The much loved and fondly remembered children's drama 'Wanderly Wagon' was first broadcast on 30 September 1967.

Here is an extract from the 1971 Christmas edition Godmother is having trouble with the mice.

• Production Year
  1971
• Contributor
  O'Brien (Eugene Lambert)
  Godmother (Nora O'Mahony)
  Rory (Bill Golding)

An extract from a debate on 'The Late Late Show' on the issues raised in the book 'Sit Down and Be Counted' written by the former RTÉ producers Lelia Doolin, Jack Dowling and Bob Quinn.

• Production Year
  1969
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)

A look at the development of the sometimes complex realtionship between television and politics.

• Production Year
  1983
• Contributor
  Peter Feeney (Producer, Writer, Presenter)

Rodney Rice ends his forty year broadcasting career with a final instalment of 'Saturday View'.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Rodney Rice (Presenter)

The 'Gay Byrne Hour' began on radio on 2 February 1973. Here Gay Byrne introduces a programme from 1977.

• Production Year
  1977
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)

The news programme 'Morning Ireland' began on 5 November 1984. Listen here to an extract from a programme from February 1985 when David Hanly interviewed Des O'Malley following his expulsion from Fianna Fáil.

• Production Year
  1984
• Contributor
  David Hanly (Presenter)

An unedited and uninterrupted reading of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' began on RTÉ Radio on 16 June 1982 and ended the following day. One year later, Micheál Ó hAodha recalls reaction to the broadcast.

• Production Year
  1983
• Contributor
  John Bowman (Presenter)

In April 1997, a tribunal of inquiry into payments to politicians began taking evidence.

With no television cameras or radio microphones allowed access to tribunal proceedings held at Dublin Castle, 'The Vincent Browne Show' began to use reneactments of the proceedings on 21 April 1997.

In this extract Mr Gogarty (Joe Taylor) recalls a meeting in Swords, County Dublin in June 1989 at the home of former government minister Mr Ray Burke.

• Production Year
  1999
• Contributor
  James Gogarty (Joe Taylor)
  John Gallagher (Malcom Douglas)

'Women Today', presented by Marian Finucane and produced by Clare Duignan, was first broadcast on 31 May 1979. In an extract from 'Women Today' Marian Finucane introduces an item on the subject of sex education in Ireland.

• Production Year
  1979
• Contributor
  Marian Finucane (Presenter)
  Doireann Ní Bhriain (Reporter)

U2 surprise veteran presenter Gay Byrne with a gift on his final Late Late Show.

• Production Year
  1999
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)

As the 'Gay Byrne Show' on radio comes to an end friends, family and colleagues gather in the radio to centre to pay a surprise tribute to Gay Byrne.

• Production Year
  1998
• Contributor
  Colm Connolly (Reporter)

RTÉ News reports on the death of broadcaster and folk music collector Ciarán Mac Mathúna.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Sharon Tobin

RTÉ launches Radio 2 with the phrase "It is all coming at you now" at an event it the radio centre, Donnybrook. 

• Production Year
  1979

RTÉ new digital service SAORVIEW launches an information campaign aimed at guiding people through the switch over from analogue to digital television.

• Production Year
  2011
• Contributor
  Sinéad Crowley (Reporter)

Queen Elizabeth II and President McAleese lay wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance on the first day of the Royal visit.

• Production Year
  2011
• Contributor
  Charlie Bird (Reporter)

President Obama and his wife Michelle get a warm welcome in Moneygall, the home of the president's great great great grandfather. 

• Production Year
  2011
• Contributor
  Charlie Bird (Reporter)

Michael Lawlor a former news editor with Radio Éireann, describes the work of the newsroom in the 1950s and the impact the arrival of tape recording made.

• Production Year
  1983
• Contributor
  Kieran Sheedy (Presenter)

Lyric FM the new music and arts station, the latest in the RTÉ family goes to air from Limerick.

• Production Year
  1999
• Contributor
  Cathy Halloran (Reporter)

Telifís na Gaeilge is to begin broadcasting on 31 October. RTÉ News reports on the anticipated launch of TnaG and the programming viewers can expect. 

• Production Year
  1996
• Contributor
  Anne Marie Smyth (Reporter)

The interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 'Riverdance' wows the audience.

• Production Year
  1994

A look back at the career of RTÉ broadcaster Gerry Ryan following his death on 30 April 2010.

• Production Year
  2010
• Contributor
  Sharon Ní Bheoláin (Newsreader)
  Samantha Libreri (Reporter)

After 30 years reading the news on RTÉ, Anne Doyle signs off from her last broadcast. Fellow newsreader Eileen Dunne introduces a tribute.

• Production Year
  2011
• Contributor
  Anne Doyle (Newsreader)
  Eileen Dunne (Newsreader)

Seán Mac Réamoinn, a broadcaster and writer with a tremendous passion for the Irish language, died on 17 January 2007.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Sharon Ní Bheoláin (Newsreader)
  Bryan Dobson (Newsreader)
  Barry Cummins (Reporter)

RTÉ announces that television news and current affairs are to be streamed live on the web. The 2007 St Patrick's Day parade will be one of the first programmes to be simulcast.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Aengus MacGrianna (Newsreader)
  Sineád Crowley (Reporter)

RTÉ Religious Programmes launches a new series of seven visual reflections for the Angelus. Here an office worker takes a moment at the end of her working day.

• Production Year
  2009

An 18-CD box set featuring the trilogy of novels by Samuel Beckett was produced by RTÉ and the Lannan Foundation in 2006 as part of a series of commemorative events marking the centenary of the Nobel prizewinner's birth.

• Production Year
  2006
• Contributor
  Conor Mark Kavanagh (Reporter)

RTÉ musicians are featured on five new 55 cent stamps. An Post says the stamps are a fitting tribute to the broadcaster's performing groups, each of which make a significant contribution to Irish cultural life.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Philip Bromwell (Reporter)

RTÉ ONE Television launched a new on-screen identity package in November 2006. The channel commissioned a package of twelve new idents and on-screen graphics.

• Production Year
  2006
• Contributor
  Neil Kenny (Director)
  Oisín Lunny (Composer)

RTÉ rebrands the second television channel and reverts to the name RTÉ TWO. 'Train' is one of a series of idents used to promote the new channel name.

• Production Year
  2004

Céad fiche cúig bliain is an lá inniu a rugadh iar-Uachtarán na hÉireann, Éamon de Valera. Seoadh leabhar agus sraith cláracha raidió ina thaobh i mBaile Átha Cliath inniu.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Sorcha Ní Riada (Reporter)

A 'Prime Time Investigates' programme 'Home Truths' on the state of nursing home care prompted a national debate on how the elderly were being looked after in some nursing homes.

• Production Year
  2005
• Contributor
  Adrian Lydon

To commemorate the centenary of the birth of writer Máirtiín Ó Cadhain, RTÉ Television commissioned the documentary 'Rí an Fhocail'.

• Production Year
  1967
• Contributor
  Aindreas Ó Gallchóir (Director)

Mark Little was appointed RTÉ's first Washington correspondent in the summer of 1995 and took up his post there in the autumn.

• Production Year
  1995
• Contributor
  Anne Doyle (Newsreader)
  Mark Little (Reporter)

Pope John Paul ll visited Ireland from 29 September to 1 October 1979. RTÉ Radio and Television provided comprehensive coverage of the visit

• Production Year
  1979
• Contributor
  Brian Farrell (Commentator)

On Seamus Heaney's 70th birthday, RTÉ and the Irish Museum of Modern Art hosted an event at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. RTÉ's celebration of the poet's birthday featured radio and television programmes, a website and the launch of a 15-CD box set of Heaney reading all his poems.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Sinéad Crowley (Reporter)

Following the announcement that he is to be the new presenter of 'The Late Late Show', 36-year-old broadcaster Ryan Tubridy gives his reaction to taking over the long running chat show.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Sinéad Crowley (Reporter)

Dustin the Turkey wins Ireland's national song contest by public vote. The selection of a puppet to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest causes some debate.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Paul O'Flynn (Reporter)

For UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2008, Barry Cummins visits the RTÉ Television Archives and talks to Arthur Keating and Bríd Dooley about efforts to preserve RTÉ programmes.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Barry Cummins (Reporter)

In 2008, RTÉ moved to new offices in Belfast after almost forty years in their previous premises. The new facilities were opened by the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, Northern Ireland First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Michael Fisher (Reporter)

Pat Kenny announces that after 10 years presenting 'The Late Late Show', he is to step down at the end of the series.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Presenter)

RTÉ Radio closes down its last Medium Wave transmitter at Tullamore, County Offaly after providing the radio signal for programmes for the last eighty two years.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Ciaran Mullooly (Reporter)

The Mobile Recording Unit was established in 1947 and was equipped with a disc recorder.

Labhrás Ó Cadhla sings 'Na Conairígh'. This recording was made on acetate disc in September 1948 at the singer's home in Cappoquin, Waterford.

• Production Year
  1948
• Contributor
  Jimmy Mahon (sound engineer)
  Séamus Ennis (producer)

The earliest surviving Radio Éireann recording of a weather forecast from 1939. Bernadette Plunkett announces that the "...Outlook for Saturday similar."

• Production Year
  1939
• Contributor
  Bernadette Plunkett (Announcer)

The poet and playwright Austin Clarke recalls his association with early radio.

• Production Year
  1965
• Contributor
  Francis Russell (Presenter)

Broadcaster and sports commentator, best-known for commentary of GAA games and horse-racing, Michael O'Hehir gave his first commentary when Galway defeated Monaghan in the All-Ireland Senior Football Semi-Final at Cusack Park in Mullingar.

• Production Year
  1938
• Contributor
  Michael O'Hehir (Commentator)

Listeners choose 'O'Donnell Abú as the identification tune signal for the Irish national station.

• Production Year
  1936

Sponsored programmes were the main means of advertising in the early days of radio broadcasting. Here is the closing sequence from the long running 'Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes' programme.

• Production Year
  1930's
• Contributor
  Ian Priestly Mitchell (Presenter)
  Bart Bastible (Presenter)

Mairéad Ní Ghráda explains her role as a "Woman Organiser" and recalls the early days of drama production at 2RN.

• Production Year
  1966
• Contributor
  P.P. Maguire (Presenter)

Minister J.J. Walsh, speaking at the opening of the Cork radio studios.

• Production Year
  1927

Jimmy Mahon, who joined 2RN a week after it began broadcasting, tells Donnchadh Ó Dúlaing his memories of those early days for Irish radio.

• Production Year
  1996
• Contributor
  Donnchadh Ó Dúlaing (Reporter)

Douglas Hyde, founder of the Gaelic League and later first President of the Irish Free State, officially opens 2RN.

• Production Year
  1926

Towards the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, in his Victory in Europe Day speech broadcast to the world, was critical of Taoiseach Eamon de Valera and Ireland's policy of neutrality throughout the war. Three days later, de Valera, in a much anticipated reply, outlined Ireland's right as an independent state to remain neutral. His response was praised widely in Ireland for its strength, dignity and restraint.

• Production Year
  1945

RTÉ makes news coverage available online. For the first time it is possible to watch or listen to RTÉ News coverage over the internet from anywhere in the world.

• Production Year
  1999
• Contributor
  Aileen O'Meara (Reporter)

'RTÉ Online' is launched allowing internet users worldwide to have access to several RTÉ Radio programmes, news, sport and entertainment.

• Production Year
  1996
• Contributor
  Colm Connolly (Reporter)

On 31 August 1994, the IRA declared a "complete cessation" of violence. The RTÉ Newsroom received a cassette and a written message from the IRA confirming the details of the ceasefire.

• Production Year
  1994
• Contributor
  Charlie Bird (Reporter)

Paddy Dempsey living in Dunboyne, Meath, tells Ann O'Dwyer about being knocked over by a bull and how he never married.

• Production Year
  1978
• Contributor
  Ann O'Dwyer (Presenter)

Bunaíodh RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta le seirbhís iomlán raidió a chur ar fáil do phobal na Gaeltachta agus do lucht labhartha na Gaeilge ar fud na tíre. Tháinig an stáisiún ar an aer don chéad uair ag 3 pm, Domhnach Cásca, 2 Aibreán 1972.

• Production Year
  1972
• Contributor
  Breandán Ó hEithir (Reporter)

The final moments as the series 'Newsbeat' ends after seven years. Frank Hall tries to wrap up the final 'Newsbeat' as the set is removed from around him.

• Production Year
  1971
• Contributor
  Frank Hall (Presenter)
  George Devlin (Presenter)

As part of the Patrician Year celebrations, the papal legate Cardinal Agagianian blessed the foundation stone to a memorial of Our Lady at Ringsend.

• Production Year
  1961
• Contributor
  John Ross (Reporter)

An extract from the opening epsiode of Radio Éireann's first soap opera 'The Kennedys of Castleross' began which on 14 April 1955. 

• Production Year
  1955
• Contributor
  Marie Kean (Actor)
  Philip O'Flynn (Actor)
  Pat Laffan (Actor)
  Mark Grantham (Scriptwriter)
  [Radio Éireann Players]

A sketch from 'Living With Lynch' Radio Éireann's first comedy series which began in 1954 and starring Joe Lynch. Schoolboys Fursey and Ernie ponder the advantages of having measles.

• Production Year
  1954
• Contributor
  Joe Lynch

The popular Irish dance programme 'Take the Floor' is introduced by Din Joe (Denis Fitzgibbon) from Achill with 'The Harvest Time Jig'.

• Production Year
  1960
• Contributor
  Din Joe (Presenter)

The 'Thomas Davis Lectures' series was launched in September 1953 with the aim of introducing the listening public to the best in Irish scholarship. Frank O'Connor talks about the art of the short story in a lecture from 1964.

• Production Year
  1963
• Contributor
  Frank O'Connor (Presenter)
  Francis MacManus (Producer)

'Triple Fantasy' by Walter Beckett was performed at the Gaiety Prom on the 7th November 1954 by the Orchestra, led by Renzo Marchionni and conducted by Milan Horvat.

• Production Year
  1954
• Contributor
  Walter Beckett (Composer)
  Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra
  Renzo Marchionni (Leader)
  Milan Horvat (Conductor)

Maurice Gorham was appointed Director of Broadcasting in January 1953. He recalls being less than impressed by set up in radio when he took up the position.

• Production Year
  1976
• Contributor
  John Bowman (Presenter)
  John Skehan (Producer)

Reporter P.P. O'Reilly describes the scenes in St Peter's as the Pope welcomes the Irish pilgrims who have made the journey for Holy Year.

• Production Year
  1950
• Contributor
  P.P. O'Reilly (Reporter)

As part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, President Eamon de Valera takes a salute from units of the Defence Forces at the General Post Office in O'Connell Street.

• Production Year
  1966

Thousands turn out to see former Hollywood star Grace Kelly now Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco in June 1961.

• Production Year
  1961

The closing stages of the first Irish Sweeps Derby which was broadcast by RTÉ on 30 June 1962.

• Production Year
  1976
• Contributor
  Micheal O'Hehir (Reporter)

The opening title sequence from the current affairs series '7 Days' which began broadcasting 26 September 1966

• Production Year
  1969
• Contributor
  John O'Donoghue (Presenter)

The opening sequence and news headlines from the Six One News showing a new state-of-the-art studio for RTÉ News.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  Bryan Dobson (News Presenter)
  Sharon Ní Bheoláin (News Presenter)

'Cabin Fever 1' a tall ship being used in a reality television game show sinks.

• Production Year
  2003

In the final episode of 'Questions and Answers', presenter John Bowman introduces some of the more memorable audience contributions over the years.

• Production Year
  2009
• Contributor
  John Bowman (Presenter)

Minister for Communications launches the first terrestrial high definition television coverage of a sporting event in Ireland.

• Production Year
  2007

An extract from the first episode of the rural drama 'Glenroe'. Dinny and Miley Byrne (Joe Lynch) and (Mick Lally) have sold their mountainy family farm and may now move to better land in north Wicklow.

• Production Year
  1983
• Contributor
  Dinny Byrne (Joe Lynch)
  Miley Byrne (Michael Lally)
  Wesley Burrowes (Writer)
  Avril MacRory (Director)
  Brian MacLochlainn (Director)

RTÉ announces the introduction of widescreen television broadcasting throughout the country on an experimental basis.

• Production Year
  1995
• Contributor
  Colm Connolly (Reporter)

Zig and Zag arrived from planet Zog in 1987 and began to appear on the children's afternoon programme 'Dempsey's Den'.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Ian Dempsey (Presenter)

RTÉ News moves from using film cameras to cover stories for television to using video. Electronic news gathering (ENG) means video is replacing film.

• Production Year
  1985
• Contributor
  Tommie Gorman (Reporter)
  Jim Fahy (Reporter)

Where exactly is the centre of Ireland? An amusing report looks at the claims of a number of locations.

• Production Year
  1971
• Contributor
  Frank Hall (Reporter)
  George Devlin (Reporter)

The title sequence and opening scenes from the very first epsiode of 'Fair City' RTÉ's weekly drama series.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Bernie Kelly (Ger Ryan)
  Mags Kelly (Eileen Murphy)
  Charlie Kelly (Tom Jordan)
  Barry O'Hanlon (David Nolan)
  Mrs O'Hanlon (Doreen Keogh)

The first demonstration of high definition television (HDTV) in Europe is held at the General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union in Killarney, Ireland.

• Production Year
  1982

The opening moments of the second RTÉ television station RTÉ 2.

• Production Year
  1978
• Contributor
  Bernadette Ni Gallchoir (Presenter)
  Raymond Maxwell (Presenter)
  Roisin Harkin (Presenter)

The opening scenes from the 'mockumentary' series 'Paths To Freedom'. Jeremy and Rats leave prison.

• Production Year
  1999
• Contributor
  Prison Warden (Simon Delaney)
  Jeremy Fitzgerald (Brendan Coyle)
  Raymond Doyle (Michael McElhatton)
  Deirdre O'Kane (Helen Fitzgerald)
  Ian Fitzgibbon (Director)

Weather bulletins to be longer more frequent and presented using modern electronic graphics.

• Production Year
  1988
• Contributor
  Cathy Halloran (Reporter)

A viewer's letter to 'Mailbag' in 1987 is critical of a change to the new RTÉ symbol and prompts a discussion on the history and design of the logo.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Arthur Murphy (Presenter)
  Pat Nolan (Presenter)

Award for Charles Mitchel RTE Television's first newsreader.

• Production Year
  1962
• Contributor
  Harry Thuillier (Compere)

RTÉ launches a teletext service Aertel.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Gerry Reynolds (Reporter)

An extract from a 1965 edition of 'The Late Late Show' Ireland's long running chat show.

• Production Year
  1965
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)

An extract from an episode of 'The Riordans'. 'The Riordans' was Ireland's first soap set in a rural background and was first broadcast on 4 January 1965.

• Production Year
  1972
• Contributor
  Tom Riordan (John Cowley)
  Mary Riordan (Moira Deady)
  Benjy Riordan (Tom Hickey)
  Eamon Maher (Joseph Pilkington)
  Minnie Brennan (Anne D'Alton)

Dana returns home having won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland for the first time.

• Production Year
  1970
• Contributor
  Barry Linnane (Reporter)

The first three television continuity announcers tour Ireland before the opening night of Irish television.

• Production Year
  1961
• Contributor
  Ciarán Mac Mathúna (Presenter)

The introduction to the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Ireland for the first time. The production was also one of the first home produced colour television programmes.

• Production Year
  1971
• Contributor
  Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir (Presenter)

President of Ireland Eamon de Valera launches new television service and warns that, "...never before was there in the hands of men an instrument so powerful to influence the thoughts and actions of the multitude." The address is in both Irish and English.

• Production Year
  1961
• Contributor
  Eamon de Valera

A directive directive under Section 31 of the Broadcasting Authority Act 1960 prohibits RTÉ from broadcasting anything that could be interpreted as supporting the aims or activities of organisations which "engage in, promote, encourage or advocate the attaining of any political objective by violent means".

• Production Year
  1971
• Contributor
  John O'Donoghue (Presenter)

An extract from 'Radharc' a series produced for RTÉ by Catholic priests. Reporter Father Peter Lemass visits Glenties the tidiest town in Ireland.

• Production Year
  1961
• Contributor
  Peter Lemass (Reporter)

A bomb blast causes damage to RTÉ Television studios

• Production Year
  1969
• Contributor
  Tom McCaughren (Reporter)

An extract from 'Modern Mathematics for Juniors'. Frank Anderson explains equations on the junior modern mathematics curriculum.

• Production Year
  1966
• Contributor
  Frank Anderson (Presenter)

An extract from the series 'Telefís Feirme' (Farm Television) an agricultural series providing information and instruction for Irish farmers.

• Production Year
  1965
• Contributor
  Justin Keating (Presenter)
  Seamus Smith (Producer)