1: Wittgenstein in Ireland. In 1947 Ludwig Wittgenstein resigned his position as a philosophy professor at Trinity College,
Cambridge. The following year he moved to Ireland in search of solitude in orderto finish the Philosophical Investigations-the work that would dominate the philosophical landscape of the rest of the 20th century. Jonathan Ree begins a series exploring turning-points in the lives of great thinkers by seeking Wittgenstein in Ireland. Producer Kerry Chapman