For your consideration.

Iontais na bhFarraigí Ceilteacha.

A new documentary series – an Irish/Welsh BBC/TG4 co-production by Tua Films & One Tribe TV – on the Celtic coasts.

Linda Ní Ghríofa writes:

This landmark natural history series sees naturalist Eoin Warner (top) take viewers on a breath-taking journey of discovery around the spectacular Celtic coasts of Ireland and Wales, exploring the extraordinary hidden wildlife around our shores – from our shallows to the deep.

Iontais na bhFarraigí Ceilteacha was filmed over two years in Ultra High Definition (UHD) by some of the filmmakers behind natural history series Blue Planet, in a corner of these islands which has never previously been explored in such sumptuous detail – Ireland’s sunny southeast and the Welsh coast.

The camera team has captured an incredible array of species including blue sharks, basking sharks and Fin whales – all swimming and hunting off our Celtic shores. From Wexford’s Saltee Islands, Eoin observes the guillemots – seabirds that can ‘fly’ underwater, and we also encounter the humble blenny fish getting washed-up – but the blenny can breathe on land!

Our team has captured some remarkable and exciting new behaviours that have never been filmed in Celtic waters before: such as the courtship rituals of bottle-nosed dolphins as well as astonishing footage of basking sharks congregating off the Irish coast.

Our dive team also filmed the wonders of the Celtic deep where we discover sex-shifting cuckoo wrasse, huge sea urchins, ancient lobsters and a giant conger eel, all hiding in a wreck.

Ooer.

Iontais na bhFarraigí Ceilteacha begins on Wednesday, January 12 at 9.30pm on TG4.

Pic: TG4