The Troubles: How It Started

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

With Kenneth Branagh film, Belfast, hitting cinemas - we run down the historical background of the early years of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland.

Dan is joined by Tim McInerney, co-host of The Irish Passport podcast, for this deep dive into the pivotal events of 1969 to the early 1970s.

This episode will establish the century-long roots of sectarian tensions, paint a picture of the political atmosphere in Northern Ireland as the decade came to a close, and track the series of escalating conflicts that climaxed in the deployment of British Troops.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome down to Snow's History Hit.
0:03.1	Belfast is the new film from Kenneth Branagh.
0:06.6	It starts people like Judy Densch.
0:08.2	It's his most personal film ever
0:09.8	and it centers on young boys childhood
0:11.6	in the tumult of Belfast in the 1960s
0:14.8	as the so-called troubles are getting underway.
0:17.8	You know what we like to do on this podcast
0:19.0	is get some of the history behind what's going on
0:20.8	and then what people are talking about.
0:22.2	People are talking about Belfast
0:23.7	that talk about the troubles,
0:25.0	talking about Kenneth Branagh.
0:26.3	And we thought we'd try and take on the big subject itself.
0:29.8	What caused the troubles?
0:32.4	Why did they start?
0:33.6	What form did the early troubles take?
0:36.7	We're going to Tim McInerney.
0:38.8	He is a lecturer in British and Irish Cultural History.
0:40.8	He's the co-host of the Irish Passport Podcast,
0:43.6	a brilliant podcast,
0:44.4	go and subscribe everybody.
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