Presenter Joe Mahon visits the village of Sixmilecross in
County Tyrone and tells viewers how it got its name and the discrepancy between
Irish miles and statute miles. He then talks of a famous ex-resident, the poet
William Forbes Marshall, who was a local Presbyterian minister.
Joe meets Marion Moffit in the WF Marshall Centre. She
talks of her life in the hotel business next door and how the Marshall Centre
came into being as a Sewing Club before expanding into other arts and crafts.
Joe reads some of the poetry of WF Marshall and visits his graveside. Seamus
Shields takes Joe up into the hills to view some Dunlop homesteads, connected
with John Dunlop who printed the American Declaration of Independence. Joe
walks up through Bernish Glen and recites some of Marshall's poetry relating to
it.
Joe visits the ruins
of Dunmoyle House and the grave of John Ross, the last Lord Chancellor of
Ireland. Joe talks to a group of elderly men about the area's association with
handball then Sean Clarke shows him round a nearby modern court where he plays
a game. Peter Campbell shows Joe his farm with donkeys and llamas on it. Dr
Patrick Waterfield shows Joe around the nearby Flax Mill Centre which is heated
by underground heat from the bog beside it.