4: Spiritual Waters pt 1
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Release Date: 02/06/2022
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 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 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.
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The Maguires, Kings of Fermanagh
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
The Maguires, Kings of Fermanagh, were once among the most prominent dynasties in the north-west of Ireland. At their peak, their fleet of white sail boats gave them complete dominance of the waterways in and around Lough Erne, where they built the first castle at Enniskillen. This is the story of their rise and all.
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The Voyage from St. James’s Gate
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Turtle 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.
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The Normans
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
This episode tells the tale of the Anglo-Norman invasion through the men who built the castles of at Athlone, the Rinndown peninsula, and McDermott’s Castle on Lough Key, as well as along the Barrow, featuring a cast of warrior-bishops, Flemish wool traders and Knights Templar who dominated the waterways.
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Turlough O’Connor, King of the Water
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
The extraordinary story of the O’Connor king who ruled Ireland for 35 years, during which time his extensive fleet took control of the Shannon and the Erne, built bridges and castles along the waters, and reshaped a large stretch of the Shannon region to build a new border against his enemies to the south and east.
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45 M
NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury
Susie Coote, owner of the 45M barge, tells the story of the boat that sank on Lough Derg in 1946 with the loss of 3 of their crew, and how it was raised in 1975 by the late Donnacha Kennedy and purchased by her late father David Coote.
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