{"id":629990,"date":"2026-09-19T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629990\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T23:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:18:19","slug":"tv-new-series-focuses-on-lives-of-immigrants-who-made-cork-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629990\/","title":{"rendered":"TV: New series focuses on lives of immigrants who made Cork home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The lives of migrants to Ireland who have made our islands their home are explored in a new series on TG4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Called  Trasna na dTonnta, it includes several visits to Cork\u2019s islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">It began last Monday with a visit to Bere Island, where Arsenii Bohodist, 16, navigates island life and a daily sea commute to school. The episode &#8211; which can be seen on the TG4 Player &#8211; spent time with his extended family as three generations came together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">On Sherkin Island, charismatic Scottish artist John Simpson reflected on the pull of island living and the journey that brought him there more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In the next episode of  Trasna na dTonnta on TG4 on Monday at 8.30pm, we head back to Bere Island where Dariia, from Ukraine, and her baby Denis begin a new chapter, while her partner Dmytro settles into work at the local boatyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">On Dursey Island, German native Christian Kostner and his wife Sheila embrace life among a tiny island population, while on Sherkin, Nina reflects on rebuilding her life after fleeing the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The third episode on September 28 again stops off on Bere Island, to see South African native Belinda deliver Meals on Wheels, while Arsenii works on a mussel farm and enjoys the island\u2019s summer festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">We meet Alona, a Ukrainian pastry chef at the West Cork Hotel, and catch up with Dursey Island residents Sheila and Christian and the annual summer festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In the fourth and final episode of  Trasna na dTonnta on October 5, Arsenii\u2019s mother Liudmila volunteers in a charity shop in Castletownbere, while her daughter Dariia reflects on whether Ireland will remain her long-term home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">On Sherkin, Ukrainian Aliona, a talented cake-maker, helps prepare for the annual Christmas party, bringing her own flavour to a cherished community tradition. Meanwhile, on Dursey, Sheila and Christian reflect on the rewards and challenges of island life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">This intimate and compelling four-part documentary series aims to provide an insight the lives of the \u2018New Irish\u2019 who have chosen to make Ireland\u2019s offshore islands their home, and highlight the remarkable journeys of people who have travelled from across Europe and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lives of migrants to Ireland who have made our islands their home are explored in a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-629990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}