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Politics Unpacked

100 Years Of Ireland

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to the Irish Culture Minister Catherine Martin, Irish Ambassador to the UK Adrian O’Neill and visits a new exhibition showcasing negotiating documents to commemorate 100 years since the start of negotiations of the Anglo Irish treaty.


PLUS


David Aaronovitch and Daniel Finkelstein discuss party conference and Sally Rooney.



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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

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champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

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be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

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towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

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slash change.

1:09.0

Hello, this is Red Box Podcast, I'm Matt Shorty. Coming up on today's episode, a little bit of a

1:13.8

history lesson, is a hundred years since talks began to end the Irish War of Independence.

1:20.6

The talks lasted a couple of months and led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which essentially

1:25.0

established the Irish Free States. We look back out, it's a fascinating look back actually at the

1:30.0

how negotiations were carried out, the doodles that they did in the margins, the parties that the

1:35.1

Irish in particular seem to have joined it. We talked to the Irish culture minister, but also the

1:40.0

Irish ambassador, not just about what happened a hundred years ago, but also what's happening right now

1:44.0

as the Brexit talks get underway. Again, that's coming up in our big thing. The moment, but first

1:48.8

is Tuesday, so it must be fingerwitch, it's Daniel Fingstein and David O'Hallich.

2:06.7

Meet the Cerberus of Colomists, the Janus of Journalism, and the ultimate political

2:15.2

important and total of opinion. Finkelvitch, with Daniel Fingstein and David O'Hallich

2:25.9

on Times Radio. Here they are there needs Daniel Fingstein,

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