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Aug 2021
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Episode 34: The Religious Divide

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Archbishop Eamon Martin, Primate of All Ireland for the Catholic Church, and the Rev David Bruce, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, tell Tara and Declan about the impact their predecessors had during the War of Independence and in the creation of the new states. 
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