''Cogar'' (; " Whisper") is an Irish television documentary series, shown on the

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. It focuses on people who have been "ignored" or are at the margins of society. ''Cogar'' was first broadcast in 2000, the first episode looking at

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's bicycle couriers.

Episodes

Notable episodes

*2002: ''Paddy Fitz, Fear an Hata'' ("Paddy Fitz, the Man with the Hat"): on the storyteller Paddy Fitzpatrick *2006: ''Ar Thóir Hy Brasil'' ("In Search of Hy-Brazil"), a documentary on the mythical island *2008: an episode on Irish Community Care Manchester *2011: ''Buabhaill ar na Bánta'' ("Where the Buffalo Roam"), about a

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farmer in County Cork *2011: an episode on

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's Hadji Bey sweetshop *2011: ''Éamonn Ó Cathain – An Fear Iarainn'' (" Eamonn Keane, the Ironman"), covering a County Mayo weightlifter *2014: ''Bliain an tSneachta Mhóir'' ("Year of the Big Snow"), on the 1946–47 heavy snowfall *2015: Episode on the four

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-playing brothers:

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, Jim O'Neill,

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and Mike O'Neill, who played between 1902 and 1928 *2015: Episode on the controversial 1978 TV adaptation of '' Langrishe, Go Down'' *2015: ''Snámh in Aghaidh Easa'' ("Swimming Against the Current"), about the hazards faced by

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trawlermen *2016: ''Diarmuid Lynch – Óglach Dearmadta'' ("Diarmuid Lynch, Forgotten Warrior"), on the life of

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References

External links

Official site
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