Cette série retrace la vie d'une famille à travers les générations, façonnée par les bouleversements historiques et les épreuves personnelles. Voyagez à travers des histoires de liens familiaux solides, de résilience face à l'adversité et de la quête incessante d'un foyer et du bonheur. Les personnages sont confrontés à d'immenses défis, mais leur détermination et leur courage les guident. C'est une saga épique d'amour, de perte et de l'esprit humain indomptable.
Little Rose McGinley is just seven years old when her family is evicted from their Donegal home, victims of the Clearances of 1861. It is the first step in a long journey for Rose, one that takes her from Donegal to Kerry, and back again to the North. But the feisty girl blossoms into a woman of character with courage and the determination to keep her family together, against all the odds.
During the closing years of the 19th century, the Hamilton family are more secure living in their new home in Ballydown. Rose has every reason to be happy with her lot as she watches her four children make their own choices and mistakes, but she still has to face the future with courage and steadfastness.
Another installment in the popular saga of the Hamilton family of Ballydown - Rose Hamilton, in her fifties and a grandmother, has much to be thankful for in the steady love of her husband John and their relative prosperity. But she is concerned for her children: Sarah, recently widowed, is burdened with grief, while Sam, married to cold, selfish Martha, is struggling to bring up his six children. Only Hannah, happily married and living in England, causes Rose no worry, though she misses her dreadfully.
Rosie has always had to contend with her mother's fierce and unpredictable temper despite all the efforts of her kind and patient father, Sam. When Rosie has the opportunity to go to Kerry she takes a step into a completely new world and a future that will bring her happiness on the long journey to Kerry.
Sam Hamilton and Robert Scott are grateful to have work at a time of mass- unemployment. With the heartache of Sam's younger son, and the loneliness and anxiety of Robert's youngest daughter, Ellie, this is a story of courage and friendship, of disappointment and achievement, and most of all, of the final triumph of patience and love.
It is 1942, and the Second World War has been going on for three wearying years. Alex and Emily Hamilton are both struggling, one with Banbridge's over- worked textile mills, the other with rationing and shortages of both food and fuel which make life hard. But there are still moments of unexpected happiness at even the darkest of times.
Little Clare Hamilton is nine years old when both her parents die in a typhoid epidemic. Claire settles for a time in Belfast, but she longs to return to the country, and she seizes the opportunity of living with her blacksmith grandfather. Between the two a relationship blossoms that will sustain Clare through the years of her adolescence ahead.
The summer of 1957 is the happiest of times for Clare Hamilton, despite a recent loss. She will shortly embark on her final year at Queens University, Belfast, and she is engaged. But her hopes and plans are shattered by a family tragedy, and Clare finds herself taking the Liverpool boat alone, to a new destination of Paris.