Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland and beyond telling real life stories. With over 1,800 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One Podcast has the largest archive of documentaries available in the world, dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. Winner of over 400 national and international awards. Producer of podcast series 'Where is Jón?', ‘The Real Carrie Jade’, 'Runaway Joe', 'Finding Samantha', 'Tiger Roll', 'GunPlot' and 'The Nobody Zone'. Immerse yourself in a world of sound, story and character.
Markey Robinson was born in Belfast in 1918 and died in 1999. Markey was a prolific Irish artist with a distinctive naïve expressionist style. His main passion was painting, but he also produced sculptures, and designed some stained glass panels. (2007) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Fiddle player Paul O'Shaughnessy's revisits The Glen area of Co Donegal which was a place of formative experience for him. This documentary is an exploration of a musical style told through this tune and the memories of those who've played it. (2006) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This documentary tells the story of a girl's gaelic football team from Dublin's Sheriff Street during the run-up to a Cumann na mBunscoil semi-final during the month of November in 2005. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mary Gurr had been a promising footballer but she died an alcholic and homeless. Here, the Gurr family describe the helplessness of watching a cherished family member slowly die on the streets of the Dublin city. (2006) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. (2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kevin Sheedy examines the fate of the strict-tempo ballroom dancer in an age of pop and Rock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pat Feeley travels to County Cork to see how the tradition of 'the wran' was still practised in 1975. Pat Feeley travels to County Cork to see how the tradition of 'the wran' was still practised in 1975. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The story of the annual visit of a family from America and England to their homeplace in Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan. It's a story of enduring friendship among a family and their neighbours. (2006) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. 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. See omnyst...
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. (2005) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976. Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The story of Ireland's National Circus - Fossetts Circus - We examine its history, the highs and lows of working and living in a travelling circus and of course the wanderlust! (Broadcast 1975) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Weafer St. (pronounced 'wafer') in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford and Rahel–Varnhagen-Promenade in Berlin, Germany share similar geography. They are both on 52 degrees 30 minutes north of the Equator. Both run East-West. This programme wanders along each street meeting passersby. (First Broadcast 2010) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's like an Ann Summers or Tupperware party, in that you have a group of people around to your place. Except, with gold parties; it’s about money; they come to sell and not to buy. (First Broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Dodder Valley Partnership in Tallaght, Dublin, organises volunteers to work in the local Social Welfare Office. They 'signpost': they give out leaflets on local services like deals at sports centres for the unemployed. (First Broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The story of the man who, anonymously, hid Lotto scratchcards in books in Waterford Library and why. Followed by the story of 13 college students from Leeds who blew a grant they'd been given for an exhibition on a sun holiday instead. Or did they? (First Broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On Easter Monday 1916 Patrick Pearse stood on the steps of the GPO and read the Proclamation. John Cunningham questions how our view of Pearse has evolved from the adulation of the early years to his relevance today (Broadcast 2005). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When Helen Townsend was researching her family history, she found a series of letters written to her great grandfather in Australia from his family in Co. Tyrone. The letters date from 1852 to 1892 and tell the story of those left behind in Ireland (2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
