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Peace Prize Forum 2000: Plenary
Addresses
David Trimble
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Denis Haughey (for John Hume)
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Chapel Convocation
Susan Bauer
Co-Chair, Peace Prize Forum Planning Committee
Wednesday, September 15, 1999
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Chapel Convocation
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Nobel Lecture
David Trimble, 1998 Peace Prize laureate
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Nobel Lecture
John Hume, 1998 Peace Prize laureate
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Peace Agreement
Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland;
April 10, 1998 (click to read - 107k) |
Peace Agreement
Kosovo Peace Plan and Technical Agreement
June 3, 1999 (click to read -
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A Strategy for Peace
Written by Sissela Bok (click for
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Risking and Reaching: Moving Beyond
the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Written by Mary Frost Steen (click to
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The Boxer
1997. Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson.
A released IRA prisoner tries to rebuild his life after 14 years in prison; helps
viewer see the roots of the Troubles.
Rated R. |
Cal
1998. Helen Mirren.
Film version of the novel by Bernard MacLaverty
in which a young man involved with the IRA falls in love with the
widow of a man killed by the IRA.
Rated R. |
Circle of Friends
1995. Minnie Driver, Chris O'Donnell.
Based on the Maeve Binchey novel; a love story of students in Dublin in the 50s.
Rated PG-13. |
The Crying Game
1992. Stephen Rea.
An IRA volunteer helps capture a British soldier, then befriends him
and becomes involved with the soldier's lover. Surprising plot
twists.
Rated R. |
The Field
1991. Richard Harris.
Ireland in the 30s. An Irish peasant loses his land to a wealthy American.
Rated PG-13. |
The General
1998. Brendan Gleeson.
The true story (told as a flash back) of a successful cat burglar,
thief, and gangster operating in Dublin
who gets caught up in the conflicting politics of Northern Ireland.
Rated R. |
In the Name of the Father
1993. Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma
Thompson.
Based on a true story in which the zealous British arrest a somewhat
unsavory young man, along with his family and friends, for an IRA bombing he
had nothing to do with.
Rated R. |
Michael Collins
1996. Liam Neison.
A biography of the leader of the Irish rebellion against the British.
Rated R. |
Patriot Games
1992. Harrison Ford.
Film made from the Tom Clancy book
in which a CIA analyst intervenes in an Irish terrorist attack and
becomes a target himself.
Rated R. |
The Quiet Man
1952. John Wayne.
A disillusioned boxer returns from
America to the land of his birth--lush, green Ireland.
Considered one of Wayne's best films. |
The Secret of Roan Inish
1995.
A young girl is sent to live with her
grandparents on the West Coast of Ireland: beautiful scenery, Celtic
music, and an unsentimental but heart-warming story.
Rated PG. |
Some Mother's Son
1997. Helen Mirren.
Based on the Hunger Strike in the Belfast Maze prison in the early 80s,
this film focuses on the mothers of two prisoners--one a pacifist, and
one a supporter of her son's decision to die.
Rated R. |
Waking Ned Divine
1998. Ian Bannen, David Kelly.
A comedy set in rural
Ireland featuring a dead lottery ticket holder and an entire village
of schemers.
Rated PG. |
Widow's Peak
1994. Mia Farrow.
Women in an Irish resort
village in the 20s; strong acting by Mia Farrow and Joan Plowright.
Rated PG. |
