This is a classic who dunnit story? When Islamic manuscripts came up for private sale around Europe in 1991 - that questions began to arise. Those questions led a path back to the Chester Beatty library in Dublin and to an insider theft. (2011)

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For 4 decades, Major General Hugh Tudor, avoided publicity whilst living a careful quiet life in the shadows. But he lived in fear all his life - for during Ireland's most troubled period, he was the boss of the infamous Black and Tans outfit.(2012)

‘Once you got landed you where as healthy as a trout’ is the memory of life on board for one Donegal fisherman. Skilled workers and fishermen speak of their experience of working in the fishing industry and why hundreds from Burtonport in County Donegal left for Scotland and the Shetlands to catch and gut Herring. (1980)

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This award winning documentary begins in 1975 when Pat Kenny recorded with a group of young men from inner city Dublin. Pat returned again in 1988 and then in 2008, Ciaran Cassidy revisited them to find out how their lives turned out. (2008)

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An award winning documentary telling the story of a company of Irish troops who in 1961 came under siege at the isolated post of Jadotville, Congo and were forced to surrender to authorities in the province of Katanga. (2010)

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The story of a scandalous liaison between two Irish women - Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby. Long before the civil partnership bill, were these lovers - two upper-class Anglo-Irish women from Kilkenny - the first ever lesbians to 'come out' in Ireland?

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Christmas morning 2009, a devastating fire destroys St. Mel's Cathedral in the heart of Longford town. 5yrs later, on December 24th 2014, after one of Europe's biggest restoration projects, the Cathedral opens its doors again, just in time for Christmas.

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A unique view inside the Irish direct provision system through the eyes of two 13yr old girls, asylum seekers awaiting their fate from the state. Living in mobile homes on an industrial park near Athlone, they've recorded their lives over the past 4 months

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Kelly McEvers was a war correspondent in the Middle East during the Arab uprisings. Colleagues and friends were being kidnapped. Some were killed. It made her question why otherwise intelligent people risk their lives to report on war? (from Transom.org)

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This is the story of Joan Bullock and Betty Leonard - two women from either side of the Cavan/Fermanagh border (divide between north and south Ireland), who were deeply affected by a series of brutal murders that took place on the border in 1972.

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