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Radio Éireann: Seán Mac Réamoinn
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Monday, January 09, 2006. Seán Mac Réamoinn at the Merriman Summer School in 1968. The occasion was the 'turas' - a boat trip to Inis Cealtra on Lough Derg. Photo courtesy of John Horgan (with thanks also to Clare County Library). Get an Earful of This. Could be uncannily close to the reality (as indeed was Keogh's 'Sir', Paddy Maguire). Foras Feasa ar Eirinn. They created - with great elan -the first sound maps of the Irish cultural landscape. Then there were the puns. Some of his. Seán and I worked clo...
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Radio Éireann: On the road
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Sunday, November 05, 2006. Ted went to RnaG with Muiris MacConghail, who attempted to appoint him leas-ceannaire, to the fury of the clar-reachtairi whose amour-propre was offended (and none of whom had such experience at the time as might have justified such hurt feelings). So Ted was 'extracted' to the safety of OBs instead. I talked to Ted once after I left RTE. One evening, when I was producing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Picture Gallery: Community Radio West (1981). View my complete profile.
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Radio Éireann: Doireann
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Monday, November 06, 2006. This pic of Doireann was taken during the warmup for the live Women Today debate during the 1981 election. There were several photographers there and the pics are in the Women Today election special picture gallery. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Picture Gallery: Community Radio West (1981). Picture gallery: Samhradh linn. Photographs by Patricia Lyons. Picture Gallery: Scott Tallon Walker photographs of The Radio Centre. Picture Gallery: Women Today 1981 election debate.
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Radio Éireann: Open plan
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Sunday, November 05, 2006. I had to play around with this picture electronically to work out who was in shot, as it was really underexposed. No question about Valerie Kane, facing camera, who's still with RTE, while facing her is (I think) Ann Daly. This is Rose Doyle, who was a reporter with both Day to Day and Women Today, and now a rather successful novelist. This photo was taken when we met in Paris several years after I left RTE. Very glad to hear it! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Radio Éireann: Ronan
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Monday, November 06, 2006. This is Ronan O'Donoghue - an incredibly bright, charismatic, and then rather dissolute colleague who joined the department a year or two before I left. He edited a regional newspaper, and now works for Newstalk. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Picture Gallery: Community Radio West (1981). Picture gallery: Samhradh linn. Photographs by Patricia Lyons. Picture Gallery: Scott Tallon Walker photographs of The Radio Centre. Picture Gallery: Women Today 1981 election debate.
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Radio Éireann: Des and Patricia
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Sunday, November 05, 2006. Des Hickey and Patricia Murphy (later Patricia Lyons) were two of my dearest friends at RTE. Des died tragically young of cancer. This photo was taken probably in Studio 4 during a recording of Appraisal, RTE Radio's weekly arts programme in the 1970s and 1980s, which Des presented, and which I of which I produced two series. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Picture Gallery: Community Radio West (1981). Picture gallery: Samhradh linn. Photographs by Patricia Lyons.
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Radio Éireann: Doctor Flanagan, I presume?
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Sunday, November 05, 2006. Doctor Flanagan, I presume? Donal was professor of dogmatic theology at Maynooth and in midlife he left the priesthood and resigned his academic post. After a year with the Irish Press he joined RTE and eventually became assistant controller. He was 'Doctor' Flanagan in reality. Seamus Heaney, one of FCA's 'country members', so to speak, delighted in conferring the soubriquet 'doctor' on all and sundry, hence 'Doctor' Sweeney, 'Doctor' O Conluain, 'Doctor Sheedy' etc.
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Radio Éireann: Irish Times 31 August 2002
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Monday, November 06, 2006. Irish Times 31 August 2002. This is the very perceptive obituary that appeared in the Irish Times after Michael's death. I have only just read it (November 2006) - four years later. I wonder who the obituarist might have been? All praise to the writer. MICHAEL LITTLETON: He was totally committed to public service broadcasting and fiercely loyal to RTÉ and his fellow-workers. Michael Littleton was quiet and self-effacing, with a wry sense of humour. He was slow to make frien...
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Radio Éireann: Introduction
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008. Latest updates: 5 December 2008 (to include link to Peter Braun essay on the launch of the International Features Conference: see Michael Littleton entry). This is a small archive of photographs taken in and around RTE Radio's Features and Current Affairs (FCA) department, then led by Michael Littleton, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Accompanying the pictures are short vignettes of some of the people who worked there at the time. There are pictures of a. It was a strange time ...
