From that Small Island
From that Small Island
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From that Small Island

8.0 / 10
2025
1 season
4 episodes
Documentary

Tells the fascinating history of an island people who have truly left their mark on the world. 6 million people live on the island of Ireland, but over 80 million people worldwide say they are Irish. What does that mean? How have we been shaped by our history? Our geography? Where did we come from? Where did we go? These questions are at the heart of this series.

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  • From the Beginning

    1.From the Beginning

    08-06-202550m

    Documentary piecing together the jigsaw of Ireland's earliest inhabitants, with contributions drawing from genetics and archaeology

  • Contested Identities - The Coming Of The English

    2.Contested Identities - The Coming Of The English

    15-06-202550m

    Examining the ways in which Ireland changed after the arrival of the Normans, the catastrophes caused by the Black Death and the Protestant reformation in the Tudor era.

  • New Worlds - The First Irish Diaspora

    3.New Worlds - The First Irish Diaspora

    22-06-202550m

    Between 1600 and 1700, continental Europe was the main destination for tens of thousands of Irish migrants. This was the first Irish diaspora.

  • From the Famine to the Future

    4.From the Famine to the Future

    29-06-202550m

    Two million Irish people emigrated in the immediate aftermath of the Famine.

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