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Family memories of Christmases with Brendan Grace

Date: Nov 23, 21
Brendan Grace specialised in putting smiles on people’s faces all year round and at Christmastime...

Val Doonican’s Christmas TV Specials

Date: Nov 23, 21
The Waterford-born singer and entertainer, who died in 2015, talked about his Christmas TV specia...

Foster & Allen’s Childhood Christmases

Date: Nov 23, 21
June McDonnell chats to Mick Foster & Tony Allen about their Christmas memories As a child M...

Memories of listening to Irish radio at Christmas

Date: Nov 23, 21
With Eamon Ó Buadhacháin   As a child, I’ve the warmest memory of being washed in a grey t...

Brian O’Higgins – an Irish Rebel and Romantic Christmas Poet

Date: Nov 23, 21
Richard T. Cooke remembers the author of ‘The Little Book of Christmas’   Brian O’Higgins...

150 years of the Gaiety Theatre

Date: Nov 16, 21
Since 1871, ‘The Grand Old Lady of South King Street’ has remained a vital and ever-changing expr...

As Old as the State – Máire Mhac an tSaoi

Date: Nov 16, 21
By Brian McCabe To those who were students in the 1990s, and even 2000s, Máire Mac an tSaoi was ...

Role of Irish in WWII – the story of Rev. Brother Gerald

Date: Nov 16, 21
Rev. Brother Gerald: Leitrim man who made his way from Vichy France, back to Ireland, via Spain, ...

The Rotunda Rink and Irish Nationalism

Date: Nov 16, 21
PAULA REDMOND on the birth of the Rotunda and its central role in Irish history   The Rotu...

The Guinness Book of Records – conceived on the banks of the Slaney

Date: Nov 9, 21
Born from an idea conceived in Wexford in 1951, the Guinness Book of Records set its own record b...