All Episodes

S1 Ep2: Quiet Man

S1 Ep2: Dead finale

S1 Ep2: Field law

S1 Ep2: Field Outsiders

S1 Ep2: Ismay

S1 Ep2: Quint's speech

S1: Sligo Town overview

S1 Ep1: Welcome to the Yeats Country Guide

S1: Upon seeing the Bluestacks

Bluestack Mountains overview

Welcome to the Celtic Calendar

Lughnasa miscellany

The hungry month of July

Garland Sunday

Puck Fair

The pagan dance of Lughnasa

The original Tailteann Games

Who was Lugh?

Welcome to Big Country

S1 Ep17: BSW1 Beer hops

20. BF Lean summer days

18. BF Hirings Fairs

19. BF Booleying

17. BF Midsummer's Eve

16. BF Whit Sunday

15. BF Gretta's Bealtaine

12. There's something about Brigid

14. Imbolc review

13. Beliefs around Brigid

10. Getting her dues

11. Divination

9. Imbolc rituals

8. One powerful woman

7. Holy wells

6. Brigid's Cross

5. Desecration by Diarmaid mac Murchadha

4. Gretta's Brigid overview

3. Brigid - a starting point

2. Saluting Brigid

1. Imbolc overview

Bonus DHS - P.J. Ward remembered

S1 Ep7: BSW1 Local love song in Irish

BSW4 - 13. Ardara, heritage town

BSW4 - 12. Ardara fort

BSW4 - 11. The cowpat golf course

BSW4 - 10. Owenea standing stone

BSW4 - 9. Kentucky in the Donegal hills

BSW4 - 8. Fairy lore

BSW4 - 7. The Irish storyteller

BSW4 - 6. Owenea fishing tale

BSW4 - 5. The glamourous West End

BSW4 - 4. Metal bridge/Diarmuid

BSW4 - 3. The view of the mountains

BSW4 - 2. The Harvest Fair

BSW4 - 1. Leaving Ballybeg/Lughnasa

BSW3A 13. The Casan/All Souls Day

BSW3A 12. Rambling houses

BSW3A 11. 'Pooching' and fasting

BSW3A 10. Out and about by Sir Arthur's bridge

BSW3A 9. Mountain mist/holy wells

BSW3A 8. The man who knew his sheep

BSW3A 7. The north range

BSW3A 6. Tullynaglaggin times

BSW3A 5. Beware of the Pooka

BSW3A 4. Geology of the valley

BSW3 3. Heather, bees and views

BSW3A 2. The hungry month

BSW3A 1. Glacial deposit

BSW3 27. Dancing at Lughnasa

BSW3 26. Jimmy's winning matches

BSW3 25. V.I.P hotel

BSW3 24. Talking Shop

BSW3 23. Early days of the festival

BSW3 22. The truth about sheep!

BSW3 21. View of the glens

BSW3 20. Glenties - one tidy town

BSW3 19. The path across the moor

BSW3 18. Beckett's boulevarde

BSW3 15. Along the Owenroe river/Mass Rock

BSW3 17. Deepest Doobin

BSW3 16. Fionn's frolics

BSW3 15. Along the Owenroe river

BSW3 14. An emigrant's farewell

BSW3 13. Donegal's famous postman

BSW3 12. I can see for miles and miles

BSW3 11. Carnaween

BSW3 10. Climbing the Bluestacks

BSW3 9. Divergence

BSW3 8. At the foothills

BSW3 7. Disert during the Famine

BSW3 6. Disert graveyard

BSW3 5. Field of dreams

BSW3 4. Songs of the area

BSW3 3. Approaching a sacred site

BSW3 2. St. Brigid's Day

BSW3 1. Daybreak in Drimarone

S1 Ep15: BSW1 Tranquil shores?

BSW2 23. Safe houses/Upper Eanymore

BSW2 22. O'Neill's of Letterbarrow

BSW2 21. Bluestack centre

BSW2 20. End of Day Two

BSW2 19. Forestry

BSW2 18. Tending to the valley

BSW2 17. Bog flora

BSW2 16. The bog

BSW2 16. Turf cutting

BSW2 15. Meenaguse Lough

BSW2 14. The professor turned sheep farmer

BSW2 13. The yellow river

BSW2 12. Grey Mare's tail

BSW2 11. Meenawilderg's favourite son

BSW2 10. Blue Stack range and The Song

BSW2 9. Meenataggart Hall

BSW2 8. Sheep dipping

BSW2 7. The scary woman/Belshade fault

BSW2 6. Lime kiln

BSW2 5. Heavenly place

BSW2 4. Eglish valley

BSW2 3. The North East range

BSW2 2. Eagles' dens and ancient paths

BSW2 1. Ascending the valley

S1 Ep16: BSW1 The Friary

S1 Ep13: BSW1 A microcosm of Ireland

Me an' me Da (living in Drumlister)

Bram Stoker's Sligo

Keen

Irish funeral customs

The Irish and death

Death lore in Ireland

DMcC Glacial Inishowen

DMcC Agnes Jones's grave

DMcC Carrowmore East Cross and bullaun slab

DMcC Carrowmore West Cross

DMcC Cloncha church and Boudan's cross

DMcC Crime and punishment

DMcC Druids, Brehon Law, stone circles

DMcC How the stones were moved

DMcC King's Grave, Inch island

DMcC Lanes that stay

DMcC Sloblands reclamation

DMcC St. Mura's Cross in Fahan

DMcC Starting point of Inishowen

DMcC Taking your ancestors with you

DMcC Tips on travelling through fields

DMcC Samhain - Derry at Halloween

DMcC Samhain - Illies and the banshee

DMcC Samhain - all hail the hazel!

DMcC - Samhain - earliest social media

Samhain fire

DMcC - Samhain's cult of the dead

Samhain overview

All Souls Day

Banshee - PG

Divination - PG

Morrigan

Otherworld - PG

Samhain and the Gates of Hell - PG

EMT - Sliabh Bawn's history

EMT - Waterloo and Wellington

EMT - where once the Shannon flowed

EMT - fairies and the Otherworld

EMT - getting lost due to the fairies

EMT - local tales of fairies

EMT - name and famine

EMT - hearing the Banshee

EMT - fairies as black cats

EMT Swan lake

EMT Tailteann Games

EMT Kilgavin church

S1 Ep13: EMT Queen Medh and the bull

S1 Ep12: BSW1 Piseog/In the footsteps of monks

S1 Ep11: BSW1 Traditional routes

S1 Ep10: BSW1 East Range

S1 Ep9: BSW1 Biddy's

S1 Ep8: BSW1 Barnesmore in the distance

S1 Ep6: BSW1 Condy in the Bluestacks

S1 Ep5: BSW1 Walking in the hills

S1 Ep4: BSW1 Eske river

S1 Ep3: BSW1 Famine graveyard

S1 Ep2: BSW1 The Hiring Fair

The Dobhar-chú

S1 Ep1: BSW1 The Diamond

A sort of homecoming

Inishowen placenames

Bonus DHS - the boys are back in town

Keith Corcoran's top storytelling tips

Rab Fulton's top storytelling tips

Bonus DHS - Lough Swilly and the goddess

13. DHS - Tory Island

11. DHS - Leo's Tavern

15. DHS - Doon Rock

Bonus DHS - Fishing in Doagh Island

14. DHS - Mount Errigal

Bonus DHS - Biddys O'Barnes

Bonus DHS - Jacqui introduces The Light

7. DHS - The Laurels

8. DHS - Inishkeel and St. Conal's bell

6. DHS - The Croaghs

9. DHS - Kerrytown's visitation

2. DHS - Rory Gallagher international festival

23. DHS - MacCumhaill Park

4. DHS - St. Asicus's Grave

10. DHS - Daniel O'Donnell and the Viking House

20. DHS - Kealy's Seafood Restaurant

3. DHS - Surfing and Donegal Bay

17. DHS - Lough Swilly from Dunree

16. DHS - Grianan of Aileach

18. DHS - St. Eigne's holy well

21. DHS - Amelia Earhart's landing

22. DHS - Beltany Stone Circle

12. DHS - Teach Hudí Beag's

19. DHS - Malin Head

5. DHS - St. Colmcille Turas

S1 Ep14: Famine Pot BSW1 and 24. DHS

25. DHS - Lough Derg

1. DHS - the Drowes river and the first salmon

10. BBG - the ghost of Willy McMyle PG

9. BBG - fairy trees

8. BBG - skull sweethearts PG

7. BBG - Joan of Arc PG

6. BBG - witches PG

5. BBG - the levitator

4. BBG - mystery of the wrench

3. BBG - Bob's dead

2. BBG - The Fire Stoker

1. BBG Poltergeists PG

12. BB - Deegan's motorbike

11. BB Killing a Jap

10. BB Kelly's Donkey

9. BB Getting Caught

8. BB Tommy Molloy

7. BB Patsy O'Hagan

5. BB Middle Man

4. BB Carndonagh cattle

Poltergeists

Dan's cottage background beat

Winning the turf

30. GMH - Paddy's last tune

29. GMB - Tony's flotsam and bores

28. GMH - McCann's sea heritage

27. GMH - a beautiful location

26. GMH - Lighthouse keepers

25. GMH - Colby's baseline

24. GMH - colourful residents

23. GMH - Patsy's 1831 lament

22. GMH - the enchanted lake

21. GMH - the Foyle's many visitors

20. GMH - fishing with our European cousins

19. GMH - Spanish Armada legacy

18. GMH - Greencastle's boat builders

17. GMH - playing a big part in WW2

16. GMH - Paddy's yarn and song

15. GMH - Charlie McCann remembers

14. GMH - Inishtrahuill poem

13. GMH - the 1851 weather of the area

12. GMH - the Foyle ferry

11. GMH - the long haul to Coleraine

10. GMH - all roads lead to Greencastle

9. GMH - many comings and goings

8. GMH - dividing the share

7. GMH - fishermen's beliefs

6. GMH - Northburgh castle

5. GMH - the maritime memorial

4. GMH - modern day Greencastle

3. GMH - buoys, nets and pots

2. GMH - the drontheim

1. GMH Radio intro

28. TBN - Drumnagessen bridge

27. TBN - the Rockytown Lights

26. TBN - last fatal duel in Ireland

25. TBN - The Plains of Boyle

24. TBN - Skip About

23. TBN - The Little Red Lark

29. TBN - The Cosy Suite

22. TBN - The Sligo Meet

21. TBN - Let Music Breathe and The Boyne Hunt

20. TBN - Planxty Fiddlesticks

19. TBN - unknown Dinny tune

18. TBN - there's only eight notes!

TBN - the first session in Ireland

16. TBN - Inishowen Waltz

15. TBN - living in a packed house

14. TBN - Johnny Cuthems

13. TBN Pat Mulhern

12. TBN - musical number

11. TBN - bringing it out

10. TBN - Dinny's tips for success

9. TBN - novel names for tunes

8. TBN - The Silent Command

7. TBN - Harry Swan on Big Nights

6. TBN - bottling nights and big nights

5. TBN - Dinny's love of the fiddle

4. TBN - origins of 'White Harra'?

3. TBN - a tribute to White Harra

2. TBN - musical introduction

1. TBN - Dinny's radio introduction

22. TPR - the rare old mountain dew

21. TPR - poitín big shot

20. TPR - Libyan poitín case!

19. TPR - a 7th century recipe for poitín!

18. TPR - uisce beatha

17. TPR - the M1 of shipping lanes

16. TPR - warning bells

15. TPR - landlords take action

14. TPR - a redcoat raid

13. TPR - trying to subdue Urris

12. TPR - law and order breakdown

11. TPR - standing up for distillers

10. TPR - poitín placenames

9. TPR - Carn alcohol factory

8. TPR - a bloody year thanks to poitín

7. TPR - 43% of all poitín was from Inishowen

6. TPR - Harry Swan on poitín

5. TPR - I don't like jam!

4. TPR - a ranger remembers

3. TPR - an integral part of farming

2. TPR - Poitín intro

1. TPR - Dan's Cottage preview

20. Border Tales - the jolly smuggler

19. Border Tales - border permits

18. Border Tales - needing a car bond

17. Border Tales - a poor tea substitute

16. Border Tales - a plate of bones

15. Border Tales - Inishowen's lost territory

14. Border Tales - intrepid George

13. Border Tales - Winter Willy

12. Border Tales - a canny Louthman

11. Border Tales - the lady searchers

10. Border Tales - dexterous swine

9. Border Tales - an even smaller peninsula?

8. Border Tales - the Boundary Commission

7. Border Tales - shopping in wellies

6. Border Tales - industrious animals

5. Border Tales - the prize turkey

4. Border Tales - the auld Bedford Van

3. Border Tales - the Free State Farmer

2. Border Tales - overview

1. Border Tales - introduction

16. TTC Eddie - Biddy and the boy with the screw

15 TTC Eddie - tough times

14 TTC Eddie - the black dog and the fire quenchers

13. TTC Eddie - the moving house

12. TTC Eddie - watch who you're sitting beside!

11 TTC Eddie - taking the skin off

10 TTC Eddie - Seven things the fairies hate

9. TTC Eddie and an unexpected sight

8. TTC Eddie and the holy bush

7. TTC - finale

6. TTC - charms and cures

5. TTC - fairies

4. TTC - births and death

3. TTC - love

2. TTC - omens

1. TTC - introduction

The full Paudge Dorrian interview

22. ST - High Street

21. ST - Courthouse

20. ST - Sligo Abbey

19. ST - John Fallon foot bridge

18. The Mall Walkway

17. ST - Model gallery

16. ST - Sligo Library and Museum

15. ST - Milligan's house

14. ST - Connolly's pub

13. ST - Yeats statue

12. ST - Hyde bridge

11. ST - Yeats Memorial building

10. ST - Famine Memorial

9. ST - City Hall

7. ST - Pollexfen's turret

6. ST - St. John's Church

5. ST - John Street

4. ST - Sligo Cathedral

3. ST - Hawks Well theatre

2. ST - Summerhill

1. ST - Welcome to Sligo Town

22. MH - avoiding the Rosary!

21. MH - McGlinchey's food tales

20. MH - tilley lamp

19. MH - preparing the fish

18. MH - the Tailors' Tale

17. MH - Crawford the henman

16. MH - early memories of the Head

15. MH - dinner in the day!

14. MH - clachans

13. MH - neolithic hunters

12. MH - the fat of the land

11. MH - Sliabh na mBán

10. MH - Manus, a poem

9. MH - four agencies of Inishowen

8. MH - embroidery

7. MH - keeping warm

6. MH - dance hall days

5. MH - an interesting purchase!

4. MH Chores and comfort

3. MH Preparing for the Winter in the 1940s

2. MH - the blizzard hits

1. MH - introduction

Bonus DHS - the Diamond's many tales

Donegal slipways and a famous visitor

8. ST - Wesley Chapel

Paudge Dorrian's famous case

Rambling House project brief Q&A

25. TNW Thank you

17. TNW Ballyhealy Castle

13. TNW Countryside features

3. TNW Yellow Bellies

1. TNW Introduction

15. TNW St. Anne's Holy Well

12. TNW Ishartmon

9. TNW St. Catherine's church

14. BF Wrap up

13. BF Retelling tradition

12. BF The lore of the hare

11. BF Piseogs lore - PG

10. BF May flowers and May altar

9. BF The Italian Magerini

8. BF Blackthorn

7. BF Hawthorn, fire and fairies

6. BF Boundaries

5. BF Samhradh Samhradh! - the song of May

4. BF Beltany Stone Circle

3. BF Bealtaine overview

2. BF Introduction

Checklist for Rambling House

Rambling House introduction