The Land of The Golden Sunset Podcast

‘’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

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

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.

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

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 creation of Northern Ireland, its original design in 1607 and eventual emergence in 1922

How Northern Ireland developed from 1607 to 1800 as the planted province of Ulster and then as part of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 and continued as part of Great Britain in 1922 when six counties of Ulster became Northern Ireland under the Anglo Irish Agreement and still is to the present day.

Economics in Ireland after the Anglo Irish Treaty (1923-1949)

How Ireland fared economically as an independent state after the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921

Michael Collins (1890-1922) Moya Llewellyn Davies and the Irish Civil War 1922-23

Michael Collins relationship with Moya Llewelyn Davies and the Irish Civil War 1922-1923

Michael Collins (1890-1922) Hazel Lavery and the darker side

Michael Collins, those who disliked him and his relationship with Lady Hazel Lavery

Michael Collins 1890-1922 The Anglo Irish Treaty and after

Michael Collins and his life during and after the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations during 1921 and 1922