The Question is: Predicting Northern Ireland's Future

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The Question is: Predicting Northern Ireland's Future

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Location

Belfast

Year

1988

Date

Transmission 08/10/1988

Length

25min 03sec

Audio

sound

Format

1 inch

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Presented by Barry Cowan, this is a series attempting to answer some of Northern Ireland's - and life's - burning questions, with this episode imagining what Northern Ireland will look like 20 years in the future. 

Set in the year 2008, a news anchor informs us that three UVF prisoners have been released from prison, that an IRA bomb has injured a 15 year old boy and he was surprised by a phone call from "King Charles" and that unemployment has dipped below 30%. 

The panel consists of John Osmond, who is interested in British identity, Paul Compton, who teaches population movement and trends, and Mary Clark-Glass, who is working for the equality of opportunity, history students John McCaffrey (Cambridge) and Mark Adair (Queen's) also join in the discussion.

Opinion is split on how Northern Ireland will look, with the majority believing very little will change. However, big topics of debate centre around economic prosperity of the future, school integration and whether or not the idea of "Britishness" will soon give way for more locally sourced identities.  

Credits

A UTV Production.

Director: Mervyn Waugh

Editor: Jamie Delargy 


 

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