Radharc

Radharc was an Irish television documentary series broadcast by RTÉ Television from 1962 until 1996. The documentaries were created by a film unit funded by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, in anticipation of the inauguration of television broadcasting in Ireland by RTÉ in December 1961.[1] The film unit was staffed exclusively by Catholic priests, including the founders Joe Dunn and Desmond Forristal(1930-2012),[1] as well as Peter Lemass. The Irish language word radharc means vision, view, or panorama.[1]

Radharc produced over 400 programmes[2] and was filmed in over 75 countries.[3] It was also the first independently-produced series on RTÉ Television.[2]

Radharc Films ceased production in 1996 following the death of Joe Dunn.[4]

Awards

The series won its only Jacobs Television Award in 1963, as Most Enterprising Programme.[5]

  • 1966 -"Turkana (Radharc/RTÉ)" First Prize UNDA/WACC Monte Carlo
  • 1968 - "The Restless Knives (Radharc/RTÉ)" First Prize - General Interest Category UNDA/WACC Monte Carlo
  • 1977 - "Heirs of the Father" (Radharc/RTÉ) First Prize Drama/Liturgy/Entertainment UNDA/WACC[6]

Influence

Radharc has been the subject of academic research, specifically about the changing representation of priests on Irish television.[7] The Radharc Squad produced and directed by Ruán Magan for Tyrone Productions in 2013, was a two part documentary on Radharc, shown on RTE it won the IFTA Best Current Affairs prize in 2013.

The Radharc Trust

The Radharc Trust, looks after the Legacy and Archive of Radharc Films, its board consists of Peter Dunn (chair, and brother of Fr. Joe Dunn), Peter Kelly (formerly a member of the Radharc Film Team) and Miriam Mulkeen.[8] The archive is stored between RTE, and The Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar[9]. The Archive is managed by Esras Films on behalf of the Radharc Trust.

The Radharc Awards

Founded in 2002, The Radharc Trust hosts the biennial The Radharc Awards for documentary film making in the Radharc tradition, with awards for Television Documentaries and Digital Media Documentaries.[10]


Documentaries

Irish Documentaries

  • Brigid's Night - La 'Le Bride (1961)
  • Croagh Patrick, Mass Rock & Men's Sodality (1962)
  • Paddy The Cope - Templecrone Co-op (1962)
  • Young Offender (1963)
  • Open Port (1968)
  • The Road to Nowhere (1971)
  • Dying for a Drink (1983)
  • When Ireland Staved (1): Causes Of Poverty (1992)
  • When Ireland Staved (2): THE Irish Holocaust (1992)
  • When Ireland Staved (3): Managing The Famine (1992)
  • When Ireland Staved (4): Exodus (1992)

International Documentaries

  • Night flight to Uli – Famine in Biafra (1960)
  • High Noon In Chol Chol, Director Fr. Dermot McCarthy, editor Liam O'Rinn (1982)
  • Cuba – Land of Hope and Glory (1986)
  • Guatemala – Where the Pope is a Communist (1984)
  • Life and Death in Bali (1980).
  • The Gaucho Irish – The Irish of Argentina
  • The Black Irish – the Irish of Montserrat in the Caribbean (1976)[11]
  • The French Connection' (1993)
  • Irish And The Making Of Canada (1993)
  • NYPD Green (1995)
  • Travellers of Murphy Village – Irish Travellers in the US (1995)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Radharc A Celebration, RTÉ Archives, 2012-11-19.
  2. 1 2 McCarthy, Dermot (30 November 1999). "Forty years a sowing". CatholicIreland.net. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Matthew McAteer - University College Dublin". Academia.edu. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Radharc (TV Series)". IMDB. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  5. ↑ The Irish Times, "Presentation of television awards and citations", 4 December 1963
  6. ↑ Awards Archive www.rte.ie
  7. ↑ McAteer, M. "A Scandalous Repression: Clerical Portraits in the Irish TV Documentary Series Radharc".
  8. ↑ Radharc Trust About Us, www.radharc.ie
  9. ↑ The Radharc Film and Document CollectionIrish Film Institute, www.ifi.ie
  10. ↑ Radharc Awards www.filmbase.ie
  11. ↑ The Black Irish of Montserrat Irish accents in the Caribbean www.youtube.com


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