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Article: POLITICS THIS INSIDER'S ACCOUNT SHOWS THAT PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND WAS A TRIUMPH OF STAMINA AS WELL AS IDEALISM, SAYS LEO MCKINSTRY
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- April 6, 2008
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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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