Documentary on One Podcast

DocArchive: These People

17 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The story of a group of recovering drug addicts as they prepare to put on a play. We follow them from rehearsals, which are often disruptive, through ...

DocArchive: The Sons Of Molly

17 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The ‘Molly Maguires’ were a 19th century secret society of Irish descent who were accused of kidnappings and other crimes in the rural coalmining ...

DocArchive: Guns and Roses

16 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Every day for six months these women must wear a uniform and carry a gun. This documentary follows four women soldiers on duty with the Irish army in ...

DocArchive: Pedals and Pebbles

16 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Stone mad! Geology meets architecture when Mary Mulvihill takes her tape recorder and bicycle around Dublin to view some little-known stones in buildi...

DocArchive: Heart of Grace

16 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A powerful story about the recipients of donor hearts, by Ireland's longest heart transplant survivor Bill Long. (Broadcast 1995)See omnystudio.com/li...

DocArchive: Back from the Brink

16 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1975, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Penh, Cambodia and defeated the ruling Lon Nol Army. Pol Pot declared 'Year Zero' and began his reign of ter...

DocArchive (1989): Black In America

15 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

"Black in America" tells of the poverty and discrimination affecting American minorities in the late 1980s. At the time, the black community in Americ...

DocArchive: Ferns in Gorthaganny

15 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

John Scally traces the history of an unmarked children's graveyard in Co. Roscommon, believed to be a burial ground since famine times (Broadcast 1994...

DocArchive: Darkness of the Soul

14 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Ann-Marie Power visits Cordoba in Andalusia Southern Spain in search of the core of flamenco and its influences (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/lis...

DocArchive: Voices in the Air

14 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Orla Burke meets some of the people who ring into radio talk shows and asks what it is that turns some people into "serial callers" (Broadcast 1997)Se...

DocArchive: Lost Innocence

14 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Annie Maguire was jailed in 1976 with five members of her family and a family friend. She was alleged to have passed nitro-glycerine to the IRA in the...

DocArchive: Yeee Haaa

14 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Dick Warner visits the wild west to discover bunkhouses, poets and other aspects of cowboy culture (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

DocArchive: That Lady

14 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The life and works of Limerick born novelist and playwright Kate O’Brien (1897-1974) featuring dramatised excerptsof the works of O'Brien (Broadcast...

DocArchive: Mama's Baby

14 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Four year old Charlotte was born with Rett's Syndrome - a rare neurological disorder resulting in physical and intellectual disability. It occurs in g...

DocArchive: Somalia - River of Hope

14 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1990's, a devasting famine that claimed up to 300,000 lives in Somalia. In this documentary Roisin Boyd travelled to Somalia with the the...

DocArchive: Markets Without Middlemen

14 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The battle between market stall holders and big business and how the tide of business has obliterated the small man, the donkey and cart and the stree...

DocArchive: World of Women

13 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this documentary from 1980, Marian Finucane travelled to Copenhagen for the second United Nations World Conference on Women where delegates gathere...

DocArchive: Baby on the Way

13 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this revealing documentary we go behind the scenes at the Coombe Women's Hospital in Dublin to explore the world of pregnancy, from the anti-natal ...

DocArchive: Priests Leaving

13 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1970s numbers of priests were declining in their thousands. Former priests discuss their reasons for leaving - often the isolation and lonlines...

DocArchive: InterchurchMarriages

12 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1975 the 'mixed marriage problem' was such a divisive issue in Ireland that a conference was held to try to figure out what should be done if a Cat...

DocArchive: Meltdown

12 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Harrisburg power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28th, 1979. It was...

DocArchive: Stargazers

11 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Moore boasted to friends that he was the only man to interview Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin but to his fans he was much mor...

DocArchive: Wicked Old Children of George Fitzmaurice

11 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and short story writer George Fitzmaurice, with accounts from those who knew him personally. (Broadcast 1972...

DocArchive: To A Nunnery Gone

10 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Thirty years ago, nuns played a prominent role in Irish society especially in the education and the medical sectors but what was daily life like for t...

DocArchive: Pórt Na bPúcaí - The Music of Ghosts

10 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A look at the career of the Irish traditional musician and TV producer, Tony McMahon. His contribution to Irish music worldwide over the decades has b...

DocArchive: I Don't Remember Me

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the effects of M.E. on sufferers (Broadcast 1998)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Silver Strings

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about Donegal Herring Gutters (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: To the Island - Mary O'Malley in Inishmore

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary profiling Galway-based poet Mary O'Malley and her writers workshop on Inishmore.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

DocArchive: Talking to Bricks - A Portrait of Norman Porter

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about Norman Porter, Unionist and winner of the Ewart-Biggs Award (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

DocArchive: Mount Street Club

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the Mount Street Club founded in Dublin 1934 (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Days of the Servant Boy

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about hiring fairs, the life of the servant boy and the modern day small farm (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

DocArchive: Don't Shoot the Messenger

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the role of the government press secretary by Niall Doyle (Broadcast 1999)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

DocArchive: My Mother and the Poet

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this radio documentary, we hear the story of Brid Manifold, who discovered that her mother Deirdre had a romantic involvement with poet Patrick Kav...

DocArchive: Strawboys

09 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the Strawboy tradition in County Sligo (Broadcast 1998)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Ripples in the Teacup

08 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

From a different era - an insight into the changing role of women in the Japanese workforce (Broadcast 1992)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

DocArchive: Vanished and the Banished

08 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Northern Ireland was plagued by civil unrest from the late 1960s until the Good Friday agreement of 1998. During a period which became known as the tr...

DocArchive: Retreat of O'Suilleabhain Beara

08 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the epic historical march of O'Suilleabhain Beara from West Cork to Leitrim through the counties of Limerick, Tipperary, Offaly, Galway, ...

DocArchive: A & E - Accident and Emergency

08 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

An exciting 'fly on the wall' documentary about the accident and emergency department of the Mater hospital, Dublin (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com...

DocArchive: A Butcher's Tale

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary telling the story of the changing world of Eugene Kierans, Master Butcher (Broadcast 1989)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...

DocArchive: All Things Bright and Beautiful

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the acclaimed 19th-century hymn writer, Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander (Broadcast 1995)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Glen and Me - Lifeline and Death Row Prisoner

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this radio documentary Hilary Huges shares her experience of letter-writing and visits to Glen, a prisoner on death row (Broadcast 1997)See omnystu...

DocArchive: Flying for the Silver Screen

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the Irish Air Corps officers who flew for films shot in Ireland during the 1960s (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener...

DocArchive: Scenes from a Return Journey

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this radio documentary, writer Anne Kennedy takes a glimpse at the past, present and future through encounters in a Californian summer (Broadcast 1...

DocArchive: On the Earth Below

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on the life of Irish folk singer songwriter Liam Weldon, presented and produced by Julian Vignoles (Broadcast 1994)See omnystudio....

DocArchive: Voices from a Vanishing World

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Fahy recalls some memorable encounters with people from big houses in the west of Ireland (Broadcast 1991)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...

DocArchive: St. Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg Pilgrimage

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this documentary we hear the sounds and words that tell the story of the Lough Derg Pilgrimage, Co Donegal (Broadcast 1991)See omnystudio.com/liste...

DocArchive: Bulls Wool Coats and Nail Boots

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Fifty years of the Forsa Cosanta Aitiuil, or FCA, is commerated in this documentary (Broadcast 1996)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

DocArchive: The Story of Woodbrook (David Thompson's Book)

07 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary inspired by the novel 'Woodbrook' by David Thompson (Broadcast 1986)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: A Question of Faith

06 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This is the story of a family's reaction to the news that their daughter has chosen to become a Catholic nun. In entering a convent, she has chosen to...

DocArchive: Unwritten Ireland

06 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The rich oral history of Ireland could have been lost had the Irish Folklore Commission not preserved them for generations to come. From 1935-1971 the...

DocArchive: Shamrock Bar - The Irish in Moscow

06 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Moscow might not be the most obvious spot for an Irish pub - especially back in the early 1990's. This is the story of Moscow's transition to a market...

DocArchive: The Burning of Bridget Cleary - Witch Burning 1895

06 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A grisly story about the torture and murder of Bridget Cleary in Tipperary in 1895, whose husband believed her to be a witch or possessed by the fairi...

DocArchive: Neccessitys Child

06 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This documentary tells the story of inventors and their inventions in Ireland in the early 1980's. Made and broadcast in an era of huge emigration and...

DocArchive: Orange The Purple and The Blue

06 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Proinsias O'Conluain delves into the world of the Orange Order, its history and its role into the future (Broadcast 1973)See omnystudio.com/listener f...

DocArchive: In the Shadow of Death

06 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Countess Mary de Galway O'Kelly was born Mary Cummins in Dublin in April 1905. She was teaching in Brussels during the German invasion of May 1940 and...

DocArchive: Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange

06 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

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...

DocArchive: After the Plays are Over

05 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

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...

DocArchive: Gordon Bennett Race

05 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

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...

DocArchive: To End It All

05 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

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...

DocArchive: Mengistu's shadow

04 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

From 1990 through to 1995, Ethopia journeyed from dictatorship to democracy. Helen Shaw visited Ethopia in 1990 when the country was under the dictato...

DocArchive: The Last Cattle Drive

04 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

DocArchive: With the Irish in the Middle East

04 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

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...

DocArchive: Church and State

03 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

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 aesth...

DocArchive: Every man an Einstein

03 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1978, John Skehan set out to capture how the young people of Ireland view the scientific future of the world. Did anyone predict that the world wou...

DocArchive: Flight of the Enola Gay

03 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The 'Enola Gay' was the bomber plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. This documentary meets the navigator of that deadly jou...

DocArchive: The Summer of the Moving Statues (2007)

03 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A look back at the summer of 1985, when Ireland was in the grip of the phenomenon of 'moving statues'. Eyewitnesses give there accounts of what they s...

DocArchive: Fish Culture

02 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

As an island nation and for time immemorial, fishing has been part and parcel of Irish life. As times changed and needs changed, fishing and fishermen...

DocArchive (2003):The Thebes Road Movie

01 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In ‘The Thebes Road Movie’, Documentary-Maker Kaye Mortley makes a journey across Europe, to Thebes in Greece. Kaye tells the story of her transco...

DocArchive: No Meadows in Manhattan

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

An award winning documentary by the writer Brian Leyden, inspired by a short story of rural decline, produced by Julian Vignoles. (Broadcast 1991)See ...

DocArchive: The Swallow From Egg to Africa

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Dempsey looks at the amazing journey of the swallow, which sees in the space of five months, the bird go from being an egg to arriving in Africa....

DocArchive: Shame on the Titanic

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A dramatised radio documentary on Bruce Ismay, owner of the Titanic who found refuge in Connemara. (Broadcast 1987)See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

DocArchive: Georgie

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the death of Georgie Moore at West Kensington Station in London in 1972, as told by his sister Peggy (Broadcast 1994)See omn...

DocArchive: Sonny's Story

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Radio documentary on songwriter and musician Sonny Condell. Presented by Dave Fanning, produced by Julian Vignoles. (Broadcast 1982)See omnystudio.com...

DocArchive: Tommy's Story

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Tommy Walsh talks of the last days of his wife Jo who died from cancer in November 1993 and recalls happier, earlier years. (Broadcast 1995)See omnyst...

DocArchive: Rock Of Ages

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

John Quinn experiences the magic and mystery of Skellig Rock, the monastic settlement off the south-west coast of Kerry (Broadcast 2003)See omnystudio...

DocArchive: If You Don't Want A Catholic

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary that tells the story of a Belfast woman’s pilgrimage to see her idols Glasgow Rangers playing Celtic (Broadcast 1993)See omnystu...

DocArchive: Soviet Voices

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1973, Sean MacReamoinn travelled to the Soviet Union to view everyday life. He looked at places of cultural significance, thriving communities, rel...

DocArchive: Satellite to Nenagh

30 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this radio documentary, Ronan Kelly takes us behind the scenes of RTÉ's coverage of the 1992 General Election. (Broadcast 1994)See omnystudio.com/...

DocArchive: Invisible Prince

29 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

From Huguenot nobility Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a 19th century Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writ...

DocArchive: When the trees were green

28 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A dramatised account of an 8yr who was first diagnosed with appendicitis, then rediagnosed with cancer - and given just weeks to live. It turned out t...

DocArchive: Simple Simon lives here

28 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This doc traces the birth of the Simon Community in Ireland. We meet the people whose vision helped shape a community for the homeless of Ireland. In ...

DocArchive: Disaster at Whiddy

28 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The French oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded in West Cork, at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal in January 1979. 50 people lost their ...

DocArchive: How Do You Say

27 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A look into the ups and downs of learning a new language and the benefits of being multilingual. The programme talks to students and teachers about wh...

DocArchive: The Man on the Moons

26 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The story of how a farm labourer from Carrickmacross ended up having his name inscribed on a plaque that now resides on the moon. (2009)See omnystudio...

DocArchive: The Cowslips

26 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The cattle way of life in Dublin is a way of life that now only exists in memory. From fairs and farms throughout Ireland, cattle arrived into Dublin ...

DocArchive (1999): Sweetbreads in Soho

24 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Corrigan started his working life as an unpromising and shy 14 year old, in the kitchen of an Athboy hotel. This job marked the beginning of a...

DocArchive: On The Roslea Pad

23 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Roslea is a village in Co. Fermanagh surrounded by small lakes and the river Finn. About 500 people live there. Former US President Bill Clinton claim...

DocArchive: The Political Death of a Religious Man

22 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1681 Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, was the last in a series of Irish martyrs executed for their faith by the En...

DocArchive: Scattery of Senan

21 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Scattery Island Cathedral and monastery was an early Christian place of pilgrimage in the Shannon estuary, Co.Clare. Named after St. Senan, the Bishop...

DocArchive: The Age of De Valera

21 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded during the Merriman Summer school of 1973, this is a documentary discussion on Eamon De Valera. We discuss and listen to extracts of his spee...

DocArchive: Out of the Darkness

20 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

What's it like to have eyes but not be able to see? What's it like to live in a world of black, where your ears guide you through the world? This docu...

DocArchive: Alive, Alive O

19 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1970's Ireland, the fishing industry was growing, yet fishermen 'battled' with foreign trawlers. We visit the port of Killybegs in Dongeal who wait...

DocArchive: Island Exodus

19 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Western Islands off the coast of Mayo were, for years, home to thousands. But over time the population declined gradually - today only a few remai...

DocArchive (1978): Taking the Waters

17 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

It was once claimed that Ireland has over three thousand healing springs and more than any other country in Europe. In Taking the Waters, we hear abou...

DocArchive: After the Fleadh

16 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Fleadh Cheoil is an Irish music competition run by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ) each year. The premise of the competition is to find the ...

DocArchive: A Servant of God

15 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

John Charles McQuaid (1895–1973) was the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland from December 1940 and February 1972. This is his life...

DocArchive: After Bloom

14 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1973, an International James Joyce symposium was held. It attracted speakers from the world over. The language used, its place in popular literatur...

DocArchive: The Smith - A Mighty Man

14 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

What is the difference between a farrier and a blacksmith? In this documentary, we go in search of this answer - finding out along the way that these ...

DocArchive: Night with a Showband

13 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

"The Indians" are a showband who, you've guessed it, played music and dressed up as Indians. This documentary chronicles one weekend with "The Indians...

DocArchive: All the Children

12 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A look at the overall attitudes and treatment towards children in Ireland in the late 1960s, looking at the rights of children via charity organistati...