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Bindon Blood Stoney and Dublin’s Diving Bell

Date: Aug 23, 22
Harry Warren profiles civil engineer Bindon Blood Stoney, who designed a large dredging plant and...

“Excuses, Excuses, Excuses” – the best of them!

Date: Aug 23, 22
Gerry Moran on some of the best excuses he has ever heard The best excuse I ever gave for being ...

New Series – Ireland’s Myths & Legends

Date: Aug 23, 22
GEMMA GRANT introduces a new series on the myths and legends of Ireland   Attempting to tr...

Alfred Chester Beatty – Our Prince of Benefactors

Date: Aug 16, 22
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty was a very generous man on every level who in his will bequeathed his l...

The Civil War – fighting intensifies around the country

Date: Aug 16, 22
The month of August was to be particularly tragic because of the sudden death of Arthur Griffith ...

Cheers – where everybody knows your name

Date: Aug 16, 22
40 years after it first aired on NBC, Nolene McLoughlin remembers the long-running hit comedy ‘Ch...

“Burning of the Cittie of Corke in 1622”

Date: Aug 16, 22
400 years ago a catastrophe struck the city of Cork which, in terms of fatalities, put the Great ...

Peter O’Toole – “as Irish as the Rock of Cashel”

Date: Aug 9, 22
Thomas Myler looks back on the life and career of the legendary actor, who, although born in Engl...

The Last Woman to be Hanged in Ireland

Date: Aug 9, 22
Annie Walshe faced the executioner insisting she was innocent, but the jury had decided otherwise...

Why the Irish Censor Cut Casablanca

Date: Aug 9, 22
Irish audiences were denied the full, uncut version of Casablanca for about thirty years, writes ...