Documentaries on KCLR

Discover a world of history, drama, comedy, business and politics through Documentaries on KCLR. Meet storytellers, songwriters, actors, performers and uncover a wealth of information connected to Kilkenny and Carlow.

Documentaries on KCLR is a education podcast hosted by KCLR, with 81 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

KCLR hosts Documentaries on KCLR, a education show with 81 episodes published.

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  Episode #75

  Oh Sugar, Sugar Part 2: The Carlow Sugar Factory

  Jan 20, 202636 minS0

  <p>'The first thing I had to do was go out and buy a skirt’, so says Loretta Kenny after her first day in the Carlow Sugar Factory when she came to realise that women didn’t wear trousers there when she started in 1979. ‘ It was just jaw-dropping to walk into the factory to see the massive machinery in 100-foot high ceiling, big vessels big moving machines and you wouldn’t think that passing the road’, recalls former fitter Joe McDonald.  </p><p>In the 2nd programme in the radio documentary series ‘Oh Sugar Sugar’, some of the former workers recall their fi...

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  Episode #74

  Oh Sugar, Sugar Part 1: An Overview of the Carlow Sugar Factory

  Jan 13, 202636 minS0

  <p>In December 1925 Bishop Foley came to the window of the old town hall and announced to the many excited people gathered there that the sugar factory was coming to Carlow. Thus began an important era in Carlow’s history and the first programme in KCLR’s 7 part series ‘Oh Sugar, Sugar’ looks at the set-up of the factory, its expansion and contraction and gives an overview of the industry which was to make such a mark on the socioeconomic and rural landscape of Carlow.</p><p>Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television license...

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  Episode #73

  The Burning Of Woodstock (Radio Play)

  Jan 7, 202652 minS0

  <p>“The Burning Of Woodstock” was first broadcast on KCLR on October 17th, 2022 and was supported by the Decade Of The Centenaries Grant 2022.</p><p>The play was written and directed by Gillian Grattan and was performed by Aoibhín Murphy, Delia Lowry, Declan Taylor and Brendan Corcoran.<br>Sound design, production and editing by Martin Bridgeman.</p><p>Special thanks to Eddie Cody, Davy O’Dwyer, Theresa Hayes and Stacy Jane Williams and to KCLR for studio facilities.</p><p>Research and newspaper articles were sourced from the Bureau of Military History, The British Newspaper Archives, from the books “The Story...

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  Episode #72

  In 1916: Carlow's place in the Easter Rising

  Jan 6, 202646 minS0

  <p>A radio documentary that records some of the events that took place in Carlow to commemorate the Easter Rising of 1916 and tells the story of some of the main Carlow people who took part in that day.</p>

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  Episode #71

  Follow Me Up The Barrow: Part 8 - River Guardians

  Dec 10, 202523 minS0

  <p>Programme 8 in the series Follow Me Up the Barrow features interviews with people who have, over the years, cared for and maintained the River in condition</p>

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