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Series charting a year on Upper and Lower Lough Erne in the west of Northern Ireland.

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BBC Northern Ireland region started on 19th April 1955 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One Northern Ireland.

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The Chronicles of Erne: Series 1: Spring

Spring

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BBC One - The Chronicles of Erne, Series 1, Spring

It’s spring, the Erne is bursting with new life and there’s a search for sunken planes. 

The series starts with spring. As new life appears, preparations begin in earnest for summer and out on the lower lough, there’s a search for sunken war planes. 

The landscape begins to emerge from winter and retired school teacher Pat Lunny takes a boat trip to his usual haunts around the islands on Lower Lough Erne, just above his hometown of Enniskillen. 

Across the lough on White North Island, Amy Burns from RSPBNI moves highland cattle to some of the charity's other island reserves. 

At Ely Lodge, Dublin-born painter Lorna Smyth begins a year-long project of painting landscapes around Lough Erne. She explains her process of taking sketches to form a 'collage of memories' which she then converts to oil paintings in her home studio. 

As the Erne gears up for better weather, Enniskillen Royal Boat Club members take part in the Head of the Erne rowing race while on the Broad Lough, retired engineers Robert Navan and Mike Kingston search for sunken Catalinas.

In the woodlands of Castle Archdale, nature writer Dara McAnulty enjoys spring with his family and at Drumgallon Row, while members of the community group the Erne put a new skin on their traditional hand-built Irish currach called the Menapian.

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