Tales of Irish Castles

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TV-PG

Documentary

June 22nd, 2014

Tales of Irish Castles Season 1 Episodes

Season 1

July 27th, 2014

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.

July 20th, 2014

With the advent of the cannon in the 18th and 19th centuries, castles such as Tullynally morphed from military strongholds into lordly family homes.

July 13th, 2014

In the 17th century, strategically important castles at Limerick, Birr and elsewhere played critical roles in a hundred years of bloody wars.

July 6th, 2014

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.

June 29th, 2014

As Norman influence spread in Ireland in the 13th and 14th centuries, powerful knights sparked a castle-building boom in Kilkenny and beyond.

June 22nd, 2014

In the 12th century, the political situation made Ireland ripe for Norman conquest and the beginning of castle-building in Dublin and beyond.