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The Irish Passport

Episode 1: The Border

The Irish Passport

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8673 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What will happen to the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit? We discuss how Britain has ignored this problem, and speak to ordinary people on the border about their lives and their fears about any hardening of the border. Naomi reports from the border on how Brexit could affect a family of farmers and a man who has to cross the border four times in 10 minutes to get to his nearest town. We hear how talk of a united Ireland is on the rise, and a Sinn Fein councillor who is missing a few fingers from his struggles against a hard border in the past tells us a return to violence "depends on what conditions are created". Tim lays out how the border came to be in the first place, from the plantations, through religious wars, rebellions, and the war of independence that led to the emergence of the modern Irish state. What is Ireland anyway? This episode gets the facts straight.

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0:00.0

Did you know you can now support us on Patreon?

0:02.2

Our Patreon page is www.

0:04.8

www. patreon.com forward slash the Irish passport.

0:08.2

Enjoy the episode.

0:09.4

Hello.

0:10.0

Welcome to Irish Passport.

0:11.7

Let's do it.

0:12.4

Welcome to the Irish passport.

0:14.1

I'm Tim McInerney.

0:15.3

I'm Naomi O'Leary.

0:16.3

We're friends.

0:17.0

Can you both to Naomi?

0:17.9

Anwar fat, Tim.

0:19.1

This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.

0:22.6

Uh-huh.

0:23.6

I'm recording.

0:24.6

One, two, three.

0:25.6

Okay. So yes, welcome. We have decided to make this podcast series about Ireland, which is called The Irish Passport.

0:55.3

Just to introduce myself, I'm a reporter.

0:57.5

My experience is that when it comes to any given Irish current event or news, you immediately

1:02.8

need to start looking back and giving the historical context because it's all about the

1:07.5

unresolved questions of history that are still playing out.

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