DocArchive: All Things Bright and Beautiful
The story of the acclaimed 19th-century hymn writer, Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander (Broadcast 1995) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•45 min•Ep. 1
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DocArchive: Bulls Wool Coats and Nail Boots
Fifty years of the Forsa Cosanta Aitiuil, or FCA, is commerated in this documentary (Broadcast 1996) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•43 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: St. Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg Pilgrimage
In this documentary we hear the sounds and words that tell the story of the Lough Derg Pilgrimage, Co Donegal (Broadcast 1991) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•37 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: On the Earth Below
A radio documentary on the life of Irish folk singer songwriter Liam Weldon, presented and produced by Julian Vignoles (Broadcast 1994) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•42 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Scenes from a Return Journey
In this radio documentary, writer Anne Kennedy takes a glimpse at the past, present and future through encounters in a Californian summer (Broadcast 1992) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•40 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Voices from a Vanishing World
Jim Fahy recalls some memorable encounters with people from big houses in the west of Ireland (Broadcast 1991) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•40 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Glen and Me - Lifeline and Death Row Prisoner
In this radio documentary Hilary Huges shares her experience of letter-writing and visits to Glen, a prisoner on death row (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•42 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: The Story of Woodbrook (David Thompson's Book)
A radio documentary inspired by the novel 'Woodbrook' by David Thompson (Broadcast 1986) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•43 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: A Butcher's Tale
A radio documentary telling the story of the changing world of Eugene Kierans, Master Butcher (Broadcast 1989) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•38 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Flying for the Silver Screen
A radio documentary about the Irish Air Corps officers who flew for films shot in Ireland during the 1960s (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2009•42 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Unwritten Ireland
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2009•48 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Shamrock Bar - The Irish in Moscow
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2009•39 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: In the Shadow of Death
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2009•43 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: A Question of Faith
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2009•37 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2009•39 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Neccessitys Child
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2009•44 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Orange The Purple and The Blue
Proinsias O'Conluain delves into the world of the Orange Order, its history and its role into the future (Broadcast 1973) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2009•39 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: The Burning of Bridget Cleary - Witch Burning 1895
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). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 06, 2009•42 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: After the Plays are Over
A look at the 13th Dublin Theatre Festival with Sean MacReamoinn. The two week event showcased the Irish premiere of Muderous Angels by Conor Cruise O'Brien. (First Broadcast 1971) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 05, 2009•58 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: To End It All
Ireland has one of the highest rates of suicide in Western Europe. It’s one of the major issues affecting Irish society but why is this and what can be done? (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 05, 2009•43 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Gordon Bennett Race
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 05, 2009•49 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: The Last Cattle Drive
A 75 year old man re-enacts and remembers a time when cattle were herding through the streets and lanes of Dublin. (2006) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 04, 2009•41 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: With the Irish in the Middle East
30,000 Irish soldiers have been deployed since 1978 as peacekeepers for the UN in the Lebanon attempting to keep the peace in one of the most volatile regions on the planet. (Broadcast 1978) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 04, 2009•43 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Mengistu's shadow
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 04, 2009•43 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: The Summer of the Moving Statues (2007)
A look back at the summer of 1985, when Ireland was in the grip of the phenomenon of 'moving statues'. Eyewitnesses give there accounts of what they saw in Ballinspittle, Co,Cork and Carns, Co. Sligo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 03, 2009•41 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Church and State
In 1978, Karol Wojtyla, a Pole was elected Pope John Paul II despite the fact that that at the time his homeland was under communist rule and an aesthetic state. (Broadcast 1978) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 03, 2009•39 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Flight of the Enola Gay
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 03, 2009•42 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Every man an Einstein
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 03, 2009•42 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive: Fish Culture
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 02, 2009•39 min•Ep. 1
DocArchive (2003):The Thebes Road Movie
In ‘The Thebes Road Movie’, Documentary-Maker Kaye Mortley makes a journey across Europe, to Thebes in Greece. Kaye tells the story of her transcontinental travel and the varieties of mystery she encounters along the way. (First Broadcast 2003) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 01, 2009•44 min•Ep. 1
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