Contributor: Dr Robert Lynch Talk Title Partition and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Talk Synopsis: This talk explores the background to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and its immediate (and lasting) effects. It suggests that ‘the most extreme paranoias of the Unionist psyche’ were reinforced by the events...

Contributor: Professor Robert Savage Talk Title Broadcasting and the Border: How partition influenced broadcasting on the island of Ireland Talk Synopsis: This talk explores the development of broadcasting in Ireland during the 1920s and how the new radio stations in Belfast and Dublin were...

Professor Bill Kissane delivers a talk for this series developed by Queen’s University Belfast with broadcast support from the BBC.