The series consists of seven 55-minute episodes, each dealing with a different decade, beginning with independence in 1921. • Programme 1. The Birth of the New Irish State • Programme 2. Depression and the Rise of Fianna Fáil to Power • Programme 3. The Forties - Decade of Neutrality and Censorship • Programme 4. The Fifties - The Make or Break Decade • Programme 5. The Modernisation of Ireland • Programme 6. The Seventies - A Decade of Terror, Tension and Transformation • Programme 7. Haughey and FitzGerald - Great Adversaries of the Eighties