Watch Jamie Dornan, Matthew Rhys and Ann Skelly in Starz's trailer for 2018 limited series Death and Nightingales

The three-part limited series that originally premiered on Ireland's RTÉ One and BBC2 in November 2018 will finally make its American debut on May 16. Created by Allan Cubitt and based on Eugene McCabe's 1992 novel of the same name, Death and Nightingales is set in 1885 Northern Ireland and stars follows a woman named Beth over the tense 24-hour period surrounding her 23rd birthday as she decides to leave the home of her landowner stepfather, Billy, to start a new life with a charming man named Liam.