Knock wood and light the pumpkin: your ancient ancestors are closer than you think
Prehistoric Ireland: megaliths and mystery
The four cycles of storytelling
Keeping faith at the crossroad: Celtic Christianity
Druids first Christians later: Druidic beliefs
Christianity comes to Ireland
Monastic life: early universities
From seafaring to sea change: how Irish Christianity became Roman
No one leaves your table hungry: invasion, starvation, and emigration
Eight hundred years of invasions
Oliver Cromwell: the devil in Ireland
The Scots-Irish migration
A diet of potatoes: conditions ripe for disaster
An gorta mor: the great hunger
Irish roots and rising Irish: the Irish become American
Pre-famine Irish Catholic immigrants
Our ancestors "get to work"
Politics as a ladder: from Tammany Hall to the White House
Fighting for Amerikay: the Irish in the Civil War
The parish and the Catholic Church: helping the Irish to rise
Meanwhile back at the ranch: rising Irish and bold Fenian men
