As Brexit negotiations and discussions over the Irish backstop continue, Border Country: When Ireland was Divided gives a timely insight into the stories of the people whose lives were, and still are, affected by the hard border between Ireland and the UK.
Border Country: When Ireland was Divided, brings 100 years of archival footage together with the stories of people whose lives have been affected by this crucial dividing line. This film was first broadcast this year in April, and will now be repeated on BBC Four next Monday.
Now available to watch via BBC iPlayer
Shortlisted
This film was recently shortlisted for a Royal Television Society Northern Ireland award in the Factual Entertainment category
‘Among the many things that British politicians have turned out to know little about lately – customs unions, trade deals, tariffs – the main one has been the history of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Thank goodness, then, for Border Country: When Ireland was Divided, a timely BBC Four film which executed, thoughtfully and sympathetically, a very simple idea: to combine the archival footage that has been shot around the border since it was first established almost 100 years ago with interviews with some of those who lived along it.’ inews
