Article: POLITICS THIS INSIDER'S ACCOUNT SHOWS THAT PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND WAS A TRIUMPH OF STAMINA AS WELL AS IDEALISM, SAYS LEO MCKINSTRY

Great Hatred, Little Room:

Making Peace in Northern Ireland

BY JONATHAN POWELL

THE BODLEY HEAD, pounds 20, 352 pp

T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

Before he became Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, Jonathan Powell was a highly regarded diplomat with the Foreign Office. In 1991 he was appointed to the British Embassy in Washington and, in preparation for that job, he visited Belfast to familiarise himself with the foul-smelling bog of Ulster politics. During his research tour, he was confronted with the grim reality of the sectarian hatreds and paramilitary violence that scarred life in Northern Ireland. Yet at the end of his trip, he wrote in his diary that he did not believe ...

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