In good time : a memoir
Good, Harold2024
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Aimsigh é!
Rev. Harold Good is a ’Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process. From Ian Paisley’s turbulent arrival in the early fifties to the burning of Bombay Street and internment; from searching for bomb victims with his bare hands on the Shankill to verifying the destruction of IRA weapons with Fr Alec Reid, Good has seen it all. Helped by recently excavated phone texts, he reveals his role as a back channel between the DUP and Sinn Féin, when he facilitated secret meetings in his home between Martin McGuinness and Jeffrey Donaldson that helped create the historic partnership government co-led by Paisley and McGuinness. Good couldn’t have imagined that one day he would help change the course of Irish history, play a hitherto undocumented role in weapons disposal by FARC and ETA in Colombia and the Basque Country, and be asked by Queen Elizabeth II over lunch in Buckingham Palace for advice about her visit to Ireland. Rev. Harold Good, 'Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process, lifts the curtain on his remarkable life in this memoir. From Ian Paisley's turbulent arrival in the early fifties to the burning of Bombay Street and internment; from searching for bomb victims with his bare hands on the Shankill to verifying the destruction of IRA weapons with Fr. Alec Reid, Good has seen it all.
Príomhtheideal:
In good time : a memoir / Harold Good with Martin O'Brien.
Údar:
Good, Harold, authorO'Brien, Martin, author
Inphrionta:
Dublin : Red Stripe Press, [2024]©2024
Leathanaigh in ord:
xxiii, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Nótaí:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781786052414 (pbk)
Rangúchán Dewey:
287.092920920 941.60824920.GOD941.60821920/GOO
I dteanga:
English
Foilseachán gaolmhar:
In good time : a memoir
Réimse:
Good, Harold 1937-Good, HaroldMethodist Church in Ireland -- Clergy -- BiographyReconciliation -- Northern Ireland -- Personal narrativesMethodists -- Ireland -- BiographyPeace-building -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th centuryBiographyBiography & non-fiction proseNorthern Ireland -- History -- 1969-1998
BRN:
3465612