Episodes
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of WWI seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland.
Published 11/13/16
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of WWI seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland.
Published 11/13/16
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. How a post office in Comber, Co Down, provided a lifeline between the home front and the war front.
Published 11/11/16
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. Two steamships belonging to the same company are torpedoed off the coast of Waterford, with all hands lost.
Published 11/10/16
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. Tarbert in County Kerry is the birthplace of writer and poet Thomas MacGreevy, who served at Ypres and the Somme.
Published 11/09/16
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. A mine owned by the Wandesforde family in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, gives up more than coal for the war effort.
Published 11/08/16
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. Hundreds of volunteers from west Belfast enlist to fight in the 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers.
Published 11/07/16
After the horror of the Somme work begins to build a memorial park, in Ballymena - one of the first war memorials in Ireland.
Published 07/01/16
A simple grave in Comber marks the final resting place of George Hackney, one of the greatest photographers of the First World War.
Published 06/30/16
Helen Mark introduces a season of stories to mark the momentous events of 1916. In the United Services Club in Limavady hangs a flag thought to have been carried at the Somme.
Published 06/28/16
Helen Mark introduces a season of stories to mark the momentous events of 1916. The Volunteer Training Corps comes under fire in Dublin during the Easter Rising.
Published 03/23/16
Helen Mark introduces a season of stories to mark the momentous events of 1916. St Patrick's Hall in Coalisland, Co Tyrone, is the scene of 'the Ulster Rising that never was'.
Published 03/22/16
Helen Mark introduces a season of stories to mark the momentous events of 1916. Sir Roger Casement is arrested near Banna Strand after trying to smuggle guns for the Easter Rising.
Published 03/21/16
Helen Mark presents the second part of a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of the Great War through stories and events.
Published 11/08/15
Helen Mark presents a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of the Great War through stories and events.
Published 11/08/15
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Troop trains stop for a platform picnic at Limerick Junction in County Tipperary.
Published 11/07/15
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Rugby friends unite in Dublin to form Ireland's only Pals battalion.
Published 11/06/15
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Q-ships from County Cork, the Royal Navy's secret weapon against German U-boats.
Published 11/05/15
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Cleenish Island in County Fermanagh provides homes for heroes.
Published 11/04/15
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. The British army marches on boots made in Carlow.
Published 11/03/15
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Belfast's 'forgotten' shipyard sets a riveting record that pleases the King.
Published 11/02/15
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. How the mass graves of the victims of the sinking of the Lusitania in Cork are a testament to the tragedy.
Published 05/02/15
How the Irish Volunteers landed a consignment of rifles into Howth Harbour.
Published 05/01/15
The centenary of WW1 seen through stories and events. It's a Long Way to Tipperary became synonymous with the conflict, but had nothing to do with the town beyond its title.
Published 04/30/15
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. An internment camp in Oldcastle housed German and other foreign nationals who were treated as 'enemy aliens'.
Published 04/29/15