1. Episode 1

John starts his journey pondering why the word bard appears in so many place names right across the country. Emmett Kirwan, Pat Shortt and Hugh Wallace all bump into John on his travels across Ireland in episode one, from Tallaght, to Tipperary, and Waterford to the Beara Peninsula.

2. Episode 2

John Creedon finds himself in the Lost Valley of Mayo, where he makes the link between the importance of Irish place names and those of all indigenous cultures. He meets Claire Young, a Choctaw scholar with Irish roots, and musician Liam Ó Maonlaí and together they explore the bond between cultures striving to return to their roots having suffered foreign domination