DocArchive (1961): Twelve Months Around Blessington
Blessington is a beautiful town in West Wicklow full of history and culture. It’s a busy town, where important things happen. Norris Davidson lives close to this rural community and spent the year of ...
14 Heinä 20091h 14min
DocArchive: Bound by Regulations
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 s...
13 Heinä 200942min
DocArchive: Taste of Grass Roots
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 198...
12 Heinä 200940min
DocArchive (1991): Immigrating to Ireland – Galway
Dubarry’s shoe factory in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway was set up in 1937. Shoemakers were brought in from Leicester in the U.K. to work at the new factory. The widow of a shoemaker who moved to Ireland to...
12 Heinä 200943min
DocArchive: Remembering Parnell
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 ...
11 Heinä 200927min
DocArchive: Where the Fisherman Strays
The hard won battle for the right to fish on Lough Neagh, which belonged to a succession of aristocratic families, until they were bought out by a local co-operative in 1972 (Broadcast 1978).See omnys...
11 Heinä 200941min
DocArchive: Indian Ocean Tsunami - One Year On
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 f...
10 Heinä 200939min
DocArchive: David's Diary
In 1904, Fr. John Creagh gave two sermons that expressed unfounded hostility towards Limerick's Jewish community. This led to boycott and intimidation, forcing the them out of the city within a year (...
10 Heinä 200936min
