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Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland
March 2008
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Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland
by Jonathan Powell

* The Blair administration’s pursuit of a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland stands out as one of the great achievements in modern British politics. * Even after the initial moves towards a peace, there was every chance that long-nursed grievances would break out again into paramilitary extremism. That they did not is a lasting monument to the determination and guile of many of those involved. * As the government’s key negotiator, Jonathan Powell is uniquely qualified to give the definitive account of the end of the Troubles. * Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland will become a landmark in the literature of conflict resolution: an historical document of lasting importance that is also a vivid and dramatic account of fallible men and women working at the limits of their endurance.


Reviews

Fascinating and fast-moving… an extraordinary book
 (Observer)

Fascinating... No-one else could provide such an insider’s account, for he was the only one to be involved in the detail of every tortuous step.’
 (Sunday Telegraph)

Highly informative account
Nicholas Bagnall (The Sunday Telegraph)

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