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 Joe Dunn, Desmond Forristal,[1] and 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]

Influence

Radharc has been the subject of academic research, specifically about the changing representation of priests on Irish television.[6]

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. ↑ McAteer, M. "A Scandalous Repression: Clerical Portraits in the Irish TV Documentary Series Radharc".

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