Tales of Irish Castles

  • Premiered: Jun 2015
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 2
  • Ended
  • U&Yesterday
  • Thursday
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
The Normans Are Coming
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 04, 2015
In the 12th century, the political situation made Ireland ripe for Norman conquest and the beginning of castle-building in Dublin and beyond.
1x2
Don’t Mess with a Knight
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 11, 2015
As Norman influence spread in Ireland in the 13th and 14th centuries, powerful knights sparked a castle-building boom in Kilkenny and beyond.
1x3
The Fightback
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 18, 2015
As documented in Leap and elsewhere, castle design soon changed when the Irish fought back against the Anglo-Normans in the 15th and 16the centuries.
1x4
A Century Of Turmoil
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 25, 2015
In the 17th century, strategically important castles at Limerick, Birr and elsewhere played critical roles in a hundred years of bloody wars.
1x5
A Taste for Gothic
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 02, 2015
With the advent of the cannon in the 18th and 19th centuries, castles such as Tullynally morphed from military strongholds into lordly family homes.
1x6 Show finale
End of Empire
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 09, 2015
As political and social unrest swept Ireland in the 20th century, debt-ridden castles fell into disrepair and into the hands of the nouveau riche.

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