DocArchive: Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange
The Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth in Co. Meath in Ireland were built around 3200BC - making them older than Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This documenta...
6 Dec 200939min
DocArchive: After the Plays are Over
A look at the 13th Dublin Theatre Festival with Sean MacReamoinn. The two week event showcased the Irish premiere of Muderous Angels by Conor Cruise O'Brien. (First Broadcast 1971)See omnystudio.com/l...
5 Dec 200958min
DocArchive: Gordon Bennett Race
The Gordon Bennett Cup Race was the biggest annual motor race in the world in the early 1900s. Automobile clubs around the world competed. In 1903, in unusual circumstances, it became the first ever i...
5 Dec 200949min
DocArchive: To End It All
Ireland has one of the highest rates of suicide in Western Europe. It’s one of the major issues affecting Irish society but why is this and what can be done? (Broadcast 1979)See omnystudio.com/listene...
5 Dec 200942min
DocArchive: Mengistu's shadow
From 1990 through to 1995, Ethopia journeyed from dictatorship to democracy. Helen Shaw visited Ethopia in 1990 when the country was under the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariamand. 5 years later s...
4 Dec 200942min
DocArchive: The Last Cattle Drive
A 75 year old man re-enacts and remembers a time when cattle were herding through the streets and lanes of Dublin. (2006)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
4 Dec 200941min
DocArchive: With the Irish in the Middle East
30,000 Irish soldiers have been deployed since 1978 as peacekeepers for the UN in the Lebanon attempting to keep the peace in one of the most volatile regions on the planet. (Broadcast 1978)See omnyst...
4 Dec 200943min
DocArchive: Church and State
In 1978, Karol Wojtyla, a Pole was elected Pope John Paul II despite the fact that that at the time his homeland was under communist rule and an aesthetic state. (Broadcast 1978)See omnystudio.com/lis...
3 Dec 200939min
