The Fightback

The Fightback

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S1 E3: Simon Delaney details the change in politics of Ireland, where the Irish clans begin to fight back against the Anglo Norman settlers. Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, a new type of castle emerges, the tower house, built for both defence and as family home. Within a few years over 3000 tower houses dotted the landscape. The episode documents the haunted castle in Leap... the first castle to be besieged by cannon fire in Maynooth... the love story of Dunluce and Clonony Castle in the midlands, home to an American dancer and resting place of Ann Boleyn's two sisters, Henry VIII's two sisters in law.