Cogar
Cogar is an Irish television documentary series, shown on the Irish language channel TG4. 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 Dublin's bicycle couriers.
Episodes
Notable episodes
- 2002: Paddy Fitz, Fear an Hata : on the storyteller Paddy Fitzpatrick
- 2006: Ar Thóir Hy Brasil, a documentary on the mythical island
- 2008: an episode on Irish Community Care Manchester
- 2011: Buabhaill ar na Bánta, about a water buffalo farmer in County Cork
- 2011: an episode on Cork's Hadji Bey sweetshop
- 2011: Éamonn Ó Cathain – An Fear Iarainn, covering a County Mayo weightlifter
- 2014: Bliain an tSneachta Mhóir, on the Winter of 1946–47 in [the United Kingdom|1946–47 heavy snowfall]
- 2015: Episode on the four Irish American baseball-playing brothers: Steve O'Neill, Jim O'Neill, Jack O'Neill 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, about the hazards faced by Aran Islands trawlermen
- 2016: Diarmuid Lynch – Óglach Dearmadta, on the life of Diarmuid Lynch