Irish Independence

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On 18th April 1949, the Republic of Ireland Act came into effect which saw Ireland become a republic and leave the Commonwealth. 2021 also marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the Irish War of independence. To help mark these important dates Diarmaid Ferriter, one of Ireland’s best-known historians and Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, joins Dan on the podcast. They examine the importance of these big anniversaries for Ireland not just in the past, but also in the present with Brexit and the possibility of Scottish independence on the horizon.

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0:00.0	Tom Hanks is Otto. He's seen it all.
0:02.5	Otto?
0:03.3	Otto?
0:04.0	O-T-T-O.
0:05.2	You don't hear that name very often, I do.
0:07.3	He's a man who gets easily annoyed.
0:09.3	What are you doing?
0:10.1	Parallel parking. Parallel the water.
0:11.9	And he has had enough.
0:13.5	Are you always his unfriendly?
0:15.3	I am not unfriendly.
0:16.6	OK, you're like a warm cuddle.
0:18.2	But he's finding his joy again in the most unlikely place.
0:21.6	I'm not sure about this.
0:23.5	He's going to be a good friend.
0:25.4	A man called Otto only in cinemas from January 6.
0:30.1	MUSIC
0:33.1	Hello, everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:37.1	Ah, these islands we live on, eh?
0:38.8	These islands.
0:39.8	It's a little archipelago in the North Atlantic.
0:42.2	The UK and islands.
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