- Episode 1 - Home Rule and the Ulster Crisis
- Episode 2 - Partition and the Two Irelands
- Episode 3 - The Partitionist Mentality
- Episode 4 -'Gender and partition: ‘it’s a queer sort of existence this’'
- Episode 5 - Partition and the Southern Irish Protestant experience.
- Episode 6 -‘Northern Ireland: the UK’s first example of devolution’
- Episode 7 - Our church will never perish out of this land: the southern Irish Protestant experience of partition
- Episode 8 - Class in Northern Ireland, a family history
- Episode 9 -The IRA and the Partition of Ireland
- Episode 10 - Partition: Imperial Contexts Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
- Episode 11 - Rethinking unionism and partition, 1900-1921 Alvin Jackson
- Episode 12 -'Community, church and culture in boundary-making' J.Todd
- Episode 13 Ernest Clark - Cormac Moore
- Episode 14 - Life on the line: partition and the border P.Leary
- Episode 15 - Acts of partition: from the Government of Ireland act 1920 to the Boundary Commission1925. M O'Callaghan
- Episode 16 - Writing the Border G.Patterson
- Episode 17 - Partition's Casualties: religious minorities in the new states M.Elliott
- Episode 18 - Violence: The human cost of Partition Dr Tim Wilson
- Episode 19 - The Killing of Sir Henry Wilson: An Irish Tragedy F.McGarry
- Episode 20 - Comparative Reflections Professor Brendan O’Leary
- Episode 21 -Richard Bourke Unionisims and Partition
- Episode 22 - The Partition of Ireland in a Global ContextB.Kissane
- Episode 23 - Broadcasting and the Border: How partition influenced broadcasting R Savage
- Episode 24 - Partition and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Robert Lynch
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Talk 16
Writing and the Border
This talk will look at how that vexed line of ‘Writing the Border’ has been represented in fiction, taking us on a journey with as many kinks and surprises as the border itself.
About Professor Glenn Patterson
Glenn Patterson’s eleventh novel Where Are We Now? was published in spring 2020. His non-fiction books include Backstop Land and Here's Me Here. A new book The Last Irish Question: Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? will be published in the autumn. He is the co-writer - with Colin Carberry - of Good Vibrations (BBC Films), which the pair later adapted for stage. He helped set up the MA in Creative Writing at Queen’s and in 2017 became the director of the university’s Seamus Heaney Centre.
Further Reading
- Ulster Cycle
- Puckoon by Spike Milligan
- Song of Erne, by Robert Harbinson
- Milkman by Anna Burns
- Big Girl, Small Town, by Michelle Gallen
- Borderlands, by Brian McGilloway
- 'A Border-Line Case', Don’t Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce