6: A Fragile Peace

NOV 22, 202439 MIN
From Bomb to Ballot: The History of Sinn Féin

6: A Fragile Peace

NOV 22, 202439 MIN

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<p>In Omagh, a car bomb kills 29 people, including two unborn children. It is the biggest single atrocity of the Troubles and comes just four months after the Good Friday Agreement is signed.&nbsp;</p><br><p>The peace holds… but the Omagh Bomb shows that Pandora’s Box of paramilitary violence opened decades earlier will not be straightforward to close.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Nonetheless, a new generation of Sinn Fein activists – untouched by the violence of the previous decades – are climbing the party's ranks.&nbsp;</p><br><p>But even after the arrival of peace, Republican communities across Northern Ireland continue to distrust the state, often with harrowing consequences… as Mairia Cahill is to discover.</p><p>Host: John Lee</p><p>Producers: Artemis Irvine, Bella Soames</p><p>Assistant Producer: Sally McLennan</p><p>Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini</p><p>Sound Design: John Scott</p><p>Script Consultant: Liam Thompson</p><p>Executive Producer: Jamie East</p><br><p>A Daily Mail podcast. Seriously Popular.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>