Station:
BBC iPlayer (GB)
Status:
To Be Determined
Start:
2021-05-27
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Series exploring the political brinkmanship and bitter communal violence that led to the partition of Ireland.
There is no Next Episode of The Road to Partition planned.
S1E1 - Episode 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.
Air Date: 27 May 2021 15:00 (CDT)
S1E2 - Episode 2
The second episode explores how political tensions and outbreaks of sectarian violence threatened to destabilise the new Northern Irish state.
Air Date: 27 May 2021 15:00 (CDT)