BBC Radio Podcasts from World War One at Home
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode 2
Helen Mark presents part two of a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode 1
Helen Mark presents a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
Tipperary: Command Depot of Convalescing Soldiers
1916: A military hospital in Tipperary had capacity to treat 4,000 convalescing soldiers.
Sion Mills,Co.Tyrone: Herdman's Mill
Herdman’s Mill went from producing table cloths to airplane wings and shell casings.
Wexford: When the Americans came to Town
In Wexford, 1918, American sea plane station was to target U-Boats along the Irish coast.
Saint Ultan’s Hospital
In Dublin, Dr Kathleen Lynn set up St Ultan’s Hospital to combat infant mortality.
James Mackie and Sons, Belfast: From Linen to Munitions
The firm Mackie’s, in Belfast, employed large numbers of women to make munitions.
Willoughby Weaving
Poet and educator Willoughby Weaving represents one of the many forgotten war poets.
The Goodbody Jute Factory
A Quaker family reconciled doing business in the war economy with their pacifist beliefs.
The 1917 South Longford By-Election
The South Longford by-election proved crucial in the emergence of Sinn Fein.
Kilrush, Co. Clare
Kilrush man Charles Glynn led recruitment drives for the armed forces.
Ardglass, Co. Down
The fishing village of Ardglass receives a visit from a mysterious stranger.
Remembrance Day - Part 2
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
Remembrance Day - Part 1
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
Wartime Seaside Scrapbooks
Bangor's efforts to provide fun during the dark days of war.
Tobacco for the Troops
Belfast once had the biggest tobacco factory in the world.
Percy French
Songwriter, poet and painter William Percy French raised funds and entertained soldiers.
A Country Club for Wounded Soldiers
A country club for wounded soldiers was established at Knockrose in County Dublin.
Prayers Against Conscription
The 1918 pilgrimage against conscription at Croagh Patrick.
Belfast - The War in Advertising
Newspaper advertising uses the war to sell common household products.
Laois - The GAA and Rule 21
Rule 21 forbade members of the British security forces from playing in the GAA.
Listowel, Co. Kerry - Kitchener, The Early Years
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener is one of the most famous faces of WWI and was Irish by birth
RDS Dublin, War Horses
The RDS in Dublin becomes a Remount Depot.
Mount Stewart, Home of The Women's Legion
Lady Edith Londonderry launches the Women's Legion.
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode Two
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode One
Helen Mark presents a Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
Comber Post Office
How a post office in Comber provided a lifeline between the home front and the war front.
The Formby and Coningbeg
Two steamships belonging to the same company are torpedoed off the coast of Waterford.
Thomas MacGreevy - Ireland's Modernist War Poet
Tarbert in County Kerry is the birthplace of writer and poet Thomas MacGreevy.
Castlecomer Coal Mine
A mine in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, gives up more than coal for the war effort.
The 6th Connaught Rangers
Hundreds of volunteers from west Belfast join the 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers.
Ballymena's Memorial Park
After the horror of the Somme work begins to build a memorial park, in Ballymena.
George Hackney - War Photographer
A simple grave in Comber marks the final resting place of photographer George Hackney.
A Flag made from Soldier's Shirts
An unusual flag hangs in the United Services Club in Limavady.
23/03/2016
Helen Mark introduces a special season of stories from the Great War.
22/03/2016
Helen Mark introduces a special season of stories from the Great War.
21/03/2016
Helen Mark introduces a special season of stories from the Great War.
A Special Remembrance Sunday edition
Helen Mark presents a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
A Special Remembrance Sunday edition
Helen Mark presents a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
Troops stop for a platform picnic
Troop trains stop for a platform picnic at Limerick Junction in County Tipperary.
Ireland's only Pals battalion
Rugby friends unite in Dublin to form Ireland's only Pals battalion.
Q-ships, the secret weapon against U-boats.
Q-ships from County Cork, the Royal Navy's secret weapon against German U-boats.
Cleenish Island provides homes for heroes.
Cleenish Island in County Fermanagh provides homes for heroes.
The British army marches on boots made in Carlow.
The British army marches on boots made in Carlow.
Belfast's 'forgotten' shipyard sets a riveting record that pleases the King.
Belfast's 'forgotten' shipyard sets a riveting record that pleases the King.
02/05/2015
The mass graves of the victims of the sinking of the Lusitania in Cork.
01/05/2015
How the Irish Volunteers landed a consignment of rifles into Howth Harbour.
30/04/2015
It's a Long Way to Tipperary, a song synonymous with the First World War.
29/04/2015
The internment camp in Oldcastle that housed German and other foreign nationals.
28/04/2015
The Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin's Phoenix Park.
27/04/2015
How the Blackman Tech in Belfast helped the war effort.
26/04/2015
The GPO in Dublin played a vital role in wartime communications.
25/04/2015
Fortune tellers are prosecuted for making predictions about soldiers serving on the front.
14/11/2014
Lord Farnham and Sir Oliver Nugent become entwined in the Home Rule crisis and World War I
13/11/2014
The story of how 50 scouts from Belfast helped to bring in the flax harvest in County Down
12/11/2014
How the Countess of Limerick and the Shamrock League raised spirits and funds.
11/11/2014
A plaque on the wall of St Malachy's Church in Belfast honours those who gave their lives.
10/11/2014
The graves of some of those who perished at sea while serving on HMS Viknor.
08/08/2014
Absorbent and antiseptic sphagnum moss from the Bog of Allen was used to make dressings.
07/08/2014
Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff disguised ordinary cargo vessels as battleships.
06/08/2014
Linen yarn from Comber in Co Down covered the wooden frames of fighter planes.
05/08/2014
Ballyclare Comrades FC was formed by soldiers returning from the trenches.
04/08/2014
Carrickfergus witnessed a wartime influx of Royal Irish Fusiliers from Cavan and Monaghan.
29/06/2014
An English missionary saw the war as a chance for Protestants and Catholics to unite.
28/06/2014
A recruitment rally in Warrenpoint saw nationalists and unionists share the same platform.
13/06/2014
A modest cottage in Slane was the birthplace of war poet Francis Ledwidge.
12/06/2014
Kynoch's munitions factory in Arklow employed thousands of men, women and children.
11/06/2014
Sharp-eyed soldiers at Kilroot artillery battery guarded Belfast Lough.
10/06/2014
Like many local newspapers, the Lurgan Mail provided its own view on the war's progress.
09/06/2014
An area in Enniskillen was once home to dozens of soldiers who fought at Gallipoli.
08/06/2014
A noodle bar in Belfast was once the site of a jewellers making badges and sniper sights.
07/06/2014
A house in Whitehead offered a refuge for children with mothers unable to care for them.
06/06/2014
Veterans frustrated by the failure to commemorate the fallen built a memorial out of snow.
05/06/2014
Fleeing German forces in 1914, Belgian refugees brought particular skills.
04/06/2014
In May 1918, a German U-boat lay in wait as a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Kilkeel.
03/06/2014
In 1913, the Great Northern Railway converted nine carriages into an ambulance train.
02/06/2014
Queen's University Belfast once housed a hospital for those injured in body and spirit.
07/03/2014
Conlig lead mine near Newtownards was a focal point for local paranoia about German spies.
06/03/2014
Hely's Printers in Dublin benefited from the booming business of recruitment posters.
05/03/2014
Months before war was declared, Larne's sedate Drumalis House was a centre for gunrunning.
04/03/2014
In 1914, the Hamilton Flute Band from Londonderry joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
03/03/2014
Bentra Golf Course was the site of an airship mooring station, crucial against U-Boats.
02/03/2014
In September 1914, MP John Redmond made a divisive speech at Woodenbridge, Co Wicklow.
01/03/2014
Lurgan Courthouse once loomed over soldiers' wives accused of being drunk and disorderly.
28/02/2014
In 1914, Templemore Barracks in Tipperary housed more than 2,000 German prisoners of war.
27/02/2014
Lough Swilly provided shelter for the entire British Grand Fleet in autumn 1914.
26/02/2014
In 1914, Guinness' company ships were requisitioned for the war and came to a fateful end.
25/02/2014
In early 1915, Sam Steele received an urgent order for 50 bicycles fitted with rifle slips
24/02/2014
When war was declared, Christabel Pankhurst called on women to support the fight.