It contains twelve tales from various periods of Irish history, bookended by a framing sequence set in 1995 as the troubles in Northern Ireland draw to a close. * Prologue - 1995 * The Mystery of Newgrange - 3000 BC * The Fire on the Hill: St Patrick - 432 AD * Viking - c. 800 * Brian Boru - 1074 * A Wedding in Waterford: Strongbow and Aoife - 1170 * The Long March - 1602 * Nits Make Lice: Cromwell - 1649 * Orange and Green: The Battle of the Boyne - 1690 * Who Fears to Speak of '98 - 1802 * Famine: The Hungry Years - 1849 * The Uncrowned King - 1879 * The 1916 Rising - 1916 * The Troubles - 1995