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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...

The Statue at the heart of the Liberties

Date: Nov 9, 21
Harry Warren traces the history of the structure at the junction of Reginald Street and Gray Stre...