Bedfordshire Chief Constable Jon Boutcher was in Belfast this week along with the senior investigating officer on Operation Kenova Keith Surtees. They follow in the footsteps…
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Brian Rowan’s book ‘Unfinished Peace’ is a seminal contribution to dealing with the past. Significantly this book has sought out many voices – voices that…
It is commonly said that in Ireland the past is never over, that one of the characteristics of our troubled and troubling politics, especially within Northern…
As Commissioner for Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland, I spent two years wrestling in some way or another with “dealing with the past”. My time…
“We don’t have a peace process… we are working for peace.” Senator Urko Airtza was speaking at an event in the West Belfast Festival - Féile…
The two men sitting at the table said something about how much this place has changed. In the conflict years they were in very different…
“We are in big shite,” the source said as he delivered a blunt assessment in just five words. He is not of the political parties -…
The conversation will be on stage at Feile an Phobail - the west Belfast Festival. And the big talk - scheduled for August 6th - comes…
When Tom Elliott called me earlier this year and asked me would I speak at the Annual General Meeting of the Fermanagh Ulster Unionist Association, I…
It has been a long journey since the ceasefires year of 1994. Almost 20 years and on a road on which loyalism at times has lost its…
A little over a month ago a call to my mobile phone was the beginning of a sequence of events that took me to…
This article is a first on eamonnmallie.com - a joint analysis by Eamonn Mallie and Brian Rowan who have been reading between the lines of many conversations in…
“Remembering is a noble and necessary act” says Nobel Laureate Elie Weisel: those are words we have taken to heart in this community; words…
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