Episode 1 | Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

1: Bomb and the Ballot Box | Endgame in Ireland

Investigates 'Battle of the Bogside', which involved clashes between disaffected Catholics and the RUC in Londonderry in Augu...

S2E1: 1971 | 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 pr...

S1E5: 1994 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

Where did you come from? Where did you go? The year of the first IRA ceasefire.

S2E4: 1998 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This episode focuses on 1998: the year when the peace process comes to fruition with the Good Friday Agreement but the DUP are set aga...

S1E1: 1969 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

A bad moon arisin - from Civil Rights to the outbreak of the Troubles.

S3E1: 1972 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This week Pop Goes Northern Ireland focusses on 1972. A tumultuous year with the watershed events of Bloody Sunday and the imposition ...

S4E1: 1970 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

The "honeymoon period" the army enjoyed with the Catholic community begins to sour as sectarian tensions rise.

S5E5: 1983 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

The NI Assembly continues to sit but remains without any powers due to a nationalist boycott. The year sees the beginning of the contr...

S2E3: 1982 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This episode focuses on 1982: the year when Jim Prior's political initiative Rolling Devolution brings surprising electoral success fo...

S3E4: 1993 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This episode goes back to 1993, a year which sees John Hume and Gerry Adams involved in talks which could lead to an IRA ceasefire. Me...

S4E2: 1973 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This episode of Pop Goes Northern Ireland focuses on 1973. Northern Ireland is suffering unrelenting violence and the UDA becomes incr...

S4E3: 1976 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This week Pop Goes Northern Ireland focuses on 1976. This is one of the worst years of violence during the Troubles, and the year star...

S5E8: 1991 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

The violence continues throughout the year. In February the IRA launch an attack on the cabinet when a mortar bomb explodes in the gar...

1: It Wasn't Like a Movie Anymore | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

A time of relative peace in Northern Ireland escalates to full-blown conflict. When tensions between...

2: Talking to Terrorists | Endgame in Ireland

In April 1981, Bobby Sands, an IRA prisoner on hunger strike, won a seat at Westminster, inadvertently starting the endgame in ...

3: So Many Broken Hearts | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

The impact of the hunger strikes is seen through the eyes of three women. Tit-for-tat killings, car bombs and...

5: Buses on the Frontline | On the Frontline

Documentary about the bus drivers who risked their lives to keep services running during the Troubles.

Episode 2 | Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

New revelations about how the IRA went from anticipating victory to fighting a bloody, long war against Britain, with...

S1E2: 1974 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

This town ain't big enough for both of us. From power sharing to power cuts.

S1E3: 1981 | Pop Goes Northern Ireland

Whats-a-matter-you? DeLorean, the hunger strike and the Third Force.