Season 1

Documentary piecing together the jigsaw of Ireland's earliest inhabitants, with contributions drawing from genetics and archaeology

Examining the ways in which Ireland changed after the arrival of the Normans, the catastrophes caused by the Black Death and the Protestant reformation in the Tudor era.

Between 1600 and 1700, continental Europe was the main destination for tens of thousands of Irish migrants. This was the first Irish diaspora.

Two million Irish people emigrated in the immediate aftermath of the Famine.