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Single women who became pregnant and women who were unwanted by their families for other reasons were sent to live and work in the Mary Magdelene Home Laundry in Galway. Some spent the remainder of th...

11 Helmi 200932min

The story of the "fallen women" who spent most of their lives in the old Magdalene home and laundry, the Convent of Our Lady of Refuge on Lower Sean MacDermott Street, Dublin. At the height of its pro...

9 Helmi 200944min

A growing number of immigrants from the Middle East have come to Ireland in the last 25 years. They are refugees, travellers and students. They come from a region of great political instability and co...

9 Helmi 200943min

Kilkenny man 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 later became a professor of Irish Lang...

8 Helmi 200948min

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...

7 Helmi 200939min

A documentary about the vibrant Irish community in Paris. We hear from those who have emigrated to the French capital and have made Paris their home including writer Jean O'Sullivan originally from Du...

7 Helmi 200945min

The history of Ireland's most reluctant Taoiseach ever. Dublin man John A. Costello was Taoiseach from 1948–51 and 1954–57, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926–32, and legal advisor to the governmen...

6 Helmi 200939min

Colette Kinsella speaks to four elderly Irish nuns who have been living in Egypt in Africa for several decades. She learns from the women about their religion and reasons for emigration, as well as gr...

6 Helmi 200941min