World War One at Home
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World War One at Home
Marking the centenary of the war through stories and events linked to places across Ireland. Introduced by Helen Mark.
Recent Episodes
89 episodesRemembrance Sunday Special Episode 2
Helen Mark presents the second part of a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of the Great War through storie...
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode 1
Helen Mark presents a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of the Great War through stories and events linked...
Tipperary: Command Depot of Convalescing Soldiers
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. In 1916, a milita...
Sion Mills,Co.Tyrone: Herdman's Mill
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. In Sion Mills, Co...
Wexford: When the Americans came to Town
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. In Wexford, 1918,...
Saint Ultan’s Hospital
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. In Dublin, Dr Kat...
James Mackie and Sons, Belfast: From Linen to Munitions
The centenary of the Great War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. The engineering f...
Willoughby Weaving
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Poet and ed...
The Goodbody Jute Factory
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. A Quaker fa...
The 1917 South Longford By-Election
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. As war rage...
Kilrush, Co. Clare
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Kilrush man...
Ardglass, Co. Down
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. The fishing...
Remembrance Day - Part 2
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of World War One seen through stories and events linked to...
Remembrance Day - Part 1
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of World War One seen through stories and events linked to...
Wartime Seaside Scrapbooks
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. The scrapbo...
Tobacco for the Troops
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. At one time...
Percy French
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. William Per...
A Country Club for Wounded Soldiers
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. A country c...
Prayers Against Conscription
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Ireland's f...
Belfast - The War in Advertising
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Newspaper a...
Laois - The GAA and Rule 21
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Rule 21 for...
Listowel, Co. Kerry - Kitchener, The Early Years
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. Field Marsh...
RDS Dublin, War Horses
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. The RDS in...
Mount Stewart, Home of The Women's Legion
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events linked to places across the UK and Ireland, introduced by Helen Mark. From the gr...
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode One
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of WWI seen through stories and events linked to places ac...
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode Two
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of WWI seen through stories and events linked to places ac...
Comber Post Office
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. How a post office in Comber, Co Down, provided a lifeline between the home front and the war fro...
The Formby and Coningbeg
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. Two steamships belonging to the same company are torpedoed off the coast of Waterford, with all...
Thomas MacGreevy - Ireland's Modernist War Poet
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. Tarbert in County Kerry is the birthplace of writer and poet Thomas MacGreevy, who served at Ypr...
Castlecomer Coal Mine
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. A mine owned by the Wandesforde family in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, gives up more than coal...
The 6th Connaught Rangers
The centenary of WWI seen through stories and events. Hundreds of volunteers from west Belfast enlist to fight in the 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers.
Ballymena's Memorial Park
After the horror of the Somme work begins to build a memorial park, in Ballymena - one of the first war memorials in Ireland.
George Hackney - War Photographer
A simple grave in Comber marks the final resting place of George Hackney, one of the greatest photographers of the First World War.
A Flag made from Soldier's Shirts
Helen Mark introduces a season of stories to mark the momentous events of 1916. In the United Services Club in Limavady hangs a flag thought to have b...
23/03/2016
Helen Mark introduces a season of stories to mark the momentous events of 1916. The Volunteer Training Corps comes under fire in Dublin during the Eas...
22/03/2016
Helen Mark introduces a season of stories to mark the momentous events of 1916. St Patrick's Hall in Coalisland, Co Tyrone, is the scene of 'the Ulste...
21/03/2016
Helen Mark introduces a season of stories to mark the momentous events of 1916. Sir Roger Casement is arrested near Banna Strand after trying to smugg...
A Special Remembrance Sunday edition
Helen Mark presents the second part of a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of the Great War through storie...
A Special Remembrance Sunday edition
Helen Mark presents a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme, looking at the centenary of the Great War through stories and events.
Troops stop for a platform picnic
The centenary of the First World War seen through stories and events. Troop trains stop for a platform picnic at Limerick Junction in County Tipperary...