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Blessington is a beautiful town in West Wicklow full of history and culture. It’s a busy town, where important things happen. Norris Davidson lives close to this rural community and spent the year of ...

14 Jul 20091h 14min

Irish Fairs are where you meet and trade. But from the late 1700s until the 1940s, hiring fairs also took place - a fair where farmer and labourer arranged work - an employment exchange! This is the s...

13 Jul 200942min

In July 1980, Joseph Brennan, the Fianna Fail TD in Donegal, died - triggering a by-election. Four candidates battled it out. Clement Coughlan of Fianna Fail won - but his tenure was cut short. In 198...

12 Jul 200940min

Dubarry’s shoe factory in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway was set up in 1937. Shoemakers were brought in from Leicester in the U.K. to work at the new factory. The widow of a shoemaker who moved to Ireland to...

12 Jul 200943min

Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish Nationalist who led the fight for Irish Home Rule in the late 1800's. This documentary pieces together first hand accounts of Parnell and his life. Parnell was an ...

11 Jul 200927min

The hard won battle for the right to fish on Lough Neagh, which belonged to a succession of aristocratic families, until they were bought out by a local co-operative in 1972 (Broadcast 1978).See omnys...

11 Jul 200941min

The story of 23 yr old Wexford man, Michael Murphy who lost his life in the Indian Ocean tsunami. Michael's mother, Theresa, his sister Anne Maria and his two brothers Paul and Kevin, speak publicly f...

10 Jul 200939min

In 1904, Fr. John Creagh gave two sermons that expressed unfounded hostility towards Limerick's Jewish community. This led to boycott and intimidation, forcing the them out of the city within a year (...

10 Jul 200936min