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Episode 29: The Truce and the Twelfth
A truce is agreed in the War of Independence as the Orange Order celebrates the Twelfth
After the Kingβs visit to Belfast, Lloyd George and de Valera finally agree a truce to allow treaty negotiations to get underway. Meanwhile the annual Twelfth parades take place amid a feeling of betrayal from Orange Order members in Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan who have been left out of the newly-created Northern Ireland. Tara visits the Orange Orderβs museum and hears how the institution is inextricably linked with James Craig and many of those who will go on to wield power in Northern Ireland.
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