DocArchive: The Hurling Man (Part One)
Part one of the 1973 radio documentary about the the game hurling and its impact in Ireland. (First broadcast in 1973)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
21 Sep 200930min
DocArchive: For better, for worse
The iconic Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival runs each September in Clare, but this only began in 1978. For centuries before that, Irish people have gone into arranged marraiges or being partnered off...
20 Sep 200949min
DocArchive: From Cyclinder to Disc
The story of the Gramophone record. From 1856 people have been trying to put voices and music onto a recordable device so they could listen at their leisure. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonog...
19 Sep 200925min
DocArchive: One Potato, Two Potato, Three
This documentary was recorded in the 1977 ‘hula-hoop season’. Pat Ingoldsby goes looking for the street songs and games sung and played by Dublin children, in what is now a fascinating oral history of...
19 Sep 200936min
DocArchive: Our Lady's Island
This documentary goes on the annual August pilgrimage at Our Lady’s Island - an ancient place of pilgrimage in the south east corner of Ireland in the diocese of Ferns where apparitions and cures have...
18 Sep 200938min
DocArchive: 35th President of the United States
A look at the coming to power of John F Kennedy, his family background where the seeds of the man to be were sown. His studies at Harvard college where he excelled, and his time spent serving in the U...
18 Sep 200956min
DocArchive: Voice from an Empty Classroom
In the mid 1980's in a small village in Galway, a school teacher had a falling out over teaching Irish. As a result, she turned up to school for months on end - with no pupils to teach. This is the st...
17 Sep 200944min
DocArchive: The Mossy Banks
A radio documentary on the men who earned a living working on Irish bogs. (First broadcast in 1975)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
17 Sep 200943min
