Bill Clinton, Tony Blair mark Northern Ireland peace milestone, 25 years after historic peace accord
A young peacetime generation is increasingly shedding the rival identities - British unionist and Irish nationalist - that erupted into three decades of bloodshed that killed 3,600 people. But at the same time,is locked in a political crisis that threatens to rattle the peace secured by the Good Friday Agreement.
“You’ve got a transformed society in which unionist, nationalist for many young people doesn’t mean anything,” said Katy Hayward, professor of political sociology at Queen’s.“But on the other hand, society is in a state of quite severe disrepair. We haven’t had a functioning Assembly for four out of the last six years, and our public services are crumbling around our ears.”
Clinton, who recently called the day the peace deal was struck “one of the happiest days of my presidency, indeed of my entire life,” is joining former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, ex-Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern andFormer U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Queen’s University’s chancellor, urged people in“You have always found a way through, and I believe you will again,” she told delegates.
The three-day gathering caps commemorations of the April 10, 1998, peace accord that included a flying visit last week by President Joe Biden, on his way to explore his Irish roots in the neighboring
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