Year β21 Episodes Available now
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Episode 10: The Big Fellow
Revolutionary, soldier, strategist, politician - the many sides of Michael Collins
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Episode 9: The Doctor and the Lion King
Tara and Declan learn about those involved in the spiralling violence across Ireland.
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Episode 8: The Big Picture
Tara and Declan go to the cinema β not for the main feature, but to watch the newsreels.
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Episode 7: The Priest Hunter
The rise and fall of the political career of leading light of nationalism, Joseph Devlin
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Episode 6: The Lady
Tara and Declan hear about the English aristocrat who travelled to the Shankill Road
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Episode 5: The Witness
Three policemen are shot in an attack key to the growth of the IRA in Belfast
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Episode 4: The Uncrowned King of Ulster
Declan and Tara look back at the life and death of Sir Edward Carson.
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Episode 3: The Backstop
How the threat of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Rule led to a divide in unionism in Ireland
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Episode 2: The Midwife
The story of how a little-known civil servant was key to creating Northern Ireland
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Episode 1: The Table
Declan Harvey and Tara Mills tell the story of the creation of Northern Ireland.