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Article: History laid to rest; as Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and the Democratic Unionist Party's Ian Paisley almost shake on a peace deal.(News)
- Article from:
- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2007
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Ninety-one years ago, the Easter Rising in Ireland shook the British Empire to the core and was the harbinger of a bitterly divided island. Now, after three decades of "The Troubles" that racked Eire and Northern Ireland, the leaders of both sides have finally kissed and made up.
Last week, The Independent newspaper compared the power-sharing agreement signed by Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Ian Paisley to similar uneasy embraces by former enemies making their first hesitant steps towards reuniting their nations, notably the historic handshakes between Nelson Mandela and F W de Klerk (1990) and between Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak ...