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Tearoom, Taylor, Saviour, Spy
08 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Kearney Taylor was a woman who kept many secrets. She was known as the Irishwoman who ran an elegant tearoom in Madrid, Spain for more than f...
Tearoom, Taylor, Saviour , Spy.
07 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Kearney Taylor was a woman who kept many secrets. She was known as the Irishwoman who ran an elegant tearoom in Madrid, Spain for more than f...
Waterford, Wimbledon, Monaco, Murder
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Vere Goold was Ireland’s first tennis star, winning titles in this new sport in 1879. He was born into an aristocratic family in Waterford and met h...
High Heels and Horses
24 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Cahill had a dream of representing Ireland at the Olympics on the National Showjumping team. But in 2011 those dreams were ended when Emma suffer...
The Anaconda Road Massacre
17 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1916, Thomas Manning left Ireland to work in the copper mines of Butte, Montana. Mining hotspots like West Cork were dying – emigration to Americ...
We've Got a Game to Win
08 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With Euro 2016 about to begin, John Kenny from RTÉ Sport looks back to Euro '88 - when the Republic of Ireland qualified for their first ever major f...
The Loudest House on the Street
03 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Moorehead opens up the door of her home to reveal an exceptional experience shared by just a very, very small group of people. Cathy is a C.O.D....
Bruno the Chimpanzee
20 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1988 an accountant came across a tiny chimpanzee tied to a tree in a rural village in the West African state of Sierra Leone. Its mother had been k...
Sinking at Hangman's Point
13 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 2013, a beautiful 100 year old tall ship; The Astrid was shipwrecked off the coast of Kinsale, Co. Cork. Disaster was averted, as all 30 crew were ...
The Case That Never Was
06 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the most in-depth and far-reaching investigation RTÉ Radio has ever undertaken, an international recruitment company is taken to court by one of i...
Sand, Sea and Smugglers
29 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Amas and Ammar Al-Kadry are two Syrian brothers who put themselves in the hands of ruthless people-smugglers to escape their war-torn country. From th...
My Uncle Jack
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A story of emigration and sport. Jack Dowling survived an orphanage in Waterford and an industrial school in Cork. He moved to the UK to work in the m...
The Brits, The Blitz and The Bedwarmer
15 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Leeanne O’Donnell was browsing a market when she saw a bedwarmer from a Big House in North Cork, between Mallow and Mitchelstown. The landlady who o...
An Easter Re-Rising
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Astonishing and largely unknown, this is the story of how the Irish 1916 Rising provided a blue print for one of the first armed uprisings of its kind...
Roger Casement's 'Apocalypse Now' - Africa & 1916
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1916, the British executed a very unusual rebel figure: a knight-cum-Irish rebel who honed his nationalism in ‘Belgian’ Congo in Africa ...
The All-Ireland Behind Barbed Wire
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1916, a GAA match between Kerry and Louth footballers took place on a pitch named Croke Park, at a prisoner of war camp in Frongoch, Wales. 100 yea...
The Ballad of Patrick Folen
14 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With a sung narration performed by Mick Flannery, this documentary delves into the life of an Irishman who lived in England. In 2006, Patrick Folens r...
Sandbags not Handbags?
04 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Longford/Westmeath was a controversial constituency in General Election 2016. Why? For two reasons. The count took a full six days – and before the ...
Once Were Champions
26 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1985, Kerry club Castleisland Desmonds won their first and only men’s Senior Football All Ireland club title. 30 years on, clubman Dan Kearney ex...
12 Miles
05 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
12 Miles tells the story of Guillermo Rigondeux and his Irish manager, Gary Hyde. Gary was a boxing manager from Cork, who risked over 20 years in pri...
The Big Session on the High Seas
29 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2011, Joanie Madden (Cherish the Ladies) has organised a Caribbean cruise with a difference – over seven days she brings together dozens of Ir...
DocArchive (1978): Pilots, Lighters and Horse-Drawn Ships
28 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Newry Canal in Northern Ireland was built to link the Tyrone coalfields via Lough Neagh and the River Bann to the Irish Sea at Carlingford Lou...
Put 'em under Pressure'
15 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1990 the Republic of Ireland soccer team played in their first ever world cup finals. RTE Sports, John Kenny re-lives the games at Italia 90 where ...
Through the Kilimanjaro Keyhole
08 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
An Irish surgeon's medical adventures in Africa involving Coca Cola gas, home-made fuses and a hotline to the Electricity Supply company. Emer Horgan ...
After the music - The Daughters story
19 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Fran O'Toole, lead singer with the Miami Showband was murdered along with band members in a loyalist ambush in Northern Ireland in 1975. Soon after, F...
Mick Meaney - Buried Alive
11 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
To the watching world in 1968, Tipperary man, Mick Meaney was an ordinary Irish emigrant to the U.K., with the extraordinary dream of breaking the wor...
Mick Meaney - Buried Alive
10 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
To the watching world in 1968, Tipperary man, Mick Meaney was an ordinary Irish emigrant to the U.K., with the extraordinary dream of breaking the wor...
For the Love of Star Wars
20 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew O'Brien from Meath has been counting down to Thursday 17th December 2015 for over a year - the day when the new Star Wars film ‘The Force Aw...
The Two Sisters
28 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Two sisters in one Dublin family joined convents, one in Canada, one in Leitrim. Then both women left religious life. At the time, their ‘baby’ br...
A Matter of International Secrecy
09 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There’s talk that a papal visit might be on the cards in a few years time. We look back to that other papal visit in 1979, and how – all because o...
From Carrick-on-Suir to the Côte d'Azur
02 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Shane Stokes follows cyclist Sam Bennett on his first tour de France. Sam grew up in Tipperary and has battled injury, self doubt and the w...
Saudi Dreams of a Camper Van
25 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
An Irish nurse in Saudi Arabia records her life on her phone. At first, it’s the differences in the Middle East but the phone becomes an audio diary...
A Caravaggio in Tuam?
11 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
10 yrs ago Nora Nic Con Ultaigh’s learned of an unusual family story – that her great-grandfather from Galway was once, reportedly, the owner of a...
Ghosts of Grangegorman
04 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2013 St. Brendan’s Mental Hospital at Grangegorman, Dublin finally closed after 199 years. When artist Alan Counihan heard about the per...
An Open Verdict
28 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When Gardai entered a chalet on Mayo's Northwest coast in April 2014, they found a scene of desperation and solitude. Scattered amongst the rubbish la...
After The Shock
14 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
April 2015, earthquakes in the Asian country of Nepal result in over 8,500 deaths. Half a million homes lost. Tim Desmond travels to see the destructi...
The Murderer, Me and My Family Tree
07 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When Dylan Haskins was eleven years old he and his Dad were driving along an Irish road, when a voice boomed out of the radio: “James Haskins, you h...
Johnny Jameson
30 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Jameson is a Meath born DJ living in London who entertains Irish emigrants with music and one-liners. He's also a man with an incredible past w...
Fine Gaeilgeoir
24 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2014, Donegal TD, Joe McHugh became Minister of State with responsibility for Gaeltacht Affairs. Only problem? Last time Joe spoke Irish was i...
Grace and Emmanuel
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On February 19th, 2011, a young Irish woman named Grace Farrell froze to death on her makeshift cardboard bed in the doorway of St Brigid’s church o...
Seamus Darby and the Goal That Made Champions
16 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Séamus Darby was the Offaly hero who scored a late goal in the All-Ireland football final of 1982 depriving Kerry of their historic 5-in-a-row. He te...
Band of Gold
10 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
With over 25,000 weddings taking place every year in Ireland, it’s a very competitive industry for wedding bands. We follow bands from Dublin, Cork ...
Living Outside The Box
26 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Breslin is desperate to find a way around the spiralling rents that are being charged for Dublin property.And she thinks she has hit on the per...
Seven Years And Nine Months
12 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
After seven years of trying to have a baby, Dublin couple Rachel and Daniel have decided to try to complete their family through the emotionally turbu...
The Man Who Played Offside
12 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick O’Connell was a superstar and a cheat. He was a superstar of soccer in Ireland, Britain and Spain and cheated on his family. ...
And A Bit Off The Top
05 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Galway barber, Michael 'Chick' Gillen of Dominick Street is known as one of Galway's most famous characters. A man with a larger than life personality...
With These Hands
29 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This multi award winning documentary is about Tralee man, Eric Roche - a world class virtuosic guitarist - and his younger brother Bryan. Considered b...
In Tom Crean's Footsteps
22 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1916, Tom Crean was part of one of the greatest stories ever told when he joined Ernest Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic. 100 years later, ...
The Secret Chicken Society
08 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
All around Ireland, people keep show chickens and with each one comes a dream, to become the next National Champion. This award winning documentary is...
DocArchive: River of Dreams
09 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
An evocation of the River Sullane in West Cork through the music of Peadar Ó Riada. The River Sullane runs from the mountains between County Cork and...
DocArchive (1991): What Will We Do When The Taxpayer Goes
26 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland has a long link with Africa after allocated millions of euro in foreign-aid over the past decades. Rodney Rice travels to one region that is b...
DocArchive: Sowing The Seeds, Horace Plunkett & Co-op movement
24 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Curzon Horace Plunkett was an Anglo-Irish man who set up the agricultural co-operation in Ireland. This Co-Op encouraged farmers to process and ma...
Searching for Answers - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
20 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1975 and 1976 two fishing trawlers sank at the exact same spot off the coast of Donegal with the loss of 11 lives. Over 35 years later, Helena Gall...
Come on Brigids
13 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Damien O'Reilly charts the progress of the St. Brigid’s Senior Football team through the 2004 AIB club campaign, through the eyes of a supporter and...
The Caretaker - Bronze Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
06 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This is a classic who dunnit story? When Islamic manuscripts came up for private sale around Europe in 1991 - that questions began to arise. Those que...
DocArchive (1980): Creel The Scrubber And The Knife
11 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
‘Once you got landed you where as healthy as a trout’ is the memory of life on board for one Donegal fisherman. Skilled workers and fishermen spea...
The Boys of Foley Street
06 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This award winning documentary begins in 1975 when Pat Kenny recorded with a group of young men from inner city Dublin. Pat returned again in 1988 and...
Siege at Jadotville
23 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
An award winning documentary telling the story of a company of Irish troops who in 1961 came under siege at the isolated post of Jadotville, Congo and...
An Extraordinary Affair
16 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a scandalous liaison between two Irish women - Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby. Long before the civil partnership bill, were these love...
The Bells of St.Mels
24 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas morning 2009, a devastating fire destroys St. Mel's Cathedral in the heart of Longford town. 5yrs later, on December 24th 2014, after one of...
The Outsiders - Our Teenage Life Behind Bars
19 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A unique view inside the Irish direct provision system through the eyes of two 13yr old girls, asylum seekers awaiting their fate from the state. Livi...
Diary of a Bad Year: A War Correspondents Dilemma
12 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly McEvers was a war correspondent in the Middle East during the Arab uprisings. Colleagues and friends were being kidnapped. Some were killed. It ...
The Bridge
12 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Joan Bullock and Betty Leonard - two women from either side of the Cavan/Fermanagh border (divide between north and south Ireland...
DocArchive: To Boston and Back
08 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the days when air fares were unattainably high - America literally seemed like a million miles away. And so in 1959, Norris Davidson headed of...
A Humanist Milestone
05 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating the milestones of life the non-religious way, Humanist ceremonies are currently seeing a boom as Ireland's secular population grows. What ...
Boyle For Congress
28 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Aoife Kavanagh steps inside the political campaign of Brendan Boyle as he attempts to become the only American State Congressman with an Irish born pa...
Small Lives and Great Reputations
22 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On the 25th anniversary of his release from prison, Paddy Armstrong of the Guildford Four visits London and Guildford with his wife. Wrongfully convic...
Walking The Line
06 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a family of 'the disappeared' – the Megraw’s, whose brother Brendan was murdered and buried in secret by the IRA and the man, Geoff K...
Saved
31 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John Purcell sells caravans and saves souls. The caravans are apt because John is from a Traveller family. The saving souls is more difficult because ...
Palm Oil Republic
27 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The rise in global demand for Palm oil is putting pressure on agricultural land and rural communities across the developing world. Palm oil is in half...
Bombs, Balls & Beyoncé
24 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A football team and its billionaire owner - some bling and lots of politics: Before the world knew of Maidan Square in Kiev, we knew of Dynamo Kiev an...
The Common Thread
17 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Bra turns 100 this year. From the Backless to the Bullet, the Demi-cup to the Push-up, the brassiere has evolved from a simple breast support to a...
Fantastic Beasts and the People who Love Them
10 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered about Ireland's mystery animals? Have you ever actually gone in search of one? Referred to by experts as Cryptozoology, Shane D...
The Lost Orphans
03 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In 1945 two Irish boys arrived in Dublin by boat. Their journey began in a Philippine jungle during World War II. Work had taken their family from Mea...
Power Light and Heat
03 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The story of how Ireland became electric - a little later than most other countries. (1977)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Brady Bunch
18 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver Brady passed away on Sept 15th last. Listen back to a documentary we made on Oliver - which takes you down a long and winding road to a small v...
Thirty Years Later
05 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Michael de Courcy died in 1984 following a football accident aged 29. Now dead longer than he was alive, his family and friends explore the influence ...
The Seventh Summit
29 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
2014 was Mount Everest darkest year. In April of this year, Irishman Paul Devaney was approaching Base Camp as the biggest tragedy to hit the legendar...
The Seventh Summit
29 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
2014 saw Mount Everest's darkest year yet. In April, Irishman Paul Devaney was approaching Base Camp as the biggest tragedy to hit the legendary mount...
The Grandfather Canoe
22 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Two hundred years after a revered and sacred canoe disappeared from the banks of the St John River in Canada, it turned up in a building in Galway.See...
Info Lady
15 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Why is a woman cycling around Bangladeshi villages with a laptop on her bike? Because she’s an “Info Lady”. A Bangladeshi innovation that's chan...
Never Knocked Down
15 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary boxing trainer Angelo Dundee said the two best chins in boxing belonged to Muhammad Ali and a Connemara man, Sean Mannion. Originally from R...
They Had No Choice - The Irish Horse at War
08 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The horse has been at the heart of Irish life for centuries, but its role, significance and relationship with humans was irrevocably changed during WW...
A Solemn Undertaking
18 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere in Ireland today, a grieving person is picking up the phone to call a Funeral Director, but have you ever wondered what it is like to be tha...
The Beach Boys of Rossnowlagh
11 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The four brothers who discovered surfing in the 1960s - when nobody in Ireland even knew what it was - and have kept on riding the waves for almost fi...
Dead People Don't Matter
02 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of Sep 18 1988 Anne Gillepsie and her mother Annie were shot dead in the car park of Sligo General Hospital by John Gallagher, Anne's est...
Keeping the Door Open
27 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Levis Pub in Ballydehob, Cork has been in the hands of one family for over 100 years. The next generation have taken on the challenge of keeping the p...
The Irishwoman Who Shot Mussolini
20 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Four people tried to assassinate Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Only one person ever came close - her name was Violet Gibson and she was I...
The Irishwoman Who Shot Mussolini
19 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Four people tried to assassinate Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Only one person came close - her name was Violet Gibson and she was Irish....
The Rough With The Smoothie
12 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do if you're pregnant and dreading the aftermath of a rough labour? You could try eating your placenta. Mary-Elaine Tynan was dreading po...
Mairead's First Communion
06 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you're not practising Catholics but your daughter wants to make her First Communion? daughter Mairead is excited about making her ...
Live Where You Learn
30 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Cistercian College Roscrea invites Sixth Class boys to stay overnight to see if they like the idea of boarding-school. So, the Documentary On One did ...
DocArchive (1975): A Universal Affliction, Loneliness
28 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Often described as the worst form of human suffering, loneliness can affect anyone and any person of any age. Producer P.P McGuire traces the reasons ...
A Solemn Undertaking
23 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere in Ireland today, a grieving person is picking up the phone to call a Funeral Director, but have you ever wondered what it is like to be tha...
The Two Hundred Euro Racehorse
16 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Gallagher just wanted to give a rescue horse called Rolo a home - but she soon found out she had a racehorse on her hands.See omnystudio.com/lis...
The Echo Chamber - The Story of Jihad Jane
09 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
One day three people in different parts of the world went online, the meet in a chat room, they talk with each other, it will change their lives forev...
Eight Days in November
25 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In 2002, a succession of men went into the River Slaney in Enniscorthy in Co Wexford - 12 years on, Aoife Kavanagh returns to the town to see how the ...
Losing Erin
11 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a woman watching her world slip through her fingers and a family struggling to keep her falling through the cracks of the mental health s...
Corks Hidden Village
04 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A fabulously witty and charming journey into Cork City's labyrinth that is the English Market - A story that weaves it way through two centuries - ove...
John's Move
21 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John Maguire has a big decision to make. He has to move home. He's 59 years of age and has lived in the same type of home since he was just two: shelt...