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BBC – Pitch Invasion How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football (2024)

11/02/2024 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Pitch Invasion: How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football (2024)
English | Documentary | Size: 2.53 GB

How the Scottish and Irish changed football. [Read more…]

ITV – Ned’s History of Irish Cycling (2022)

27/01/2023 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

ITV – Ned’s History of Irish Cycling (2022)
English | Documentary | Size: 532 MB

Ned Boulting delves into the history of Irish road cycling, meeting Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche and learning how Ireland produced two of the world’s leading cyclists in the 1980s. [Read more…]

BBC – Birmingham Irish I Am (2020)

22/09/2022 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Birmingham Irish I Am (2020)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.03 GB

Musician Angela Moran, whose grandparents were amongst thousands of Irish to move to Britain’s second city in the 1950s, tells the story of the Birmingham Irish through the memories of local people and rare archive footage. [Read more…]

BBC – A Northern Irish Christmas (2020)

31/12/2021 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – A Northern Irish Christmas (2020)
English | Size: 1.14 GB
Category: DOcumentary

A one-off special with festive fun, nostalgia and heart-warming stories of Northern Ireland’s favourite Christmas moments. [Read more…]

RTE – The Hunger The Story of the Irish Famine (2020)

28/12/2020 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

RTE – The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine (2020)
English | Size: 1.67 GB
Category: Documentary

In 1845, Europe was struck by a devastating famine. The crisis was triggered when a deadly fungus, having originated in South America and escaped in the holds of cargo ships, destroyed potato crops throughout northern Europe. As food grew scarce and prices soared, 100,000 poor people died of starvation and disease in France, Belgium, Holland, Scotland and the Kingdom of Prussia. [Read more…]

RT – The Alex Salmond Show Northern Irish Unionism (2020)

19/04/2020 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

RT – The Alex Salmond Show: Northern Irish Unionism (2020)
English | Size: 308 MB
Category: Tutorial

With the Brexit border to be placed in the Irish Sea and political changes underway in the Republic, is it time for a fundamental reassessment of unionism? Alex interviews former Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt MLA, who believes that to survive, Unionists must urgently look for a new settlement. However, Democratic Unionist MP for Strangford, Jim Shannon MP, argues the line can still be held for the union, due to cross community support. [Read more…]