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This episode covers the period in Northern Ireland between the 1970's and 1998 which includes ‘’The Troubles’’, the Peace People, Prisoners on hunger strike, their elections and deaths the eventual IRA ceasefire, the rise of Sinn Fein and the DUP and the Good Friday Agreement 1998

In 1970 several high ranking politicians in the Republic of Ireland were implicated in an Arms importation plot to help out Nationalists in Derry and Belfast

The Provisional IRA arrive on the scene in Northern Ireland to protect the Civil rights marchers and ''the Troubles'' begin. Internment without trial is not accepted lightly and causes huge problems. Stormont is prorogued with the appointment of William Whitelaw as Secretary of State.

The Civil Rights marches become intense in Northern Ireland John Hume and others turn to Politics and the Marchers are attacked by Paratroopers in Ballymurphy and the Bogside

The Civil Rights campaign began in Northern Ireland in 1968 and a very difficult uphill struggle ensued with Nationalists/Catholics seeking a fairness from the dominant Unionist/Protestant ruling classes and the British government.

How Northern Ireland developed from 1607 to 1800 as the planted province of Ulster and then as part of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 and continued as part of Great Britain in 1922 when six counties of Ulster became Northern Ireland under the Anglo Irish Agreement and still is to the present day.

How Ireland fared economically as an independent state after the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921

Michael Collins relationship with Moya Llewelyn Davies and the Irish Civil War 1922-1923

Michael Collins, those who disliked him and his relationship with Lady Hazel Lavery

Michael Collins and his life during and after the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations during 1921 and 1922

How the Irish emigrants in America assisted in achieving Irish freedom

Irish emigrants in the USA come together to help and support the cause of Irish Freedom

Ireland's difficult transformation to a Republic