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Episode 47: The Courting Rituals
As legal powers transfer to Northern Ireland Declan and Tara find themselves in court.
The first Lord Chief Justice for the State is Catholic unionist Sir Denis Henry, who faces an enormous task in establishing the framework for a new justice system. Meanwhile, two Belfast women are making legal history in a move that only reaches its conclusion a century later, as Northern Ireland’s first Lady Chief Justice, Siobhan Keegan, explains.
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Year ‘21
The story of the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921, told week by week.