Mitchelstown will feature on this Friday night’s RTE Nationwide when the looting and burning of Mitchelstown Castle will be the focus of a full-length episode with presenter Bláthnaid ní Chofaigh. The programme is part of a three-part Nationwide series running all this week about the burning of the big houses during the War of Independence and Civil War.
Over 300 big houses were burned between 1919 and 1923 – Mitchelstown Castle was the biggest of those houses and is now regarded as a great loss to the nation.
RTE’s series of programmes, titled ‘The Decline & Burning Of The Big Houses Of Ireland’, have been running since Monday this week, with presenter Donal Byrne looking in programme 1 at the history of colonisation and land appropriation in Ireland and the golden age of big houses from the early 1700’s on, delving into the rich archives of the National Library.
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