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	Pre-Christian Ireland	Cuchulainn's Stone Gateway to Wexford's past *Roman Threat*

	Chistianity comes to Ireland

	Viking Raiders

	The Coming of the Normans	*The MacMurragh-Kavanagh* The bloody visit of Edward Bruce

	O'Neill and O'Donnell

	The Nine Years War	*Westmeath's most valiant and celebrated commander* *The first Battle of Aughrim*

	The Flight of the Earls	The great fire of Kinsale Death of the Great O'Neill

	The Plantation of Ulster	*Castlecaulfield - a true Plantation village*

	Cromwell's Bloody Campaign	*Myles the Slasher* *Cromwellian confiscations in Beara and Bantry*

	Kings James and William	*Broken Treaty of Limerick*

	The Penal Laws	*The moveable sentry box that became the little ark*

	The 1798 Rebellion	*Remembering '98* *The Aftermath* Carlow and its memories of 1798 *Henry Hammond - the Blacksmith of Aclare, Co. Carlow* *The Races of Castlebar* *French fleet in Bantry Bay during 1796* *Fr. Murphy in Carlow*

	The Union and Aftermath	*Robert Emmet - patriot or a misguided youth?*

	The great O'Connell	*Catholic Emancipation* Extreme poverty but a lively culture and thirst for education *When Tara met the great liberator*

	The Great Famine	*Fr. Thomas Molony pleaded for his starving flock* *Famine in West Cork* *In Black 1847, 734,000 men worked on the roads* *A Pauper's graveyard* *Kildare towns before the famine* The tragic eviction at Tonagh *A Landlord who was a real friend of the poor* *Hardship in Cavan* Horrifying events in West Cork *Tales from the Workhouse* *Entering the Land of the Free* The Workhouse in Celbridge The Church in Famine times The Moynagh Emigration *Clare Famine Workhouse* Life-saver houses Bawnboy Workhouse

	The Young Irelanders

	The Fenians	*James Stephens* *Pat Dolan's visit to Cavan* *The battle of Dolly's Brae*

	Parnell and Davitt	*How the word Boycott materialised* *Parnell's visit to Ennis* *Beginning of the end for Parnell* *The O'Mahony in Navan* *Impact of the major Landlords in Monaghan* *The Leslies of Glaslough* *Shirley Estate's lasting legacy* *A Cavan eviction* *Brutal Donegal eviction* *Beara evictions* Richard Pigott Later day Beara evictions

	Revival of Nationalism	*King Edward's visit to west Cork*

	The Easter Rising	*First deaths of 1916 Rising* *Inside the GPO* 1916 Leaders executed Lead up to Easter Rising in Tullamore

	The Troubles 1916-1921	*The Big Fella* *John Doris saw the Tans at their worst* *Come Out Ye Black and Tans* *The Lost Years* *Michael Collins was seven minutes late*

	The Civil War	That bloody '77' End of tragic Civil War

	Growing Up 1923-1939	*Migration from the West during the 1940s* First member of Garda Fighting for the King of Spain

	The Emergency	*Sitting on a World War 2 mine* *Possible invasion by both warring sides* *The Ballivor Spy* *The Emergency (1939-1945) in Monaghan* *Cavan's Emergency Years* *Dead Eye Dick* *Warplane Research Group* *Dev and Churchill* *Fort Berehaven*

	The mean 40's and 50's	*Cavan's emigration problem*

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