and then i found meagher. you see the whole arc of irish-american history through this one man, or most of it. all the things the irish have gone through, the immigration thing, trying to take away their language, their pride, their dignity, their religion. you see them becoming americans. and what is said about mexicans right now in this current political campaign is the exact same language that they said about the irish. exact same. you can just substitute the word "mexican" for "irish," and it's the exact same. so i wanted to bring that history forth. but then you get the montana part. and i'm a third generation westerner. my family, it turns out, they're montana irish. they -- my great grandfather came from county waterford where meagher is was from and moved to butte, montana. at one point there was more gaelic spoken in butte than any place outside of dublin, they said. it's because of the mines. so there was a mine operator named daley who was a wealthiest irish industrialist of his day, and he sured at

she dies at the age of 21, i think, meagher will never see his son, by the way, because he can't go tobut he falls in love with a woman who is everything he is not. she's a protestant, he's a catholic. she's an anglo-saxon, he's a celt. she's this reserved fifth avenue