Documentary On One - Rté Documentaries

A documentary recorded on and about an Irish movie set. (Originally broadcast in 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A documentary which takes a journey from one end of the royal canal to the other. (Originally broadcast in 1990)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For generations, women gave birth at home but with the advances in medicine, almost all now head for a hospital. So why is it that some still women choose to give birth at home? A documentary on home births. (Originally broadcast 1998)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A documentary on the controversial method of treating alcoholism pioneered by Irish American Pat Butler. (First broadcast 1989)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Samuel Beckett is the famed and revered Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet who notably penned Waiting for Godot and a host of other works. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture. (Originally broadcast in 1991)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A colourful documentary on three girls as they prepare for their debutants ball - a rite of passage out of secondary school. (Originally broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this documentary - ninety year old John Walshe of Doneraile who was born in 1877- talks about William Burke, Canon Sheehan and Charles Stewart Parnell. (Originally broadcast 1967)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Opinions and issues surrounding Canadian unity and Quebec separatism (Broadcast 1978).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A look at the old Abbey Theatre, and the influence it had on Irish culture.It originally aired the day that the new Abbey Theatre opened its doors to the public in 1966, whioch was also 15 years to the day that the it had closed due to fire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seán Mac Réamoinn discusses James Joyce, who was one of the greatest authors in Irish history. We also hear about Bloomsday, a celebration of Joyce's life that takes place in Dublin and around the world every June 16th. (First Broadcast 1971)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Dublin school and a Belfast school join forces in rugby. This is 1995 Ireland - and the first time that an Catholic and Protestant school team toured together. This historic tour takes them to South Africa and on a trip of a lifetime. (Broadcast 1995)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Belfast born William Robert Rodgers, known as Bertie, is best known as a poet - even though he was an essayist, a book reviewer, a BBC radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and teacher as well as a former Presbyterian minister! (Broadcast 1972)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the life and times of Seán O'Casey and his family through the memories and thoughts of their neighbours. O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist and the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. (Broadcast 1968)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“If it’s Irish in Britain, we’ve got it covered” - a profile of The Irish Post newspaper established in 1970 to report on news affecting the Irish diaspora in Britain (Broadcast 1978).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1970’s Ireland, the most popular items to shoplift were tartan skirts and tins of salmon! A look at the rise in shoplifting from the perspective of the shop owner, and how it became part of 'retail shrinkage' (Broadcast 1977).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A different look at the events of 1916, this account tells the little known story of how Enniscorthy had its own uprising days before the rising in Dublin. Those who were just young men at the time look back at an extraordinary time of their lives. (1966)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cathal Póirtéir discovers some of the connections which, since the 1700s have linked the South-east of Ireland with Newfoundland's Talamh an Éisc. Farmers, fishermen, storytellers and musicians help tell the story (Broadcast 2003)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a story of female political prisoners. The inspiration for the documentary came from a book by Raymond Murray called Hard Time: Armagh Gaol 1971-1986, which recounts his time as Catholic chaplain in Armagh Gaol from 1971 to '86. (Broadcast 2002)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For over 20 years Kathy Sinnott and her autistic son Jamie Sinnott lived in a world of pain, bewilderment, courage and perseverance. This is the stories of the journey Kathy went on through the Irish courts to fight for her sons education (Broadcast 2002)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This bilingual documentary tells the story of how Dublin-born Hugo Hamilton made sense of his own story and went on to become a novelist and short story writer and most recently the author of his just published memoir - The Speckled People (Broadcast 2002)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.