One Million Dubliners (10.15pm RTÉ One) documents Glasnevin Cemetery, the final resting place of 1.5 million souls. Unmissable, and deeply moving, the film recently enjoyed a cinema release in this country. Life Story (9.00pm BBC One) deals with mating and courtship tonight, while Ear to the Ground (8.30pm RTÉ One) is in the Burren.
One Million Dubliners
10.15pm RTÉ One
Glasnevin Cemetery is the final resting place of 1.5 million souls. It is Ireland’s national necropolis. One Million Dubliners reveals the often unspoken stories of ritual, loss, redemption, emotion, history bound up with the cemetery. Read RTÉ TEN’s review of the film, which recently enjoyed a cinema release nationwide. Picture shows archangel atop the Meade family mounment in Glasnevin Cemetery. Read RTÉ TEN's review of Aoife Kelleher's mesmerising film here
Life Story
9.00pm BBC One
Competition to win a partner has created some of the most extraordinary beauty and life-threatening violence anywhere in nature. Dazzling colours, elaborate dances and powerful weapons have all evolved to attract and defend a mate. Waved albatross mate for life and spend hours in affectionate play. Episode five in this excellent six-part series is presented as ever by the indefatigable David Attenborough.
Ear to the Ground
8.30pm RTÉ One
Ella McSweeney explores Winterage, an age-old tradition in the Burren of herding cattle out onto the pastures which marks the end of Summer. Ella joins Michael Shannon driving his cattle up the mountain and setting them out to pasture for the Winter. Grazing cattle allow the natural flora and fauna to flourish, and is the key to the biodiversity of the Burren. This is one of the few places in the world where this transhumance practice still takes place.
Plus, a feature on the seven Whyte brothers, who farm in Naul, Co Dublin. The eldest is 70 and the brothers are amongst the finalists in the Irish farmers Journal Family Farm of the Year, to celebrate the United Nations Year of the Family Farm. There is coverage of the ongoing beef industry crisis also on the programme.
