Cogar (; "Whisper") 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 ("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 water buffalo farmer in County Cork
- 2011: an episode on Cork's Hadji Bey sweetshop
- 2011: ÃÂamonn àCathain â An Fear Iarainn ("Eamonn Keane, the Ironman"), covering a County Mayo weightlifter
- 2014: Bliain an tSneachta Mhóir ("Year of the Big Snow"), on the 1946âÂÂ47 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 ("Swimming Against the Current"), about the hazards faced by Aran Islands trawlermen
- 2016: Diarmuid Lynch â ÃÂglach Dearmadta ("Diarmuid Lynch, Forgotten Warrior"), on the life of Diarmuid Lynch
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