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The Road to Partition Season 1 Episodes

  • 2021-2021
  • 1 Season
  • Documentary
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The Road to Partition is expertly made but very much the Idiot's Guide to Irish History, presumably aimed at a British audience who wouldn't know de Valera from da Vinci. Somberly narrated by Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark from Game of Thrones), the two episodes recaps the Easter Rising of 1916, the massacre of Ulster regiments at the Somme, the 1918 general election and the brutal years of the War of Independence.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

2 Episodes 2021 - 2021

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

On June 22, 1921, King George V and Queen Mary arrived in Belfast for the official opening of the first Northern Ireland parliament. Fearful for their lives, they had come to a city scarred by bitter sectarian violence. One hundred years on, this is the story of the dramatic events that led to the partition of Ireland - one that continues to reverberate to the present day.

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Episode 2

Episode #1.2

The second episode explores how political tensions and outbreaks of sectarian violence threatened to destabilize the new Northern Irish state.

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