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: A Question of Faith
This is the story of a family's reaction to the ...
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 enter into an enclosed order - virtually shutting herself off from the outside world. (Broadcast 1993)
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DocArchive: Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange
The Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth in ...
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 and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This documentary tells the story of them (Broadcast 1982)
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DocArchive: Neccessitys Child
This documentary tells the story of inventors and their inventions ...
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 unemployment, it's a story of challenge, creativeness and sheer stuborness sometimes (Broadcast 1983)
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DocArchive: Orange The Purple and The Blue
Proinsias O'Conluain delves into the world of the Orange Order, ...
Proinsias O'Conluain delves into the world of the Orange Order, its history and its role into the future (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: The Burning of Bridget Cleary - Witch Burning 1895
A grisly story about the torture and murder of Bridget ...
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 fairies (Broadcast 1995).
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DocArchive: After the Plays are Over
A look at the 13th Dublin Theatre Festival with Sean ...
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'Brien. (First Broadcast 1971)
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DocArchive: To End It All
Ireland has one of the highest rates of suicide in ...
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 be done? (Broadcast 1979)
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DocArchive: Gordon Bennett Race
The Gordon Bennett Cup Race was the biggest annual motor ...
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 unusual circumstances, it became the first ever international motor race held in Ireland (Broadcast 1974)
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DocArchive: The Last Cattle Drive
A 75 year old man re-enacts and remembers a time ...
A 75 year old man re-enacts and remembers a time when cattle were herding through the streets and lanes of Dublin. (2006)
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DocArchive: With the Irish in the Middle East
30,000 Irish soldiers have been deployed since 1978 as peacekeepers ...
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 regions on the planet. (Broadcast 1978)
