A new documentary, Partition, 1921, tells the story of how Ireland came to be to be partitioned from the perspective of the British and unionist politicians who divided Ireland. The memory of ...

IN JANUARY 1921, despite the passing of the Government of Ireland Act the previous month, there still was a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the impending partition of Ireland planned for that ...

One hundred years ago there was no US president willing to give a demarche (diplomatic warning) to the then British prime minister over policies on Ulster. President Joe Biden's public dressing down ...

Nobody tunes into one of Michael Portillo's Irish documentaries expecting to be bowled over by the sensational reporting. As with his films about the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence, the ...

Professor Jennifer Todd - Community, church and culture in boundary-making Dr Cormac Moore - Sir Ernest Clark: 'Midwife to the New Province of Ulster' Dr Peter Leary - Life on the line: Partition at ...

Just a few weeks after Ireland was officially partitioned on May 3 1921, voters in the new Northern Ireland went to the polls. With the War of Independence still raging, and the north hit by waves of ...

I was expecting more fireworks and even craic in Partition, 1921 (RTÉ One and RTÉ Player). The publicity photos showed Michael Portillo sitting down with Gerry Adams (for the first time apparently) ...

The partition of Ireland on 3 May 1921, which created a devolved government in Northern Ireland, was intended to bring peace. Instead came discrimination, division and violence on both sides. In the ...

Analysis: there are parallels to be drawn between the 1921 partition and the one which occured in Medieval Ireland in 1247 This year marks the centenary of the introduction of the Government of ...

Contributor: Professor Alvin Jackson Talk Title: Rethinking unionism and partition, 1900-1921 Talk Synopsis: This talk explores how the partition of Ireland was ‘an evolving set of events, rather than ...