24: The Navvys

Update: 2024-07-18

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Turtle is joined by Ultan Cowley who shares his insights into the daily lives, motivations and semi-mythological reputations of the Irish navvies who built the canals, and how their successors built Britain's railways, motorways and the Channel Tunnel.

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In Channel

32: The Grand Canal Docks

2025-10-2140:08

27: The Ulster Canal

2025-10-1629:30

31: Towpath Trails of Kildare

2025-10-1643:23

30: The Phoenix

2025-10-1640:19

29: Yachting on the Waterways

2025-10-1430:12

28: Lough Erne

2025-10-0742:56

26: Mapping Waterways

2025-10-0733:35

25: War on the Waterways

2025-10-0751:00

24: The Navvys

2024-07-1836:19

23: The Royal Canal

2024-07-1136:23

22: The 30 Year Anniversary of the Shannon-Erne Waterway

2024-07-0432:45

21: Writers on the Erne

2024-06-2735:41

20: Genesis

2024-06-2028:17

19: The Grand Canal

2024-06-2030:28

18: THE 29th LOCK

2024-06-1833:42

17: Paddling the Waterways

2024-05-3039:04

16: Hidden Treasures of the Waterways

2023-05-1229:47

15: Boating on the Barrow

2023-05-1225:09

14: The Maguires, Kings of Fermanagh

2023-04-1826:09

13: The Voyage from St. James's Gate

2023-04-1826:12

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