Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This episode focuses on 1971. Events take a darker turn when the first British soldiers die in the Troubles, Brian Faulkner becomes prime minister of Northern Ireland, and the government introduces internment without trial.

This episode focuses on 1998: the year when the peace process comes to fruition with the Good Friday Agreement but the DUP are set against it, Drumcree 4 brings Northern Ireland to the brink and the Omagh bomb shocks the world.

This episode focuses on 1979: the year when Northern Irish politicians played a crucial role in bringing Margaret Thatcher to power, the year Lord Mountbatten was murdered and 18 soldiers were killed at Warrenpoint. It's also the year when the Pope made his first and only visit to Ireland.

This episode focuses on 1982: the year when Jim Prior's political initiative Rolling Devolution brings surprising electoral success for Sinn Fein, the last DeLorean car rolls of the production line as the company goes bankrupt, and the NI World Cup football team achieve everlasting glory when they beat the hosts Spain.

This episode focuses on 2002: the year when the fragile peace process is put under strain after a break in at Castlereagh police station and escalating sectarian violence, and aa police raid on the Sinn Fein offices at Stormont leads to the collapse of the power-sharing executive.