Documentary On One - Rté Documentaries

The North Sligo rural transport scheme initiative is helping those living in isolation to get out and about, go shopping and visit their relatives. Kay Sheehy takes the bus herself and meets those availing of the service. (Broadcast 2005)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every year countless lives are lost around the coast of Ireland. This is a story about fishing families who have lost their loved ones to the treacherous waters off the Irish Coast.(Broadcast 2002)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Storms can develop quickly and without warning. High winds and treacherous waves are frequent along the Irish coastline. When ferries, tawlers and yachts get caught at sea or when lives are at risk, they call on the Irish lifeboat services (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The everyday life of Father John Cusack, an Irish priest from County Cavan who looks after London's down and outs in the 1980s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

January 1st 1934, Fr. Conifrey led a march through Mohill, County Leitrim, in which demonstrators shouted "down with jazz" and "out with paganism" and called on the government to close the dance halls and ban all foreign dances in Ireland. (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paddy O'Gorman takes a trip to the United Arab Emirates where some 4,000 Irish people have, for whatever reason, made it their home. This is the story of some Irish people who work, rest and play in the the middle eastern sun (Broadcast 2003)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stammering affects 45,000 people in Ireland, 80% of which are male. In this documentary Michael Carolan allows time and space to meet at talk with stammerers about the bullying, the loneliness and their fears. (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the early 1800s a large migration of Irish farmers settled on the Pampas of Argentina. Joe Murray travells to Argentina and discovers his cousins and many other Argentinos who trace their connections to families still farming in Ireland (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This documentary explores the rich musical history of an extraordinary Belfast family, the McPeakes, from humble beginnings when Francis Joseph McPeake, born in 1885 became the first piper in Belfast for 116 years (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A documentary in search of the black-tailed godwit, a large wading bird. Ornithologist Jim Wilson, travels to Iceland in search of the black-tailed godwit. The black-tailed godwit is a large wading bird that breeds in Iceland. (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A documentary telling a beautiful story of love and war based on a collection of letters writtern to an Irishwoman during World War I. (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This documentary takes an underground journey in the Polnagollum cave system beneath the Burren, Co. Clare. The system has been carved out of limestone by a series of underground rivers. What is life really like in the Irish underworld (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A documentary about Chile during the period of the military junta. Producer, Jan Diego Spoerer, lived for many years as a refugee in Chile. He came from a prominent Chilean family and went to the same school as Pinochet. (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This documentary focuses on the tradition and history of flax growing and the linen industry in Ireland. The contributors include the late poet John Hewitt on the rhyming weavers of Co. Antrim. (Broadcast 1978)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the morning, of July 12th 1849, the Protestant Orange order peacefully marched thorugh Dolly's Brae, an exclusively Catholic village in Co. Down.However, on their return journey home that evening, a fight ensued. (Broadcast 1985)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Dutch man visiting Havana falls in love with a Cuban woman, but their path is blocked at every turn. Recorded in Amsterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands and Havana and Holguin in Cuba. This is a story of love and European Immigration (Broadcast 1998)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Derek Davis visits the Normandy Beaches where the Allies stormed ashore on June 6th 1944. He talks with some of the survivors, the Irish, who were part of the massive seaborne assault. (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A documentary about the island of Ithaca in myth and reality. Ithaca is an island located in the Ionian Sea, Greece, with an area of 45 sq. miles and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. (Broadcast 1999)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An impression of street life in one area of Paris from the award winning documentary maker Kaye Mortley. (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was the brainchild of Monsignor James Horan - Knock Airport. This is the story of how an idea became reality, despite the objections from those who thought the idea was a crazy one, and what the airport has brought to the West (Broadcast 1985)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.