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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 Iraq...

26 Huhti 200944min

During the famine, in Gweedore in Donegal, English landlord Lord George Hill released a pamphlet called ‘Facts from Gweedore’. This was a report on the environmental aspects of the area and made sugge...

26 Huhti 200943min

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 s...

26 Huhti 200941min

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 throug...

25 Huhti 200948min

The passion for flying that began in someone’s backyard. A documentary by Madeline O’Rourke about some of the enterprising people who managed to build viable aircraft in domestic hangers (Broadcast 19...

25 Huhti 200942min

A boarding school memoir in which time past and time present are stitched together in an intimate portrait of convent boarding school life in the 1950s and 60s (Broadcast 1998).See omnystudio.com/list...

24 Huhti 200942min

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. (...

24 Huhti 200937min

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 a...

24 Huhti 200941min