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The Great House Revival

The Great House Revival
★ 6.0/10•2018•PG•Reality•Documentary
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Following six homeowners who have taken on the task of a lifetime: to reclaim and transform their derelict properties on the verge of ruin into comfortable modern homes, fit for the 21st century.

StatusReturning Series
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 6, 2018

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E1

Episode 1

Hugh Wallace meets people transforming derelict properties into modern home, beginning with an Australian cabinet maker restoring a Co Mayo house with 110 rooms.

May 6, 2018

Episode 2 - Episode 2E2

Episode 2

Murray Rees has always wanted to live in an elegant old townhouse and couldn’t believe his luck when he found one he could afford in North Inner City Dublin. Buildings in this area were used as bedsits and had fallen into total disrepair. Murray is keen to save this 1840s building and return it to its full potential.

May 13, 2018

Episode 3 - Episode 3E3

Episode 3

Ronan Fitzpatrick and his fiancé Mary Rahill are restoring a local two-room schoolhouse built in the 1890s as their family home. It has extra significance for Ronan as he and his father before him went to school there as children.

May 20, 2018

Episode 4 - Episode 4E4

Episode 4

Irene McDermott has a strong personal connection to the cottage she is restoring on the Inishowen Peninsula in Co.Donegal. Her great, great, grandmother lived here and it has been in her family since famine times.

May 27, 2018

Episode 5 - Episode 5E5

Episode 5

Goretti Foreau and her French husband, Eric, have decided that now that their older kids are in college, they want a lifestyle change and so they are moving lock, stock and barrel from Dublin city to the rolling hills of Rathrum, Co. Wicklow. They’ve bought an old farmhouse and agricultural outbuildings that need significant and extensive restoration work to become habitable.

Jun 3, 2018

Episode 6 - Episode 6E6

Episode 6

Belfast born Garry and Anne Wilson have lived and worked in the UK all of their adult lives. They have always wanted a base in Ireland and in 2016 they were in the market for a restoration project and came across Belvelly Tower House in Cobh Co Cork.

Apr 14, 2019

Actors

Hugh Wallace

Hugh Wallace

Presenter

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