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DocArchive (1984): George Best Story
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Ed Mulhall looks at the football career of Belfast born George Best, who went on to become Ireland's best known footballer. Recalled as the fifth 'Be…
10 years, 1 month ago
We Couldn't Understand the Peace
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In 1972, a group of women fled Belfast, with their children, to take refuge in Glenstal Abbey. They came from trauma and violence to an exclusive boy…
10 years, 1 month ago
DocArchive (1980): Mariculture – Marine Fish Farming
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A look at Mariculture in Ireland in 1980. Tracing the history of the culture in Ireland from salmon farms and mussel markets to the development of fi…
10 years, 1 month ago
Davy
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People think they know Clare senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald because of what they see during the game of sport, but what about before and afte…
10 years, 2 months ago
We Decide Who Lives Or Dies
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The highest risk group in Irish road deaths: young rural drivers. We visit Co.Donegal and meet drivers who refuse to wear seatbelts, drivers who drin…
10 years, 2 months ago
Richard Fariña – from Lough Neagh to Monterey
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Richard Fariña was well known in music and literary circles in New York in the 1960’s. He was a regular visitor to his Irish relations in Ardboe, Co.…
10 years, 2 months ago
What to do with Clogheen?
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Kathriona Devereux has inherited a small hotel in Clogheen, Co. Tipperary. ‘Vee house’ has huge emotional value to her, and it has been in her family…
10 years, 2 months ago
The Sound of Sport
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To mark the beginning of the Olympics in Rio, a documentary on a group of people who listen to the events more than watch them: TV Sport sound design…
10 years, 2 months ago
The Broken Hearted Farmer
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Joe Flynn and his wife Mary from Westmeath wrote ‘The Broken Hearted Farmer’ in the late 1960s - a song that told the story of farming protests at th…
10 years, 3 months ago
Then There Was Light
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On November 5th 1946, the ESB erected the first pole of rural electrification. This was the beginning of a promise to bring electricity to every home…
10 years, 3 months ago