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Peggy the Postmistress (The Curious Ear)
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Peggy is on holiday - her first in 39 years. Well, it's not a holiday; it's retirement. Since the late 1960's, Peggy Moloney's been the postmistress …
16 years, 9 months ago
DocArchive: The Tin Box
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Upwards of 300,000 Irish men and women from the nationalist tradition fought in the Great War. This documentary focuses on the memories of the childr…
16 years, 9 months ago
DocArchive: The Fathers House
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An intimate and powerful story of heroin, hurt and friendship - of how four dads - John, Jimmy, Paul and Mousey -found a way to live with their child…
16 years, 9 months ago
Maria's Schooldays (The Curious Ear)
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Four twenty-something women recall the good and bad of an Irish convent secondary school which they left in 2001. (Broadcast in 2008) (A short Irish …
16 years, 9 months ago
DocArchive: The Clare Champions
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1995 was the first ever Ireland hurling success for Co. Clare. This documentary tracks both the success of that year and all that went before it - th…
16 years, 9 months ago
The Curious Ear (2010): The Neighbours At 52
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Weafer St. (pronounced 'wafer') in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford and Rahel–Varnhagen-Promenade in Berlin, Germany share similar geography. They are both o…
16 years, 9 months ago
DocArchive: The Menai Suspension Bridge
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A 1976 documentary celebrating 150 years since the bridge across the Menai Strait that connects Anglesey with the mainland - and how an Irish vehicle…
16 years, 9 months ago
DocArchive: Do You Still Come Here Often?
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Kevin Sheedy examines the fate of the strict-tempo ballroom dancer in an age of pop and Rock.
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16 years, 9 months ago
DocArchive: Rumours from Monaghan
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Senator Billy Fox was murdered on March 11th 1974. Five members of the Provisional IRA were sentenced to life for the killing. The story of Billy Fox…
16 years, 9 months ago
DocArchive: The Starry Frame
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When Helen Townsend was researching her family history, she found a series of letters written to her great grandfather in Australia from his family i…
16 years, 9 months ago