Record viewer numbers were reached by last Friday night’s airing of RTE's Nationwide programme which featured the looting and burning of Mitchelstown Castle in 1922. The castle was the biggest house burned in the War of Independence and Civil War, but very few people outside the locality know much about it.
Record viewer numbers were reached by last Friday night’s RTE Nationwide programme which featured the looting and burning of Mitchelstown Castle in 1922. The castle was the biggest house burned in the War of Independence and Civil War, but very few people outside the locality know anything about it.
THE challenges faced by the country in the wake of one of the most turbulent periods in modern Irish history will come under the spotlight during a fascinating conference taking place in Mitchelstown later on this month.