The SDLP, Politics and Peace
The Mark Durkan Interviews
©2025
Monographs
XXIV,
264 Pages
Series:
Reimagining Ireland, Volume 135
Summary
«Compelling, informative, essential»
(Senator George Mitchell)
«Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly witty.»
(Michael Lillis, diplomatic advisor to Garret FitzGerald and Irish government negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Agreement)
«Once again, Graham Spencer shows his mastery of the interview technique in The SDLP, Politics and Peace: The Mark Durkan Interviews where he draws on Durkan's photographic recall of the peace process to throw new light on what we thought were settled accounts.»
(Professor Padraig O'Malley, John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Mark Durkan was a central figure in the Northern Ireland peace process. This book of interviews with Durkan details his role with the SDLP and the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement, as well as the problems that came to bedevil power-sharing after and why. A comprehensive inside account of the struggle to end conflict in Northern Ireland these interviews provide invaluable testimony about the steps taken to bring about peace by an individual at the centre of that tortuous process.
(Senator George Mitchell)
«Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly witty.»
(Michael Lillis, diplomatic advisor to Garret FitzGerald and Irish government negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Agreement)
«Once again, Graham Spencer shows his mastery of the interview technique in The SDLP, Politics and Peace: The Mark Durkan Interviews where he draws on Durkan's photographic recall of the peace process to throw new light on what we thought were settled accounts.»
(Professor Padraig O'Malley, John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Mark Durkan was a central figure in the Northern Ireland peace process. This book of interviews with Durkan details his role with the SDLP and the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement, as well as the problems that came to bedevil power-sharing after and why. A comprehensive inside account of the struggle to end conflict in Northern Ireland these interviews provide invaluable testimony about the steps taken to bring about peace by an individual at the centre of that tortuous process.
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Details
- Pages
- XXIV, 264
- Publication Year
- 2025
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781800799417
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781800799424
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781800799400
- DOI
- 10.3726/b19903
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (December)
- Keywords
- Peace process talks negotiations the SDLP the Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland conflict Irish Government
- Published
- Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2025. XXIV, 264 pp.
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