DocArchive (1994): Lost and Found
This is the story of how a lost mother was found. Michael O’Keeffe was put into care at aged 2. He did not have any contact with his mother growing up, but 50 years later he decided to look for her an...
4 Mar 200941min
DocArchive (1977): Arts Frozen Sounds
The story of sound reproduction began in 1877 when Thomas Edison found a way of causing sound waves to vibrate and be recorded onto tin foil. Then in 1887 the first record was invented. This documenta...
3 Mar 200942min
DocArchive (2004): Factory Lives - Lockes
Part of Factory Lives; A six part series on factory closures in Ireland taking one example from each decade and examining the causes for the collapse against a backdrop of economic development in this...
2 Mar 200941min
DocArchive (1991): Bread and Butter Man - George Bernard Shaw
One of Irish literature’s greats; George Bernard Shaw is celebrated in this documentary. Born in Dublin in 1856, Shaw initially struggled for success before plays such as Pygmalion brought him to the ...
1 Mar 200943min
DocArchive (1982): Centre of Paralysis of Silence, of Importance
A biography of the fascinating life of James Joyce; a giant of literature in Ireland. We learn why he had such a strained relationship with Dublin and gain an insight into the creation to some of his ...
28 Feb 200939min
DocArchive (2007): Eddie and the Lone Bush
Storyteller Eddie Lenihan is a master of language. In 1999 Eddie began a campaign that lead to the NRA rerouting the Ennis Bypass around a lone bush at Latoon, near Newmarket-on-Fergus, co. Clare. The...
27 Feb 200940min
DocArchive (2009): The Rebel Countess
Countess Constance Markievicz is known for her participation in the Easter rising in Dublin in 1916 and her time spent as part of the Irish Cabinet. Members of her family paint a picture of the woman ...
26 Feb 200938min
DocArchive (1974): O'Duffys Men
Maurice Manning traces the history of the Blueshirts in Ireland. The Blueshirts was the nickname for the National Guard which was an Irish extra-parliamentary security organisation active in the 1930s...
26 Feb 200949min
