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Sinking at Hangman's Point
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In 2013, a beautiful 100 year old tall ship; The Astrid was shipwrecked off the coast of Kinsale, Co. Cork. Disaster was averted, as all 30 crew were…
10 years, 5 months ago
The Case That Never Was
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In the most in-depth and far-reaching investigation RTÉ Radio has ever undertaken, an international recruitment company is taken to court by one of i…
10 years, 5 months ago
Sand, Sea and Smugglers
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Amas and Ammar Al-Kadry are two Syrian brothers who put themselves in the hands of ruthless people-smugglers to escape their war-torn country. From t…
10 years, 6 months ago
My Uncle Jack
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A story of emigration and sport. Jack Dowling survived an orphanage in Waterford and an industrial school in Cork. He moved to the UK to work in the …
10 years, 6 months ago
The Brits, The Blitz and The Bedwarmer
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Leeanne O’Donnell was browsing a market when she saw a bedwarmer from a Big House in North Cork, between Mallow and Mitchelstown. The landlady who ow…
10 years, 6 months ago
An Easter Re-Rising
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Astonishing and largely unknown, this is the story of how the Irish 1916 Rising provided a blue print for one of the first armed uprisings of its kin…
10 years, 7 months ago
Roger Casement's 'Apocalypse Now' - Africa & 1916
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In August 1916, the British executed a very unusual rebel figure: a knight-cum-Irish rebel who honed his nationalism in ‘Belgian’ Congo in Africa - S…
10 years, 7 months ago
The All-Ireland Behind Barbed Wire
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In 1916, a GAA match between Kerry and Louth footballers took place on a pitch named Croke Park, at a prisoner of war camp in Frongoch, Wales. 100 ye…
10 years, 7 months ago
The Ballad of Patrick Folen
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With a sung narration performed by Mick Flannery, this documentary delves into the life of an Irishman who lived in England. In 2006, Patrick Folens …
10 years, 7 months ago
Sandbags not Handbags?
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Longford/Westmeath was a controversial constituency in General Election 2016. Why? For two reasons. The count took a full six days – and before the e…
10 years, 7 months ago