Famine and Shipwreck Famine and Shipwreck: An Irish Odyssey is a documentary feature that combines dramatic recreations with testimonies from[…]
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Frederick Douglass’s Connection with Ireland
Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland 175 years ago, Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland. Just seven years after his escape from[…]
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The Appalachians: The Scotch-Irish / Scots-Irish
The Appalachians From the documentary The Appalachians. The Presbyterian Scots-Irish from Ulster in the north of Ireland influenced this region[…]
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The Great Irish Famine – Documentary (1996)
Ireland’s Great Famine Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845-1849 was a catastrophic tragedy that has embedded itself in the island’s consciousness.[…]
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Ancient DNA find at Newgrange
Ancient DNA at Newgrange reveals ‘God-Kings’ of Prehistoric Ireland A recent archaeological study at Newgrange completed using new DNA analysis[…]
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When Hitchcock Met O’Casey
Ireland’s most noted Playwrights It was a collaboration between one of Ireland’s most noted playwrights and cinema’s greatest directors, yet[…]
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Dan Breen and Sean Treacy Documentary Part 1
The lives of Dan Breen and Sean Treacy Directed and edited by Marcus Howard. A documentary looking at the lives[…]
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Outbreak RTE Documentary about 1918 Killer Flu
Irish Pandemic Here is a Documentary about the 1918 Killer Flu It was the worst pandemic to hit Ireland since[…]
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Liss Ard Estate, Castletownshend Road, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
Impressive Early Victorian Mansion A truly remarkable residential estate with impressive early Victorian Mansion, large private pleasure lake complete with[…]
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Knockdrin Castle, Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
Knockdrin Castle A splendid eighteenth century Gothic Revival Castle majestically positioned within a rolling parkland estate of some 500 acres[…]
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