In the late 1960s, while many of Ireland’s best and brightest had left Ireland in search of wider horizons, back home Ireland’s joining the European Economic Community in 1973 was to signal the end of a lengthy period of isolationism and protectionism. The programme also looks at the advent of militant feminism in Ireland and the pivotal moment of the “Pill Train” to Belfast. While social change was coming slowly to Ireland during the 1970s, many other young Irish were gradually making their way in the wider world. Many of these emigrant Irish were joining other in sowing the seeds of global change. These new ideas would shape their homeland – and the rest of the planet – in the future.