What happened when the Irish Nationalist claim to leave ran into a loyalist demand to remain? Charles Townshend  a British historian with particular expertise in Ireland, is professor of International History at Keele University has written a new book 'The Partition' and he spoke to Pat about his book this morning on the show.

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