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Sunday Miscellany: A Café Called Dorice, by Oliver Sears

On a family friend, Josef Cukier, stranded in London at the outbreak of WW2, and his plan to rescue his wife and two daughters, Jews caught in the chaos and terror of Nazi-occupied Poland

Sunday Miscellany • 18 Jun 24

100 Buildings: Guarding Sligo - the story of Look Out Post No. 67

Dotted around our shores are reminders of our defence architecture throughout the centuries; from Iron Age promontory forts and Martello towers, but also the period of time known as 'the Emergency'.

100 Buildings • 02 Aug 23

Sunday Miscellany: Rome on the eve of World War II by Mervyn Wall

Remembering the scenes in the Italian capital in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War...

Sunday Miscellany • 29 Mar 23

Rosslare to Fishguard passenger ferry The Saint Patrick was sunk in 1941

Documentary On One: The Sinking of the Saint Patrick

Documentary On One: The Sinking of the Saint Patrick tells the story of Wexford native, bestselling author and child protection expert Shane Dunphy's investigation into the greatest marine disaster in his county's long seafaring history

Documentary On One • 30 Mar 23

Sunday Miscellany: Courage in the Alleys by Joseph O'Connor

On the Irish Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, who helped Jewish people to safety in Rome

Sunday Miscellany • 02 Mar 23

Colditz Castle in Leipzig was used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II (Pic: Getty)

Book Of The Week - Colditz: Prisoners Of The Castle

Books • 01 Nov 22

The City Underground by Michael Russell - read an extract

Books • 25 Aug 22

The Hunt for David Berman by Claire Mulligan - read an extract

Books • 20 May 22

Book Of The Week: David McCullagh on Ireland's Secret War

Books • 30 Apr 22

Documentary On One: Richard Hayes: Nazi Codebreaker

Documentary On One • 04 Feb 22

Documentary On One: Tearoom, Taylor, Saviour, Spy

Documentary On One • 14 Oct 21

Reviewed: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Books • 08 Apr 21

Berlin, May 1945 - unseen photographs from a collapsed world

75 years ago, in the late spring of 1945, the city of Berlin collapsed under an onslaught from Russian armies invading from the east...

RTÉ Arena • 12 Aug 20

The sculpture by Victor Segoffin was commissioned by Baron Edward O'Neill and his wife Louisa to mark the death in WW1 of their son Arthur O'Neill "and the men of the district who fell with him." It is now located in the family graveyard at Shane's Castle

Sunday Miscellany: On the trail of a rejected statue in Antrim

From Sunday Miscellany: When art historian Paula Murphy found a reference to a First World War memorial in Randalstown, Co. Antrim, featuring the unlikely subject of 'Mother Ireland', she was determined to track it down

Sunday Miscellany • 10 Jul 20

The camp at Auschwitz: Jack Fairweather's book details the remarkable infiltration by Witold Pilecki

New books mark the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat

May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in 1945. Two recent works of particular relevance for the before and after, Jack Fairweather's The Volunteer and Philippe Sands' The Ratline are worthy of attention.

Books • 23 May 20

Nazi codebreaker Richard Hayes, the subject of this weekend's gripping RTÉ Documentary On One.

The Irishman who broke the Nazi code - Documentary on One

Marc Mc Menamin, producer of this weekend's RTÉ Documentary on One, Richard Hayes, Nazi Codebreaker, reflects on honouring Ireland's role in World War Two.

Documentary On One • 23 Oct 17

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