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Country: Ireland Year: 5.12.1963 Dur: 27.35 Anyone passing through Abbeyfeale, on the road to Kerry can’t help but notice the fine bronze statue in the main square. It was built in honour of one of the great leaders of the Land War, Fr. Casey, the parish priest. This film was made in the early 1960s and includes interviews with elderly people who remembered the late stages of the land war and the vivid stories regaled by their parents and elders. View now in full or purchase below as DVD -
Country: Ireland Year: 12.12.1968 Dur: 24.47 This film looks at prostitution along the Leeside quays in Cork City. A hidden camera documented girls as young as 13 going on board ship. This documentary sparked a debate that ran in the media for weeks after the original broadcast. -
Country: Ireland Year: 18.10.1962 Dur: 26.40 Christy Brown – My Left Foot: This film documents the life of Christy Brown. It contains interviews with Christy and Christy’s mother. The programme shows how Christy typed and samples of his paintings. Mrs. Brown also describes how she looked after her son Christy and why she did it. Sunshine House: This film documents the holiday given to 120 boys and 120 girls each summer at Sunshine House, Ballbriggan. (Please note that footage for this segment is unavailable) View now in full or purchase DVD below -
Country: Ireland Year: 13.4.1975 Dur: 26.15 St. Finian’s College, Mullingar, was chosen by the Irish bishops for a rather unusual experiment in Irish Church music. A special School of Music, Scola Cantorum, was initiated to train promising young musicians in the disciplines of Church music alongside the normal secondary school academic subjects. The effects of the Scola are already being felt as its graduates become organists and choirmasters throughout Ireland. -
Country: Ireland Year: 17.6.1976 Dur: 34.40 A dramatised documentary on the life of Nano Nagle, the remarkable Cork woman who founded the Presentation Order of Sisters in 1775. She was the first person to bring organised education to the poor children of Ireland. -
Country: Ireland Year: 14.11.1965 Dur: 27.10 A look inside the Dublin Diocesan Seminary immediately after the Second Vatican Council when the winds of change were beginning to blow. -
Country: Ireland Year: 12.9.1963 Dur: 27.00 Young Offenders – St. Patrick’s Institution: This programme was filmed in St. Patrick’s Institution and shows viewers, for the first time ever, what goes on behind its high walls. The boys are seen at work and at play. Members of the staff and some young offenders are interviewed. The programme ends with an interview with the Minister for Justice, Charles J. Haughey. View now in full or purchase as DVD below -
Country: Ireland Year: 26.12.1983 Dur: 26.50 Grace O’Malley has passed into Irish folklore as Granuaile. In this Radharc programme, Anne Chambers, author of the best-selling book ‘Granuaile’, recreates the life and times of this extraordinary woman. Filmed against a backdrop of some of Ireland’s most scenic locations, Clare Island, Achill, Lough Corrib and Connemara, the story comes from the Elizabethan period. -
Country: Ireland Year: 1971 - 1972 Dur: 26.40 This award winning programme examined Dublin’s drug scene in the early 1970’s. It dealt with the experiences of young addicts who talked to professionals like Dr. Michael Kelly, director of the Jervis Street hospital drugs advisory committee. This recently restored film illustrated the ease with which young people were drawn into the vicious circle of drug addiction. -
Country: Ireland Year: 23.3.1971 Dur: 26.40 Life is the same on Inisheer, the smallest of the three Aran Islands on the west coast of Ireland, as it was many hundreds of years ago. Gaelic is still the language of its people, and there are neither roads, nor motor cars. -
Country: Ireland Year: 21.11.1963 Dur: 26.40 The Radharc team visit a rural Irish town on Fair Day to try and discover if there is an honest man to be found. View now in full or purchase as DVD below -
Country: Ireland Year: 1962 Dur: 27.00 Programme repeats for information see: Croagh Patrick, Mass Rock & Men’s Sodality Tax on Kerry Cows, Retreat & Kylemore Abbey
