Taisce na Tuaithe

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• Philip Campbell goes to the O'Neill country of Tyrone and South Derry. He visits the crowning seat of the O'Neill clan, discovers a preserved mass rock, learns how a town has been wrongly named and enters the ruined dwellings of the last native Irish speakers of Ulster.
• This episode features a visit to the refurbished castle of the O'Donnells in Donegal, and a journey into the heart of the Blue Stack mountains to meet the last few people living in these remote hills.
• Philip Campbell travels through parts of Fermanagh, Cavan, Leitrim and Sligo to discover some lost local stories including how a shrewd woman secretly saved her family from the famine.
• Philip Campbell takes viewers to one of the most historical and culturally rich regions of Ulster, Oriel, which encompasses Armagh, Louth and Monaghan, and is the birthplace of Ireland's 17th-century Robin Hood, Redmond O'Hanlon. The programme also features a rare form of cutting turf in Castleblayney.
• Featuring a rare form of cutting turf in Castleblaney, and the most famous ballad of South Armagh poet Art Mac Cumhaidh.
• Learn why Guinness is actually McCartan's and discover what really happened at the Battle of Bloody Bridge. Plus, revealing the Irish language connections to Scarvagh House, the site where the reenactment of the Battle of the Boyne takes place.
• This week presenter Pilib Mac Cathmhaoil will be in a pub in County Down. We learn that Guinness is actually McCartans and we discover what really happened at the Battle of the Bloody Bridge.
• A trip through the Glens of Antrim and along the Antrim coastline highlights the ancient Gaelic connections with Scotland and features the homes of some of the wealthy aristocratic women who pioneered the Gaelic revival at the turn of the 20th century.
• Fermanagh John Carron treats Pilib to some mead and traditionally cooked biscuits, the recipe of which dates back to 1594 and Fermanagh's battle of the biscuits.
• Louth In Louth, Tim Mullin, a former customs officer, shows Pilib one of Louth's smuggling hotspots and reveals some of the more interesting artefacts that were found whilst being smuggled across the border.
• Derry To Derry and first stop, a tour around the famed walls with local man Fearghal Mag Uiginn who tells Pilib a little about their history and some of the fierce battles they've witnessed.
• Lough Neagh Kieran Breen takes Pilib out on the Lake in a traditional Lough Neagh Currach, a replica that he and a group of friends built from scratch. Pilib also meets local politician Patsy McGlone.
• Monaghan In Monaghan Pilib meets up with Peadar Morgan who, over the years, has collected a treasure trove of `Taisce'. Pilib has his eye on an item or few but Peadar isn't for selling.
• Arranmore Pilib returns to Arranmore for the first time in 30 years to see if some of the older characters still remember him as a teenage student.