DocArchive: Festival or Famine
Sean Mac Réamoinn takes a critical look at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1968. He argues that the theatre fesitval is like a two week feast in the midst of a cultural famine and accuses it of being a...
21 Okt 200959min
DocArchive (1972): The National Library
To mark the centenary of the National Library in Dublin city, this programme explores the history and the importance the library. We hear from people about their memories of the library, as well as re...
20 Okt 20091h 34min
DocArchive: Mischievious Priest
Dubliner Peter Talbot (1620 – 1680) was a man of strange contradictions - a rare mixture of priest, ex-Jesuit, Bishop and diplomat. Bad press followed him like the plague, not only during his own life...
19 Okt 200948min
DocArchive: The 20th Dáil
In 1973 after a break of sixteen years, Fine Gael returned to power in a National Coalition government with Labour, under the leadership of Liam Cosgrave. John Bowman presents a special programme on t...
18 Okt 200957min
DocArchive: The Jersey Link
For thousands of Irish people, it was full stop when they reached the sunny Channel Island of Jersey - an emigration destination since the 1840's linked to the building of St Catherine’s breakwater an...
17 Okt 200942min
DocArchive: I Was Hungry
Lack of material resources, lack of education, lack of opportunity, inadequate income - a documentary from nearly 40 years ago about breaking the cycle of poverty and hunger in Ireland (Broadcast 1972...
17 Okt 200948min
DocArchive: A Mass of Difference
A documentary on the religious community of Taize in the south of Burgundy, France. Taizé is the home of an international, ecumenical community, founded in 1940 by Brother Roger. (broadcast 1992)See o...
16 Okt 200939min
DocArchive: From Inniskeen to Baggot Street Bridge
A look at the career and poetry of Patrick Kavanagh. Born in 1904 in Inniskeen Co. Monaghan, he is regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of the 20th Century, and is famous worldwide for his work...
16 Okt 200954min
