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Battle at the Bridge
Episode 1
The Battle of Mount Street Bridge was the most successful rebel engagement in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising. A detailed investigation leads to…
10 years, 3 months ago
Ireland's Secret Hangman
Episode 1
In the 1940's the Irish state secretly recruited its own native executioner. Counted as one of Ireland's great historical mysteries, the true identit…
10 years, 3 months ago
Tearoom, Taylor, Saviour, Spy
Episode 1
Margaret Kearney Taylor was a woman who kept many secrets. She was known as the Irishwoman who ran an elegant tearoom in Madrid, Spain for more than …
10 years, 3 months ago
Tearoom, Taylor, Saviour , Spy.
Episode 1
Margaret Kearney Taylor was a woman who kept many secrets. She was known as the Irishwoman who ran an elegant tearoom in Madrid, Spain for more than …
10 years, 3 months ago
Waterford, Wimbledon, Monaco, Murder
Episode 1
Vere Goold was Ireland’s first tennis star, winning titles in this new sport in 1879. He was born into an aristocratic family in Waterford and met hi…
10 years, 3 months ago
High Heels and Horses
Episode 1
Emma Cahill had a dream of representing Ireland at the Olympics on the National Showjumping team. But in 2011 those dreams were ended when Emma suffe…
10 years, 4 months ago
The Anaconda Road Massacre
Episode 1
In 1916, Thomas Manning left Ireland to work in the copper mines of Butte, Montana. Mining hotspots like West Cork were dying – emigration to America…
10 years, 4 months ago
We've Got a Game to Win
Episode 1
With Euro 2016 about to begin, John Kenny from RTÉ Sport looks back to Euro '88 - when the Republic of Ireland qualified for their first ever major f…
10 years, 4 months ago
The Loudest House on the Street
Episode 1
Cathy Moorehead opens up the door of her home to reveal an exceptional experience shared by just a very, very small group of people. Cathy is a C.O.D…
10 years, 4 months ago
Bruno the Chimpanzee
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In 1988 an accountant came across a tiny chimpanzee tied to a tree in a rural village in the West African state of Sierra Leone. Its mother had been …
10 years, 5 months ago