We are delighted to have teamed up with our national radio broadcaster RTE to bring you deep into the archives of their multi award winning radio show Documentary On One. Documentary On One has become one of Ireland’s leading radio shows for its eclectic mix of Irish stories about people, places and events.
We will be bringing you a handpicked selection of some of these excellent radio documentaries on a variety of topics, which all make engaging listening. To listen to our latest offering from this vast archive from The RTE Documentary On One click into the highlighted section below.
- Famine Girls
Telling the story of four thousand Irish orphan girls sent to Australia after The Great Famine.
- Mayday, Mayday
A celebration of the first day of our summer in song, word and music - Produced by Gerry McCardle first broadcast 1st May 2002.
- The Walsh-Cassidy's at Lissadell House
Recorded over a period of 18 months, this documentary tells the story behind the Lissadell dream - a dream, the family says, that is now dead.
- Closing The Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-on-Shannon
The story of the final night at the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. In 1997 it was fully refurbished with new seating, a new screen and state of the art Dolby Surround sound. But it was never going to be that easy-and now its gone for...
- Arctic Fox
In this documentary from the Mooney Goes Wild team, ecologist and lecturer Eanna Ni Lamhna looks at the life of the Arctic Fox
- This Place Speaks to me
First broadcast in the year 2000, this week's RTE Documentary on One selection looks at the Dublin musician and actor Don Baker and his time spent at Daingean Reformatory from 1963 to 1965.
- In the Shadow of the New Forest
In the shadow of the New Forest is a documentary about The New Forest Estate in County Galway and the people who lived and worked there.
- Don't go far...
"Don't go far...(your dinner's nearly ready)" tells the story of a DART train ride that took friends Keith and Noel on an amazing adventure. Twenty five years on, Keith Byrne recalls the fascinating tale that started with the two young boys taking a train journey and ended thousands of miles away.
- The Summer of the Moving Statues
In the first of our featured podcasts from RTE's Documentary on One we go back to the phenomenon of the moving statues that gripped the country at the time.
