Documentaries On Kclr

'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.  In the 2nd programme in the radio documentary series ‘Oh Sugar Sugar’, some of the former workers recall their first day on the job, the company’s sports and social club and its involvement with the community, their participation in the tops of the town and trips abroad.  The apprenticeship scheme within the factory provided young people with great skills that were highly sought after and a pride and an ideas and inventions scheme encouraged innovation within the company.Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television license fee and sponsored

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.Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television license fee and sponsored by the Sugar Factory Display at Carlow County Museum and the local studies section at Carlow’s Central Library

“The Burning Of Woodstock” was first broadcast on KCLR on October 17th, 2022 and was supported by the Decade Of The Centenaries Grant 2022.The play was written and directed by Gillian Grattan and was performed by Aoibhín Murphy, Delia Lowry, Declan Taylor and Brendan Corcoran.Sound design, production and editing by Martin Bridgeman.Special thanks to Eddie Cody, Davy O’Dwyer, Theresa Hayes and Stacy Jane Williams and to KCLR for studio facilities.Research and newspaper articles were sourced from the Bureau of Military History, The British Newspaper Archives, from the books “The Story of Of Woodstock in Inistioge” by Thomas J. Whyte and “Kilkenny In Times Of Revolution” by Eoin Swithin Walsh.The Kilkenny County Council Decade of Centenaries Programme 2022 is supported by the Commemorations Unit of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media.

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.

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

Programme 7 in the Follow Me Up the Barrow series features some of the flora and fauna living in and around the River

Programme 6 in the series Follow Me Up the Barrow looks at the various ways people use the river for recreation

Programme 5 in the series Follow Me Up the Barrow features interviews with fishermen and explores the various fish that make the river their home.

Follow Me Up the Barrow tells the stories and experiences of the river by people that know it best… the fishermen, the old boatmen, the lock-keepers, rowers, canoeists and river ‘guardians’. Through the accounts of their experiences a unique, informative and historical picture of the Barrow is compiled through this radio series.Programme 4 in the series Follow Me Up the Barrow explores the history of boatmaking and talks with local boating enthusiasts who use the Barrow.

Follow Me Up the Barrow tells the stories and experiences of the river by people that know it best… the fishermen, the old boatmen, the lock-keepers, rowers, canoeists and river ‘guardians’. Through the accounts of their experiences a unique, informative and historical picture of the Barrow is compiled through this radio series.Programme 3 in the series Follow Me Up the Barrow features interviews with the boatmen who would have been on the barges going up and down the Barrow canal system and beyond.

Follow Me Up the Barrow tells the stories and experiences of the river by people that know it best… the fishermen, the old boatmen, the lock-keepers, rowers, canoeists and river ‘guardians’. Through the accounts of their experiences a unique, informative and historical picture of the Barrow is compiled through this radio series.Programme 2 in the series Follow Me Up the Barrow features interviews with the Lock Keepers, who over the years operated the locks for the barges to pass through on their way up and down the river.

Follow Me Up the Barrow tells the stories and experiences of the river by people that know it best… the fishermen, the old boatmen, the lock-keepers, rowers, canoeists and river ‘guardians’. Through the accounts of their experiences a unique, informative and historical picture of the Barrow is compiled through this radio series.Programme 1 in the series Follow Me Up the Barrow which looks at the history of the river and the process in making the Barrow navigable.

As We Like It’ is a radio series that explores the seven stages of life, presented in seven parts, originally airing on KCLR in 2019 and produced by Monica Hayes through the Sound & Vision scheme.The one certainty of life is death. In this the last program in the series ‘As We Like It’, we explore the last stage in Shakespeare’s seven stages of man through interviews with Hospice Nurse, Margaret Cox, Death Matters Festival Co-ordinator Anne Cody, psychotherapist Mark Redmond, historian Pat Nolan and many more.

As We Like It’ is a radio series that explores the seven stages of life, presented in seven parts, originally airing on KCLR in 2019 and produced by Monica Hayes through the Sound & Vision scheme.Old age! What is old age? Do we respect our elders? These and other philosophical questions are discussed in this episode of ‘As We Like It’. With contributions from Aisling Brett, manager of Dalton House and participants of the Art Course that runs there, Joe Butler of Carlow Older Person’s Forum, The Carebears Group from Ossory Youth, druid Eimear Burke and psychotherapist Mark Redmond and more.

As We Like It’ is a radio series that explores the seven stages of life, presented in seven parts, originally airing on KCLR in 2019 and produced by Monica Hayes through the Sound & Vision scheme.Our ‘As We Like It’ series moves on to the next phase, Middle Age or Justice. In this program we hear from Martin O’Carroll partner with Poe Kiely Hogan Solicitors Kilkenny, Shem Caulfield, Thomastown, Lucy Glendinning, Kilkenny, dietitian Aislinn Murphy, psychotherapist Mark Redmond and Druid Eimear Burke as this discuss the challenges and rewards of this life stage.

As We Like It’ is a radio series that explores the seven stages of life, presented in seven parts, originally airing on KCLR in 2019 and produced by Monica Hayes through the Sound & Vision scheme.The Soldier phase of life is the working phase, the time for earning and focusing on what profession makes you happy. In this program we hear from Gemma Lawlor, Guidance Counsellor with Tyndall College, Carlow, the students from Colaiste Mhuire Johnstown,Captain Kieran Brennan from James Stephen’s Barrack’s Kilkenny and many more.

As We Like It’ is a radio series that explores the seven stages of life, presented in seven parts, originally airing on KCLR in 2019 and produced by Monica Hayes through the Sound & Vision scheme.Love! What is love? We grapple this and other questions in this the third stage of life – Lover. We hear from Dr Noel Kavanagh, lecturer in Philosophy at Carlow College, the staff involved in wedding preparations with the Griffin Hotel Group, psychotherapist Mark Redmond, some residents from Tinnypark Nursing Home Kilkenny and Druid Eimear Burke.

As We Like It’ is a radio series that explores the seven stages of life, presented in seven parts, originally airing on KCLR in 2019 and produced by Monica Hayes through the Sound & Vision scheme.In the second program in our ‘As We Like It’ series we feature the second stage ‘Schoolboy’. Sit back and relax while you listen to people’s memories of school, current school experiences, teacher’s thoughts on education and learning and the transition into teenage life. Contributions from Psychotherapist Mark Redmond , Druid Eimear Burke,, Forest School Facilitator Maura Brennan , former Ballyhale National School principal Joe Dunphy and Guidance Counsellor at Tyndall College Gemma Lawlor.

As We Like It’ is a radio series that explores the seven stages of life, presented in seven parts, originally airing on KCLR in 2019 and produced by Monica Hayes through the Sound & Vision scheme.The first stage of life – Infancy. In this program we explore the miracle of birth and the development of the infantWe hear from Professor Ray O’Sullivan Consultant Obstetrician at St Luke’s Hospital, Psychotherapist Mark Redmond, Doula, Gentle Birth Instructor and Baby Massage Therapist Eilis Walklett, Jo Scobie, Sonographer with the Women’s Health Clinic Kilkenny, The Ryan Family whose mother was a midwife in Carlow in the 1950 up to the late 1980s and some of the mothers who attend Cuidiu Kilkenny.

Rambling houses are great for preserving stories and songs from times past. In Part 2 of ‘Civil War and the Oral Tradition’, presenter Dave Barron explores their importance with Eddie McDonald, who hosts rambling sessions at his home in Clonmore. It’s in places like this that songs from the Civil War are heard. In particular, the songs and poetry that tell the story of the shooting at Sheen where Miley Carroll and James O’Toole were killed. Hear these songs sung by local Carlow people in this documentary which is based on an essay written by Dave Barron, ‘Civil War and the Oral Tradition’. This documentary is part of Carlow County Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme and funded by Carlow Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media