Ireland with Simon Reeve

Episode: Ireland with Simon Reeve - Ep2
Broadcast Info: 2015 (59 mins)
Description: Starting at the spectacular Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, Simon travels down the east coast to the great and rapidly changing cities of Belfast and Dublin. He ends his journey in the stunning Wicklow Mountains.
In episode two, Simon’s journey begins at the spectacular Giant’s Causeway - a place of myth and legend - before travelling to nearby Rathlin Island where a small island community are experimenting with an enterprising form of underwater food production: Kelp Farming.
Simon encounters tourists from all over the world at The Dark Hedges in Co. Antrim - one of the many locations in Northern Ireland that feature in the hit TV drama Game Of Thrones.
Arriving in Belfast for the Twelfth of July weekend he finds out why the traditional celebrations - with huge bonfires and marching bands - mean so much to some while being so unwelcome to others.
Driving out of Belfast, Simon crosses the border into the Republic of Ireland and follows the one of Ireland’s great coastal routes. In Drogheda he discovers evidence that Oliver Cromwell may NOT have been responsible for the atrocities he has been accused of for centuries. He arrives in Dublin for the commemorations of the Easter 1916 uprising that lead to Irish independence - and gains an insight from a descendant of one of the rebels.
Genre: History; Culture; Social Science; Geology; Religion; Natural History

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