- Episode 1 - Home Rule and the Ulster Crisis
- Episode 2 - Partition and the Two Irelands
- Episode 3 - The Partitionist Mentality
- Episode 4 -'Gender and partition: ‘it’s a queer sort of existence this’'
- Episode 5 - Partition and the Southern Irish Protestant experience.
- Episode 6 -‘Northern Ireland: the UK’s first example of devolution’
- Episode 7 - Our church will never perish out of this land: the southern Irish Protestant experience of partition
- Episode 8 - Class in Northern Ireland, a family history
- Episode 9 -The IRA and the Partition of Ireland
- Episode 10 - Partition: Imperial Contexts Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
- Episode 11 - Rethinking unionism and partition, 1900-1921 Alvin Jackson
- Episode 12 -'Community, church and culture in boundary-making' J.Todd
- Episode 13 Ernest Clark - Cormac Moore
- Episode 14 - Life on the line: partition and the border P.Leary
- Episode 15 - Acts of partition: from the Government of Ireland act 1920 to the Boundary Commission1925. M O'Callaghan
- Episode 16 - Writing the Border G.Patterson
- Episode 17 - Partition's Casualties: religious minorities in the new states M.Elliott
- Episode 18 - Violence: The human cost of Partition Dr Tim Wilson
- Episode 19 - The Killing of Sir Henry Wilson: An Irish Tragedy F.McGarry
- Episode 20 - Comparative Reflections Professor Brendan O’Leary
- Episode 21 -Richard Bourke Unionisims and Partition
- Episode 22 - The Partition of Ireland in a Global ContextB.Kissane
- Episode 23 - Broadcasting and the Border: How partition influenced broadcasting R Savage
- Episode 24 - Partition and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Robert Lynch
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Talk 1
Home Rule and the Ulster Crisis
This talk outlines the historic failure of the union concept for most Irish people while explaining also its popularity in the north east.
It will deal with the tragedy of the failure to achieve a peaceful compromise during the home rule crisis and end with a note on the economics of the union.
Watch the talk above or on the BBC website.
About Professor Paul Bew (The Lord Bew)
The Lord Bew (Paul) is Emeritus Professor of Politics in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. He has served as an independent Crossbench Life Peer since 2007, currently as Chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
He has previously acted as historical advisor to the Bloody Sunday Tribunals, served as advisor to David Trimble and made extensive contributions to the Good Friday Agreement process. He is an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and Member of Royal Irish Academy (MRIA).
Further Reading
- Northern Ireland 1921 - 2001: Political Power and Social Classes, by Paul Bew, Peter Gibbon & Henry Patterson
- Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006, by Paul Bew
- Parliament and Northern Ireland, 1921-2021, by David Torrance, House of Commons Library: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8884/