NATIONWIDE WEEK 10
MONDAY 6TH MARCH
PRESENTER DONAL BYRNE
THE IRISH CIVIL WAR IN KERRY
Presenter Donal Byrne reports from Kerry on one of the most brutal periods of the Civil War and recounts the atrocities at Ballyseedy, Killarney and elsewhere, when Republican prisoners were executed with land mines by the National Army. He meets members of families whose relatives survived these executions and looks at the legacy left by the war. He also examines how women became victims of the war in a series of shocking attacks.
WEDNESDAY 8TH MARCH
PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
This year Nationwide is celebrating our 30th birthday, and as part of these celebrations we are visiting places of natural heritage and beauty across the country and we are also looking for your wildlife and landscape photos for the Eye on Nature photographic competition. Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh speaks to one of the judges, Niall Hatch, whom we recently went in search of the great spotted woodpecker at Birdwatch Irelands East Coast Nature Reserve.
FRIDAY 10TH MARCH
PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
ROXANNA NIC LIAM/REPORT BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
Bláthnaid Ní Chófaigh is in Dublin to meet Roxanna Nic Liam an actor, currently best known for her portrayal of Erica in Fair City, but there is so much more to this young woman, and her identity as an Irish speaker, is just another string to her bow, a spoken word performer, an activist and an Irish speaker.
CALVING ON THE FARM/REPORT TOMÁS O MAINNÍN
Now spring is upon us, it is a busy time on the farms and in County Tipperary, a local farmer takes time out to practice his music skills and offer a lesson to the next generation of traditional musicians. Tomás O Mainnín spends the day down on the farm in Tipperary.
FATHER MICHEÁL MAC GRÉIL, MAYO/REPORT PAT MCGRATH
Father Micheál Mac Gréil was a true Irish man and will be remembered on Saint Patrick’s Day when the first of three seasonal pilgrimages take place in Mám Éan in Connemara. The Jesuit priest, who died in January, was instrumental in maintaining a century’s old tradition on the Maumturks Mountains in the West of Ireland. Reporter Pat McGrath looks back on his life and work.