Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.
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- Roy Huggins


Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.
1 season · 8 episodes
Chapter I
Sep 30, 1976120 min
Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh and his two younger siblings Sean and Mary escape a ship on the harbor of New York. The situation ashore is problematic, jobs are scarce and food equally scarce. Aboard the ship their mother has died from diseas
Chapter II
Oct 7, 197660 min
A few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey.
Chapter III
Oct 14, 197660 min
Joseph Armagh rejects the love of Elizabeth Healey, learns of the dying Katherine Hennessey's unrequited love, promising to wed her daughter Bernadette before Katherine's jealous husband goes too far in a salacious attack on Joseph.
Chapter IV
Oct 28, 197660 min
Tensions escalate between the labor unions and the railroad, as Joseph Armagh fathers four children with Bernadette even as he seeks to avenge himself on her father for depriving him of the two great loves of his life.
Chapter V
Nov 4, 197660 min
Joseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
Chapter VI
Nov 11, 197660 min
Rory Armagh romances Marjorie Chisholm while his sister Anne-Marie's relationship with Courtney Wickersham crashes and burns through no fault of their own.