DocArchive (1982): The Forthieth of Foot
Mention the words "The Forty Foot" around Dublin, and anyone will know exactly what you are referring to immediately. This bathing area in South Dublin has become an institute among bathers in the cap...
20 Feb 200935min
DocArchive (1976): The Bargemen
What is it about Bargemen? Do they choose the lifestyle or does it choose them? The last working barge passed through the Grand Canal in Dublin in 1960. Yet the stories, memories and lifestyle still l...
20 Feb 200938min
DocArchive (2007): Birds of the Air - Immigration Mosaic
A story which follows a number of people who have left their homelands to seek a new life in the so called 'New Europe'. After emigration from Africa, Turkey and Eastern Europe, they tell of finding a...
20 Feb 200941min
DocArchive (1979): A Dogs Life
In 1979 there were a great number of dogs living in sanctuaries around the country. ‘A Dogs Life’ looks at the day to day running of a sanctuary in Carlow. We also meet the owners and examine the moti...
19 Feb 200942min
DocArchive (1974): Every Inch an Irishman
A profile of the Irish composer and conductor Charles Villiers Stanford who is seen as a key player in the British musical renaissance. Born in Dublin in 1852, he composed seven symphonies, but his be...
19 Feb 200958min
DocArchive (1981): With The Wind To Our Backs We Were Only Mighty
An insight into one of Ireland's most eccentric traditions - the Strawboys of Achill, Co. Mayo in the West of Ireland. Jim Fahy takes us on a journey through their musical, dancing and wedding traditi...
19 Feb 200952min
DocArchive (2001): Moving
A radio documentary about Edel and Fergus, urban parents, who decide to move their family out of their cramped house in Dublin in the middle of the Celtic Tiger years to give their two children Sorcha...
19 Feb 200942min
DocArchive (1996): Season
Cricket fanatic Conor O’Callaghan tells the story of cricket in Ireland and gives a poetic account of his own obsession with the sport. (First Broadcast 1996)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...
18 Feb 200936min
