lonely People
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 25, 2009
Humans are social animals; it is our nature to be so. We strive towards being part of social groupings. But not everyone finds themselves in that position. What happens when we 'loose' family and friends and live life on our own? (First broadcast 1994)
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DocArchive: Time Piece
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, May 24, 2009
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, studying it or indeed explaining it! (First broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Return to Foley Street Dublin Bootboys
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, May 17, 2009
Pat Kenny returned to Foley Street in 1988 to find out what had happened to the bootboys who were originally featured in a 1975 doc. Thirteen years later after boyhood interviews, Pat went back and found that life had its ups and downs (Broadcast 1988)
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The Curious Ear: Through Cairo Airport
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, May 15, 2009
A short documentary made especially for RTE Choice by independent producer, Colette Kinsella. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad.
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DocArchive: Teresa of Calcutta
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 14, 2009
Jim Fahy travels to Calcutta to meet Mother Teresa and see the work she is doing there (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Here be Monsters
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, May 12, 2009
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 possible to get a glimpse of them? (First broadcast 1979)
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DocArchive: Low Hills in the Evening
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, May 10, 2009
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 their carers, to look at elderly life (First Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: Giant on the Lagan
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, May 9, 2009
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 the Titantic and many other ships (First Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: Radio Graffiti
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 4, 2009
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: No Time To Be Twenty One
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 4, 2009
A radio documentary presented by the late Gerry Ryan on the heroes, villains and victims of the Irish "New Wave" rock scene of the early 1980s. (Broadcast 1981)
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DocArchive: Mayday Mayday
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 4, 2009
A celebration of the first day of an Irish summer in song, word and music. (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: Plague House Orchestra
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Apr 26, 2009
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 a story of love and hate - of tobacco..... (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: On the Raft, All at Sea
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 22, 2009
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 survivors clinging to a raft adrift at sea (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: Return to Salzburg
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
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 to reflect back on war and his actions (Broadcast 1985).
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DocArchive: Lacrymosa
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
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 experience of death and the grieving process. (Broadcast 2000)
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DocArchive: Even The Walls Are Sweatin'
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
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: Tribute to Liam O'Flaherty
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 15, 2009
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 common theme of nature and Ireland. (Broadcast 1984)
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DocArchive: Pearse's People
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 13, 2009
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 account of his family background and of his family members.
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DocArchive: A Belfast Game
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Apr 7, 2009
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 Andrew Lloyd Webber into ‘The Beautiful Game’ (Broadcast 1988)
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DocArchive: Fishamble Street, Then and Now
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 6, 2009
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 of Handel's Messiah. A journey through time (Broadcast 1988)
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DocArchive: Spreading the News
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Apr 5, 2009
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 and the agency closed in 1957 (first broadcast 1988).
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DocArchive: Jogging For The Mind
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Apr 5, 2009
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 (first broadcast 1988)
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DocArchive: Irish Down Under
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Apr 1, 2009
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 blurred distinctions. (Broadcast 1983)
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DocArchive: Factory Lives - Digital
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
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: Cusack - An Acting Life
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 29, 2009
Cyril Cusack, one of Ireland's best loved actors, had an illustrious career staring in 90 films and 60 theatre productions. This is the story of Cyril's life in his own words with contributions from his 1st wife Marie and Siobhan McKenna. (Broadcast 1986)
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DocArchive: Noah's Park
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 26, 2009
The relationship between man and beast is an age old story. But what happens when you mix the professional and personal? This is the story of keepers and their animals at Dublin Zoo. Elephants,Giraffes, Lions - not just animals but friends (Broadcast 1986)
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DocArchive: The Belle of Ould Cork
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 25, 2009
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 a huge effect on the city and its peoples (Broadcast 1985)
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Jimmy Obama on RTE Choice
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 24, 2009
Extracts from two programmes on RTE Choice last night: "It's a Wonderful Life", a BBC documentary on Jimmy Steward and Barack Obama from a news conference on "All Things Considered"
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DocArchive: Songs my Mother taught me
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 24, 2009
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 only child, would bear its scars (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: From the outside in
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 24, 2009
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 dependants will exceed those paying taxes (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Shirley Goldfarb - An American in Paris
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
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 and work of the well-known water colourist. (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Sawdust in their veins
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
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 various members of an American style circus (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: I don't remember me
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
Myalgia Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) is a complex and debilitating physiological illness. This documentary meets with M.E. sufferers - One of the greatest problems they have is that they appear perfectly normal but are in hidden terrible pain (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Here we go, here we go
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
We all know the boyhood dream of growing up and dreaming of playing for Man Utd or Liverpool or some other big team. But what happens when that dream starts to become a reality? Des Cahill tracks some players in search of fame and fortune (Broadcast 1987)
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DocArchive: Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
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 qualifies to box at the National stadium (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Factory Lives - The Price of Bacon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
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: Tree Sixty Four
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 22, 2009
A documentary about the treetop protests that gripped the Irish psyche in the late 1990’s when a nature reserve in Co Wicklow became the focus of attention as a national primary route was upgraded to a dual carraigeway (First broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: In Search of Refuge
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 22, 2009
The late 1990's was a time when refugees became an issue of debate in Ireland. Since 1995, Ireland has hosted over 9,700 refugees. This documentary looks at the then situation for refugee/asylum seekers within Ireland (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Joxer in Jerusalem
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Mar 20, 2009
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 Dublin took the play all the way to Jerusalem (Broadcast 1985)
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Listen to Movies: Colm TóibÃn & "Chinatown"
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 19, 2009
A preview of Sinéad Egan's new series, "Moments of Joy" on RTE Choice - quality speech, quality sound, quality radio
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DocArchive: Who Cares?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 18, 2009
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 reality of mental health care in communities(Broadcast 1987)
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DocArchive: Follow that dream
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 18, 2009
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 occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: They never married
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
Familial, societal and indeed our own expectations lead most of us to look for someone to spend our life with. But there are many who choose to live a life on their own. Is choosing to be single not just as acceptable as being married? (Broadcast 1986)
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DocArchive:A Hunting we will go
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 15, 2009
A documentary that joins a foxhunting group. What happens behind the scenes when hounds, horses, people and a fox meet up for a day? Frances Shanahan hired a horse and went over the fences in Co. Meath with the Tara Harriers to find out (Broadcast 1998)
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DocArchive: Star Spangled Football
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 15, 2009
In this documentary Mick Dunne tells the story of the 1947 All Ireland football final between Kerry and Cavan which was played in the Polo grounds in New York – the only All Ireland final ever to be played outside Irish shores (First broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: St. Patrick was a Mayoman
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 15, 2009
Des Hickey follows a group of archaeologists and researchers who travel by helicopter to sea stack of Dun Bhriste, the site of a legend about St. Patrick and Cromduff. The group are the first humans to land on the island in about 600 years (Broadcast 1981)
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DocArchive: Song Collector
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 15, 2009
A documentary on the last professional traditional song collector in Ireland, Tom Munnelly. Over his lifetime, Tom is estimated to have collected over 20,000 songs-the largest collection of traditional song ever compiled by any one person (Broadcast 1984)
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DocArchive: Left Alone
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Mar 14, 2009
Every night, the doorways of city centre offices and the portals of churches are occupied by people sleeping rough. But what is the reality of life on the street? (Broadcast 1986)
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DocArchive: George Redmond Gentleman Piano Tuner
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Mar 14, 2009
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, Beniamo Gigli and Magaret Burke Sheridan (Broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: At Heaven's Door
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Mar 14, 2009
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 ferry and Maura MacDaid is from Belfast (Broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: Inner City Island
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 12, 2009
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: Factory Lives - Ferenka
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 12, 2009
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: It happens silently in the night
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 9, 2009
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 paints the full circle of child sex abuse (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Irish Brent Goose Expedition
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 9, 2009
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 the Canadian Arctic Archipelago to Dublin (Broadcast 1985)
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DocArchive: Far Cry
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 9, 2009
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 voluntary exile in London from the 1960s (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Factory Lives - The Price of Leather
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 9, 2009
Peter Woods tells of the closure of the Rawson’s Boot Factory in Dundalk in the 1960s. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Out of the dark
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 8, 2009
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. Education can be the key to rehabilitation (Broadcast 1985)
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DocArchive: Old Yellow Gloves
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 8, 2009
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 considered the 'perfect' private detective (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Headwaters - Cruising on the Shannon
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 8, 2009
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 Co. Roscommon. All aboard! (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Dying with Love
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Mar 7, 2009
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 hospice (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Factory Lives - Lockes
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 2, 2009
Paddy O'Gorman tells the story of the closure, in 1953, of Locke's Distillery in Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath. (Broadcast 2004)
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RTE Choice Blog - Anyone know this spoof caller to Gay?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Mar 1, 2009
No, it's not Pele. Have a listen and have a laugh. Someone suggested the caller was an RTE Radio producer, named Tony who went on to work in television in East Africa. Any suggestions to choice@rte.ie.
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Colin Murphy interviews Henry Woolf for Sunday Tribune 22 February 2009
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 20, 2009
Colin Murphy interviews Henry Woolf for Sunday Tribune 22 February 2009
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DocArchive: Moving
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
A radio documentary about Edel and Fergus, an urban couple, who decide to move out of their cramped house in Dublin in the middle of the Celtic Tiger years to give their two children Sorcha and Cian, a better life in the country. (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Season
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Feb 18, 2009
Cricket fanatic Conor O’Callaghan tells the story of cricket in Ireland and gives a poetic account of his own obsession with the sport (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Tibetans
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Feb 11, 2009
A radio documentary about a culture and religion in exile, recorded at the time when it had just been announced that the Dalai Lama was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.
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DocArchive: Saints Alive
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Feb 11, 2009
What is a saint? What characteristics does a person need to achieve this distinction? Are there too many saints already? This radio documentary, first broadcast in Easter Week 2003, looks at sainthood in the time of Pope John Paul II.
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DocArchive: Close The Door
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 9, 2009
The story of the "fallen women" who spent most of their lives in the old Magdalen home and laundry, the Convent of Our Lady of Refuge on Lower Sean MacDermott Street, who were largely forgotten by the outside world. (Broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: Rue des Irlandais - The Irish in Paris
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Feb 7, 2009
A radio documentary about the vibrant Irish community in Paris and the historic Rue des Irlandais, talking to Irish men and woman who have made this city their home (Broadcast 1989).
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DocArchive: Sing Whatever Is Well Made
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 6, 2009
A radio documentary commemorating W.B. Yeats on the 50th anniversary of his death. William Butler Yeats (June 1865 to January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. (Broadcast 1989)
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DocArchive: Nivita
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 2, 2009
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 tragically killed when their car crashed just outside Charleville Co. Cork in October 1999 (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Loving Never Stops
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Feb 2, 2009
The erosion of memory is something we all fear. For those left watching, there's nothing worse than seeing loved ones fade away. Alzheimer's is most often diagnosed in over 65's and there's an estimated 26 million sufferers worldwide (Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: Suicide - A Cry for Help
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Feb 1, 2009
Each year worldwide, over one million people commit suicide. This documentary meets with people who have attempted suicide and lived to tell the tale. We also hear from the bereaved left behind. Why does anyone want to end their own lives? (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: Breaking Up Is Never Easy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Feb 1, 2009
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 of their marriages - and begin a new life (Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: Apocalypse Now
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Feb 1, 2009
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 cutting them down and threatening the ecology of the world? (Broadcast 1992)
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Euro Guru
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 31, 2009
This documentary, The Euro Guru, looks back on some of the highs of fifty glorious years of the song festival in the company of Paul G. Sheridan. Paul describes himself not as a fan but an aficionado. (Broadcast 2005)
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DocArchive: Flight Of The Bremen
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 31, 2009
Until 1928, no one had flown from East to West over the Atlantic. In 1927, ten unsuccessful flights were attempted - 7 lives were lost. Finally, in April 1928 a 3 man crew succeeded, one of whom was Irish man Captain James C. Fitzmaurice. (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: If The Statues Stopped Moving
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 30, 2009
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. 7yrs on, we return to see life in the village (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: Another Country
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
For everyone of us, the day will come when we hang up our working boots-no matter how important the job-and enter the world of the retired. This documentary tells a story of retirement, examining the ups and downs of a slower pace of life. (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: Immortal Memory
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jan 28, 2009
Robert Burns known in Scotland as simply 'The Bard' was an 18th century Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. This documentary examines his life and works. (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: Rabies
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 17, 2009
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 beginnings, its dangers and effects on people (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: No.4 Checkout Please
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 16, 2009
In the mid 1970s 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 the effects on peoples lives are discussed (Broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: Mr Watson, Come here - I want to see you
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jan 11, 2009
On March 7th, 1874, Alexander Graham Bell, by just a matter of hours, wins the race to patent the telephone. What a coup! And the first words ever spoken on the telephone? Bell to his assistance, "Mr Watson - Come here - I want to see you" (Broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: The Parish
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 10, 2009
Everything is local - We journey into the sounds and flavours of a typical parish in 1970's Ireland - into the parish of St. Mary's, located in the heart of Limerick city. From the individulals who shape a parish to those who work there (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: Did you hear the one about?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 9, 2009
Do jokes and a sense of humour change over time or generations? Judge for yourself in this documentary montage of language, prejudice and humour from the mid 1970's. You'll surely find yourself laughing at least once, won't you? (Broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: You win some, You lose some
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jan 4, 2009
For some there's no greater than high 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. And that's not something which changes very much over time (Broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: Spin Slow and Deep
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 3, 2009
In 1975 Kieran Sheedy and Dick Warner headed off to discover coarse fishing. For those not in the know coarse fishing is river or freshwater fishing for species such as pike, bream and perch to mention a few. After that, it's a baiting and waiting game
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DocArchive: Bullets and Bowls
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jan 2, 2009
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, and the fewest throws wins the contest (Broadcast 1975)
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DocArchive: Waiting for U2
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
This is the story of three young girls whose lives are totally bound up with their fascination with the Irish rock group U2. They, like many of their peers, are infatuated with the worlds biggest band, the all male quartet, known as U2. (Broadcast 1989)
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DocArchive: The Irish at Eureka-Rebels or riff raff?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
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 sworn to defend their rights and liberties (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Springtime it brings on the shearing
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
One of the most sheep populated countries in the world, Australia has over 110 million sheep. This documentary looks at the biggest job in the year - sheep shearing. (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Profiles in happiness
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
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 and the idea that happiness changes with age (Broadcast 1981)
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DocArchive: Pints and Parables
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
Irish pubs and their clientele are revered the world over. In this documentary, we enter into the hearts of some Irish pubs - conversations filled with comedy and commentary. (Broadcast 1990)
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DocArchive: Outlaw in the Outback
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
The story of Ned Kelly - reconstructed from contemporary records by Bernard Share. Ned was an Australian bushranger who, in 1880, was hanged for murder. Known for defying the colonial authorities, Kelly was born to an Irish convict father (broadast 1981)
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DocArchive: Naval service
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
Charged with minding our seas, our coastline and much else besides, this documentary tells the story of the first 40 years of the Irish Naval service (broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: Moore's Melodies
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
Aodan O Dubhghaill presents some of the social issues addressed by the legendary singer songwriter Christy Moore in his songs. This documentary touches on issues covered by Christy - anything from Knock Airport to football to travellers (Broadcast 1996)
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DocArchive: Lost Children - Children In Irish Workhouses
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
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 girls from those workhouses all the way over to Australia(2003)
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DocArchive: Irish theatre company
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
The story of a theatre company in Naas, Co. Kildare as they prepare for a big perrformance. As a travelling theatre group, nothing is as ever easy as it should be. (broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: In Midst Of Woods Or Pleasant Grove
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
A documentary on people's views of our woods and forests - the importance of woods in our economy, on trees found in Ireland, a look at the national tree register documenting some of the finest collection of trees in Britain and Ireland (broadcast 1984)
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DocArchive: I am what I would be
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
"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. (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: History of the potato
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
Sir Walter Raleigh's is revered as the man who brought the potato to Ireland. In this documentary looks at the importance of potato in Ireland from and on the history and sociological impact of the potato in Ireland. (Broadcast 1984)
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DocArchive: Here is the News
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
This is the story of the 50 years of news on Irish radio. This documentary traces the development from a single news editor in 1926 who took news from foreign stations to today's complex news gathering and assessment operations. (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: Good Enough Music For Them Who Love It - Pipers & Makers
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
A documentary that meets with both Irish pipe players and pipemakers. The talk is all about their music and of course their love of piping (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: Francis Street
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
A documentary on the inner city Dublin street, Francis St and the Iveagh Market. We hear the stories from life in the old days, the Iveagh Market and its stalls and the effects of depopulation (Broadcast 1985)
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DocArchive: Famine Girls
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
A documentary about four thousand orphan girls sent to Australia after the Great Famine. (Broadcast 2001)
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DocArchive: Essentially for Women
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
A documentary that meets with some Irish women who talk about belly-dancing and what it means for them.
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DocArchive: Elected Silence
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
A documentary that examines the lives and beliefs of an enclosed order of Franciscan nuns. (Broadcast 1984)
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DocArchive: Bullet holes in the manuscripts
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
This is a documentary about the Irish National Archives and its destruction in 1922. The archives holds the records of the modern Irish State which document its historical evolution and the creation of our national identity. (broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Bridges for the Bashful
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
Long before the days of the internet, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, this documentary looks at the trend of computer dating in 1970's Ireland - a story of love and technology! (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: Bridge on the river Liffey
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
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 in 1978. This is the story of that bridge (broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: Art on the block
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
A documentary that enters the weird and wonderful world of art auctions. We hear from experts, buyers and sellers (Broadcast 1978)
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DocArchive: American Journey PT II
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
Continuing John Skehan's journey across the US, he meets with a Red Indian Chief, visits Yellowstone national park, the Mid west mining town of Hill City and meets a cowboy at work. (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: American Journey Pt 1
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
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 Catholic history and American catholics (Broadcast 1976)
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DocArchive: All that trouble just to get to Brooklyn
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jan 1, 2009
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 speech (Broadcast 1983)
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Is this the end of the story?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Nov 14, 2008
"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?
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Gentle It Was, Revolution It Was Not
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Nov 4, 2008
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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Dudley Kane: Darach O'Cathain is here in Leeds
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 3, 2008
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 music always." Darach O Cathain
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DocArchive: Dreaming of Fat Men
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Sep 2, 2008
Dreaming Of Fat Men is internationally regarded as a groundbreaking documentary. It 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.
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The Oracle of Zeus spoofing
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 1, 2008
The Oracle of Zeus spoofing
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A longer interview with Philip
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Sep 1, 2008
A longer interview with Philip
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And a Bit Off The Top
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 6, 2008
This documentary tells 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.
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Harmony Heights
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jul 16, 2008
This award winning documentary tells a story that on the 2nd July 2004, the body of fourteen year old Jamie Farrelly-Maughan was discovered behind a disused house in Harmony Heights - a housing estate in Cavan Town. She had lain there for six days.
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One in Eleven
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
One in eleven Irish women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. This award winning documentary we hear the stories of Irish women in their thirties, forties and fifties who are recovering from the disease. This is straight talking.
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Who Fears to Speak of '98?
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Jul 3, 2008
This documentary relives a dramatic year in the life of Irish Hurling, where the summers' games became our national soap opera. The 1998 All-Ireland hurling championship was like no other - From the outset, it was a sporting story that had everything
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Remembering Hanna Greally
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 11, 2008
This award winning documentary revisits the tragic story of Athlone writer Hanna Greally. Hanna was admitted to St. Loman's psychiatric hospital in Mullingar 'for a rest' at the age of nineteen but didn't win her freedom again for almost 20 years.
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Timmy the Brit McCarthy
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Jun 6, 2008
Timmy "The Brit" McCarthy spent years of his life in England. He returned to Ireland in the mid 1960's and his interest in Irish Set dancing brought him in contact with people who were largely responsible for the revival and continuance of the tradition.
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Seeking the Mother Lode
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, May 26, 2008
There is gold in the rivers of Wicklow. Experts agree that it's leached from a mother lode somewhere in the mountains. Since the Wicklow gold rush in 1796, prospectors have sought to uncover this fabled treasure. This father and son are still searching.
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The Things We Remember
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, May 7, 2008
This documentary is about a remembered world - a world that the Guihen sisters left behind on the shores of Lough Allen when they emigrated from Leitrim to Manchester in the 1940's. This is a story of the effects of emigration on one family.
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My Father Takes a Vacation
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Apr 28, 2008
A Swedish documentary maker retraces the footsteps of his father
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Fishing the Blackwater
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Apr 17, 2008
A documentary about fishing rights on the river Blackwater
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The Ballad of Patrick Folan
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 31, 2008
An apocryphal tale of Irish emigration
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Born Under the Cabbage Leaves
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Mar 28, 2008
A documentary on twin sisters born with congenital rubella syndrome
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Thin Air
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Mar 27, 2008
A documentary on the disappearance of three people in Fermoy.
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The Look of the Irish
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 19, 2008
To mark St. Patrick's Day 2008, four documentary-makers provide four different contributions to this week's Documentary On One
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"With her lipstick and her keys..."
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Mar 19, 2008
The remarkable story of the coincidence of talent, fate and sheer good luck which helped The Beatles break into America in 1964.
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Jonathan Gould - The Beatles in America
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 18, 2008
An extended interview with the author by Paul Russell
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Curious Ear Podcast: Eight Days a Week
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Mar 11, 2008
Seán Kilkenny's love for his dogs who do work that other people hate.
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No Cure for Micky Finn
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Mar 3, 2008
A documentary on a Galway fiddle player who died at age 35.
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Eddie and the Lone Bush
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Feb 26, 2008
A documentary on the story teller Eddie Lenihen
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Finding Henry
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Feb 19, 2008
A documentary about a homeless man who lives in the Dublin mountains
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Birds of the Air: Immigration Mosaic
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Feb 7, 2008
The stories of people from Algeria, Turkey, Somalia, Bosnia, Tchetchenya and Poland who now they live in France, Germany, Finland, Austria, Poland, and Ireland.
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I'll find a high mountain
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Feb 1, 2008
A group of modern day travellers migration through the West of Ireland.
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Tuned In
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jan 29, 2008
Donegal VEC's project where 50 teenagers are introduced to new music over 5 days in an adventure centre.
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The Long Goodbye
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sat, Jan 19, 2008
The Long Goodbye
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Egyptian Wonder
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Sun, Jan 13, 2008
Four elderly Irish nuns who have been living in Egypt for several decades.
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The Wizard Oz
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 21, 2007
The Wizard Oz
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The Reunion
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 14, 2007
This week’s doc on one 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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Sr Brid is Heading for High Places
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 14, 2007
A documentary following an elderly blind nun's attempt to climb a mountain.
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Last Christmas on InisTurk
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Dec 14, 2007
A documentary about the last Christmas celebrated on InisTurk
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Missing in Athlone
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Dec 12, 2007
A documentary about four children who disappeared after a deportation
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The Tar Road to Sligo
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Nov 27, 2007
A documentary about two musicans Thom Moore and Vincent Harrison
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The Blue Watch
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Nov 15, 2007
A documentary which charts life of Cork City firefighters
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Kidnapped - The Herrema Diaries
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Nov 5, 2007
Documentary on the 1975 kidnap of Tiede Herrema
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Loss Can Build a Bridge
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Oct 31, 2007
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Enniskillen bombing two women meet to reflect on the human cost of the troubles.
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Leaving Belmullet
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Oct 30, 2007
A documentary on emigration
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"In Your Face"
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Fri, Oct 12, 2007
Writer Lia Mills and her experience with cancer
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Heaven's Special Children
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 8, 2007
The story of two baby boys who were born over 40 years ago, both profoundly disabled.... but their lives travelled different paths.
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Piano Lessons, Sliding Scales.
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 1, 2007
A documentary about the place of a piano in a young women's life
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Heel Up
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Oct 1, 2007
A documentary about Sean Nos dancing in Conamara
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These People
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Sep 19, 2007
A group of recovering drug addicts attempt to put on a play for an event attended by President McAleese
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One Fine Day - When Wexford went to Croker
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Sep 6, 2007
A documentary on the 1956 Wexford hurling team
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Port na Bpucaà - The Music of Ghosts
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
A programme about the accordian player Tony McMahon
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The Last Cattle Drive
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 15, 2007
A 75-year old man recreates the cattle drive of his youth across a much changed Dublin
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The Summer of the Moving Statues
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Aug 8, 2007
This week’s ‘Documentary on One’ returns to the summer of 1985, the Cork village of Ballinaspittle and the story of the moving statues.
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Codename Paddy O'Brien
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jul 25, 2007
The story of a man who spied for the East Germans
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The Man on the Moons from Carrickmacross
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jul 24, 2007
The story of an emigrant's journey from Carrickmacross to the Sea of Tranquility
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Somewhere My Love
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jul 10, 2007
A personal tale of one man and his 1961 fiesta red, Fender Stratocaster. This radio documentary is a musicians dream.
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Stigma
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Wed, Jun 27, 2007
"Being told you're HIV positive is the day your life changes forever" Ruth from Dublin who was diagnosed in 2005. A year previously, over 4,000 miles away in Kenya, Margaret Waachai was given the same news - the same illness, but very different lives.
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The Bridge
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Mon, Jun 18, 2007
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 brutal murders that took place on the border in 1972.
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The Catacombs
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Tue, Jun 12, 2007
'The Catacombs' was a niteclub that operated from the basement of 13 Fitzwilliam Place, in Dublin city center, in the 1940's. It attracted a bohemian crowd. This is a snapshot about being young and talented in the Dublin of the 1940's.
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Patricia, Mary and Mary-Lou too
Author: Documentary on One, RTAuthor: É Radio, Ireland
Thu, May 31, 2007
2007 Election - With just four seats in the Taoiseach's constituency (Dublin Central) and three female candidates running, Patricia McKenna (Greens), Mary Fitzpatrick (FF) and Mary Lou McDonald (SF), will any of them come through and take a seat?
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