Year ‘21 Podcast
Explore how Northern Ireland was created a hundred years ago in the company of Tara Mills and Declan Harvey.
Each week a different piece of the story is added.
But this is not about 1921, it’s about how we got to 2021.
Episodes to download
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Episode 50: The End of the Beginning
Fri 10 Dec 2021
The Irish delegation agrees to sign up to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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Episode 49: The Oath of Allegiance
Fri 3 Dec 2021
It’s crunch time in the Treaty talks – can the Irish agree to an Oath of Allegiance?
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Episode 48: The Phoenix
Fri 26 Nov 2021
Dr Éamon Phoenix reveals how his grandfather nearly died in the violence of 1921
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Episode 47: The Courting Rituals
Fri 19 Nov 2021
As legal powers transfer to Northern Ireland Declan and Tara find themselves in court.
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Episode 46: The Presence of the Past
Fri 12 Nov 2021
As Armistice Day approaches the poppy emerges as a symbol of remembrance - and division.
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Episode 45: The Food Fight
Fri 5 Nov 2021
Prime Minister Lloyd George is forced into transferring powers to Stormont
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Episode 44: The Blacklist
Fri 29 Oct 2021
The Belfast Boycott begins to bite with many businesses struggling to stay afloat.
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Epsiode 43: The Talking Begins Part II
Fri 22 Oct 2021
As talks begin, it is clear one side is vastly more experienced than the other
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Episode 42: The Talking Begins
Fri 15 Oct 2021
The Irish arrive in London for treaty talks - and leave a fascinating record of the trip.
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Episode 41: The Parting of the Ways
Fri 8 Oct 2021
The new border poses a particular problem for the rail networks
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Episode 40: The National Treasures
Fri 1 Oct 2021
Irish leader de Valera accepts an invitation to peace talks with the British in London
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Episode 39: The Children of the Revolution
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Until now, little has been known about how children were affected by the turmoil of 1921
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Episode 38: The Lamplighter
Fri 17 Sep 2021
A man employed to keep streetlamps lit in Belfast tells of his narrow brushes with death
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Episode 37: Le Ministre
Fri 10 Sep 2021
NI's first Minister of Education takes charge of a schooling system in crisis
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Episode 36: The King's Guard
Fri 3 Sep 2021
Listener Mary Kiely recalls her family's past brush with royalty and present-day tragedy.
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Episode 35: The Southern Protestants
Fri 27 Aug 2021
Why did so many Protestants leave Southern Ireland after partition?
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Episode 34: The Religious Divide
Fri 20 Aug 2021
How important was the influence of the churches in the partition of Ireland?
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Episode 33: The Other Women
Sat 14 Aug 2021
The history books have little to say about 1921's women. These are some of their stories.
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Episode 32: The Spies
Fri 6 Aug 2021
Men and women spying for Ireland get to the heart of British government
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Episode 31: The Pharmacist
Fri 30 Jul 2021
1921 changes everything for thousands of Irish citizens- including a Belfast pharmacist
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Episode 30: The Prison Camp
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Ballykinlar is chosen as the first internment camp in Ireland
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Episode 29: The Truce and the Twelfth
Fri 16 Jul 2021
A truce is agreed in the War of Independence as the Orange Order celebrates the Twelfth
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Episode 28: The Bloodiest Day in Belfast
Fri 9 Jul 2021
Seventeen die in battles between the IRA, police and loyalists in Belfast's Bloody Sunday
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Episode 27: The Ambush
Fri 2 Jul 2021
Four men and dozens of horses are killed in an IRA ambush near the south Armagh border
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Episode 26: The King's Speech
Mon 21 Jun 2021
A momentuous day for Northern Ireland as the King attends the State opening of parliament
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Episode 25: The District Inspector
Fri 18 Jun 2021
Meet DI Nixon- alleged to be the head of a police gang carrying out reprisals in 1921
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Episode 24: The First Sitting
Sat 12 Jun 2021
Northern Ireland's new MPs gather for the first sitting of the new Parliament in Belfast.
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Episode 23: The Burning of the Custom House
Fri 4 Jun 2021
A vivid eyewitness account to a key event in Ireland's War of Independence
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Episode 22: The North Poll
Fri 28 May 2021
The people of Northern Ireland finally get their say in the State's very first election
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Episode 21: The Periodicals
Fri 21 May 2021
As elections are being held north and south, how are British newspapers reporting events?
