NEW Season 3, Waterways through Time with historian, Turtle Bunbury

NEW Episode 7, Season 3, The Royal Canal

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Started on the eve of the French Revolution, the Royal Canal is Ireland’s longest manmade waterway running for 145 km (90 miles) from Dublin to the River Shannon. Here Turtle tells the colourful story of its founders Long John Binns and William Cope, and looks at why it took almost 30 years to finish the project.