An Independent People was originally commissioned and broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland television with support from the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund. The series was produced by Below the Radar TV.<\/p>\n
Episode I: Taking Root<\/b><\/span> Episode II: Seeds of Liberty<\/b><\/span> Episode III: Union and Division<\/b><\/span> NTSC Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Independent People was originally commissioned and broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland television with support from the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[29],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1151","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-dvds","7":"desktop-align-left","8":"tablet-align-left","9":"mobile-align-left","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-variable"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulster-scots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe first episode of this series traces the story of the Scottish ministers who first established the Presbyterian Church on Irish soil and their struggle for religious liberty throughout the turbulent seventeenth century.<\/p>\n
\nEpisode two considers the extraordinary contribution made by Ulster Presbyterians to America\u2019s struggle for liberty and how revolution in America and France inspired radical Presbyterians in Ulster to rise up against the Crown in 1798.<\/p>\n
\nThe final episode explores the ways in which Ulster\u2019s Presbyterians began to move away from their radical past to become part of the establishment in a new Northern Ireland state and looks at the role of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland today.<\/p>\n