The Voyage from St. James’s Gate
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Release Date: 04/18/2023
NEW Episode 8, Season 3, The Navvys
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Turtle is joined by Ultan Cowley who shares his insights into the daily lives, motivations and semi-mythological reputations of the Irish navvies who built the canals, and how their successors built Britain’s railways, motorways and the Channel Tunnel.
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NEW Episode 7, Season 3, The Royal Canal
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Started on the eve of the French Revolution, the Royal Canal is Ireland’s longest manmade waterway running for 145 km (90 miles) from Dublin to the River Shannon. Here Turtle tells the colourful story of its founders Long John Binns and William Cope, and looks at why it took almost 30 years to finish the project.
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NEW Episode 6, Season 3: 30 Year Anniversary of the Shannon-Erne Waterway/
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
It is now 30 yrs since the completion of the Shannon-Erne waterway, linking the Shannon and Erne river systems. It was a pioneering project in many ways, not least as one of the first major collaborative efforts between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Turtle talks with renowned engineer Joe Gillespie, the main OPW representative on the project, for a reflection on how the transformational waterway came about.
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NEW Episode 5, Season 3: Writers on the Erne
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Irish language novelist and historian Séamas Mac Annaidh discusses his childhood on the island of Enniskillen, as well as the monks who compiled the Annals of Ulster on Belle Isle, the school where Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett studied, and a poem about American GIs playing baseball amid the ruins of Devinish Island.
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NEW Episode 2, S3 Genesis
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Featuring cameos by James Joyce’s canal-building forbear and Black Tom Wentworth, we learn how the desire to drain and improve Ireland’s boglands led the industrious Georgians to slowly (very slowly) construct some of the island’s earliest canals and waterways.
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NEW Episode 4, S3, The Grand Canal
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Turtle charts the twists and turns of the long-running project to connect Dublin to the River Shannon.
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NEW Episode 3, S3 THE 29th LOCK
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Patsy Cummins is the third generation of her family to work on the Grand Canal. Having been keeper of the 29th lock near Tullamore, she talks of the friendships she made along the way and explains how a tragedy at Shannon Bridge brought her family east to Ballycowan.
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NEW: Episode 1, S3: Paddling the Waterways’
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Dive into this gorgeous interview with Gwen Wilkinson, who named her homemade boat ‘Minnot’ before setting out on her 400 km journey from the shores of Lough Erne to the tidal waters of the River Barrow in Ireland.
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Hidden Treasures of the Waterways
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Turtle talks with marine archaeologist, Dr Connie Kelleher, about the exciting revelations of underwater archaeology on Irish waterways from Neolithic logboats to battle debris to the treasures of the modern age.
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Boating on the Barrow
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Boating guru Cliff Reid of www.boatrips.ie discusses the glorious historical, geographical and natural elements of the River Barrow, the second-longest river in Ireland.
info_outlineTurtle talks with historian, Cathy Scuffil about one of the most iconic aspects of
the Canal Age – the sight of barges laden with Guinness barrels voyaging through
the Irish countryside.