Poster of Cast and Crew in Building Ireland - Shannon Newtown (Season 3 - Episode 5) - Shannon Newtown

Building Ireland - Season 3 - Shannon Newtown (Episode 5)

Plot: Geographer Susan Hegarty discovers how the success of the Shannon Airport Free Trade Zone sparked the building of Ireland’s first new town in 300 years. Emerging as a response to rural decline and de-population in the 1950s, new industrial jobs prompted the construction of a new community on a green field site, built to the latest ideas in urban planning
Episode Aired On:
Thursday, May 14 2020
5 years ago
Genres: Documentary