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They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.


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State papers that have been released under the 30 year rule that an Irish diplomat 8 years later in 1979 believed John Hume supported the return of internment however the SDLP have strenuously denied this. Four Freedoms Freedom of Speech Medal Recipient 1996
Nobel Prize for Peace (co-recipient) 1998. of whom he has been a keen supporter all his life.

He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the recent political history of Ireland and one of the architects of the Northern Ireland peace process there. Gregory the Great.

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