Documentary on One Podcast

Rebel City Reverts

01 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Three Cork born Muslims relate their experiences of finding Islam, practising their religion in their home town, and worshipping at their Mosque, on a...

21 Years and 8 Days

01 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

August 2006, Gary Douche (21) was beaten to death in the holding cell of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. He was violently attacked by another inmate in a hot...

The Tattie Hokers - The Migrant Workers of North Mayo

01 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary that tells the stories of migrant workers from North Mayo and their journeys to Scotland to pick potatoes during the 20th century ...

About A Pop Song (The Curious Ear)

23 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Learning all about the 2007 Sugababes hit, "About You Now". (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Generation X Factor

21 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Jedward-mania hit the country in the autumn of 2009. This radio documentary looks at life inside the pop bubble - and what happens when the bubble bur...

The Curious Ear: Peter Healy Luthier

20 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Healy makes stringed instruments and invites groups to his home to play them. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad...

The Curious Ear (2010): More Than Paintings

12 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Joe McFadden, Margaret Harrington and Jill Rowe are three volunteers who help out in the National Gallery, Dublin. As well as being volunteers there, ...

The Curious Ear (2010): Vladimir's audio email

08 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Sounds and pictures from the old Russian town of Sergiyev Posad as emailed by Vladimir Kryutchev. (First Broadcast 2010)See omnystudio.com/listener fo...

The Curious Ear: Dead Snow

07 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

An extract from a series of podcasts about James Joyce's short story, "The Dead"...shorter radio documentaries on Irish radio from Ireland and abroad....

After Belfast: Father Aidan in Paris

02 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Fr Aidan Troy spent 7yrs in Belfast where his ministry spanned the time of the infamous Holy Cross Protest Walks and a blight of suicides. In 2008, Fr...

How Macroom Remembers

02 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Politics in Ireland, like most other countries, has a long memory. We visit the Cork town of Macroom that still remembers the Irish Civil War. Even to...

DocArchive: The Ffrench Connection

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

This is the story of two great estates, one in Monivea, County Galway - the other in Simbirsk, Russia. It is also the story of the woman who owned tho...

DocArchive: Recruits

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

In 2006, we gained exclusive and first time access to record the highs and lows of a platoon of young men as they try to make it through their basic I...

DocArchive: The Wran The Wran The King of All Birds

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Pat Feeley travels to County Cork to see how the tradition of 'the wran' was still practised in 1975. Pat Feeley travels to County Cork to see how the...

Playing with Pride

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

This documentary tells the incredible story of a young girl's gaelic football team from Dublin's inner city Sheriff Street, during the run-up to a Cum...

DocArchive: Over the Waves

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Gay Byrne looks back on the trends and changes in fashion in the development of light music on radio since the days of 2RN (1976). Gay Byrne looks bac...

Ports (The Curious Ear)

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get a bunch of teenagers to jump into freezing cold water? Well, you tell them some outrageous lies; that's what outdoor education instruct...

DocArchive: Who Is Izzy Baia?

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

This radio documentary won a prestigious Prix Italia - a story giving an insight into the world of Kevin Whelan and his relationship with Brian, an au...

DocArchive: The Joe Lynch Story

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A look at the career of one of Irelands best loved entertainers - Joe Lynch. Focusing at his years with Radio Eireann and with the Abbey, and his cros...

DocArchive: The Sky Ran Away

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A documentary with Tommy McKearney, a 1980's Provisional IRA prisoner - and John Nixon - a then member of the INLA - A story of two men's experience o...

Doc Archive: The Swilly

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The Lough Swilly Bus offers a network of services to some of the most remote parts of Donegal. Departing Derry City, the route travels along the old r...

DocArchive: Pieces of the Wall

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty years after the extraordinary event of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Martin Duffy, an Irish writer and film-maker living in Berlin, meets Irish ...

DocArchive: Last Brigadista

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A documentary on Irish man, Ned Murphy, believed to be the last survivor of the Irish Brigade which fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil War. This i...

DocArchive: Return to Ypres

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Michael O Kane follows the events which unfold around a weekend trip to Belgium to commemorate and retrace the steps of 3 men who fought in World War ...

DocArchive: Playing With Pride

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

This documentary tells the story of a girl's gaelic football team from Dublin's Sheriff Street during the run-up to a Cumann na mBunscoil semi-final d...

DocArchive: The Great Debate

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The legend of Oisín and Saint Patrick is retold in this dramatisation from 1976.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Doc Archive: Stone Cutters

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Stone cutters, quarry men and the long tradition of masonry families in Barnacullia, Co Dublin, where granite has been its life blood for the past 200...

DocArchive: The Cons are Coming

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the annual visit of a family from America and England to their homeplace in Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan. It's a story of enduring frie...

DocArchive: The Game Is Not Over Yet - 50 Years of Radio Sport

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The first sports broadcasting on Irish radio was on 9th January 1926 when the Irish rugby team due to play France was listed on air. This archive docu...

World Draughts (The Curious Ear)

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The 2007 World Draughts Championships in Buncrana, Co. Donegal. Among those there: a man paid by his government to teach draughts to children and a ma...

The Curious Ear (2009): Grand Art

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the man who, anonymously, hid Lotto scratchcards in books in Waterford Library and why. Followed by the story of 13 college students from...

DocArchive: There's a Darkness on the Edge of Town

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

19 members of the travelling community in Tallagh have died in 18 months through death by suicide. This documentary goes behind the statistics to look...

DocArchive: O Commemorate Me

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Marking the centenary of his birth, this programme is based primarily in Patrick Kavanagh's birthplace of Iniskeen and in other towns in South Monagha...

A Day With The Dutch (The Curious Ear)

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Three unusual stories from the Netherlands: A restaurant with beds...a museum where they lock you in a shipping container...and students whose homes a...

DocArchive: The Guest

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Cellist Richard Groocock lost his young son to suicide. Kevin, a promising trombone player, was 20 when he took his life. This story explores whether ...

DocArchive: There's Only One George Best

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary recorded on the day that George Best was laid to rest in BelfastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Do You Still Come Here Often?

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Sheedy examines the fate of the strict-tempo ballroom dancer in an age of pop and Rock.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Ruth's Coin

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The September 11th attacks changed the world forever. 2,976 victims and 19 hijackers died in the attack. Cork woman, Ruth Clifford McCourt and her 4yr...

DocArchive: Like The Wings of a Butterfly

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Emma Fogarty lives with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a painful genetic skin disorder which causes her skin layers to separate and blister at the slight...

DocArchive: Stories from the Underground

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

This story charts the changes that occurred in the tiny rural farming community of Tynagh in the west of Ireland from the 1960s when it became the loc...

The Curious Ear (2009): Dole Volunteers

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The Dodder Valley Partnership in Tallaght, Dublin, organises volunteers to work in the local Social Welfare Office. They 'signpost': they give out lea...

DocArchive: The Blues and the Candy Stripes

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The previous time Belfast soccer club Linfield FC travelled to the home of Derry City FC, was January 25th 1969. The two sides found themselves on opp...

DocArchive: The Strange Thing I Am

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

On Easter Monday 1916 Patrick Pearse stood on the steps of the GPO and read the Proclamation. John Cunningham questions how our view of Pearse has evo...

DocArchive: Mary and Manor Street

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Gurr had been a promising footballer but she died an alcholic and homeless. Here, the Gurr family describe the helplessness of watching a cherish...

DocArchive: Fossetts Circus

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The story of Ireland's National Circus - Fossetts Circus - We examine its history, the highs and lows of working and living in a travelling circus and...

DocArchive: Markey

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Markey Robinson was born in Belfast in 1918 and died in 1999. Markey was a prolific Irish artist with a distinctive naïve expressionist style. His ma...

DocArchive: The Starry Frame

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

When Helen Townsend was researching her family history, she found a series of letters written to her great grandfather in Australia from his family in...

DocArchive: Rumours from Monaghan

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Senator Billy Fox was murdered on March 11th 1974. Five members of the Provisional IRA were sentenced to life for the killing. The story of Billy Fox ...

DocArchive: The Menai Suspension Bridge

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A 1976 documentary celebrating 150 years since the bridge across the Menai Strait that connects Anglesey with the mainland - and how an Irish vehicle ...

DocArchive: The Clare Champions

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

1995 was the first ever Ireland hurling success for Co. Clare. This documentary tracks both the success of that year and all that went before it - the...

Maria's Schooldays (The Curious Ear)

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Four twenty-something women recall the good and bad of an Irish convent secondary school which they left in 2001. (Broadcast in 2008) (A short Irish r...

The Curious Ear (2010): The Neighbours At 52

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Weafer St. (pronounced 'wafer') in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford and Rahel–Varnhagen-Promenade in Berlin, Germany share similar geography. They are both ...

DocArchive: The Fathers House

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

An intimate and powerful story of heroin, hurt and friendship - of how four dads - John, Jimmy, Paul and Mousey -found a way to live with their child'...

DocArchive: The Tin Box

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Upwards of 300,000 Irish men and women from the nationalist tradition fought in the Great War. This documentary focuses on the memories of the childre...

The Curious Ear (2009): Gold Party

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

It's like an Ann Summers or Tupperware party, in that you have a group of people around to your place. Except, with gold parties; it’s about money; ...

DocArchive: From Val Vousden Till Now

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Fifty years of entertainment recalled by Maureen Potter, Jack Cruise, Joe Linnane and many others, together with excerpts from radio shows down the ye...

Peggy the Postmistress (The Curious Ear)

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Peggy is on holiday - her first in 39 years. Well, it's not a holiday; it's retirement. Since the late 1960's, Peggy Moloney's been the postmistress i...

DocArchive: The Glen Road to Carrick

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Fiddle player Paul O'Shaughnessy's revisits The Glen area of Co Donegal which was a place of formative experience for him. This documentary is an expl...

DocArchive: 50 Years of Radio Drama

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976. Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 year...

DocArchive: The Siege of 64 Great Strand Street

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the attack on Connolly Hall, Great Strand Street, Dublin in March 1933, examining the background and political climate at the time. (Firs...

DocArchive: The Auction

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

'Victor Mitchell's' Auction House in Roscrea, Co Tipperary is widely respected amongst 'those that know' in the antiques trade. And in this documentar...

DocArchive: Pat's University Challenge

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty years years after it became a fully fledged university in 1989, Pat O'Mahony returns to his old alma mater, Dublin City University and spends f...

DocArchive: In Your Face

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Lia Mills is an Irish writer. She writes novels, short stories and literary non-fiction. This is the story of her experience with oral cancerSee omnys...

DocArchive: How Far Have They Travelled?

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Donovan family are members of the travelling community and ten years on from a documentary where they moved into a house, the family describe why ...

Changing Faces

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Clarie Taylor was born in his grandmother's caravan during an afternoon circus show. His family moved the day after and since that time he's travelled...

Songmakers

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on contemporary comic songmakers in the traditional idiom featuring the songs of Michael Marrinan, Sean Mone, Robbie McMahon, Tim ...

DocArchive: Wake me when I'm dead

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A documentary about the dead, dying and death - told by the undertaker Thomas Lynch who is is an essayist, poet and funeral director of Lynch & Sons f...

Hitler's Nemesis - Georgi Zhukov

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

May 1st 2005, marked the 60th anniversary of Marshal Georgi Zhukov's victory in the Battle of Berlin in the Second World War. This is the story of a R...

DocArchive: Martha Graham - Mother of us all

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Martha Graham, an American dancer/choreographer, was regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. She invented a new language of movement...

The appeal of the midnight court

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Appeal of the Midnight Court is a special documentary made by Cathal Póirtéir for RTÉ Radio 1 to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Cla...

DocArchive: How Far Have They Travelled?

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Donovan family are members of the travelling community and ten years on from a documentary where they moved into a house, the family describe why ...

DocArchive: The children at the bottom of the garden

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

An amazing documentary by John McKenna about being told by his mother on her deathbed that the children she lost at birth were buried at the bottom of...

Stories from the black republic

31 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Through the stories of the people who lived through the regimes of Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier, 'Stories from the Black' Republic traces the horror...

DocArchive: My Eskimo Friends

30 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1990 Irish woman Geraldine Osborne decided on an adventure - to move with her young family to an entirely new world - Ellesmare Island far up in No...

DocArchive: Good Job Base

30 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Shannon Airport is unique in location and in the history of aviation. Of all European Airports it's situated at the most western point, making it the ...

DocArchive: Swansong of a Toad

30 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Dick Warner travels to west Kerry, one of the last habitats of the native Irish natterjack toad who is thought to be an immigrant from the end of the ...

DocArchive: Excuse To Be Evil

30 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This is the story of two sisters who spent their childhoods growing up in a Satanic cult. This is challenging listening, sometimes upsetting, sometime...

DocArchive: The Hudson Letter

30 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A documentary with a difference - Derek Mahon's acclaimed poetry sequence of The Hudon River is read by a stellar cast including Stephen Rea and Dawn ...

DocArchive: Fire in the Earth - Poetry and Mythology

30 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Poet David Whyte unravels the role of poetry and mythology in life. Author of six books of poetry, David grew up with a strong, imaginative influence ...

DocArchive (2008): Who Fears to Speak of '98?

29 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This documentary relives a dramatic year in the life of Irish Hurling, when the summer's games became our national soap opera. The 1998 All-Ireland hu...

DocArchive: First Language

28 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A surprise to many, Dublin is Ireland's largest Gaeltacht and the area where the most amount of people speak Irish/Gaelic on a daily basis. But what i...

DocArchive: Behind the pipes

28 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Kenneth Jones has dedicated his life to building pipe organs. We visit Ken at his home, learn about the history of the organ and also hear him play so...

DocArchive: By the Strands of Magilligan

28 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Magilligan is a penninusla in Co. Derry with a unique history. Unusually, it is an area of Northern Ireland where the population is made up in the maj...

DocArchive: The Show People

27 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Bird family are 'Show People'. They move from town to town across the country, selling rides like the dodgems and the merry go round at their trav...

DocArchive: House Strictly Private

27 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Irish Wake is one of the iconic traditions associated with family, community and death - at least it used to be. From its origins back to an ancie...

DocArchive: Beer, Beer, Glorious Beer.

26 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

All you will ever need to know about one of our most popular tipples - beer. A look at the history and science of beer brewing through the ages. (Broa...

DocArchive: The Mind Travellers

26 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

What happens to people who have 'out of body experiences' and why does it happen to them? We examine some of the various theories behind 'physical sep...

DocArchive: Fingers numb faces aglow

24 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The enchanting story of a 7 year olds boyhood memories of Christmas in Co. Roscommon. Memories flood back filled with conversations, smells, tastes, h...

DocArchive: Last Christmas on Inisturk

24 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The story of one group of islanders and their last Christmas on Inisturk, a small island off the coast of Mayo, as they face up to the harsh reality t...

DocArchive: The Park Danes

24 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Residents of the park area in Limerick have seen a lot of change - this documentary talks to the eclectic group of people that go there every day.See ...

DocArchive: A Palestrina Christmas

23 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

15 years ago, Mary Curtin spent Christmas with the Palestrina Choir of St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin. From 1982 until the Christmas of 1995, Ite O'D...

DocArchive (1981): Care of Wild Animals In Captivity

22 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Dublin Zoo was opened in 1831 by he Royal Zoological Society of Ireland and lies in the heart of Dublin's Phoenix Park. In this documentary, John Shke...

DocArchive: Dadland

21 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary that offers a very intimate portrait of what it is like to be part of an Irish farming family in rural Ireland - like all families...

DocArchive: Christmas in an Alien Land

21 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The personal stories of three people spending Christmas in Ireland who will be missing their homes in New York, Melbourne and Nigeria this (First broa...

The Curious Ear (2009): Audio Christmas Card

21 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Curious Ear Audio Christmas Card. Recorded at the Farmleigh House Christmas Market, Dublin. The barbershop singers are: "The Mellowchords". (First...

DocArchive: Quick Quick Smile Smile

20 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The modelling scene in 1970s Ireland was tough - work was scarce and pay was variable, models had to provide all their own accessories from shoes to t...

DocArchive: Lorient

19 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Since 1971, millions have been travelling to Lorient - a town in Brittany to attend its world famous International festival to celebrate Celtic cultur...

DocArchive: Churchill and Ireland

19 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

His earliest childhood memories were of the Phoenix Park - and Winston Churchill described the years he lived beside the Viceregal Lodge in Dublin as ...

DocArchive: The Moles of Moneenroe

18 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Castlecomer in Kilkenny is synonymous with coalmining. In 1802 alone - there was eighteen working pits and the miners who worked there were known as t...

DocArchive: Sean Lemass

18 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A profile of Sean Lemass, one of the most prominent Irish Political figures of the 20th Century, and a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of I...