Indications of how Celtic people lived can be found in the landscape and how homes have been built in Ireland.
Around 5,000 years after the ice age, people began to farm and build permanent dwellings, usually made of wood. Little trace of these dwellings has survived. The rocky Atlantic coastline provided a landscape abundant with stone and a tradition of building with stone developed and lives on today.
In the Celtic land, people have been building houses and moving home for 5,000 years. In most cases, the abandoned homes of earlier people are soon obliterated, for the face of the cultural landscape is constantly changing.
'Exploring The Celtic Lands' was broadcast on 24 February 1991. The narrator is Peadar Lamb.
Éamon de Buitléar produced two series of 'Exploring The Celtic Lands' to explore how the Celtic fringe of Europe is a place of mysterious differences and surprising similarities.
The two series of five-parts was produced for RTÉ Television in 1991 and 1992. It illustrates a culture of survival in the landscape of those areas in Europe where the Celtic people still live
It looks at such topics such as hunting, harvests and boats, sports and pastimes, pilgrims and how Celtic traditions adapted to Christianity. Evidence of how the Celts farmed the land and the sea can still be found in the remote areas of Brittany, the Hebrides, Cornwall, and the west coast of Ireland. We look at that evidence and how the Celtic peoples made use of every resource from the land and sea.
The series is filmed by Cian de Buitléar and narrated by Peadar Lamb. The traditional music soundtrack and signature tunes are performed by Paddy Moloney, Éamon de Buitléar, Derek Bell, and Matt Malloy.
The Irish language version of the series is called 'Tar Amach Faoin Aer'.
