The Nobel Peace Prize has gone to some less-than-deserving recipients over the years (understatement). But in honour of St Patrick's Day, here's some homework for you on two recipients who did, in fact, deserve the prize.
https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/laureates/1998
You can read the entirety of the Good Friday Agreement online. For such an incredibly important document, it isn't that long.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-belfast-agreement
The Good Friday Agreement only came about through a heroic effort by so many people. A tremendous amount of forgiveness and forbearance was needed on both sides to even sit in the same room as each other after all that had been done to their people. But there they sat, eventually, and they talked, and they agreed.
Peace once seemed to be impossible in Northern Ireland. It wasn't. We've been at peace for 28 years now.
It wasn't easy. But it reminds you of what can be possible.
@astronomerritt fucking hell, I'm doing a quick read to educate myself a bit and have already stumbled across U2 song titles that I didn't know were historical events.
If anybody was wondering why America is the way it is, it's because our schooling is dogshit.
@dave America isn't alone in this. The English level of awareness of the Troubles is fucking GARBAGE and it literally HAPPENED TO THEM. Like, the IRA bombed English cities.
I was watching Irish comedian Patrick Kielty talk about working in England when the GFA referendum passed and everyone was like "oh... that's nice" and meanwhile he was crying his eyes out in his dressing room.
Steph (spring version???)
Dave Alvarado
Hedders