The signing of the Good Friday Agreement twenty-four years ago this month brought to an end the inter-ethnic violence that wreaked havoc in Northern Ireland since its inception in 1921. The accord’s wide-reaching ambitions included
The generation of ‘ceasefire babies’, those born around or after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, was promised peace, prosperity and a ‘new’ Northern Ireland. Remarkably, peace (compared to what had gone before) was
An honorary conferring ceremony was held to award honorary doctorates to Lord David Trimble and Seamus Mallon, two key players in the Northern Ireland Peace Process, as Eimear Phelan reports.