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The Story of Ireland is a five-part documentary series examining the history of Ireland and its impact on the wider world. Over the course of the programmes, Fergal Keane travels across three continents, tracing the events, the people and the influences that shaped modern Ireland. [1] The first episode aired on 20 February 2011.
All the Stations is a documentary series published on YouTube, which sees Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe visit all 2,563 stations [note 1] on Great Britain's National Rail rail network, [4] [5] [6] and all 198 stations in Ireland, on the railway networks of Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.
The Hills of Ireland: Harry Dugan: Pat O'Brien (narrator) documentary travelogue: Return to Glennascaul: Hilton Edwards: Orson Welles: horror/ short: also known as Orson Welles' Ghost Story: 1952: The Quiet Man: John Ford: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald: comedy: 1953: Fintona, A Study of Housing Discrimination: documentary short
Atlantean is a quartet of documentary films and accompanying book (The Atlantean Irish, Lilliput, 2005) by Irish filmmaker Bob Quinn. [1] The films and book dismissed as myth the popular belief in origins of the inhabitants of Ireland and proposed instead that they are part of a common 'Atlantean' culture that includes the western seaboard of Europe and North Africa.
RTÉ - (2017) A three documentary series about the history and culture of Irish travellers which won the 2018 IFTA for best documentary series. Blood of the Travellers, a 2011 RTÉ broadcast documentary of Francis Barrett interviewing Travellers and social historians and using DNA to find out the origin of the Travellers as a group. [1] [2]
At the same time, a new documentary, The Making of Rocky Road, was made by Paul Duane, examining the history of Rocky Road, and including BBC footage of Coutard and Lennon shooting Rocky Road in 1967, [5] and previously unseen film of the events in Cannes in 1968. Both films were released on DVD (Region 0 PAL) in 2005.
Cromwell in Ireland is a two-part RTÉ docudrama [1] broadcast in September 2008. It is produced by Irish television production company Tile Films [ 2 ] and is described as an examination of "that great nemesis of Irish history : Oliver Cromwell ". [ 3 ]
Harvey O'Brien, in his The Real Ireland: The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film (2004), said "The series was marked by its close-up observation of the techniques involved, and though lacking an explicit social commentary always gave the sense that these skills were gradually disappearing.".