Derry launch for 'John Hume: Irish Peacemaker'
A new book on Derry’s Nobel Peace Laureate, John Hume, will be launched in the city next month.
The book of essays assesses Mr Hume’s role throughout the Troubles as he campaigned in Ireland, Europe and the US to influence politicians and opinion makers in the cause of justice and peace.
The essays discuss the political background to his entry into public life in 1960s Derry as a champion of the credit union movement, the civil rights campaign, the Sunningdale Agreement, the failed efforts to establish a power-sharing executive, the trauma of terrorism, the hunger strikes, his role in Europe and the US, the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the Hume-Adams dialogue and the Good Friday Agreement.
Published by Four Courts Press and edited by Sean Farren and Denis Haughey, two of Mr Hume’s closest SDLP colleagues.
Both served as ministers in the first partnership administration in Northern Ireland following the 1998 agreement.
Contributors include Mr Hume’s wife Pat, and Paul Arthur, Arthur Aughey, Austin Currie, Seán Donlon, Mark Durkan, Marianne Elliott, Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Maurice Hayes, Brigid Laffan, David McKittrick, Seán O’Huiginn, Éamon Phoenix and Nancy Soderberg.
The book will be launched by SDLP Foyle MP and former party leader, Mark Durkan, in the City Hotel in Derry on Monday, 7 December next.