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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland is a 2023 British documentary television miniseries covering the Northern Irish conflict, the Troubles.Directed by James Bluemel as a follow-up to his 2020 series Once Upon a Time in Iraq, it consists of five episodes that features interviews with members of Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries, members of the British Army who served in Northern Ireland ...
30 September – BBC Northern Ireland launches a daily news bulletin called Today in Northern Ireland and replaces Ulster Mirror. 18 December – Television comes to the north western parts of Northern Ireland following the switching on of the Londonderry transmitter which provided the BBC Television Service to the north west. [1] 1958
Television in Northern Ireland is available using, digital terrestrial (known as Freeview), digital satellite (from Sky & Freesat) and cable (from Virgin Media). Analogue terrestrial used UHF 625 lines, in common with the rest of the UK, although transmission ceased in October 2012, as part of the UK Digital Switchover .
The Government of Ireland Act 1920 partitioned the island of Ireland into two separate jurisdictions, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, both devolved regions of the United Kingdom. This partition of Ireland was confirmed when the Parliament of Northern Ireland exercised its right in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 to opt ...
CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) is a database containing information about conflict and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. The project began in 1996, with the website launching in 1997. The project is based within Ulster University at its Magee campus.
Northern Ireland's first religiously integrated secondary school opened. 14 November The IRA killed Ulster Unionist Party MP Rev Robert Bradford, at Community Centre, Finaghy, Belfast, along with another man (Kenneth Campbell), who was the caretaker of the premises. [93] 3 October Republican hunger strike ended.
The restrictions were also applied to television drama, documentary and discussion programmes. In December 1988 the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Tom King, ordered Channel 4 to cancel an episode of the US drama series Lou Grant that featured the story of a fictional IRA gunrunner, even though it had aired previously. [4]
The Troubles of the 1920s was a period of conflict in what is now Northern Ireland from June 1920 until June 1922, during and after the Irish War of Independence and the partition of Ireland. It was mainly a communal conflict between Protestant unionists , who wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom , and Catholic Irish nationalists , who ...