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When tensions between Protestants and Catholics explode, the British Army is deployed.
In 1968 tensions between Catholic and Protestant communities explode after decades of relative peace. Hopes of equality are lost as a civil rights movement is suppressed. The British Army is deployed and Northern Ireland descends into conflict.
Episode 1 Preview
Preview: Episode 1 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
In 1968 tensions between Catholic and Protestant communities explode after decades of relative peace. Hopes of equality are lost as a civil rights movement is suppressed. The British Army is deployed and Northern Ireland descends into conflict.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle music) - [Narrator] The state of Northern Ireland was designed so that there would be a permanent Protestant majority.
(gentle music continues) - The discrimination was gonna explode.
Enough was enough.
- We were demanding equality.
- I thought we were all going to get shot, killed, blew up.
Never prayed as hard in my life.
- [Irish Resident] There's no turning back now.
- This is war.
(gentle music continues)
