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1. Separate Government | SELB prog code: TP 0217 |
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This opening programme in the series traces the history of Northern Ireland from the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to the 1960s. The approach combines comparison of trends North and South with a chronology of the landmark events. | | |
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| 2. The Civil Rights Movement | SELB prog code: TP 0253 |
| This programme looks at discrimination, the emergence of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and the violence of the 1960s. It ends with a survey of the events leading to the birth of the Provisional IRA and the eventual introduction of Direct Rule from Westminster in 1972.
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| 3. Ulster Workers Council Strike | SELB prog code: TP 0284 |
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This programme deals with the failure of the power-sharing administration in Northern Ireland in 1974. The splits within Unionism, the growing fears of an Irish dimension being introduced through the Council of Ireland and the subsequent Ulster Workers’ Council Strike are also examined | | |
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| 4. Hunger Strike | SELB prog code: TP 0315 |
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This programme deals with the impact of the hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981.
It examines the reasons for the prison protest, and the emotional and political effects of the deaths of ten hunger strikers. | | |
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| 5. Agreement | SELB prog code: TP 0349 |
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The programme deals with the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 as a renewed effort to reconcile the two communities and to provide a framework for North / South relations. The Unionist viewpoint and the history of the constitutional guarantee are considered, as is Unionist reaction to Dublin involvement in Northern Ireland’s affairs. | | |
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| *Series first broadcast in 1995 |
