Documentary on One Podcast

Peter Healy makes stringed instruments and invites groups to his home to play them. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe McFadden, Margaret Harrington and Jill Rowe are three volunteers who help out in the National Gallery, Dublin. As well as being volunteers there, they love to visit the gallery and have favourite artists and pieces of art. (First Broadcast 2010) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sounds and pictures from the old Russian town of Sergiyev Posad as emailed by Vladimir Kryutchev. (First Broadcast 2010) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An extract from a series of podcasts about James Joyce's short story, "The Dead"...shorter radio documentaries on Irish radio from Ireland and abroad. An extract from a series of podcasts about James Joyce's short story, "The Dead"...shorter radio documentaries on Irish radio from Ireland and abroad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Politics in Ireland, like most other countries, has a long memory. We visit the Cork town of Macroom that still remembers the Irish Civil War. Even today in the run up to election time, those civil war memories mark a huge divide between FF and FG support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fr Aidan Troy spent 7yrs in Belfast where his ministry spanned the time of the infamous Holy Cross Protest Walks and a blight of suicides. In 2008, Fr Aidan was sent to a new parish in Paris. This documentary follows his first year of life in Paris See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fifty years of entertainment recalled by Maureen Potter, Jack Cruise, Joe Linnane and many others, together with excerpts from radio shows down the years. (1976) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Twenty years years after it became a fully fledged university in 1989, Pat O'Mahony returns to his old alma mater, Dublin City University and spends freshers week there. (2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

'Victor Mitchell's' Auction House in Roscrea, Co Tipperary is widely respected amongst 'those that know' in the antiques trade. And in this documentary, we get to know a few things about the business. To which room shall the rocking horse return? (2005) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The story of the attack on Connolly Hall, Great Strand Street, Dublin in March 1933, examining the background and political climate at the time. (First Broadcast 1976) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976. Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fiddle player Paul O'Shaughnessy's revisits The Glen area of Co Donegal which was a place of formative experience for him. This documentary is an exploration of a musical style told through this tune and the memories of those who've played it. (2006) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 in O'Callaghan's Mills, Co. Clare. (2008) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's like an Ann Summers or Tupperware party, in that you have a group of people around to your place. Except, with gold parties; it’s about money; they come to sell and not to buy. (First Broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 children of these people, including Mary Russell, whose father fought with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. (2004) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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's addiction. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Weafer St. (pronounced 'wafer') in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford and Rahel–Varnhagen-Promenade in Berlin, Germany share similar geography. They are both on 52 degrees 30 minutes north of the Equator. Both run East-West. This programme wanders along each street meeting passersby. (First Broadcast 2010) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 - the curse of Biddy Early, Ger Loughnane's training methods and the irrepresible Anthony Daly. (2005) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Sheedy examines the fate of the strict-tempo ballroom dancer in an age of pop and Rock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A 1976 documentary celebrating 150 years since the bridge across the Menai Strait that connects Anglesey with the mainland - and how an Irish vehicle was the first to cross it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 is largely forgotten. This documentary attempts to find out what really happened that night (2006). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Helen Townsend was researching her family history, she found a series of letters written to her great grandfather in Australia from his family in Co. Tyrone. The letters date from 1852 to 1892 and tell the story of those left behind in Ireland (2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Markey Robinson was born in Belfast in 1918 and died in 1999. Markey was a prolific Irish artist with a distinctive naïve expressionist style. His main passion was painting, but he also produced sculptures, and designed some stained glass panels. (2007) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The story of Ireland's National Circus - Fossetts Circus - We examine its history, the highs and lows of working and living in a travelling circus and of course the wanderlust! (Broadcast 1975) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.