{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/6929d189426af84c6d5441e4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Would a nine-county Northern Ireland have survived? ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/1764348150518-94323e5f-80b6-42ff-b7ea-1568112ffce4.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Northern Ireland is six counties.&nbsp;But the province of Ulster was – and is – made up of nine counties – all including Ulster Protestants. As partition loomed, Unionists chose six counties and demographic dominance over nine counties with a much smaller protestant majority. But what if Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan remained in the UK?&nbsp;</p><p>Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Samuel Beckton, author of ‘The Unbroken Covenant: Could Ulster Unionists have controlled a nine-county Northern Ireland, 1920-1945'.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Belfast Telegraph"}