Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events linked to places across Ireland. Introduced by Helen Mark.
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode 2
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 linked to places across the UK and Ireland.
11/11/2018 • 14 minutes, 35 seconds
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode 1
Helen Mark presents a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of the Great War through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland.
11/11/2018 • 14 minutes, 30 seconds
Tipperary: Command Depot of Convalescing Soldiers
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. In 1916, a military hospital in Tipperary had the capacity to treat 4,000 convalescing soldiers before they were deemed well enough to return to the front.
11/9/2018 • 5 minutes, 52 seconds
Sion Mills,Co.Tyrone: Herdman's Mill
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. In Sion Mills, Co Tyrone, Herdman’s Mill went from producing table cloths to airplane wings and shell casings.
11/8/2018 • 6 minutes, 35 seconds
Wexford: When the Americans came to Town
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. In Wexford, 1918, an American sea plane station was set up to target U-Boats along the Irish coast.
11/7/2018 • 6 minutes, 12 seconds
Saint Ultan’s Hospital
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. In Dublin, Dr Kathleen Lynn set up St Ultan’s Hospital to combat infant mortality.
11/6/2018 • 5 minutes, 49 seconds
James Mackie and Sons, Belfast: From Linen to Munitions
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. The engineering firm of Mackie’s, in Belfast, employed large numbers of women to make munitions.
11/5/2018 • 6 minutes, 3 seconds
Willoughby Weaving
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Poet and educator Willoughby Weaving represents one of the many forgotten war poets lost to history.
6/22/2018 • 6 minutes, 34 seconds
The Goodbody Jute Factory
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. A Quaker family in Clara, Co Offaly, reconciled doing business in the war economy with their pacifist beliefs.
6/21/2018 • 6 minutes, 4 seconds
The 1917 South Longford By-Election
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. As war raged in May 1917, the South Longford by-election was a crucial factor in the emergence of Sinn Fein as the main political force in Southern Ireland.
6/20/2018 • 6 minutes, 10 seconds
Kilrush, Co. Clare
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Kilrush man Charles Glynn was a major employer in the town and also led recruitment drives for the armed forces.
6/19/2018 • 6 minutes, 18 seconds
Ardglass, Co. Down
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. The fishing village of Ardglass receives a visit from a mysterious stranger.
6/18/2018 • 5 minutes, 36 seconds
Remembrance Day - Part 2
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of World War One seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland.
11/12/2017 • 14 minutes, 41 seconds
Remembrance Day - Part 1
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of World War One seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland.
11/12/2017 • 14 minutes, 41 seconds
Wartime Seaside Scrapbooks
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. The scrapbooks of Bangor Council provide a window into the seaside town's efforts to provide fun during the dark days of war.
11/10/2017 • 6 minutes, 8 seconds
Tobacco for the Troops
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. At one time Belfast had the biggest tobacco factory in the world, helping to produce cigarettes to send to troops on the front line.
11/9/2017 • 6 minutes, 2 seconds
Percy French
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. William Percy French - famous songwriter, poet and painter from County Roscommon - raised funds and entertained soldiers during World War One.
11/8/2017 • 6 minutes, 10 seconds
A Country Club for Wounded Soldiers
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. A country club for wounded soldiers was established at Knockrose in County Dublin.
11/7/2017 • 6 minutes, 1 second
Prayers Against Conscription
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Ireland's famed mountain Croagh Patrick, in County Mayo, was the venue for a pilgrimage against conscription in 1918.
11/6/2017 • 5 minutes, 59 seconds
Belfast - The War in Advertising
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Newspaper advertising uses the war to sell common household products in ways that would now seem distasteful.
6/9/2017 • 6 minutes, 12 seconds
Laois - The GAA and Rule 21
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Rule 21 forbade members of the British security forces from playing in the GAA. In 1915, the Laois County Board sought to overturn the rule for the duration of the war.
6/8/2017 • 6 minutes, 9 seconds
Listowel, Co. Kerry - Kitchener, The Early Years
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Field Marshal Lord Kitchener is one of the most famous faces of World War I and, like many of the senior officers in the British Army, was Irish by birth.
6/7/2017 • 6 minutes, 13 seconds
RDS Dublin, War Horses
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. The RDS in Dublin becomes a Remount Depot, where horses from across Ireland are trained for warfare and sent to the front.
6/7/2017 • 6 minutes, 11 seconds
Mount Stewart, Home of The Women's Legion
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. From the grand house of Mount Stewart by Strangford Lough, Lady Edith Londonderry launches the Women's Legion.
6/7/2017 • 6 minutes, 6 seconds
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode Two
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.
11/13/2016 • 14 minutes, 40 seconds
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode One
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.
11/13/2016 • 14 minutes, 41 seconds
Comber Post Office
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.
11/11/2016 • 6 minutes, 15 seconds
The Formby and Coningbeg
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.
11/10/2016 • 6 minutes, 13 seconds
Thomas MacGreevy - Ireland's Modernist War Poet
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.
11/9/2016 • 6 minutes, 7 seconds
Castlecomer Coal Mine
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.
11/8/2016 • 5 minutes, 58 seconds
The 6th Connaught Rangers
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. Hundreds of volunteers from west Belfast enlist to fight in the 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers.
11/7/2016 • 6 minutes, 11 seconds
Ballymena's Memorial Park
After the horror of the Somme work begins to build a memorial park, in Ballymena - one of the first war memorials in Ireland.
7/1/2016 • 5 minutes, 27 seconds
George Hackney - War Photographer
A simple grave in Comber marks the final resting place of George Hackney, one of the greatest photographers of the First World War.
6/30/2016 • 6 minutes, 37 seconds
A Flag made from Soldier's Shirts
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.
6/28/2016 • 6 minutes, 19 seconds
23/03/2016
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.
3/23/2016 • 6 minutes, 18 seconds
22/03/2016
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'.
3/22/2016 • 5 minutes, 29 seconds
21/03/2016
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.
3/21/2016 • 6 minutes, 13 seconds
A Special Remembrance Sunday edition
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.
11/8/2015 • 15 minutes, 6 seconds
A Special Remembrance Sunday edition
Helen Mark presents a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of the Great War through stories and events.
11/8/2015 • 15 minutes, 6 seconds
Troops stop for a platform picnic
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.
11/7/2015 • 6 minutes, 5 seconds
Ireland's only Pals battalion
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Rugby friends unite in Dublin to form Ireland's only Pals battalion.
11/6/2015 • 6 minutes, 5 seconds
Q-ships, the secret weapon against U-boats.
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.
11/5/2015 • 5 minutes, 41 seconds
Cleenish Island provides homes for heroes.
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Cleenish Island in County Fermanagh provides homes for heroes.
11/4/2015 • 5 minutes, 37 seconds
The British army marches on boots made in Carlow.
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. The British army marches on boots made in Carlow.
11/3/2015 • 6 minutes, 12 seconds
Belfast's 'forgotten' shipyard sets a riveting record that pleases the King.
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Belfast's 'forgotten' shipyard sets a riveting record that pleases the King.
11/2/2015 • 6 minutes, 15 seconds
02/05/2015
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.
5/2/2015 • 6 minutes, 12 seconds
01/05/2015
How the Irish Volunteers landed a consignment of rifles into Howth Harbour.
5/1/2015 • 6 minutes, 9 seconds
30/04/2015
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.
4/30/2015 • 6 minutes, 5 seconds
29/04/2015
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'.
4/29/2015 • 6 minutes, 13 seconds
28/04/2015
The Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin's Phoenix Park was home to over 400 orphaned boys at the outbreak of the war.
4/28/2015 • 6 minutes, 10 seconds
27/04/2015
The centenary of WW1 seen through stories and events across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. A look at how the Blackman Tech in Belfast helped the war effort.
4/27/2015 • 6 minutes, 13 seconds
26/04/2015
The GPO in Dublin played a vital role in wartime communications before becoming a symbol of revolution.
4/26/2015 • 6 minutes, 6 seconds
25/04/2015
Fortune tellers are prosecuted in the courts for trying to make money from predictions about soldiers serving on the front.
4/25/2015 • 6 minutes, 7 seconds
14/11/2014
County Cavan neighbours Lord Farnham and Sir Oliver Nugent find their lives entwined in the Home Rule crisis and the First World War.
11/14/2014 • 6 minutes, 9 seconds
13/11/2014
The story of how 50 scouts from Belfast helped to bring in the flax harvest in County Down.
11/13/2014 • 6 minutes, 11 seconds
12/11/2014
Exploring the role played by the Countess of Limerick and the Shamrock League in raising spirits and funds.
11/12/2014 • 6 minutes, 3 seconds
11/11/2014
A plaque on the wall of St Malachy's Church in Belfast honours those who gave their lives.
11/11/2014 • 6 minutes, 13 seconds
10/11/2014
A quiet cemetery at Bonamargy Friary near Ballycastle holds the graves of some of those who perished at sea while serving on HMS Viknor.
11/10/2014 • 6 minutes, 10 seconds
08/08/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Absorbent and antiseptic sphagnum moss from the Bog of Allen was used to make dressings.
8/8/2014 • 5 minutes, 58 seconds
07/08/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff disguised ordinary cargo vessels as battleships.
8/7/2014 • 6 minutes, 9 seconds
06/08/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Linen yarn from Comber in Co Down covered the frames of fighter planes.
8/6/2014 • 5 minutes, 51 seconds
05/08/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Ballyclare Comrades FC can be traced back to soldiers returning from the trenches.
8/5/2014 • 5 minutes, 40 seconds
04/08/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Carrickfergus witnessed a wartime influx of Royal Irish Fusiliers from Cavan and Monaghan.
8/4/2014 • 6 minutes, 16 seconds
29/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. An English missionary saw the war as an opportunity for Protestants and Catholics to unite.
6/29/2014 • 6 minutes, 11 seconds
28/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. A recruitment rally in Warrenpoint saw nationalists and unionists share the same platform.
6/28/2014 • 6 minutes, 5 seconds
13/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. A modest cottage in Slane was the birthplace of war poet Francis Ledwidge.
6/13/2014 • 6 minutes, 18 seconds
12/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Kynoch's munitions factory in Arklow employed thousands of men, women and children.
6/12/2014 • 5 minutes, 46 seconds
11/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Sharp-eyed soldiers at Kilroot artillery battery guarded Belfast Lough from German attack.
6/11/2014 • 5 minutes, 9 seconds
10/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Like many local newspapers, the Lurgan Mail provided its own view on the war's progress.
6/10/2014 • 6 minutes, 50 seconds
09/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. An area in Enniskillen was once home to dozens of soldiers who fought at Gallipoli.
6/9/2014 • 4 minutes, 27 seconds
08/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. A noodle bar in Belfast was once the site of a jewellers which made badges and sniper sights.
6/8/2014 • 6 minutes, 9 seconds
07/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. A house in Whitehead offered a refuge for children whose mothers were unable to care for them.
6/7/2014 • 6 minutes, 25 seconds
06/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Veterans frustrated by the failure to commemorate the fallen built a memorial out of snow.
6/6/2014 • 5 minutes, 14 seconds
05/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Fleeing German forces in 1914, Belgian refugees brought particular skills.
6/5/2014 • 5 minutes, 20 seconds
04/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. In May 1918, a German U-boat lay in wait as a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Kilkeel.
6/4/2014 • 6 minutes, 28 seconds
03/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. In 1913, the Great Northern Railway converted nine carriages into an ambulance train.
6/3/2014 • 4 minutes, 40 seconds
02/06/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Queen's University Belfast once housed a hospital for those injured in body and spirit.
6/2/2014 • 5 minutes, 39 seconds
07/03/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events in places across Ireland. Conlig lead mine near Newtownards was a focal point for local paranoia about German spies.
3/7/2014 • 6 minutes, 25 seconds
06/03/2014
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events linked to places across Ireland. Hely's Printers in Dublin benefited from the booming business of recruitment posters.
3/6/2014 • 6 minutes, 9 seconds
05/03/2014
Months before war was declared, Larne's grandly sedate Drumalis House was a centre for gunrunning in Sir Edward Carson's bid to resist Home Rule.
3/5/2014 • 6 minutes, 30 seconds
04/03/2014
In 1914, the Hamilton Flute Band from Londonderry joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Their bass drum is now housed in St Columb's Cathedral, used as a communion altar.
3/4/2014 • 6 minutes, 17 seconds
03/03/2014
Bentra Golf Course in Whitehead is revealed as the site of an airship mooring station, crucial in the fight against the scourge of German U-Boats.
3/3/2014 • 6 minutes, 37 seconds
02/03/2014
In September 1914, MP John Redmond made an impromptu and divisive speech at Woodenbridge, Co Wicklow.
3/2/2014 • 6 minutes, 14 seconds
01/03/2014
Lurgan Courthouse, now a bar and bistro in the town, once loomed over soldiers' wives accused of drunk and disorderly behaviour.
3/1/2014 • 5 minutes, 48 seconds
28/02/2014
Templemore Barracks in Tipperary is today home to the training college for An Garda Siochana, but in 1914 it housed more than 2,000 German prisoners of war.
2/28/2014 • 6 minutes, 19 seconds
27/02/2014
Lough Swilly provided shelter for the entire British Grand Fleet in autumn 1914. Kite balloons were used to spot German submarines and artillery guarded the mouth of the lough.
2/27/2014 • 6 minutes, 27 seconds
26/02/2014
In 1914, St James's Gate in Dublin was home to Guinness, the world's largest brewery. Company ships were requisitioned by the admiralty and came to a fateful end.
2/26/2014 • 6 minutes, 18 seconds
25/02/2014
In early 1915, Sam Steele received an urgent order for 50 bicycles fitted with rifle slips. The Tyrone soldiers who rode them set up the first observation posts along the front.
2/25/2014 • 6 minutes, 12 seconds
24/02/2014
In 1914, Belfast's Crumlin Road Gaol housed militant suffragettes. When war was declared, Christabel Pankhurst called on women to postpone their struggle and support the fight.