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Year ‘21

Explore how Northern Ireland was created a hundred years ago in the company of Tara Mills and Declan Harvey.

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Episodes

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Rules of Engagement
A guide for how to enjoy Year ‘21
22 Dec 2020,1 min
Episode 1: The Table
Declan Harvey and Tara Mills tell the story of the creation of Northern Ireland.
23 Dec 2020,13 mins
Episode 2: The Midwife
The story of how a little-known civil servant was key to creating Northern Ireland
08 Jan 2021,16 mins
Episode 3: The Backstop
How the threat of Home Rule led to a divide in unionism in Ireland
15 Jan 2021,19 mins
Episode 4: The Uncrowned King of Ulster
Declan and Tara look back at the life and death of Sir Edward Carson.
22 Jan 2021,33 mins
Episode 5: The Witness
Three policemen are shot in an attack key to the growth of the IRA in Belfast
29 Jan 2021,23 mins
Episode 6: The Lady
Tara and Declan hear about the English aristocrat who travelled to the Shankill Road
05 Feb 2021,26 mins
Episode 7: The Priest Hunter
The rise and fall of the political career of leading light of nationalism, Joseph Devlin
12 Feb 2021,21 mins
Episode 8: The Big Picture
Tara and Declan go to the cinema – not for the main feature, but to watch the newsreels.
19 Feb 2021,13 mins
Episode 9: The Doctor and the Lion King
Tara and Declan learn about those involved in the spiralling violence across Ireland.
26 Feb 2021,24 mins
Episode 10: The Big Fellow
Revolutionary, soldier, strategist, politician - the many sides of Michael Collins
05 Mar 2021,27 mins
Episode 11: The Barracks Boys
Who was in charge of policing in Ireland in 1921?
12 Mar 2021,31 mins
Episode 12: The Beautiful Game
One hundred years ago, soccer became a political football in the run up to partition.
19 Mar 2021,20 mins
Episode 13: The 'Lost' Counties
Why three counties of Ulster are left behind as the new Northern Ireland is created.
26 Mar 2021,16 mins
Episode 14: The Yard
The expulsion of thousands of workers from Belfast shipyard sparks sectarian warfare
02 Apr 2021,26 mins
Episode 15: The First PM
How James Craig came to be the architect and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
10 Apr 2021,25 mins
Episode 16: The Belfast Pogrom
Belfast is midway through a terror campaign in which almost 500 people will die
16 Apr 2021,24 mins
Episode 17: The Lawmakers and the Lawbreakers
Politicians in Westminster breathe a sigh of relief over “The Irish Question”
23 Apr 2021,21 mins
Episode 18: The Long Fellow
Hero or villain, it’s impossible to overestimate the influence of Eamon de Valera
30 Apr 2021,30 mins
Episode 19: The Big Day?
On the week in which some historians say NI came into being, Craig and de Valera meet.
07 May 2021,18 mins
Episode 20: The Numbers Game
Politicians are preparing for an election. Well, two, actually…one for each parliament
14 May 2021,14 mins
Episode 21: The Periodicals
As elections are being held north and south, how are British newspapers reporting events?
21 May 2021,22 mins
Episode 22: The North Poll
The people of Northern Ireland finally get their say in the State's very first election
28 May 2021,16 mins
Episode 23: The Burning of the Custom House
A vivid eyewitness account to a key event in Ireland's War of Independence
04 Jun 2021,21 mins
Episode 24: The First Sitting
Northern Ireland's new MPs gather for the first sitting of the new Parliament in Belfast.
12 Jun 2021,22 mins
Episode 25: The District Inspector
Meet DI Nixon- alleged to be the head of a police gang carrying out reprisals in 1921
18 Jun 2021,22 mins
Episode 26: The King's Speech
A momentuous day for Northern Ireland as the King attends the State opening of parliament
21 Jun 2021,28 mins
Episode 27: The Ambush
Four men and dozens of horses are killed in an IRA ambush near the south Armagh border
02 Jul 2021,18 mins
Episode 28: The Bloodiest Day in Belfast
Seventeen die in battles between the IRA, police and loyalists in Belfast's Bloody Sunday
09 Jul 2021,26 mins
Episode 29: The Truce and the Twelfth
A truce is agreed in the War of Independence as the Orange Order celebrates the Twelfth
16 Jul 2021,26 mins