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History Lesson One: The Fall of Stormont 1972
In 1972 the British government suspended Northern Ireland's parliament at Stormont, after fifty years of Unionist one-party rule. It changed Northern Ireland's history for ever and ushered in what has to be almost unbroken direct rule from Westminster.
As devolution in Northern Ireland gets tentatively underway again, Don Anderson discusses what lessons are to be learned from the decline and fall of the House of Ulster.
