DocArchive (2002): Facts about 'Facts from Gweedore'
During the famine, in Gweedore in Donegal, English landlord Lord George Hill released a pamphlet called ‘Facts from Gweedore’. This was a report on the environmental aspects of the area and made sugge...
26 Apr 200943min
DocArchive: Plague House Orchestra
Tobacco smoking is one of those habits full of contradictions. Smokers know of the myriad of complications from smoking cigarettes but choose to continue to smoke for a variety of reasons. This is a s...
26 Apr 200941min
DocArchive: History on Wheels
Wolsley, Silver Stream, Lanchester, Model T - collectors of veteran and vintage cars share their passion for their motors. Enthusiastic members of motor clubs around the country organise events throug...
25 Apr 200948min
DocArchive: Homegrown Wings
The passion for flying that began in someone’s backyard. A documentary by Madeline O’Rourke about some of the enterprising people who managed to build viable aircraft in domestic hangers (Broadcast 19...
25 Apr 200942min
DocArchive: Unappreciated Angels
A boarding school memoir in which time past and time present are stitched together in an intimate portrait of convent boarding school life in the 1950s and 60s (Broadcast 1998).See omnystudio.com/list...
24 Apr 200942min
DocArchive: Harmony Heights
On the 2nd July 2004, the body of fourteen year old Jamie Farrelly-Maughan was discovered behind a disused house in Harmony Heights - a housing estate in Cavan Town. She had lain there for six days. (...
24 Apr 200937min
DocArchive: Jews of the East End
After the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 there was a wave of pogroms in southern Russia against the Jewish community. This led to a large increase in Jews leaving Russia. Many fled to England a...
24 Apr 200941min
DocArchive: Eye and Ear
An exploration of the history of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear hospital in Dublin. (Broadcast 1984)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
24 Apr 200942min
