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Year β€˜21 Episodes

  1.

    Episode 48: The Phoenix

    Dr Γ‰amon Phoenix reveals how his grandfather nearly died in the violence of 1921

  2. Episode 45: The Food Fight

    Prime Minister Lloyd George is forced into transferring powers to Stormont

  3. Episode 44: The Blacklist

    The Belfast Boycott begins to bite with many businesses struggling to stay afloat.

  4. Epsiode 43: The Talking Begins Part II

    As talks begin, it is clear one side is vastly more experienced than the other

  5. Episode 41: The Parting of the Ways

    The new border poses a particular problem for the rail networks

  6. Episode 38: The Lamplighter

    A man employed to keep streetlamps lit in Belfast tells of his narrow brushes with death

  7. Episode 37: Le Ministre

    NI's first Minister of Education takes charge of a schooling system in crisis

  8. Episode 35: The Southern Protestants

    Why did so many Protestants leave Southern Ireland after partition?

  9. Episode 33: The Other Women

    The history books have little to say about 1921's women. These are some of their stories.

  10. Episode 32: The Spies

    Men and women spying for Ireland get to the heart of British government

  11. Episode 31: The Pharmacist

    1921 changes everything for thousands of Irish citizens- including a Belfast pharmacist

  12. Episode 29: The Truce and the Twelfth

    A truce is agreed in the War of Independence as the Orange Order celebrates the Twelfth

  13. Episode 27: The Ambush

    Four men and dozens of horses are killed in an IRA ambush near the south Armagh border

  14. Episode 25: The District Inspector

    Meet DI Nixon- alleged to be the head of a police gang carrying out reprisals in 1921

  15. Episode 24: The First Sitting

    Northern Ireland's new MPs gather for the first sitting of the new Parliament in Belfast.

  16. Episode 23: The Burning of the Custom House

    A vivid eyewitness account to a key event in Ireland's War of Independence

  17. Episode 21: The Periodicals

    As elections are being held north and south, how are British newspapers reporting events?

  18. Episode 19: The Big Day?

    On the week in which some historians say NI came into being, Craig and de Valera meet.

  19. Episode 17: The Lawmakers and the Lawbreakers

    Politicians in Westminster breathe a sigh of relief over β€œThe Irish Question”

  20. Episode 15: The First PM

    How James Craig came to be the architect and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

  21. Episode 13: The 'Lost' Counties

    Why three counties of Ulster are left behind as the new Northern Ireland is created.

  22. Episode 11: The Barracks Boys

    Who was in charge of policing in Ireland in 1921?

  23. Episode 7: The Priest Hunter

    The rise and fall of the political career of leading light of nationalism, Joseph Devlin

  24. Episode 6: The Lady

    Tara and Declan hear about the English aristocrat who travelled to the Shankill Road

  25. Episode 5: The Witness

    Three policemen are shot in an attack key to the growth of the IRA in Belfast

  26. Episode 4: The Uncrowned King of Ulster

    Declan and Tara look back at the life and death of Sir Edward Carson.

  27. Episode 3: The Backstop

    How the threat of Home Rule led to a divide in unionism in Ireland

  28. Episode 2: The Midwife

    The story of how a little-known civil servant was key to creating Northern Ireland

  29. Episode 1: The Table

    Declan Harvey and Tara Mills tell the story of the creation of Northern Ireland.

  30. Rules of Engagement

    A guide for how to enjoy Year β€˜21

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