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- An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an uptight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
- Today Michael observes the amazing engineering feat involved in building the railway along Dublin's treacherous East coast, and explores 19th century crime and punishment in a Victorian jail.
- Michael explores the extensive railway network within the Bog of Allen, discovers the Victorian secrets behind the amazing Boyne Viaduct, and travels underground, into the vast Irish Zinc mines.
- Michael explores the extensive railway network within the Bog of Allen, discovers the Victorian secrets behind the amazing Boyne Viaduct, and travels underground, into the vast Irish Zinc mines.
- Michael is on a railway journey through the Republic of Ireland travelling from the rugged beauty of County Kerry, across the rural Irish Midlands.
- Michael visits the Irish National Stud, discovers how harsh life was for the Irish poor and uncovers an astronomical feat of Victorian engineering.
- Michael tries his hand at cutting marble Victorian style, uncovers 19th century Ireland's surprising industrial heritage and learns how the railways helped bring motorsport to the masses.
- Michael is on the final leg of his Irish journey and discovers historic jewellery with royal connections in Galway. He also meets a people's king, and finds his voice with an Irish singing group.
- Michael discovers one of Ireland's greatest treasures at Trinity College, Dublin. He learns how Victorian royalty were used to ease tensions between Britain and Ireland and how, and why, the nation was put on the map.
- Michael Portillo begins a journey across Ireland. He takes to the seas in a 100-year-old lifeboat and discovers an American naval hero. He ends this leg riding in a horse-drawn, barrel-topped caravan.
- Michael learns about modern archaeology in County Meath and uncovers a controversial Victorian dig at the sacred Hill of Tara. He investigates leaping salmon and discovers an electrifying breakthrough.
- Michael learns how the Irish landscape inspired W.B. Yeats. In Dromod, he makes an Irish staple - a potato pancake, known as boxty. At the home of the father of Irish fiddling, Michael attempts to master a traditional Irish dance.
- On the last leg of his long journey from Wexford to Westport, Michael takes a seaweed bath, learns of a double tragedy at Clew Bay and begins a pilgrimage to the summit of Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick.