The outbreak of World War One was the death-knell of whaling in north Mayo. All fishing stopped in August 1914, and the ...

finding solutions in his books relishing words – “flensing” in Ep.1 – and a quote machine. But for all the literary razzmatazz, it’s the series’ emotional cast which sets it apart ...

Michael will then oversee its installation at the Flensing Plan, the beating heart of the whaling station where harpooned whales were winched onto a massive wooden platform for processing.