6: A Fragile Peace

From Bomb to Ballot: The History of Sinn Féin

In Omagh, a car bomb kills 29 people, including two unborn children. It is the biggest single atrocity of the Troubles and comes just four months after the Good Friday Agreement is signed.

The peace holds… but the Omagh Bomb shows that Pandora’s Box of paramilitary violence opened decades earlier will not be straightforward to close.

Nonetheless, a new generation of Sinn Fein activists – untouched by the violence of the previous decades – are climbing the party's ranks.

But even after the arrival of peace, Republican communities across Northern Ireland continue to distrust the state, often with harrowing consequences… as Mairia Cahill is to discover.

Host: John Lee

Producers: Artemis Irvine and Bella Soames

Assistant Producer: Sally McLennan

Sound Design: John Scott

Podcast Artwork: Lindsay Fagan

Script Consultant: Liam Thompson

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