Year 鈥�21 Podcast
Explore how Northern Ireland was created a hundred years ago in the company of Tara Mills and Declan Harvey.
Each week a different piece of the story is added.
But this is not about 1921, it鈥檚 about how we got to 2021.
Episodes to download
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Episode 20: The Numbers Game
Fri 14 May 2021
Politicians are preparing for an election. Well, two, actually鈥ne for each parliament
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Episode 19: The Big Day?
Fri 7 May 2021
On the week in which some historians say NI came into being, Craig and de Valera meet.
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Episode 18: The Long Fellow
Fri 30 Apr 2021
Hero or villain, it鈥檚 impossible to overestimate the influence of Eamon de Valera
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Episode 17: The Lawmakers and the Lawbreakers
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Politicians in Westminster breathe a sigh of relief over 鈥淭he Irish Question鈥�
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Episode 16: The Belfast Pogrom
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Belfast is midway through a terror campaign in which almost 500 people will die
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Episode 15: The First PM
Sat 10 Apr 2021
How James Craig came to be the architect and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
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Episode 14: The Yard
Fri 2 Apr 2021
The expulsion of thousands of workers from Belfast shipyard sparks sectarian warfare
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Episode 13: The 'Lost' Counties
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Why three counties of Ulster are left behind as the new Northern Ireland is created.
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Episode 12: The Beautiful Game
Fri 19 Mar 2021
One hundred years ago, soccer became a political football in the run up to partition.
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Episode 10: The Big Fellow
Fri 5 Mar 2021
Revolutionary, soldier, strategist, politician - the many sides of Michael Collins
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Episode 9: The Doctor and the Lion King
Fri 26 Feb 2021
Tara and Declan learn about those involved in the spiralling violence across Ireland.
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Episode 8: The Big Picture
Fri 19 Feb 2021
Tara and Declan go to the cinema 鈥� not for the main feature, but to watch the newsreels.
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Episode 7: The Priest Hunter
Fri 12 Feb 2021
The rise and fall of the political career of leading light of nationalism, Joseph Devlin
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Episode 6: The Lady
Fri 5 Feb 2021
Tara and Declan hear about the English aristocrat who travelled to the Shankill Road
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Episode 5: The Witness
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Three policemen are shot in an attack key to the growth of the IRA in Belfast
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Episode 4: The Uncrowned King of Ulster
Fri 22 Jan 2021
Declan and Tara look back at the life and death of Sir Edward Carson.
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Episode 3: The Backstop
Fri 15 Jan 2021
How the threat of 91热爆 Rule led to a divide in unionism in Ireland
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Episode 2: The Midwife
Fri 8 Jan 2021
The story of how a little-known civil servant was key to creating Northern Ireland
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Episode 1: The Table
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Declan Harvey and Tara Mills tell the story of the creation of Northern Ireland.
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