Monday 7 April – Friday 11 April, 4.30pm, RTÉ One
Fionn Davenport, Seoige & O’Shea’s travel expert, opens Ireland’s multi-cultured doors to get an insight into what it is like to live, work and be a part of Irish society today. Each day the programme will focus on 24 hours in the life an intercultural community: Africans in Dublin, Brazilians in Gort, Polish in Dublin, Pakistanis in Mayo, Chinese in Cork.
Nationwide
RTÉ One, Friday 11 April, 7pm
Nationwide comes from Greencastle, Co Donegal in a special edition devoted to Intercultural and Anti-Racism Week. The team meets some of the country's New Irish, including an Italian-American singer based in Co Kilkenny and pupils at a school with the highest proportion of international students in the country.
Documentaries
West of Mecca, Monday 14 April 11.30pm - 00.00am, RTÉ One
In this fascinating new series, we meet Muslims living in five different European Countries: Ireland, Germany, Poland, Sweden and Croatia. In each of the five parts of the series we meet two Muslim people from each country as they discuss their lives, beliefs, fears and plans for the future.
Welcome to Europe Wednesday 9 April 00.20am - 01.50am, RTÉ One
This Polish-made documentary follows three Polish farmers over three and a half years as the country enters the EU, and finds that some wholeheartedly embrace the new era, while others continue to plough their fields with traditional methods.
Here to Stay, Monday 7 April 11.30pm - 00.30am, RTÉ One
Shot in observational and interactive style, this film follows Fidel, Filipino immigrant to Ireland; nurse, migrant activist and bakla (gay) performer. Fidel leads the viewer through a series of migrant-led events, which together illustrate the political mobilisation of overseas nurses and how trade unionism develops in a rapidly expanding multiracial Irish society.
Kids Speak
RTÉ Two The Den, throughout 7-11 April
This special collection of Kidspeak films, which captured children on camera all around the country over a period of 18 months, gathers together the unique contributions of Ireland's young New Nationals. Aged two to 16, they sing, play music or talk about their cultures in 15-60 second film bytes.
Would You Believe
Sunday 6 April, 10.25pm RTÉ One
Kari Rosvall, who has lived happily in Ireland for the past decade with her Swedish husband, was born in Oslo in 1944 to a Norwegian girl and a German soldier. She was part of the Nazi programme to perfect a Master race, the Lebensborn programme. Anna Nolan travels with Kari to Norway in search of the secrets her past.
Richness of Change
RTÉ One, throughout 7-11 April
This series of 12 one-minute films offers real-life vignettes that document the diversity of contemporary Ireland. Shot in vox-pop style, the films offer a snapshot of Ireland's immigrant population, from the Johannesburg-born Floyd Jackson, who marshals buses on Dublin's Eden Quay, to Dublin Zoo's director Leo Oosterweghel, who is originally from the Netherlands.
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