Documentary on One Podcast

DocArchive: Enemies of the State

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

For over 20 years Kathy Sinnott and her autistic son Jamie Sinnott lived in a world of pain, bewilderment, courage and perseverance. This is the stori...

DocArchive: A Knuckle in Your Back - A Note in Your Ear

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Many of Ireland's best know female voices once stood in the lines of the Young Dublin Singers Choir. This documentary hears some of their stories whic...

DocArchive: Ice

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Life in Newfoundland is full of ice. It's everywhere - underfoot, hanging down, pointing up. In this radio documentary Lorelei Harris brings us an aud...

DocArchive: Living To Tell The Tale

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Every year hundreds are killed in road traffic accidents. Thousands more are injured - but we rarely hear these stories. This documentary meets with s...

Doc Archive: If It's Sunday It Must Be Ireland

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

42 American tourists embark on a coach trip around Ireland. But what attracts them to the Emerald Isle? What do they make of what is on offer, and of ...

DocArchive: Abbeyleix Unplugged

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In April '02, fiddle player Angela, jazz singer Dorothy and guitarist Jonathan travelled to the District Hospital, Abbeyleix, Co Laois. 6 weeks later ...

DocArchive: Roger Casement as Seen by his Contemporaries

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Roger David Casement was an Irish nationalist, activist, patriot and poet. Here, we listen to reminiscences of the man by those who knew him. (Broadca...

DocArchive: Promised Land of the Saints - Real or Imaginary

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this award winning documentary, Newfoundland producer Chris Brookes sets out in a boat of his own for what he calls "a 21st century radio archeolog...

DocArchive: Mermaids Out of Water - Nuala Ni Domhnaill agus an Mhuruch

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The best known living poet of the Irish language, Nuala Ni Domhnaill draws upon images from Irish folklore. An important recent image has been the mer...

DocArchive: A Complex Cocktail of Love Hormones

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The title of this doc is taken from the French Obstetrician Michel Odent who speaks of a time when women had to release a "complex cocktail of love ho...

DocArchive: The Jonah Project

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Triston Jonah was born deaf, with a heart problem and partial blindness. Later he was diagnosed with autism. This is the story of a search for a schoo...

DocArchive: The Fiddler's Frenzy

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In The Fiddler's Frenzy, Aoife Nic Cormaic presents a bi-lingual documentary about fiddle players and the magic of fiddling in Ireland - clár dháthe...

DocArchive: Becoming Hugo Hamilton

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This bilingual documentary tells the story of how Dublin-born Hugo Hamilton made sense of his own story and went on to become a novelist and short sto...

DocArchive: The Chaplain's Diary

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This is a story of female political prisoners. The inspiration for the documentary came from a book by Raymond Murray called Hard Time: Armagh Gaol 19...

DocArchive: The Newfoundland Connection

01 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Cathal Póirtéir discovers some of the connections which, since the 1700s have linked the South-east of Ireland with Newfoundland's Talamh an Éisc. ...

DocArchive: Anew McMaster

30 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

For nearly 45 years Anew McMaster toured Ireland, acting in plays and theatres throughout the country. He first took to the stage in London where he m...

DocArchive: Pope in Ireland

30 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Originally broadcast in 1999, this documentary tells the story of John Paul II's visit to Ireland in 1979 and the lasting impression that it left with...

DocArchive (1971): Meanings of Easter

29 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Easter is the most important and oldest festival of the Christian and Catholic Church. We hear from various contributors, about their thoughts and rec...

DocArchive: Up the Church

28 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Village life - This is a trip down memory lane into the life, pastimes, games and customs of the village of Upperchurch in North Tipperary. Like every...

DocArchive: Alone in Belfast

27 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

During the Northern troubles, thousands were interned. The is the story of the families left behind. From hunger strike to interrogation to brute forc...

DocArchive: The Coarb of Patrick

26 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1977 until his death in 1990. This documenta...

DocArchive: Tomorrow we'll gather rushes

26 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. This documnetary was made t...

DocArchive: Paddy the Cope

25 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wonder about the origin of the name 'the Cope' in Pat the Cope Gallagher? The story of Patrick 'the Cope' Gallagher who died in 1966 and his plac...

DocArchive: 1916 in Ulster

25 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Proinsias O'Conluain speaks to some of the men of Ulster, about what it was like to live in the North of Ireland during the year 1916. Some were sent ...

DocArchive: A Salute to the Colours

24 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A tribute to our national flag and everything it represents, and an insight into one of Ireland's most recognised symbols worldwide. With contribution...

DocArchive: Hands High

24 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The west of Ireland is famous for pony racing - this documentary meet the people the race their ponies, the people who breed and keep ponies and who a...

DocArchive: Pictures in a Theatre

23 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Francis MacManus presents a nostalgic look back at the Abbey Theatre, during the time that it was closed as a result of fire damage, and presents to u...

DocArchive (1971): Catholic Church Renewal

22 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Do we need to make changes to the Catholic church? This documentary question’s whether the Catholic Church in Ireland should hold a renewal conferen...

DocArchive: My Father Rudolf Hess

22 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the infamous Nazi Rudolf Hess as told by his son Wolf Rudiger Heiss. (First broadcast May 1995).See omnystudio.com/listener ...

DocArchive: Tribute to General Mulcahy

21 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Richard James Mulcahy (1886–1971) was an Irish politician, Army General and Commander in Chief, leader of Fine Gael and Cabinet Minister. He fought ...

DocArchive: The Hurling Men (Part two)

21 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of the 1973 radio documentary on Hurling. (First broadcast 1973)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: The Hurling Man (Part One)

21 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Part one of the 1973 radio documentary about the the game hurling and its impact in Ireland. (First broadcast in 1973)See omnystudio.com/listener for ...

DocArchive: For better, for worse

20 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The iconic Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival runs each September in Clare, but this only began in 1978. For centuries before that, Irish people have g...

DocArchive: From Cyclinder to Disc

19 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the Gramophone record. From 1856 people have been trying to put voices and music onto a recordable device so they could listen at their l...

DocArchive: One Potato, Two Potato, Three

19 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This documentary was recorded in the 1977 ‘hula-hoop season’. Pat Ingoldsby goes looking for the street songs and games sung and played by Dublin ...

DocArchive: Our Lady's Island

18 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This documentary goes on the annual August pilgrimage at Our Lady’s Island - an ancient place of pilgrimage in the south east corner of Ireland in t...

DocArchive: 35th President of the United States

18 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A look at the coming to power of John F Kennedy, his family background where the seeds of the man to be were sown. His studies at Harvard college wher...

DocArchive: The Mossy Banks

17 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on the men who earned a living working on Irish bogs. (First broadcast in 1975)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

DocArchive: Voice from an Empty Classroom

17 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In the mid 1980's in a small village in Galway, a school teacher had a falling out over teaching Irish. As a result, she turned up to school for month...

DocArchive: When Everyday is Good Friday.

17 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary where Joe Duffy talks to people who are living out of passion everyday becuase of suffering or loss. (First broadcast April 2001)S...

DocArchive: The Women of the Rising

17 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

After the Easter Rising had taken place, over 100 women were arrested for their part in the 1916 event. We hear personal recollections from members of...

DocArchive: Pagan Flames

17 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Keryman Sean Healy has been a turf-cutter, a railway worker and a farm labourer. Throughout his life he has written poems about people and places that...

DocArchive: I remember those Dublin Days

16 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Three talks by Dermot Coffey on early 20th century Ireland. Of the Gunrunners in 1914, of George Moore and his neighbours (Yeats, Gogarty) and of the ...

DocArchive: Pottles of Paddington

16 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on radicalism movement in Ireland and beyond during the ninety sixties. (First broadcast in 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

DocArchive: Silenced Voice

16 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on the great Irish soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan who graced many an opera house around the world including the famous 'La Scala'...

Doc Archive: Days and Nights of the Fit Ups.

16 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on the era of travelling theatres which visited the towns and villages of Ireland a long time ago. (First broadcast 1989)See omnys...

DocArchive: Drawing from Life

16 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about a life drawing class in Dublin. What happens when a naked man or woman trots into your classroom - and you have to paint the...

Doc Archive: Crocodile O'Beirne

16 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about Dublin born naturalist Tom O'Beirne and his work in Australia. Tom was a man ahead of his time who travelled around the worl...

DocArchive: Two Tongues of the Dragon

15 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Welsh is a language that is still fluently spoken by almost 25% of people in Wales. That's in excess of 600,000 people - and so Welsh is referred to a...

DocArchive: Pink On Green

15 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

For generations, Ireland has struggles to grasp change. Homosexual acts were illegal in Ireland up until the summer of 1993. This radio documentary te...

DocArchive: A Girl called Maria

15 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This award winning documentary tells the story of a young woman who kept a diary of a time when she battled with depression and her own life. Then, in...

DocArchive (1971): Bus To Coleraine

15 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Seán Mac Réamoinn sets off on a journey to Coleraine in Northern Ireland, on the new CIE Express bus. Seán is joined by three other men who want di...

DocArchive: The Burning of Cork

15 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on the burning of Cork in December 1920 during the war of independence as recounted by men who were on the streets on that faithfu...

DocArchive: Ragmans Ball

14 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A journey through one of Dublins most historic areas, the Liberties. We meet some of its most revered residents and learn of its connections to the Ti...

DocArchive: Sweet Bells Jangled

14 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Our mental health is a vital part of all of us, in our day to day lives and across our entire lifetime. In this documentary from 1971, sufferers of me...

DocArchive: No Man Knows or Cares

13 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

An insight into 1970's emigration by the Irish to London - Donncha O'Dulaing visits the Benburb Base, a home away from home to help the young Irish ge...

DocArchive: Oftner You Come - Killarney

12 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

1000s of words have been written and sung about Killarney. From the horsedrawn jaunting cars to the boatmen of the Gap of Dunloe and the blacksmiths a...

DocArchive: From The Ground Up

11 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A documentary broadcast on the day of RTÉ's first ever television broadcast - From the Ground Up is an insight into the work that went into bringing ...

DocArchive: In the Shades of Knockma

10 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Ciaran Mac Mathuna presents the story of Amhráin Mhuighe Seóla - a collection of traditional songs in the Irish language written by Mrs Eileen Coste...

DocArchive: Ready Ready Go

10 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

What would possess any sane person to jump out of airplanes on a regular basis? Conor McNally has done over 300 skydives and is hooked on the speed, t...

DocArchive: Death of a Lord Mayor

09 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Terence MacSwiney was elected Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920. Shortly after, he was sentenced to 2ys in a British prison. He began a hunger strike in prot...

DocArchive (1969): Assembly At Chur

08 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In 1969, Seán Mac Réamoinn travelled to the second European Bishop’s symposium in Chur, Switzerland. We hear from various members of the Catholic ...

DocArchive: Jubilee for Children

07 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

UNICEF is the world's leading organisation protecting the rights of children. It's primary aim is to reach a day when no children die from preventable...

DocArchive: Dublin for Myself

06 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A profile of Irish writer and poet James Stephens (1880-1950), known for his novel 'The Charwoman's Daughter' and his many retellings of traditional I...

DocArchive: First Days Final Days

05 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The first day of national school from a child's point of view. Little 5-year old Ultan wore a microphone on his jumper to capture the sounds (yes, inc...

DocArchive: Power, Light and Heat

05 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The story of how Ireland became electric. By the time the Irish Free State came into existance in 1922, the country stilll only limited availability t...

DocArchive - I Was There, Eyewitness 1916

04 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The 1916 Easter Rising was mounted by Irish Republicans with the aim of ending British rule in the country. We hear accounts of the infamous moment in...

DocArchive: Panorama USSR

04 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In a country where every shop is state-owned and where every day a long queue of people winds around Red Square to see the body of Lenin , this docume...

DocArchive: This Place Speaks To Me - Daingean Reformatory

03 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Dublin actor/musician Don Baker spent 2 years at Daingean Reformatory in Offaly from 1963 to 1965. 35yrs after leaving, Don revisits the now notorious...

DocArchive: Cardinal From The Falls

03 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Cardinal William Conway played a key role in the social, religious and political life of Northern Ireland - this documentary, made in the year of his ...

DocArchive: Hugh Lane and his Pictures

03 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A drama-documentary on the life of Hugh Lane, best know for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, the first known public gallery of m...

DocArchive: Pastor Angelicus

02 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This drama-documentary by Phillip Rooney gives us an insight into the life of Pope Pius XII, his time as head of the Catholic Church, his despair at t...

DocArchive: The Cellist of Sarajevo

01 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on the life and music of Vedran Samilovic (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive (1969): Bloomseve

01 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

James Joyce is still considered to be one of the most influential writers in Irish history. His work is world renowned and celebrated every second yea...

DocArchive: Voicejazz

01 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

"Voicejazz", a radio documentary produced by Eithne Hand, is an exploration of the shape of a piece of jazz music using a number of key voices almost ...

DocArchive: After Death

01 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Fanny Parnell was a poet and patriot who died aged 34 in 1882 in USA. Her body was laid to rest temporarily in a Boston vault in expectation of being ...

DocArchive: Fragments of Sharon

01 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this radio documentary Sharon Murphy talks about being a black woman in a white society and about using her songs and music to express herself. (Br...

DocArchive: Boghomage

01 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary by John Quinn in celebration of the bog (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Pighomage

01 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary by John Quinn in celebration of the pig - and they are animals to be celebrated! (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

DocArchive: Death of a Farmer

01 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

This award winning documentary tells the story of farmer Tom Oliver from Riverstown, Cooley, Co.Louth who, in July 1991, was murdered by the IRA. On J...

DocArchive: Two Lord Mayors

31 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Broadcast to mark the 50th anniversary of their deaths, this is the story of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, both Lord Mayors of Cork in 1920...

DocArchive: Mutiny at Solon

30 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Connaught Rangers (1881-1922) was an Irish regiment in the British Army. In June 1920 whilst in Solon, India - 5 men from the 1st battalion began ...

DocArchive: End of Term

29 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The final day of term at Glentstal Abbey School, a boarding school in Limerick is a busy time for staff and students as they prepare for holidays. (Or...

DocArchive: The Green Jacket

28 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A feature on the politician, revolutionary nationalist, sufragette and socialist - Countess Markievicz. The Countess participated in the Easter Rising...

DocArchive: The Olympia Story

28 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Olympia theatre is one of Ireland's major theatres and live venues with a rich history stretching back to 1878. (Originally broadcast 1977)See omn...

DocArchive: All the Queens horses

28 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Curtin from Clare worked in London as a farrier - a trade dedicated to equine hoof care. Amongst the many horses that Michael shod were Queen ...

DocArchive: Darkly Grows the Quiet Ivy

27 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A snapshot of life in the village of Ballinafad, County Sligo as a small rural community copes with emigration and stagnation. (Originally Broadcast 1...

DocArchive: A Tree in Coole

27 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The life of Lady Gregory, one of the key personnel involved in the Irish Literary Revival. She co-founded the Irish Literary and Abbey Theatres and he...

DocArchive: The Ballyfermot Co-operative

26 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the 1952 Ballyfermot Co-Operative by Michael Carolan (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: The Calligraphers' Song

26 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about different ways of seeing the Book of Kells (Broadcast 2002).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: In the Shadow of New Forest

26 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A documentary by Seamus Kelly about the New Forest estate in County Galway and the people who lived and worked there (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.co...

DocArchive: Corner of Paradise

26 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary on Florence in Italy on love and literature (Broadcast 1999).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Opening the World

26 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary about the Anne Sullivan Centre for Deaf Blind young adults (Broadcast 2002).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: A Poet and his People

26 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Antoine Ó Raifteirí was born Co. Mayo in 1779. He was the only child in his large family to survive a smallpox outbreak although the disease left hi...

DocArchive: Referendum

26 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary diary of the month leading up to the 2002 abortion referendum (Broadcast 2002).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

DocArchive (1969): Morning Papers

25 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Seán Mac Réamoinn investigates the world of Irish journalism. He looks at how the Irish daily newspapers are produced, the roles of the editors and ...

DocArchive: The Quiet Novelist

25 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

E.M Forster is known for novels like Howard's End, A Passage to India and A Room With a View exploring themes of class differences and sexuality. In t...

DocArchive: Caring for Mam

24 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A beautiful radio documentary about a young carer and her mother (Broadcast 1999).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DocArchive: Forbidden Voyage

24 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A radio documentary tracing the solo voyage by American anthropologist Dr Earle Reynolds through the U.S. Pacific nuclear testing zone (Broadcast 1998...

DocArchive: The Rainforests of Costa Rica

24 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

In this radio documentary, Eanna Ni Lamhna travels to the rainforests of Costa Rica (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...