This story is the first in a series about the Irish military diaspora. In 1608 King Karl IX of Sweden asked King James I of England could he recruit soldiers in Ireland to fight in his war against Poland–Lithuania. The English king obliged, and consequently English authorities press-ganged around 5000 Irish swordsmen into Swedish service. This is one of the many complex factors which paved the way for the Plantation of Ulster.

This story looks at three songs by the great protest singer and songwriter Phil Ochs, and examines how they remain relevant to contemporary America more than half a century on from their release.

This is a story about the labour movement in Kentucky. And how employers collaborated with the authorities to use violence to suppress the unions and frighten the workers . . . And their families. This is also the story of a song.

The story of the Ballyduff team who won the All-Ireland Hurling Championship in 1891 for Kerry and the several controversies surrounding their victory, as well as hurling's ancient roots in the county, which can be traced back several hundred years... 

The story of Alfred Faulkner Wheelhouse, who perished aboard the Lusitania in 1915. Alfred's body washed ashore in County Kerry, Ireland, several weeks later, where the local community came together to bury his remains in a remote graveyard overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Upon learning of his death, Alfred's mother made a pilgrimage to his grave during wartime.