Katie Tate, a postgraduate researcher at QUB, joins Ryan Mallon to discuss her work on the wives of the Governors of Northern Ireland. Despite being constrained by their gender and the turbulent politics of post-partition Northern Ireland, these women used their privileged position to exercise ‘soft power’ over the new state’s society.

Centenary Conversations: Episode 5 - Immigration

Centenary Conversations, the new podcast series from Queen’s University Belfast, delves into the lesser explored aspects of life in Northern Ireland at the time of partition. In each episode Dr Ryan Mallon will be joined by established scholars and exciting new researchers to discuss how the political upheaval of a century ago affected – and sometimes didn’t affect – the lives, loves, and labour of people living in what had just become Northern Ireland: from the experiences of women and immigrants, to sport and leisure, religion, class, and employment.