The Border Between Ireland and the United Kingdom

Susan McKay is an author and journalist from London Dairy in Northern Ireland. There was a smaller Protestant minority concentrated in the northeast of Ireland which did not want to be part of a united Ireland. So in 1921 Ireland was partitioned. The south was independent while the north remained part of the United Kingdom. A border was put across the country and it's an extraordinary border. You know it zigzags all over the place. It cuts off one county on a goal practically from the rest ofIreland. This is Pintana, a small rather old fashion town in Cointe-Tourone. One of the six northeastern counties of Ireland which are held under British rule.