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News,21 May 2021,22 mins

Episode 21: The Periodicals

Year ‘21

Available for over a year

Amid violence and turbulence across the island of Ireland, elections are taking place to establish two new parliaments. Historian Dr Erin Schoepner takes Tara and Declan through a deep dive of archive cuttings to see how newspapers in Britain were reporting “the Irish Question” in 1921.

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