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Joe Duffy uncovers the stories of the forty children killed during the Easter Rising. Until now, many of them have gone unnamed and their sacrifice unrecognised. A century on, the sense of tragedy, loss and outrage is undimmed as we retrace, respect and remember their lives and deaths.
Irish skin used to be as white as vanilla ice-cream, but that's not true any more. More than half a million of the people who live here were born overseas. I Am Immigrant is a window into the lives of young immigrants who have grown up Irish, and tracks the political reaction to immigration in Europe as the conflict spills violently onto Dublin's streets.
Authored documentary by traveller and actor John Connors of Love/Hate fame. It is an unflinching and intensely personal look at what it means to be a young traveller in Ireland today. From growing up on a site and being mocked for wanting to act, to taking acting classes and being insulted for being a "knacker", John's own experience affords him a unique insight into two sides of Irish society that rarely really interact yet often view each other with prejudice and distrust.
Ireland's Great Wealth Divide takes a candid look at the nature of wealth distribution in Ireland, examining how a small minority of high earners actually profited during the recession, while the rest of the country struggled to stay afloat.
"One sunny day in May 2015, Ireland went to the polls to vote on same sex marriage—the first country in the world to do so by public vote. The Story of Yes, a documentary that aired on RTÉ exactly a year later, brings us back to this momentous day. Using evocative archive and personal interviews, the story is told through the eyes of those who it mattered to most—the LGBT community. "