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  • April 2008

    • Chelsea Thesis May Clarify Hillary's Role in Irish Peace

      Newsweek  |  Apr 6, 08 2:45 PM CDT

      Chelsea Thesis May Clarify Hillary's Role in Irish Peace

      (Newser) - While Hillary Clinton stands accused of exaggerating her part in the 1998 Irish peace process, the answer might lie in an unlikely 150-page document—Chelsea Clinton's senior thesis from Stanford. Only problem? No one seems to know where it's gone, Newsweek reports, and a Clinton spokesman warns it was "written to satisfy an academic requirement—not media curiosity." More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • Ireland  • Chelsea Clinton  • Northern Ireland  • Stanford  • Gerry Adams  • Sinn Fein  • thesis  • Northern Ireland peace deal

  • March 2008

    • Blair Offered to Meet Hooded IRA Militants

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 17, 08 7:37 AM CDT

      Blair Offered to Meet Hooded IRA Militants

      (Newser) - A new tell-all book by Tony Blair's chief of staff reveals that the former British prime minister offered to meet with eight leaders of the Irish Republican Army during a critical moment in Northern Irish peace talks. Jonathan Powell, one of Blair's longest-serving allies, admits in a memoir being serialized in the Guardian that the PM was ready to hold talks with terrorists wearing ski masks. More »

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      Bill Clinton  • United Kingdom  • Tony Blair  • Northern Ireland  • IRA  • Gerry Adams  • Sinn Fein

  • May 2007
  • March 2007

    • Ian Paisley Does the Unthinkable

      Philadelphia Inquirer  |  Mar 28, 07 7:01 PM CDT

      Ian Paisley Does the Unthinkable

      (Newser) - "Watching this stooped white-haired man reverse a lifetime's course made one feel that change might be possible in other intractable situations," writes Trudy Rubin of Ian Paisley's meeting with Gerry Adams to agree on power sharing in Northern Ireland. The "other situation" Rubin has in mind is  for the Middle East. More »

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      Middle East  • politics  • Northern Ireland  • Gerry Adams  • Ian Paisley  • ireland

    • Irish Rivals Unite for Self-Rule

      Irish Times (Ireland)  |  Mar 27, 07 12:05 PM CDT

      Irish Rivals Unite for Self-Rule

      (Newser) - Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams sat down together yesterday and agreed  to a power sharing deal for Northern Ireland that would include their rival parties. A British deadline to disband the national assembly if a pact wasn't forthcoming jump-started the negotiations, after four years of stalled talks.  The coalition government will be formed by May 8. More »

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      United Kingdom  • Tony Blair  • diplomacy  • Northern Ireland  • Gerry Adams  • Ian Paisley

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