Great Lighthouses of Ireland

  • Premiered: Sep 2018
  • Episodes: 8
  • Followers: 1
  • Running
  • RTÉ One
  • Sunday
  • Documentary

Seasons:

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Season 1
1x1
A Nation Surrounded
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 30, 2018
The story begins at Hook Head, a treacherous peninsula known locally as “the graveyard of a thousand ships” and then moves on to Eagle Island, an island notorious for its lethal weather conditions.
1x2
Feats of Engineering
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 2018
Often working in hostile and treacherous natural locations, Ireland's lighthouse engineers and builders used great ingenuity to achieve what seemed impossible.
1x3
Witnesses to History
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 14, 2018
Across both World Wars, lighthouse keepers acted as unofficial coastguards, keeping detailed logs of their observations and saving shipwrecked sailors.
1x4 Show finale
A Bright Future
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 21, 2018
A look at the future of lighthouses in the age of electronic and GPS navigation, and a former lighthouse keeper makes a poignant return to the Skelligs lighthouse.

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