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Country: Ireland Year: 17.10.1963 Dur: 26.40 Holidays in Ireland: This film is a tongue-in-cheek inquiry into the way Irish people spend their holidays at home. It was filmed in Ballybunnion on an August weekend. Visitors and residents in the area are interviewed. Traditional Prayers: This item shows how in rural Ireland there are preserved traditional prayers to accompany all actions of daily life: rising, eating, crossing streams, when the clock strikes, raking out the fire and going to bed. Kenmare: The final item is a short story from Kenmare. It tells how the people of Kenmare got a church, how the church got a steeple, and how the steeple got a weathercock on top. View now in full or purchase as DVD below -
Country: Ireland Year: 7.11.1963 Dur: 26.40 Sermon in Stamps: This item features Alfred Langenbach, a man with an unusual hobby. He specialises in religious postage stamps and from his album he shows scenes from the scriptures, from lives of the saints, and from the religious life of countries all over the world. He is a German resident in Ireland and is chef on the staff of a Dublin hospital. (Please note that footage for this segment is unavailable) Touist, Co. Kerry: This documentary features a place, which very few people ever heard mentioned – Touist, Co. Kerry. Touist’s problem is depopulation and the answer which it is trying, on a basis of community effort, is to sell itself as a tourist resort. Radharc gives an interim report on the progress to date and shows a community that has decided to face its problems instead of running away from them. Touist in 1840 had a population of 7,400. Today (1963), it has a population less than 900. One marriage took place between 1959 and 1963 in the parish. (Please note that footage for this segment is unavailable) -
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: 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: 19.2.1963 Dur: 27.32 The Bell and the Ark: The programme deals with a visit to two fishing villages in West Clare: – Quilty and Kilbaha. Each has a little church that contains a strange relic of the past. A ship’s bell resides in Quilty while a wooden mass hut is contained in Kilbaha. The story behind these relics is told in this programme. Father Theobald Matthew: This is a biography in words and pictures of the Capuchin friar, Fr. Theobald Matthew who achieved world fame as the “Apostle of Temperance”. He has been recognised as “the man who lifted a nation off its knees”. Sadly Fr. Matthew died believing that his work had failed, not realising that others would follow him and build firmly on the strong foundations which he laid. View now in full or purchase as DVD below -
Country: Ireland Year: 25.3.1964 Dur: 60.22 Many of the people who knew Matt Talbot were still alive in 1960. The house he lived in, the place he worked – many of the streets of Dublin were still the same as in his day. This film is a unique testament of Matt Talbot, and the Dublin that he knew, told by people who lived and worked with him. -
Country: Ireland Year: 01.11.1964 Dur: 26.38 Condemned by the righteous, watched by police, surveyed by sociologists, they are called many names – tramps, vagrants, beggars. Everyone knows them to see but few know them to talk to. The film reveals the personalities behind the rags, and records the experience of the down and out in Dublin. -
Country: England, Ireland Year: 21.03.1965 Dur: 26.40 Graiguenamagh Abbey: The story of how a small Irish town in Co. Kilkenny tries to restore its famous abbey. Boat Train to Euston: An item filmed on the platform of London’s Euston Train Station, the traditional entry point for millions of Irish emigrants to England. -
Country: Ireland Year: 18.6.1965 Dur: 27.00 The haunting song ‘Boulavogue’ has kept alive the memory of Fr. John Murphy, the charismatic leader of the Rebellion in Wexford in 1798. -
Country: Ireland Year: 3.6.1965 Dur: 26.40 The practise and morality of bringing cattle over the border illegally is investigated and commented on in this documentary. -
Country: Ireland Year: 10.10.1965 Dur: 26.30 TDs. George Colley, Declan Costello and James Tully talk about how they see their chosen career. -
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.
