Bolt and my Belgian Blue
The world of pigeon racing has been transformed by big money deals and the €310,000 sale of a champion named Bolt. But where does the sport in Ireland figure in this world? We follow fast talking Dubl...
16 Sep 201639min
DocArchive (1988): Days in Moscow, Nights in Leningrad
In Gorbachev’s Russia of 1988, perestroika was a political movement which reformed the Communist Party and the country as a whole. The development had impacts on culture, religion and society in Mosco...
13 Sep 201649min
DocArchive (1997): Mexican Journal
John S Doyle describes life in Mexico as he travels through Mexico City and Oaxaca encountering different people and hearing their stories. John also speaks to UCD's Declan Kiberd on his unusual meeti...
10 Sep 201638min
Peadar Mercier
Peadar Mercier, the first ever professional bodhrán and bones player, captured the pulse of Irish traditional music. 25 years after his death, his son Mel traces his father's unique life story - from ...
9 Sep 201641min
DocArchive (1981): Travels Without a Typewriter – The Story of Anna and Samuel Carter-Hall
The story of the author Anna Maria Hall; born in Dublin in 1800. She moved to the U.K in 1815 and married Samuel Carter-Hall, often publishing under the name of Mrs. S. C. Hall. Anna joined Samuel in ...
6 Sep 201640min
DocArchive (1984): George Best Story
Ed Mulhall looks at the football career of Belfast born George Best, who went on to become Ireland's best known footballer. Recalled as the fifth 'Beatle', George Best enjoyed a celebrity lifestyle wh...
3 Sep 201644min
We Couldn't Understand the Peace
In 1972, a group of women fled Belfast, with their children, to take refuge in Glenstal Abbey. They came from trauma and violence to an exclusive boys’ boarding-school run by Benedictine monks in rura...
2 Sep 201640min
DocArchive (1980): Mariculture – Marine Fish Farming
A look at Mariculture in Ireland in 1980. Tracing the history of the culture in Ireland from salmon farms and mussel markets to the development of fish farms. Different factors involved in Mariculture...
30 Aug 201640min
