GB News has announced plans to mark Northern Ireland\u2019s historic July 12 Parades with a day of special live broadcasts \u2013 and a brilliant new documentary.<\/p>\n
For the fourth year running, The People\u2019s Channel will be on the ground across the country as half a million people participate or spectate in the annual festival to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. Coverage will be led by Dame Arlene Foster and GB News\u2019 correspondent Dougie Beattie.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cJuly 12 marks a pivotal moment in British constitutional history and, once again, GB News will bring our viewers and listeners the very best coverage. The events commemorated on this date not only reshaped the future of the British Isles, but they also had lasting implications for Ireland and, ultimately, the emerging ideals of liberty across the Atlantic.\u201d<\/p>\n
GB News\u2019 coverage will feature the Chief Executive of the Ulster-Scots Agency, Ian Crozier. He will take part in discussions about the lasting significance of the Glorious Revolution, and explain how our ancestors helped build a new world based on King William\u2019s Bill of Rights. He will be joined by a respected commentary team featuring former military historian Dr Gavin Hughes and the actor and commentator Charlie Lawson.<\/p>\n
Coleraine has been chosen as the live location, as it\u2019s the very place of the first organised migration in the early 1700s, when families left Ulster behind to begin new lives in America.<\/p>\n
And this year GB News\u2019 coverage will be even more special because it will include a powerful new historical news documentary\u00a0Architects of America: Foundations of Freedom.<\/p>\n
It has been co-produced by GB News and F\u00e9inics Productions, and funded by Northern Ireland Screen\u2019s Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund.<\/strong> It uncovers the deep economic, cultural and spiritual legacy carried by Ulster-Scots migrants \u2013 men and women whose vision of liberty, industry, and self-governance helped lay the foundations for American independence.<\/p>\n The documentary will air on GB News on\u00a0Saturday night 12th July at Midnight, and tell the largely untold story of the Ulster-Scots (Scots-Irish) and their extraordinary role in shaping early America.<\/p>\n Filmed across key locations in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United States, this special news programme builds on previous coverage of the Glorious Revolution and The Great Migration, charting the rise of the Great Awakening in 18th-century America \u2013 a new era of ideals fuelled by the desire for economic, cultural, and religious freedom.<\/p>\n The documentary explores Colonial Ulster-Scots life and how ordinary men and women from Ulster arrived in a new world and built their future: from spinning wheels in the linen trade, to flax farming and land cultivation, to the rise of ironworks and maritime commerce \u2013 including the shadow world of covert trade. These industries and individuals laid the groundwork for revolution.<\/p>\n With expert interviews, rich location footage, and the thoughtful use of modern digital techniques, the programme brings history to life with clarity and depth.<\/p>\n A specially arranged soundtrack, developed under the creative direction of F\u00e9inics Productions, blends traditional instrumentation with contemporary compositional tools to reflect the emotional arc of the story \u2013 from sorrow to hope and resilience to triumph \u2013 allowing each piece to resonate with the journey on screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GB News has announced plans to mark Northern Ireland\u2019s historic July 12 Parades with a day of special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822367463295233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}