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ICRfm to air story of Armada
shipwreck
01.06.07
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Inishowen Community
Radio (ICR) will next week broadcast a documentary
on La Trinidad Valencera - the Spanish Armada ship
that sank off the coast of Kinnagoe Bay in 1588. |
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“La Trinidad Valencera
– Inishowen’s Most Famous Shipwreck” is a one-off
45-minute documentary examining both the history
surrounding the fourth largest ship in the fleet and
how she came to be discovered.
Presented and produced by ICR assistant manager,
Emma McDermott, the programme will also follow the
archaeological operation on the ship |
right through to the
popular Spanish Armada Exhibition currently running
at Derry's Tower Museum.
Emma speaks to Jack Scoltock, one of the original
divers from the City of Derry Sub Aqua Club who
discovered the wreck in 1971 along with another of
the divers, Eamon Molloy, who was heavily involved
in the archaeological salvage operation that
followed.
Meanwhile, local historian Charlie McCann outlines
details of other shipwrecks around Inishowen while
Tower Museum education officer, Margaret Edwards
talks about the long-running exhibition.
“La Trinidad Valencera – Inishowen’s Most Famous
Shipwreck” was produced at Inishowen Community Radio
with the support of the Broadcasting Commission of
Ireland’s Sound and Vision Fund.
To hear it, tune on Friday, June 8th, at 4pm to
ICRfm 105 and 107.6 FM. |
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