Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Peter Clifford has just arrived from London with high expectations and no driver's license.

The Story Of Ireland is a five-part landmark history of Ireland presented by Fergal Keane (Wild Africa, Great Railway Journeys). Ireland is living through a significant period in its cycle of history, since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the island has been at peace. This is unprecedented in the history of modern Ireland and so seems like a perfect time to reflect on the Irish as a people and as a modern European nation.

The small mountain town gets a new priest, Father Aidan O'Connell.

A magical tale of a girl whose search for her missing brother brings an Irish legend to life.

"In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?"--

"For decades, ever since the war, Number One Main Street, Ballybucklebo, has housed O'Reilly and his practice... It is to Number One that patients young and old come when they need a doctor's care, for everything from the measles to a rare and baffling blood disease. An unexpected turn of events threatens to drive O'Reilly from his home for good, unless the entire village can rally behind their doctor and prove that love really can conquer all." --...

Siobhán O'Sullivan and her five siblings have a lot on their plate when a man is found murdered at their bistro in the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland.

"On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell - known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick - is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite, for help. As a record heat wave envelops the city, and the secret deals underpinning Diamond Dick's empire begin to be revealed, Quirke and Hackett find...

An unflinching vision of life on the dole in Ireland told with humor and grace.

"Spanning thirty years and three continents, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigan family, and her four children" -- "Ardeevin, County Clare, Ireland. 1980. When her oldest brother Dan announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother howl in agony and retreat to her room. In the years that follow, the Madigan children leave one by one: Dan for the frenzy of New York under the shadow of AIDS; Constance...