Lesser Spotted Ulster Series 14 Episode 13: Donaghmore

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Lesser Spotted Ulster Series 14 Episode 13: Donaghmore

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Details

Location

Donaghmore

Year

2012

Date

Production 29/10/2012

Length

22min 15sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam SP

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the BFI Heritage 2022 project.

Courtesy

British Film Institute, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Joe visits the village of Donaghmore in County Tyrone and explains its history, including the founding of its church by Saint Patrick. He meets Pat O'Neill who shows him the thousand year old sandstone High Cross and explains the erosion it is suffering from. They visit a replica which has been commissioned to show people how it would have looked when first carved.

He speaks to Ciaran and Vicki McCausland, who own a local pub, and learns of their attempts to resurrect Donaghmore Ale. Local historian Patricia Bogue tells Joe of the old Brown's Soap factory. In 1908 a replica of Doaghmore was built in London and named Ballymaclinton as a six month promotional tool fror the soap manufacturer with hundreds of local young women travelling over to work in it. Joe also visits the local Bardic Theatre to learn of its history and its engagement with the community from Sean Faloon and Kathryn O'Neill.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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