The Burren: Heart of Stone

2021 - 2021

Song of our Ancestors

11th April 2021

Episode 1

The Burren is a place full of intrigue and mystery to film-maker Katrina Costello, who has been working there for over 13 years. Her documentary captures the raw and complicated beauty of the Burren using intimate natural history photography and the spontaneous insights of a cast of local contributors.

Symphony of Life

18th April 2021

Episode 2

Locates clues written in the stones, tombs, and underground caverns that populate the Burren and that help us to travel back in time to reveal fresh secrets of the human story.

Top Cast

Cormac McGinley•Brendan Gleeson

Documentary

Come along on a journey through the ages, tracing the genetic story of the Irish people, the story of the Irish hunter-gatherers and what became of them. Did prehistoric farmers irreversibly altered this landscape? Is modern Irish society descended from those who first lived here over 10,000 years ago?

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Cormac McGinley

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Brendan Gleeson

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