The stories in this series of podcasts are indisputable truths on the evolution of the Irish.
However, all history of ancient times is to a greater or lesser ex...
‘’The Troubles’’, Peace People, Hunger Strikes and the Good Friday Agreement 1998
This episode covers the period in Northern Ireland between the 1970's and 1998 which includes ‘’The Troubles’’, the Peace People, Prisoners on hunger strike, their elections and deaths the eventual IRA ceasefire, the rise of Sinn Fein and the DUP and the Good Friday Agreement 1998
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The Dublin Arms Trial 1970 and the Sunningdale Agreement 1973
In 1970 several high ranking politicians in the Republic of Ireland were implicated in an Arms importation plot to help out Nationalists in Derry and Belfast
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The Provisional IRA, Internment without trial, Direct Rule and Secretary of State William Whitelaw 1972
The Provisional IRA arrive on the scene in Northern Ireland to protect the Civil rights marchers and ''the Troubles'' begin. Internment without trial is not accepted lightly and causes huge problems. Stormont is prorogued with the appointment of William Whitelaw as Secretary of State.
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Northern Ireland 1969, John Hume turns to politics, the Ballymurphy and Bloody Sunday massacres.
The Civil Rights marches become intense in Northern Ireland John Hume and others turn to Politics and the Marchers are attacked by Paratroopers in Ballymurphy and the Bogside
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The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Campaign 1968 the Unionist and British Government response
The Civil Rights campaign began in Northern Ireland in 1968 and a very difficult uphill struggle ensued with Nationalists/Catholics seeking a fairness from the dominant Unionist/Protestant ruling classes and the British government.
The stories in this series of podcasts are indisputable truths on the evolution of the Irish.
However, all history of ancient times is to a greater or lesser extent hearsay, since the method of passing on the stories before writing began, was to incorporate them in tales and ballads which were told and sung at every gathering of the various Clans, passed on as legend in this manner from one generation to the next.
Eventually, whichever version survived was available for scribes and historians to document when written records began to be compiled.
Myth or Legend, this was no different for the old Gaelic and Milesian people on the Island of Ireland, before the advent of successive foreign invasions, which were numerous and varied and you will get a thorough account of the evolution of the Irish in this series, called ‘’Land of the Golden Sunset’’
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