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Interview with Rev. Harold Good, Brian Feeney and Seymour Crawford by attendees at the Meath Peace Group talk ‘Dealing with the Past and Healing on these Islands’ on 25 April 2009

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Transcript of an interview with Rev. Harold Good (former president of the Methodist Church in Ireland), Brian Feeney (political commentator) and Seymour Crawford (former Fine Gael TD for Cavan-Monaghan) by attendees at the Meath Peace Group talk ‘Dealing with the Past and Healing on these Islands’ on 25 April 2009. On 28 January the Eames-Bradley Report was published addressing the legacies of the Troubles. Good, Feeney and Crawford give short presentations and answer questions on dealing with the past, victims and future reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Meath Peace Group is a voluntary organisation created to foster peace and reconciliation on the island of Ireland through public talks, community engagement and youth education.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 25 April 2009

Name of First Interviewee: Rev. Harold Good

Name of Second Interviewee: Brian Feeney

Name of Third Interviewee: Seymour Crawford

Role at time of Interview: Rev. Harold Good (former president of the Methodist Church in Ireland), Brian Feeney (Head of Department of History at St. Mary’s University College Belfast) and Seymour Crawford (Fine Gael TD for Cavan-Monaghan)

Interviewer: © Meath Peace Group

Purpose: Research

Media: Transcript

Copyright: © Meath Peace Group

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: Meath Peace Group ‘Dealing with the Past and Healing on these Islands’

Time Period covered: 2013

Key Individuals: Rev. Harold Good, Brian Feeney, Seymour Crawford, Michael Reade, Liz McCormack, Brian Rowan, David Park, Alex Boraine, Rolf Meyer, Brian Currin, Billy Tate, Fr. Sean Nolan, Jim Dixon, Paul Quinn, Ken Maginnis, Seamus Mallon, Paul Quinn, Gordon Wilson, Margaret Urwin, Steven McColl, John Wilson, George Coulson, Billy Fox

Key Words: Consultative Group on the Past, Eames-Bradley Report, decommissiong, religion, Canada, The Truth Commissioner, victim, British government, Healing through Remembering, South Africa, the Holocaust, Commission on Victims and Survivors, border, British-Irish Parliamentary Body, farming, dissident republican, Republican Sinn Fein, IRA ceasefire, Omagh bombing, Irish government, Dublin-Monaghan bombings, Sinn Fein, youth, Patten Report, PSNI, An Garda Siochana, North-South relations, media

 

 

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