DocArchive: No Man Knows or Cares
An insight into 1970's emigration by the Irish to London - Donncha O'Dulaing visits the Benburb Base, a home away from home to help the young Irish get set up with work and accommodation and integrate...
13 Sep 200927min
DocArchive: Oftner You Come - Killarney
1000s of words have been written and sung about Killarney. From the horsedrawn jaunting cars to the boatmen of the Gap of Dunloe and the blacksmiths at Muckross House, tourists in 1977 were coming to ...
12 Sep 200939min
DocArchive: From The Ground Up
A documentary broadcast on the day of RTÉ's first ever television broadcast - From the Ground Up is an insight into the work that went into bringing Ireland its first ever national television service....
11 Sep 200953min
DocArchive: In the Shades of Knockma
Ciaran Mac Mathuna presents the story of Amhráin Mhuighe Seóla - a collection of traditional songs in the Irish language written by Mrs Eileen Costello in Co Galway. It's one of the relatively few col...
10 Sep 200942min
DocArchive: Ready Ready Go
What would possess any sane person to jump out of airplanes on a regular basis? Conor McNally has done over 300 skydives and is hooked on the speed, the freedom and the 'aloneness up there' (first bro...
10 Sep 200935min
DocArchive: Death of a Lord Mayor
Terence MacSwiney was elected Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920. Shortly after, he was sentenced to 2ys in a British prison. He began a hunger strike in protest - which drew international attention and laste...
9 Sep 200944min
DocArchive (1969): Assembly At Chur
In 1969, Seán Mac Réamoinn travelled to the second European Bishop’s symposium in Chur, Switzerland. We hear from various members of the Catholic Church who discuss everything from religion, to proble...
8 Sep 200958min
DocArchive: Jubilee for Children
UNICEF is the world's leading organisation protecting the rights of children. It's primary aim is to reach a day when no children die from preventable diseases. This doc was made 30yrs ago, celebratin...
7 Sep 200958min
