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Drama On One
by RTÉ Drama on One
RTÉ Radio Drama's audio theatre department has for decades proudly brought audiences the very best dramatic writing and performances for radio from Ireland. Listen every Sunday night at 8pm at RTÉ Radio 1, visit rte.ie/dramaonone for more.
Episodes
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The Ballad of the Stolwijk Rescue by Brían MacGloinn
The Ballad of the Stolwijk Rescue Another chance to hear the award-winning documentary from our colleagues in The Lyric Feature. In December 1940, eight fishermen from Arranmore Island in County Donegal rescued 18 Dutch sailors from the SS Stolwijk, a cargo ship which had been wrecked on rocks in…
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Wake by Irene Kelleher
Wake by Irene Kelleher In this touching comedy we eavesdrop on the thoughts of a young woman during her mother’s wake in the family home, in a play that explores the indeterminacy of grief and family relationships, amidst a motley crew of mourners determined to talk about anything except loss.…
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Horace by John O'Donnell
Horace by John O'Donnell Fidelma has a special gift. So when young couple Tom and Cathy join the bereavement counselling group, Fidelma sees a way that she can help them – until other darker secrets are revealed. Dawn Bradfield was Fidelma Stephen Jones played Darren The role of Cathy was played…
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Hecuba by Marina Carr
Hecuba written by Marina Carr Troy has fallen and the humiliated and bereaved, Hecuba, Trojan Queen wipes the blood of her slaughtered sons and grandsons off her body. As more sacrifices are demanded, how much more could one woman be asked to bear? Listeners are advised that the play contains...
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Longing Lasts Longer by Penny Arcade
Longing Lasts Longer by Penny Arcade. Longing last Longer is a kick-ass comedy with guts, it's a refutation of nostalgia, It's a crack at gentrification; not only the gentrification of our cities but the gentrification of ideas. It's a stand up for authenticity, a kick against mediocrity. No one…
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The Curse of the Button Accordion by Sharon Mannion
Sharon is not a happy child! On the contrary she is a young girl obsessed with the predictions of Nostradamus, the third secret of Fatima and the end of the World! She is worried that she doesn’t have a future, has no talent and falls under every radar. This all changes however when she meets...
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The Last, High King of Ireland by Patrick Fogarty
The Last, High King of Ireland by Patrick Fogarty The Last, High King of Ireland tells the story of a day in the life of a hard-drinking man who has bestowed upon himself the title The Last, High King of Ireland. We follow the 'High King’ or ‘Tapper’ as he is better known to the locals, on his...
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Mr Sun by Gillian Grattan
Marie, a single mother in the dormitory suburbs, hides her unhappiness behind harsh humour; but the tedious, elderly neighbours she dismisses turn out to be hiding from harm themselves in their own shuttered bungalow. Kathy Rose O'Brien played Marie Pat Laffan ... Jim Áine Ní Mhuirí was Mavis and...
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Charolais by Noni Stapleton
Charolais a surreal comedy about love, longing and one woman’s intense rivalry with a Charolais heifer. This is a muddy place of simmering desire minced with a loneliness that cuts to the bone. Noni Stapleton who wrote the piece, plays both the protagonist Siobhan and her love rival the cow....
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Islands - with Chris Watson & Luke Clancy
From Ross Island to Galapagos to the possibly mythical isle of HyBrasil, world renowned sound recordist Chris Watson teams up with Writer/Presenter Luke Clancy, Composer Irene Buckley and Actor Kathy Rose O'Brien to journey across an atlas of remote islands. Islands fuses documentary and drama…
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From the River of Ghosts by Roger Gregg
an intimate love letter commemorating the lives of a working family pursuing their dreams over several generations in America’s rust belt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe
No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe, explores anti-Traveller racism through the prism of a love story between a young Traveller man and an older woman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Three Our Fathers by Karl O'Neill
In a sinister triptych that mimics a hall of mirrors, Karl O'Neill’s three masculine monologues draw parallel portraits – a suitor, a stalker, a spouse – of concave Man obsessed with the opposite sex. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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Hurl by Katie Honan
Hurl by Katie Honan is a hurling love story set in Waterford. Part Marty Morrissey, part Bridget Jones, Janet Walsh (a complete hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's beloved national sport in search for belonging. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See...
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Hurl by Katie Honan
Hurl by Katie Honan is a hurling love story set in Waterford. Part Marty Morrissey, part Bridget Jones, Janet Walsh (a complete hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's beloved national sport in search for belonging. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See...
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Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
With Nick Dunning as Magnus Sparling and Barry McGovern as the paterfamilas Edwin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
With Nick Dunning as Magnus Sparling and Barry McGovern as the paterfamilas Edwin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Wee Black Bees by Little John Nee
blues musician, Sparkplug grapples with heartbreak, the welfare of bee populations and the writings of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Wee Black Bees by Little John Nee
blues musician, Sparkplug grapples with heartbreak, the welfare of bee populations and the writings of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Digging For Fire by Daragh Dukes, Eoin O'Kelly & Kevin Brew
Composer Daragh Dukes and Radio Producers Eoin O Kelly and Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 1990s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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Digging For Fire by Daragh Dukes, Eoin O'Kelly & Kevin Brew
Composer Daragh Dukes and Radio Producers Eoin O Kelly and Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 1990s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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Marconi & Me by Zoë Comyns
A podcast producer finds a set of code books. They are the Marconi International Code books. They contain 500 pages of 5-letter codes and their translations. The main character starts to read the codes obsessively and twist them into her own life story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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James Joyce In Zürich by Kevin Reynolds
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of James Joyce's death in Zürich on Jan 13th 1941, Ursula Zeller, Ruth Freiner and Fritz Senn from The James Joyce Foundation shared their stories with Kevin Reynolds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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Tubes by Gary Mitchell
Tubes written by renowned Belfast playwright Gary Mitchell In this black comedy we meet Titch a modern young Protestant, who is keen to portray his own community and the twelfth of July in a more positive light. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for...
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A Piece of Monologue by Samuel Beckett
A Piece of Monologue, performed by Barry McGovern, directed by Daniel Reardon and introduced by Gerry Dukes, whose stage adaptation, with Barry McGovern, of Beckett's post-war trilogy of novels as I’ll Go On has played around the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See...
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The Old Tune by Samuel Beckett
The Old Tune is Beckett's free adaptation of La Manivelle/The Crank, a radio play by French writer, Robert Pinget. The Beckett Season is made possible by the kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for…
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Beckett on Bowman
A special programme curated from a brace of Bowman Sunday Eight Thirty programmes made in 2006 celebrating the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Nothing Ever Happens Around Here by Robert Barrett
Nothing Ever Happens Around Here written by Robert Barrett Reflecting on village life, mortality, poverty, opportunity, futility and ultimately hope, this comedy for radio focuses on a day in the life of Courtland Alexander See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See...
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The Quiet Land by Malachy McKenna
The Quiet Land By Malachy McKenna - a masterclass, served as it is by a brace of actors - Kevin Flood and Barry Cassin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Gallant John-Joe by Tom MacIntyre
The Gallant John Joe by Tom Mac Intyre - Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Kerry Plates by Shay Linehan
guilt and grief cohabit a widower's home - Clive Geraghty is Tom and Deirdre Donnelly his wife Maura in Shay Linehan's first play for radio and RTÉ's entry at the Prix Europa 2007 in Berlin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Kerry Plates by Shay Linehan
guilt and grief cohabit a widower's home - Clive Geraghty is Tom and Deirdre Donnelly his wife Maura in Shay Linehan's first play for radio and RTÉ's entry at the Prix Europa 2007 in Berlin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Four-Faced Liar by Ger Fitzgibbon
The Four-Faced Liar by Ger Fitzgibbon - It's part of the lore of Cork city that the four clocks on the four faces of Shandon Steeple rarely agree on the exact time - hence the nickname: The Four-Faced Liar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for…
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The Blue Hyacinth by Maeve Brennan adapted and directed by Joe O Byrne
Hubert and Rose Derdon have been together for a life, but when Rose dies, Hubert finds he is unable to grieve for his wife. The play stars Barry McGovern, David Herlihy, and Jane Brennan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Deep by Raymond Scannell
Deep in 1988 Sir Henry's Cork, Larry Lehane is following the beat. Written & performed by Raymond Scannell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Wickedness of Oz by Kate Gilmore
The Wickedness of Oz by Kate Gilmore - musicals-obsessed Debbie, takes us on a magical journey and we share her dreams, dreads, her love, and her loss. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Oscar Night by Alan McMonagle
Maire Hastings (Glenroe) and Áine Ní Mhuirí (Ballykissangel) who together with Emmet Kirwan (Fair City, Veronica Guerin) feature See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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No One Ever Asked me That by Nyree Yergainharsian, Louise Lewis & Gorretti Slavin
Supported by real stories from real women, this play follows Jenny and Claire's opposite journeys along the same path. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Eating Seals and Seagulls' Eggs by Caitríona NíMhurchú
Meet Peig Sayers as you have never heard her before. Performed by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú and Louise Lewis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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#Maura Laverty This Was Your Life
This sparkling play by Yvonne Quinn and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh explores the rollercoaster life of broadcaster, playwright, novelist and agony aunt, Maura Laverty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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100 by Donal Dineen and Jimmy Eadie
Award-winning sound designer Jimmy Eadie and music pioneer and DJ Donal Dineen join forces to create 100 for Drama on One See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Fragile Maoilíosa by Charlie McGuinness
two people are united by a moment that will stay with them forever.. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Truth, Love or Promise by Nuala McKeever
Truth, Love or Promise written & performed by Nuala McKeever. Truth, Love or Promise was the winner of the 2025 IMRO award for best drama. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney
Wogan's Sweet Sixteen By Kenneth Sweeney with Al McKenna as Terry Wogan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A Safe Passage by Irene Kelleher
two souls weather the storm together at Inish Dúbh Lighthouse. Seamus O’Rourke plays Christy and Irene Kelleher is The young Woman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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James Joyce in Zurich by Kevin Reynolds
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of James Joyce’s death in Zürich on Jan 13th 1941, Ursula Zeller, Ruth Freiner and Fritz Senn from The James Joyce Foundation shared their stories with Kevin Reynolds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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Eternal Lanes of Joy by Pat Collins
Eternal Lanes of Joy recreates Patrick Kavanagh's epic journey on foot from his home in County Monaghan to Dublin, in the year 1931 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A Very Autistic Christmas by Aoife Dooley
Made by Lighthouse Media in collaboration with As I Am and featuring Darcy Weekes as Hazel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe
written & directed by Dylan Tighe. It stars Thomas Collins & Gina Moxley and explores a relationship between a young Traveller man & an older woman from Dublin 4 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jó Johnny Joe le Darach Mac Con Iomaire - Mír 1
Is mór-shaothar nua drámaíochta é Jó Johnny Joe a nascann ceol den scoth le greann agus brón i scéal corraitheach, siamsúil, teannasach. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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RTÉ Radio Drama's audio theatre department has for decades proudly brought audiences the very best dramatic writing and performances for radio from Ireland. Listen every Sunday night at 8pm at RTÉ Radio 1, visit rte.ie/dramaonone for more.
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