Dan Snow's History Hit · 2025-09-09 · 66 min · 12,935 words

The Troubles Explained (Part 2)

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Hello everyone, welcome to Down Snow's History Hits. This is part two of our history of the troubles. The euphemistically named conflict that gripped Northern Ireland. Some Britain in many ways as well. for thirty years. In the first episode, we went all the way back to the beginning. We traced seven hundred years of British and Irish history. from the reign of Henry the Second all the way through to the Easter Uprising in Dublin and Sinn Fein's

Landslide electoral victory. In the nineteen eighteen elections. If you missed it, there's a link in the show notes. or just look back on your podcast player, I'd really recommend listening to that one before you launch into this one. Although this one would make sense by itself. We start at that great watershed of

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