Twenty-eight great stories about the Mizen Peninsula or the things that have happened there. From the first humans to settle in this far-flung part of West Cork, through the Bronze and Iron Ages, early Christianity, the late medieval Gaelic Revival, Pirates, Napoleonic watchtowers, the Great Famine, the Fastnet, Julius Reuter, the Schull & Skibbereen Light Railway, the Land War, Marconi, the Anglo Irish War, the Crookhaven Quarry, and the bridge at Mizen Head.