A nostalgic look back at the Irish experience in America through vintage film footage, photos, and personal memories, including interviews with original Riverdance star Jean Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes), singer Rosemary Clooney, Irish folksinger Tommy Makem, and bandleader Paddy Noonan. Visits to New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Southern California examine the roles that family, community, and tradition have played, and still play, in the transformation of Irish immigrants into Irish Americans.