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Episode 30: The Prison Camp
Ballykinlar is chosen as the first internment camp in Ireland
Thousands of men are arrested and spend months behind the wire at Ballykinlar. What was life like there? Author Liam O Duibhir draws parallels with the recent past as he tells Tara and Declan about conditions in the camp: how men set up classes to learn Irish, music, shorthand and book-keeping - and how two internees plotted their escape.
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The story of the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921, told week by week.
