- 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 22
The Partition of Ireland in a Global Context
Partition played a key part in the international politics of the twentieth century. Yet what links the Irish experience with partitions in other times and places?
This talk places the partition of Ireland in a global and an imperial context. It compares Ireland to three other British partitions (Cyprus India and Palestine) and asks what lessons Northern Ireland's recent history has for future attempts to resolve deep-seated territorial conflicts.
About Professor Bill Kissane
Bill Kissane was born in Wexford and educated at Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics where he is a Reader in Politics. His most recent book was "Nations Torn Asunder: the Challenge of Civil War" (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Further Reading
- Joe Cleary, Literature, Partition and the Nation State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
- John Coakley, 'Ethnic Conflict and the Two State Solution: the Irish Experience of Partition'. Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways. Ancilliary Paper, No.3,2004. Institute of British Studies. Queens University Belfast.
- Brendan O'Leary, 'Shackles Across the Heart: Comparing Ireland's Partition', A Treatise on Northern Ireland Vol 1, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp.370-397.
- Dirk Moses, “Partitions and the Sisyphean Making of Peoples,” Dirk Moses. Refugee Watch, 46 (2015), 36-50. Abridged in Transit (2016)
- G. Fraser, Partition in Ireland, India, and Palestine : Theory and Practice (London, 1986).