“Extraordinary rollercoaster”, Good Friday talks remembered 25 years on
Belfast, UKReuters On 7th April, 1998, the head of Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party drafted a letter to the British Prime Minister announcing that he was leaving talks and that the latest attempt to end three decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland was over. Three days later one of the most significant peace deals of […]
A “deep, dramatic scar”: As Brexit stirs tensions, Northern Irish clergy reprise peacekeeping roles
CHRISTINE LUBY, of Religion News Service, reports on how clergy are grappling with the rise of violence in Northern Ireland in recent weeks…
ESSAY: HOW CHURCHES ARE MISSING THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO HELP BUILD PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
In an article first published on The Conversation, GLADYS GANEIL and JOHN BREWER, both of Queen’s University Belfast, argue that churches in Northern Ireland are missing an opportunity to engage with the public in the wake of the now 20-year-old Good Friday Agreement…