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The Road to Partition
2021
Last aired: S1 E2, Episode 2 · 2021-05-27
Series exploring the political brinkmanship and bitter communal violence that led to the partition of Ireland.
Season 1
E1
Episode 1
2021-05-27 · 60 min
On June 22, 1921, King George V and Queen Mary arrived in Belfast for the official opening of the first Northern Ireland parliament. Fearful for their lives, they had come to a city scarred by bitter sectarian violence. One hundred years on, this is the story of the dramatic events that led to the partition of Ireland - one that continues to reverberate to the present day.
E2
Episode 2
2021-05-27 · 60 min
The second episode explores how political tensions and outbreaks of sectarian violence threatened to destabilise the new Northern Irish state.
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Michelle Fairley
Narrator