RTÉ Radio 1: Documentary on One
The main weekly documentary slot on RTÉ Radio 1 and the largest arena for radio documentaries in Ireland.
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DocArchive: Unappreciated Angels
A boarding school memoir in which time past and time ...
A boarding school memoir in which time past and time present are stitched together in an intimate portrait of convent boarding school life in the 1950s and 60s (Broadcast 1998).
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DocArchive: Jews of the East End
After the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 there was ...
After the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 there was a wave of pogroms in southern Russia against the Jewish community. This led to a large increase in Jews leaving Russia. Many fled to England and settled in the East End of London (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: The Reunion
A story which follows Jimmy Kinihan, who left Castleknock College ...
A story which follows Jimmy Kinihan, who left Castleknock College in the early 60s to become a monk…. Five more of his classmates also entered the religious life.
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DocArchive: It Really Gets on my Nerves
Mary Rose Doorly investigates how stress affects ordinary Irish people. ...
Mary Rose Doorly investigates how stress affects ordinary Irish people. What happens when our nerves get frayed? Can stress actually be good for us, in the right measures? (Broadcast 1984)
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DocArchive: The Man Behind the Stories
Known as Ireland’s master storyteller, Eamon Kelly (1914-2001) described the ...
Known as Ireland’s master storyteller, Eamon Kelly (1914-2001) described the art of the Seanachaí as the oldest one-man-show-on earth, holding his audience spellbound in intimacy of the firelight in the homes of rural Ireland (Broadcast 1980).
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DocArchive: Horse Handler Horse Healer
A portrait of 72 year old horse breaker from Limerick, ...
A portrait of 72 year old horse breaker from Limerick, Davy Hogan, who was known far and wide in equestrian circles for his 'sixth sense' for training and taming horses (Broadcast 1978).
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DocArchive: There's No Robbers Here
Opened 1848, Arbour Hill Prison in Dublin was a military ...
Opened 1848, Arbour Hill Prison in Dublin was a military prison during much of it's lifetime. Many of the 1916 leaders are buried in the military cemetary at the prison. Today, this prison the national centre for male sex offenders (Broadcast 1984)
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DocArchive: On the Raft, All at Sea
An award winning documentary about the experience of three generations ...
An award winning documentary about the experience of three generations of asylum seekers It uses the metaphor of the famous 19th century painting, The Raft of the Medusa which depicts shipwrecked survivors clinging to a raft adrift at sea (Broadcast 2002)
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DocArchive: One in Eleven
One in eleven Irish women will be diagnosed with breast ...
One in eleven Irish women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. This award winning documentary hears the stories of Irish women in their thirties, forties and fifties who are recovering from the disease. This is straight talking (2008)
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DocArchive: Return to Salzburg
On 4 May 1945, two days before the World War ...
On 4 May 1945, two days before the World War II came to an end, American troops took control of Salzburg, Austria. Former G.I. soldier Norman Smyth returns to Salzburg 40 years after its liberation to reflect back on war and his actions (Broadcast 1985).
