BUILDING IRELAND***FINAL***

Building Ireland S3 Geographer Susan Hegarty in Shannon Free Trade Zone Image Name: Building Ireland S3 Geographer Susan Hegarty in Shannon Free Trade Zone
Building Ireland S3 Geographer Susan Hegarty in Shannon Free Trade Zone 2 Image Name: Building Ireland S3 Geographer Susan Hegarty in Shannon Free Trade Zone 2
Building Ireland S3 Geographer Mary Greene in Shannon Newtown 3 Image Name: Building Ireland S3 Geographer Mary Greene in Shannon Newtown 3
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Broadcast Details: Thursday 14th May, 8.00pm

Geographer Susan Hegarty discovers how the success of the Shannon Airport Free Trade Zone sparked the building of Ireland’s first new town in 300 years.

Series 3, Episode 5 – Shannon Newtown

Emerging as a response to rural decline and depopulation in the 1950s, new industrial jobs prompted the construction of a new community on a greenfield site, built to the latest ideas in urban planning.  Shannon Newtown became a multi-cultural oasis in rural Ireland and provided a model of socio-economic development that was exported to places like China and changed the lives of millions.