Ryan Tubridy

From poverty & epidemics in Connemara to the seat of all wealth & power in the Middle ages, Ryan Tubridy's story is full of intense contradictions. Uncovering his Tubridy roots takes him to a remote rural schoolhouse, and a century-old battle between his Great-Grandfather and the local priest. On the other side of his family, Ryan stands in the very spot where his Grandfather took a bullet, and in the very place where his Grandmother went on hunger strike. And in a preposterous sequence of events, this grandson of Republican volunteers follows his family tree to the very heart of the British Empire...