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The main weekly documentary slot on RTÉ Radio 1 and the largest arena for radio documentaries in Ireland.

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    DocArchive: Pat's University Challenge

    Twenty years years after it became a fully fledged university ...

    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 freshers week there. (2009)

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    DocArchive: John A Costello

    John Bowman looks at the life and career of former ...

    John Bowman looks at the life and career of former Attorney General and Taoiseach John A Costello. (1976)

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    DocArchive: O Commemorate Me

    Marking the centenary of his birth, this programme is based ...

    Marking the centenary of his birth, this programme is based primarily in Patrick Kavanagh's birthplace of Iniskeen and in other towns in South Monaghan featuring events as the inauguration of the National Kavanagh Day and the Raglan Road Festival. (2004)

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    DocArchive: 50 Years of Radio Drama

    Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of ...

    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 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976.

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    DocArchive: Mary and Manor Street

    Mary Gurr had been a promising footballer but she died ...

    Mary Gurr had been a promising footballer but she died an alcholic and homeless. Here, the Gurr family describe the helplessness of watching a cherished family member slowly die on the streets of the Dublin city. (2006)

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    DocArchive: Markey

    Markey Robinson was born in Belfast in 1918 and died ...

    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 main passion was painting, but he also produced sculptures, and designed some stained glass panels. (2007)

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    DocArchive: The Wran The Wran The King of All Birds

    Pat Feeley travels to County Cork to see how the ...

    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 tradition of 'the wran' was still practised in 1975.

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    DocArchive: Like The Wings of a Butterfly

    Emma Fogarty lives with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a painful genetic ...

    Emma Fogarty lives with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a painful genetic skin disorder which causes her skin layers to separate and blister at the slightest touch. This is a glimpse into the world of Emma and her family - the world of Dystrophic EB. (2007)

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    DocArchive Survivors of the Somme

    Recollections of the great watershed battle of World War I ...

    Recollections of the great watershed battle of World War I including extracts from a hitherto unpublished diary written on the front. (1989)

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    DocArchive: The Tin Box

    Upwards of 300,000 Irish men and women from the nationalist ...

    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 children of these people, including Mary Russell, whose father fought with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. (2004)

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