MONDAY 18TH AUGUST
PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
HERITAGE WEEK – PROGRAMME 1
In the first of three special programmes for Heritage Week, the Nationwide team are in Limerick to share stories celebrating both local and national heritage. Presenter Anne Cassin explores the rich history of King John’s Castle and hears about the wide range of events planned for Heritage Week in Limerick and across the country.
The programme also features one of Ireland’s oldest community bands, the St John’s Brass and Reed Band, which is this year marking 160 years of music-making in Limerick. Reporter, Marian Malone, has been finding out about its enduring impact on the cultural life of the city since its founding in 1865.
WEDNESDAY 20TH AUGUST
PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
HERITAGE WEEK – PROGRAMME 2
Nationwide continues with heritage stories on this Heritage Week, this evening with a focus on County Clare. The team joins a group of visitors in Ennis who are exploring the towns-built heritage, and in the east of the county, Nationwide visits a cottage that was once a forge.
Reporter Zainab Boladale finds out about a new self-guided tour of Ennis town. It’s an initiative by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and it’s called the Wonder Wander Walking trail, which highlights the rich built heritage of Ennis.
The next story takes viewers to Mountshannon on the shores of Lough Derg, where an old cottage that once served as a blacksmiths forge has been brought back to life, and is now producing works of art.
FRIDAY 22ND AUGUST
PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
HERITAGE WEEK, GRANGEGORMAN – PROGRAMME 3
On this evening’s Nationwide, the team hears the remarkable story of Grangegorman in Dublin. Once hidden from the local community behind high walls, the site has a layered and often difficult history, serving over the past 250 years as a workhouse, hospital and prison.
Now transformed into a vibrant health and education campus, Grangegorman is open to the city, and the Grangegorman Histories Project is bringing its complex and revealing past to light.
