Season 1

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  6.9/1014 votes

  Norman Castles

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/22/2014

  Simon Delaney celebrates the stunning citadels of Eire. The Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century led to the mass-building of castles across the isle.

  Director: Sarah Share

  Writer: Billy Mcgrath, Sarah Share

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  6.7/1012 votes

  Don’t Mess with a Knight

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/29/2014

  What have the Normans ever done for us? Simon Delaney salutes the Norman knights who led a castle building spree in Eire during the 13th and 14th centuries.

  Director: Sarah Share

  Writer: Billy Mcgrath, Sarah Share

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  6.7/1012 votes

  The Fightback

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/6/2014

  An educational journey around Ireland's fortresses. As Irish clans resisted Anglo-Norman settlers in the 1400s and 1500s, a new type of castle emerged: the tower house.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.9/1012 votes

  A Century Of Turmoil

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/13/2014

  Simon Delaney takes viewers to the castles - from Limerick to Kilkenny - that played integral roles in the bloodiest period of Irish history: the 17th century.

  Director: Sarah Share

  Writer: Billy Mcgrath, Sarah Share

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  6.9/1012 votes

  A Taste for Gothic

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/20/2014

  With the advent of the cannon in the 18th and 19th centuries, castles such as Tullynally morphed from military strongholds into lordly family homes.

  Director: Sarah Share

  Writer: Billy Mcgrath, Sarah Share

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  6.9/1012 votes

  End of Empire

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/27/2014

  As political and social unrest swept Ireland in the 20th century, debt-ridden castles fell into disrepair and into the hands of the nouveau riche.

  Director: Sarah Share

  Writer: Billy Mcgrath, Sarah Share