It features contributions from Mary Bennett, who moved from County Clare to Galway in the late 1950s, built a business empire up from a souvenir stall in the Great Southern Hotel to a popular store (The Treasure Chest) located on Shop Street, Jimmy Griffin, who is a member of the fourth generation of Griffin's Bakers, established in 1876, and Pat McPhilbin, who worked in a bakery on Shop Street as a young boy and now cleans the streets for the Galway Corporation to a soundtrack of classical music.

It features contributions from Thecla Hartmann, who met her husband for the first time on O'Connell Street, and later asked him to dance for "Lady's Choice" in Cruises Hotel, Joe Malone, a regular of The White House Pub for approximately fifty years who fought in the Todds fire of 1959, Liam Hanley, whose childhood was spent living over the now demolished Listons Medical Hall on O'Connell Street (run by his father), and Mark Liddy, a local historian and tour guide in Limerick.

It features contributions from Dick O'Sullivan, a local boy who had various jobs on the street and who played music in one of the shop windows, Louise Lee, who came to Cork during the 1960s and opened a Chinese restaurant on Patrick Street with her husband, Declan Hassett, whose girlfriend discarded him under Mangon's clock only for the relationship to redevelop and for him to later propose marriage to her at that same location and who spent some time working with the Irish Examiner, and Kay Bermingham, who grew up outside the city but is now a tour guide inside it.

It features contributions from Pat Shortis, who has received recognition for his charity work and was the Grand Marshal of the 2008 Saint Patrick's Day parade, Anne Ryan, who entered into the family business of an electric shop at seventeen years of age when her mother became unwell, Jim Bourke, who left the priesthood and became a tailor in the family business of a big drapery store and Frank Kavanagh, who has had many different jobs on High Street and was an auxiliary fire fighter but now works in Kilkenny Castle.

The series was well received by critics and the media, with newspapers in cities such as Galway and Limerick advertising the episode in which their street was featured.