The Long and the Short of It

BBC Two Northern Ireland

7:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Monday 21 April

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Tim McGarry and David Hume travel back to the years 1924 to 1925 to tell the history of the Irish Boundary Commission, a body set up to determine the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It's report was completed in 1925, but suppressed to avoid any more disputes. To this day it remains controversial with many Irish Nationalists condemning it as a 'Unionist stitch-up'