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TV50
''TV50'' was a series of special events throughout 2012, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the launch of RTÉ Television, then known as TelefĂs Éireann, on 31 December 1961. Launch ''TV50'' was officially launched on 26 December 2011 when a pre-launch placeholder website went online at RTÉ. The full ''TV50'' site went live at noon on New Year's Eve 2011. The broadcaster intended TV50 to be a year-long celebration. The festivities saw as many as twenty archive programmes launched each month on RTÉ Player. Controversy RTÉ offended viewers by depicting a dog having its legs tied together and being tossed overboard into the sea off the coast of County Donegal as part of its ''TV50'' celebrations in a broadcast on 3 January 2012. List of ''TV50'' programmes The following is a list of programmes broadcast under the ''TV50'' label. Associated events Books *''Window and Mirror: RTÉ Television 1961–2011'' Nationwide search There was a nationwide search initiated by RTÉ. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTÉ Television
RTÉ Television is a department of RaidiĂł TeilifĂs Éireann (RTÉ), the Republic of Ireland's state controlled national broadcaster. Its first channel was TeilifĂs Éireann, which began broadcasting on 31 December 1961. Since the 1960s, RTÉ Television has added channels and digital television service. Channels Linear * RTÉ One (launched in 1961 as TelefĂs Éireann, known as RTÉ from 1966, HD service launched on 16 December 2013) * RTÉ2 (launched in 1978, known from 1988 to 2004 as ''Network 2'', HD service launched in October 2011) * RTÉ News (launched on 12 June 2008 as ''RTÉ News Now'') * RTÉjr (launched on 27 May 2011) * RTÉ One +1 (launched on 27 May 2011 sharing with RTÉjr, 24 hour introduced from 19 February 2019) * RTÉ2+1 (launched on 19 February 2019, airs from 7pm Monday to Friday, 12noon Saturday and Sunday) Former Channels IPTV * RTÉ Food (available through RTÉ Player) * RTÉ Archive (available through RTÉ Player) Proposed channels * RTÉ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Little Bit TV
''A Little Bit TV'' is an Irish documentary series that is airing on RTÉ. Made as part of the broadcaster's TV50 celebrations, in each episode, a well-known RTÉ presenter is profiled in detail. History ''A Little Bit TV'' is the fifth incarnation of the ''A Little Bit...'' series of television programmes. In 2005 the first series, '' A Little Bit Country'', profiled a well-known performer in the country and Irish music genre. Three years later in 2008 '' A Little Bit Showband'' profiled some of the most popular showbands from the 1960s. The following year '' A Little Bit Funny'' profiled some of the most popular comedians from yesteryear. In 2011 '' A Little Bit Eurovision'' looked at Ireland's close links with the Eurovision Song Contest. The Following year RTÉ Television RTÉ Television is a department of RaidiĂł TeilifĂs Éireann (RTÉ), the Republic of Ireland's state controlled national broadcaster. Its first channel was TeilifĂs Éireann, which began broadca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gola Island
Gola ( or ''Oileán Ghabhla'') is a small island off the coast of Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. The island was unpopulated as recently as 1996 but in recent years people have started to return. A ferry service operates during the holiday season and on request for the remainder of the year. Description Gola Island is off the coast of Gweedore. Its many beaches and secluded bays attract visitors throughout the year. The island was populated up until the mid-1960s. Today most of the buildings on the island are derelict, but some have been renovated as holiday homes and the island is now inhabited for most of the year. The island terrain is mildly hilly with many bog road and sheep paths. At present, during the winter the only inhabitants on Gola are animals. Sheep and some shy goats tend to reside along the cliffs. To the back of the island, seabirds are numerous, with cormorants, shags, razorbills, guillemots as well as the odd passing gannet and skua. At the southern end o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTÉ Player
RTÉ Player is an on demand video service provided by Irish public media broadcaster RTÉ. The service provides live and recorded RTÉ television programmes, and content exclusive to the player as well as content from other international broadcasters. The player is available in two formats: one for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and another for international audiences. The service provides news, current affairs, entertainment, sport, local and international dramas, and allows viewers to watch programmes from 7 to 21 days after they are broadcast. History RTÉ Player was launched on 21 April 2009. On 2 September 2011, RTÉ announced it would launch a similar platform of its digital radio stations under the name "RTÉ Radio Player". RTÉ Player was made available to Virgin Media Ireland (previously UPC Ireland) customers through their televisions from 25 May 2012. The service became available to all Sky Ireland customers on 8 July 2016. In December 2018, a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radharc Films
Radharc Films, also known as the Radharc Trust, is an Irish charity which oversees the film archive of the ''Radharc'' series of documentary programs. The organisation is based in Blackrock in Dublin, Ireland. The archive, overseen by the trust, includes a collection of over 400 topical and religious documentaries spanning over 30 years. History Radharc was Ireland's first independent television production company, filming their first television documentary in 1961. Primarily run by Catholic priests, the film company produced a religious programme, titled ''Radharc'', which was broadcast on RTÉ Television for 35 years. The company made programmes until the death of founder Fr Joe Dunn in 1996. From 1997, the focus of the Radharc Trust changed from producing new programming to a "mandate to preserve and promote both the substance of the programmes and the values they championed". The Radharc Archive was set up and overseen by the Radharc Trust, with the physical resources in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathal O'Shannon
Cathal O'Shannon (9 June 1890 – 4 October 1969) was an Irish politician, trade unionist and journalist. Early years Charles Francis Shannon was born in Randalstown, County Antrim, he was the third child of Charles and Alice Shannon. As a child the family moved to his mother's hometown of Draperstown, County Londonderry where his father worked for the railway line. Growing up, both his family and locality influenced his interest in trade unionism, the Irish language, and Irish Republicanism. He was educated at Draperstown national school and St Columb's College, Derry. It was at Columb's that he studied history as a subject and developed an interest in journalism. Following the death of his father he moved to Belfast where he began to train for the civil service. Republicanism and the Revolutionary era It was while he was in Belfast that he became a member of Conradh na Gaeilge and started writing articles for the ''Peasant'', ''Sinn Féin'' and ''An Claidheamh Soluis'' pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowman (broadcaster)
John Bowman (born 28 July 1942) is an Irish historian and a long-standing broadcaster and presenter of current affairs and political programmes with RaidiĂł TeilifĂs Éireann (RTÉ). He chaired the audience-participation political programme '' Questions and Answers'' on RTÉ One for 21 years. He is the father of comedian and journalist Abie Philbin Bowman and the broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Philbin Bowman. Life Bowman was brought up in Ballsbridge in south Dublin. His father worked for Great Southern Railways (later CIÉ) and his mother was a nurse, originally from Co. Monaghan. Bowman was educated at Belvedere College and Trinity College Dublin where he received bachelor's degree in history and political science in 1970 and a PhD in political science in 1980. He joined Radio Éireann in 1962, later becoming the presenter and commentator on numerous current affairs programmes, as well as an analyst of political developments and interviewer of politicians on radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Cagney
Mark Anthony Cagney (born 11 June 1956) is an Irish television presenter and journalist, best known for presenting ''Ireland AM'', the breakfast show on TV3 from 1999 to 2019. Early life Born in Cork, Ireland, Cagney was one of eight children in the family; he left home at age 15 because of difficulties with his father, who he described as a "remarkable man": an inventor, a musician, a welder, a mechanic, and a lecturer in electronics. Career Cagney learned how to take care of himself as a result of being on his own so early. He longed to have some musical ability, but settled for working with a variety of bands. He also learned about audio and audio studio processes; this got him a job as a shore-based radio operator. He devoted quite a bit of his paycheck to visiting night clubs; when a disk jockey did not show up for work, Cagney was asked to fill in, doing well enough at it to become a regular at the pirate radio station and now had two jobs. Before long, he was at RTÉ Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dubliners
The Dubliners were an Folk music of Ireland, Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners. The line-up saw many changes in personnel over their fifty-year career, but the group's success was centred on lead singers Luke Kelly and Ronnie Drew. The band garnered international success with their lively Irish folk songs, traditional street ballads and instrumentals. The band were regulars on the folk scenes in both Dublin and London in the early 1960s, and were signed to the Major Minor Records, Major Minor label in 1965 after backing from Dominic Behan who was paid by Major-Minor to work with the Dubliners and help them to build a better act fit for larger concert hall venues. The Dubliners worked with Behan regularly between 1965 and 1966; Behan wrote numerous songs for this act including the song McAlpine's Fusiliers created specifically to showcase Ronnie Drew's grave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shay Cullen
Father Shay Cullen (born 27 March 1943) is an Irish missionary priest and the founder of the PREDA Foundation. He is a member of the Columbans, an Irish order founded in honour of and named after St. Columba (St. Columcille), the 6th. Centuary Irish monk who founded the famous Iona mother house monastery on Iona, Inner Hebrides, Scotland Missionary Society of St. Columban. He was educated near his home at Harold's Boys and the Presentation Brothers in Glasthule, and CBC Monkstown Park. He helped found PREDA in 1974 along with Alex Corpus Hermoso and Merly Ramirez. This small non-profit organisation has a number of purposes, including the promotion and protection of the human rights of the Filipino people, especially women and children. Cullen is a member of the Missionary Society of St. Columban. The Preda Foundation and Cullen were awarded the Human Rights Award from the City of Weimar in 2000. Preda cooperates closely with international legal tribunals, Interpol and the UN Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Davis
Derek Davis (26 April 1948 – 13 May 2015) was an Irish broadcaster. On television, he co-hosted '' Live at 3'', presented '' Davis at Large'' and '' Out of the Blue'' and won ''Celebrity Bainisteoir''. Early life Davis was born in Bangor, County Down to a Protestant father and a Roman Catholic mother (a native of Bray, County Wicklow). He attended St. MacNissis College, a Catholic boarding school in County Antrim and described his early childhood life as ecumenical. During his childhood he acquired a love of boats which later provided the inspiration for the TV series '' Out of the Blue''. Television Davis started as a news reporter with the American network ABC and BBC Northern Ireland before spending 11 years in the newsroom in RTÉ. In the early 1980s he became a newsreader for ''The Six-o-clock News'' and began to become well known due to his sometimes off-the cuff comments on news stories. Davis impersonated Big Tom on the RTÉ satirical programme ''Hall's Pictorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
