Radios in Irish homes in 1921 !?

I think it was trying to be part documentary/part Reeling In The Years 20's style and neither part done particularly well, filling in the gaps with clunky reconstructions with actors. I think if Irish homes had any sort of radio back then, it would have been a crystal set, not that there would have been much, if anything, to listen in to.

If you want to see a truly awful series, riddled from top to bottom with errors, look no further than the Alan Partridge-esque Enda Kenny starring in Iarnrod Enda.

Agreed, it would have been a single operator Crystal set in 1922 - set up by an enthusiastic amateur who knew how to operate it, or was learning the newly developing craft. Sound (modulated) radio (as opposed to morse signal operation), was in its development infancy in the early 1920's. I was once involved assisting with a TV doc where I had to point out that the same mistake was being made in production - valve radio tuning being shown, supposedly operating long before valves were invented.

At the time, something like this was state of the art .. no active components (powered), just a piece of germanium 'tickled' by a 'whisker' to strip the AM audio off a carrier, tuned into by sliding the lever on the side in and out. The other connection points are (A) antenna (long wire), (E) Earth (copper pole in the ground) and (T) Crystal earpiece or headphone.

It was a while longer before the whole family could huddle around the valve powered radio to listen in to the Ovaltineys and keep warm, all at the same time.

No, the 252 service from Summerhill only started in 1988

The Athlone transmitter was the main Radio Eireann AM transmitter on 529m (Medium wave) from 1933 to 1975. The Tullamore transmitter took over then on the same wavelegth.

Atlantic 252 was the first licensed Irish station on long wave. It officially launched on September 1st 1989. I understand that for a while it was actually on 254kh rather than 252. When Atlantic 252 closed in the early 00s, Team Talk was briefly on the 252 frequency, before RTE Radio One took it over. Earlier in the 1980s, Chris Cary experimented with pirates, including Radio Nova, on 254kh LW.

The first Irish Radio service was 2RN. It started broadcasting in the Dublin area in January 1926

2RN - Wikipedia

 In 1927 the Cork broadcasting station 6CK was established.

Looks like a 1960s radio, maybe even a modern lookalike.

Set designer with no idea asked to make it look 'old timey'.

Didn't see the programme in question but in archive shows like this often see footage thats out of period with with whats supposed to be depicted onscreen. "Joe Bloggs arrived in Dublin in 1925", cue footage of O Connell Street in the 50s. Think often they'll just use whatever is to hand. You'll also see reenactments of something from the 30s or 40s featuring guys with collar length hair and five day stubble. Its a mixture of laziness and budget constraints.

Military re-enactments with lads far too fat and/or old to have served, T na G has been guilty of a few of these.

Thanks for that.

Recording (apparently 1939) of the Irish Shortwave Service requesting reception reports in USA and Canada

Full details are in this RTÉ/Radio Netherlands Media Network documentary

https://jonathanmarks.libsyn.com/mn_20_march_1987_ireland_calling_on_shortwave

"Amateur radio in Ireland goes back to experiments in radio transmission and reception carried out in Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow in 1898."

Colonel Meade Dennis of Fortgranite was an early radio pioneer and friend of Marconi