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RTÉ Radio 1DOCUMENTARY ON ONE: LITTLE MOLLY O’ [...] Saturday 22nd December, 6.00pm RTÉ Radio 1HOME NEWS Saturday 22nd December, 7.30pm

DOCUMENTARY ON ONE: LITTLE MOLLY O’NEILL In a graveyard in Wexford is a family headstone. Many names are listed but one date stands out among the others – Christmas Eve 1922, when a mother – Alice O’Neill – and her seven children all died on the same day. They all died in a fire that was to haunt a community and […] RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 22nd December, 6.00pm

HOME NEWS Our new series Home News sees presenter Brian O’Connell find out how Irish newspapers outside the Republic of Ireland are trying to keep Irish communities connected. From Shoreditch to Sydney and New York to Newry, Home News is a new five part series in which journalist and broadcaster Brian O’Connell travels the world looking at […] RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 22nd December, 7.30pm

IRELAND’S SEARCH AND RESCUE ***Final Episode*** A Hunter stranded on the wet, exposed Wicklow mountains needs the help of Dublin and Wicklow mountain rescue team; A fisherman has his chest crushed miles out to sea. Shannon Coastguard Heliccopter Rescue 116 is his only chance of making it to hospital. RTÉ One, Sunday 23rd December, 6.30pm

Faoisidin Some well-known Donegal personalities confess all to Michelle Nic Grianna. RTÉ RnaG, Wednesday 26th December, 11.00am

ARTS TONIGHT: THE FAMINE IN ART A special programme from the Great Hunger Museum commemorating the Irish Famine at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, on the museum’s exceptional collection of art. Guests include Grace Brady, director of the museum; Niamh O’Sullivan, inaugural curator of the art collection; artist Meg Chamberlain; philosopher Richard Kearney, and more. 2000 – 2100 RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday 26th December, 8.00pm

THE ZOO Christmas Special In the festive edition of ‘The Zoo’, Tom Dunne, broadcaster and narrator of The Zoo leaves behind the headphones and studio microphone, and heads off to Santa’s Grotto in Dublin Zoo. RTÉ One, Wednesday 26th December, 8.00pm

Raidió na Gaeltachta 40 Bliain faoi bhláth Proceedings from a seminar about Raidió na Gaeltachta to mark its 40 year celebrations, featuring a lecture by Róisín Nic Dhonncha. RTÉ RnaG, Thursday 27th December, 5.30pm

Leitir Ceanainn A programme about the history and development of Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. RTÉ RnaG, Friday 28th December, 11.00am

Raidió na Gaeltachta – 40 Bliain faoi Bhláth The second programme in this series of proceedings from a seminar to mark RnaG’s 40 year, featuring Siobhán Ní Laoire. RTÉ RnaG, Friday 28th December, 5.30pm

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