The Passing Bells the conclusion of the war. The series was announced by the BBC in October 2013, along with other programmes that played a part in the BBC World War I centenary season. It was a Red Planet Production with BBC Worldwide as the distributor. Filming took place in Poland. Telewizja Polska and Apple Film Production were co-producers. The series aired in the pre-watershed time-slot of 7pm, and the script was written for a younger audience and family viewing. The title was taken from the first line of Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem, "Anthem for Doomed Youth": "What passing-bells for these who die
Carrickfergus (poem) Carrickfergus (poem) Carrickfergus is a 44-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in 1937 and first published in book form in MacNeice's poetry collection "The Earth Compels" (1938). The poem reflects on MacNeice's childhood in Carrickfergus, a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Although the title of the poem is "Carrickfergus", the text of the poem refers to "Carrick", as the town is known locally and colloquially. Louis MacNeice was born in 1907 in Belfast, as he notes in the opening lines of "Carrickfergus": <poem> "I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries </poem> In