A programme to mark the 75th anniversary of the tragic disaster at sea which took 45 lives along the western seaboard. The incident is now known as The Cleggan disaster - which took place on Friday October 28th 1927.

Includes voices of the following:

Jim Queally reads extracts from the poem The Cleggan Disaster by Richard Murphy,

Mick Feeney, whose father was a survivor talks about the events

Marie Feeney, Mick's daughter, has written a book about the disaster

Ultan Macken, whose father Walter described the disaster in his novel 'Rain on the wind'

Presented and produced by Alf McCarthy

First Broadcast 2002

An Irish radio documentary from RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One - the home of Irish radio documentaries.