- 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 6
Northern Ireland: the UK’s first example of devolution
This talk highlights reasons why the Northern Ireland experience of devolution between 1921 and 1972 still has relevance for students of UK politics today.
About Professor Graham Walker
Graham Walker was born and educated in Glasgow. He has held a number of academic posts and has taught at Queen’s since 1991. He is now Professor of Political History at Queen’s. He has published widely in the fields of UK and Irish history and politics with a special emphasis on the constitutional question in Northern Ireland and Scotland. His books include studies of the Ulster Unionist Party and the Labour Party in Scotland. He has also published biographies of significant political figures. He is an honorary research associate in the Institute of Scottish and Irish Studies at the University of Aberdeen and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Further Reading
- P. Bew et al, Northern Ireland 1921-2001: Political Power and Social Classes (London: Serif, 2002)
- V. Bogdanor, Devolution in the United Kingdom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- P. Buckland, James Craig (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1980)
- B. Follis, A State Under Siege: the Establishment of Northern Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
- Jackson, Home Rule: An Irish History 1800-2000 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2003)
- R. Rose, Governing without Consensus: An Irish Perspective (London: Faber and Faber, 1971)