Launch of Digital Archive relating to Northern Ireland Peace Proces
Can You Keep a Secret? Family Life with a Secret Peacemaker
This new online resource contains digitised items from the archive of Brendan Duddy the Derry businessman who maintained a secret channel of communication between the British government and the IRA Army Council for twenty years. Duddy was a key figure in the 1975 ceasefire negotiations, the 1981 Republican Hunger Strikes, and ceasefire talks between 1990 and 1994 and was the subject of Peter Taylor's BBC documentary 'The Secret Peacemaker'.
Venue: Tuesday, 25 October, 2016, Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Programme: Venue: G010
17:00 Interviews with Duddy family members: Shaun, Larry and Patricia Duddy, and Éamonn Downey with Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh
18:00 - 18:30 Questions and Answers/ Discussion
18:30 - 18:40 Launch of archive: John Cox, introduction with Professor Lionel Pilkington talk on digital archive and its value to scholarship
18:40 Demonstration of digital archive by Aisling Keane
18:50 Reception - Venue G011
To Register please book here: http://tinyurl.com/zwj2pfc
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