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: The Hurling Man (Part One)
Part one of the 1973 radio documentary about the the ...
Part one of the 1973 radio documentary about the the game hurling and its impact in Ireland. (First broadcast in 1973)
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DocArchive: For better, for worse
The iconic Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival runs each September in Clare, ...
The iconic Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival runs each September in Clare, but this only began in 1978. For centuries before that, Irish people have gone into arranged marraiges or being partnered off by a matchmaker. A tale of Irish love (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: One Potato, Two Potato, Three
This documentary was recorded in the 1977 ‘hula-hoop season’. Pat ...
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 children, in what is now a fascinating oral history of the city. (First broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: From Cyclinder to Disc
The story of the Gramophone record. From 1856 people have ...
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 leisure. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the beginning of a new aural era (Broadcast 1973)
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DocArchive: Our Lady's Island
This documentary goes on the annual August pilgrimage at Our ...
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 the diocese of Ferns where apparitions and cures have been reported (first broadcast 1977).
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DocArchive: 35th President of the United States
A look at the coming to power of John F ...
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 where he excelled, and his time spent serving in the US Military. (Broadcast June 1963) 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 where he excelled, and his time spent serving in the US Military. (Broadcast June 1963)
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DocArchive: The Women of the Rising
After the Easter Rising had taken place, over 100 women ...
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 Cumann na mBan and The Irish Citizen Army. (Broadcast 1963)
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DocArchive: Pagan Flames
Keryman Sean Healy has been a turf-cutter, a railway worker ...
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 were around him and about the ancient gods and pagan ways. (First broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: Voice from an Empty Classroom
In the mid 1980's in a small village in Galway, ...
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 months on end - with no pupils to teach. This is the story behind that incident (Originally broadcast in 1988)
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DocArchive: When Everyday is Good Friday.
A radio documentary where Joe Duffy talks to people who ...
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)
