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Gerry Adams wrote the comprehensive account of his decades long attempt to seek peace in Northern Ireland. Adams, an accomplished author of several books, had direct access to published and unpublished position papers outlining in detail their progress or lack thereof in incorporating the unionists into an agreed peace process which was fair to all. The unionists were against dialogue with Adams and the nationalists.
Adams met An Sagart, Father Alec Reid, who approached the Irish and British governments to seek a tentative introduction to talks. A number of people in Derry along with Father Des Wilson in Belfast kept in contact with the British government in order to relay the sincerity of the Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone) intent.
Paramilitary killings by the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and the UVF (Ulster Voluntary Force), the latter aided by collusion with British Army and RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) which was proven in the European Court of Human Rights ensured the Sinn Fein negotiators were in constant danger of assassination.
Eventually after dealings with Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and the Northern Ireland Office failed, Prime Minister Blair and Preident Clinton came on board to implement the Good Friday Agreement and Peace Accords. The Northern Irish unionists became a minority on the island of Ireland.
An excellent book far superior to Prime Minister Blair's A Journey and An Taoiseach Ahern's fictional tome.
Hope and History, Making Peace in Ireland Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/law-and-politics/politics/2083480-hope-history-making-peace-ireland/
Gerry Adams wrote the comprehensive account of his decades long attempt to seek peace in Northern Ireland. Adams, an accomplished author of several books, had direct access to published and unpublished position papers outlining in detail their progress or lack thereof in incorporating the unionists into an agreed peace process which was fair to all. The unionists were against dialogue with Adams and the nationalists.
Adams met An Sagart, Father Alec Reid, who approached the Irish and British governments to seek a tentative introduction to talks. A number of people in Derry along with Father Des Wilson in Belfast kept in contact with the British government in order to relay the sincerity of the Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone) intent.
Paramilitary killings by the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and the UVF (Ulster Voluntary Force), the latter aided by collusion with British Army and RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) which was proven in the European Court of Human Rights ensured the Sinn Fein negotiators were in constant danger of assassination.
Eventually after dealings with Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and the Northern Ireland Office failed, Prime Minister Blair and Preident Clinton came on board to implement the Good Friday Agreement and Peace Accords. The Northern Irish unionists became a minority on the island of Ireland.
An excellent book far superior to Prime Minister Blair's A Journey and An Taoiseach Ahern's fictional tome.
Hope and History, Making Peace in Ireland Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/law-and-politics/politics/2083480-hope-history-making-peace-ireland/
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