On the Street Where You Live (TV series)

On the Street Where You Live
Genre	Documentary
Country of origin	Ireland
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	RTÉ One
Original release	9 January – 13 February 2009
External links
Website

On the Street Where You Live is a six-part documentary television series broadcast on RTÉ One in Ireland. Examined a different street each episode, the stories are told through local characters who have witnessed great changes come about on the streets of their home city throughout their lifetime. Some footage from the programmes is available to view online at RTÉ.ie. The series was originally aired in January – February 2009 each Friday at 19:30. Each episode is thirty minutes in length and featured streets from the cities of Dublin, Galway, Dundalk, Limerick, Cork and Kilkenny.

The first programme focused on O'Connell Street in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, and was broadcast on 9 January 2009. It features contributions from Carmel Moran, who lived on the street for thirty-five years and witnessed many events from her sitting room window above the Happy Ring House, Billy Fleming, whose father was a road worker on the street and who himself now drives the Number 11 bus up and down the street several times each day, Herbie Donnelly, who worked in different cinemas on O'Connell Street for fifty-one years until he retired eighteen years before the programme was made, and Pat Liddy, who worked in Aer Lingus on O'Connell Street for thirty years and is now a local historian.

The first programme focused on Shop Street in Galway and was broadcast on 16 January 2009. It features contributions from Mary Bennett, who moved from County Clare to Galway in the late 1950s, built a business empire up from a souvenir stall in the Great Southern Hotel to a popular store (The Treasure Chest) located on Shop Street, Jimmy Griffin, who is a member of the fourth generation of Griffin's Bakers, established in 1876, and Pat McPhilbin, who worked in a bakery on Shop Street as a young boy and now cleans the streets for the Galway Corporation to a soundtrack of classical music.

The third programme focused on Clambrassil Street in Dundalk, County Louth and was broadcast on 23 January 2009. It features contributions from Bernadette Kavanagh, whose grandparents ran Connell's drapery store (one of the oldest shop on the street) and whose brother inherited it, Harry Lee, who worked all his life in the shoe trade only to become a radio show host upon the death of his wife, Eamonn Coleman, who grew up over his father's butcher shop and remembers the car bomb which struck the street in 1975, and Hugh Smyth, a local historian who recalls his childhood memories from Clambrassil Street.

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