Programme 1
The first programme in a four-part series which engages with many of the Irish participants who bore witness to the diverse phenomenon that was 1968
1968 was the year when Derry exploded, with the Civil Rights Movement marching to the same tune as that used by Martin Luther King; when Ivan Cooper, Éamonn McCann and Bernadette Devlin recall invading our sitting-rooms by night, courtesy of the ever-present TV news cameras. 1968 was also the year when students in UCD - among them Kevin Myers, Ruairí Quinn and Úna Claffey - taking a leaf from the many examples of student protest abroad, occupied UCD in Earlsfort Terrace and demanded that their voice be listened to about how UCD was run.
Agus i 1968 leagadh síos bunúdar Gluaiseacht Chearta Siabhialta na Gaeltachta - poball Chonamara amuigh ag agóidíocht chun a gcearta sibhíalta, oibre agus teangan a cur chun cinn trí gníomhaíocht sráide.
Margaret McCurtain, Mary Maher, Mary Kenny, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Alan Titley and others, with as much humour as insight, add their particular take on 1968, the year that shook the world.
In programme one, "Sixty Eighters" including Pat Rabbitte Bernadette Devlin, Ruairí Quinn, Mary Kenny, Eamonn McCann and Mary Maher remember their revolutionary youth.
