- 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 2
Partition and the Two Irelands
Partition was a key defining force for the two Irish states that were founded in the 1920s. It fostered polarised identities, accentuating the differences, and eroding that they had in common.
The major losers were those who did not identify with the majority, north or south. Yet in other respects partition was an enabler; it made it possible for an independent Ireland to remain neutral in World War Two, and it strengthened the sense of Britishness within Northern Ireland. With the exception of essential services such as the Dublin Belfast railway line there was very little interaction between the two governments.
Partition damaged longstanding economic and personal links between border communities, but for many people, north or south, the other Ireland was, ‘A Place Apart’.
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About Professor Mary E. Daly
Mary E. Daly is Professor Emerita in Irish History at University College Dublin. Educated at University College Dublin and Nuffield College Oxford, in 2017 she was awarded an honorary D. Litt. by Queen’s University Belfast. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Group that advises the Irish government on the commemorative programme for the Decade of Centenaries 2012-23. In 2014 she was one of the first women to be elected as President of the Royal Irish Academy, (founded 1785). Her extensive publications cover many aspects of the history of Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Further Reading
- Mary E. Daly, Sixties Ireland, Reshaping the economy, state and society 1957-1973, (Cambridge 2016), chapter 14
- Ronan Fanning, ‘Playing it cool: the response of the British and Irish government to the crisis in Northern Ireland, 1968-69, Irish Studies in international affairs, 12, 2001, pp 23-38.
- Alvin Jackson, Ireland 1798-1998, (Oxford: Blackwells, 1999), chapters 6-8.
- Stephen Kelly, Fianna Fail, partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2013).
- Michael Kennedy, Division and consensus. The politics of cross-border relations in Ireland, 1926-1968, (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2000).
- Margaret O’Callaghan, ‘Old parchment and water: the Boundary Commission of 1925 and the copper-fastening of the Irish border’, Bullan: an Irish Studies Review, vol. 4 no 2, 2000, pp 27-55.