This episode traces how Irish famine migrants arrived in America as desperate laborers, built the canals, railways, sewers, and streets of major cities, and faced brutal anti-immigrant hostility along the way. It also follows their rise from exploited workers to political power brokers who helped shape the modern urban United States.

This episode explores how Irish-American money helped bankroll the Irish revolution, then later shaped U.S. diplomacy during the Northern Ireland peace process. It also follows the relationship into the modern era, from American tech investment in Dublin to the emotional pull of ancestral return.

Two exhausted aviators attempt the first non-stop transatlantic flight in a modified Vickers Vimy, only to touch down in a Connemara bog and stumble into history. The episode follows their triumphant reception, tragic aftermath, and the quiet memorial left behind in Ireland.

Alcock and Brown’s 1919 transatlantic crossing turns into a nightmare of lost radio, blinding fog, and a terrifying upside-down plunge over the ocean. The episode follows Brown’s wing-walking ice removal and the brutal, freezing endurance that carried them to the Irish coast.

Discover how a newspaper challenge launched a desperate race to cross the Atlantic, driving aviation forward through wartime innovation and sheer audacity. The episode follows the underdog Vickers team as they cram a bomber with fuel, fight brutal takeoff conditions, and vanish into the dark with no radio contact.

This episode explores how the 1916 Easter Rising shifted from a damaged rebellion into a national cause after the executions at Kilmainham Gaol. It also follows the survivors to Frongoch and reflects on how Dublin’s landscape still carries the memory of those events.

We trace the chaotic first moments of the Easter Rising as rebels storm the GPO, Patrick Pearse reads the Proclamation, and baffled Dubliners react with laughter, suspicion, and plenty of confusion. The episode explores how a bank-holiday uprising turned into a mix of farce, looting, and the spark of a national revolution.

This episode follows the escalation of the Easter Rising in Dublin, from the HMS Helga shelling Liberty Hall to the firestorm on O’Connell Street and the civilian toll of urban warfare. It also covers the desperate stand at Mount Street Bridge, the surrender at Moore Street, and how public anger later transformed the rebels into martyrs.

Tom Clarke and Seán MacDiarmada rebuild the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the shadows, then race toward rebellion as World War I creates a brief opening for action. When the Aud’s rifles are lost and Eoin MacNeill cancels the Volunteers, Pearse and Connolly still choose to march into a doomed but world-changing uprising.