Terence Kearey has long harboured a wish to trace his family connections with his homeland back as far as possible in time. As a keen historian he has devoted thousands of hours to researching and recording the history of the Kearey name, all the way back to the 10th century AD, when his ancestors bore the name Ciardha.

In this book he traces a thousand years of history, from the time when Ireland was divided into kingdoms. With the aid of DNA analysis he delves even further back, to the earliest occupation of
Ireland by his Stone Age ancestors.