BOOK LAUNCH: ‘The SDLP, Politics and Peace - The Mark Durkan Interviews’

On behalf of the John and Pat Hume Foundation and Graham Spencer, we wish to invite you to attend one of the book launches of ‘The SDLP, Politics and Peace - The Mark Durkan Interviews’ by Graham Spencer Emeritus Professor of Social and Political Conflict, University of Portsmouth in Belfast, Dublin and Derry-Londonderry.

• 6:30-8:00pm Monday 27 January 2025 in Ulster University Belfast, (room BC-03-115A) York Street, Belfast BT15 1ED with Mark Durkan, Graham Spencer and chaired by Eamonn Mallie.
  
  
• 6:30-8:00pm, Tuesday 28 January 2025 in main room Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, D02 HH58, with Mark Durkan, Graham Spencer and chaired by Mark Hennessy, Irish Times.
  
  
• 4:30-6:30pm, Wednesday 29 January 2025 in Whitaker Suite, Guildhall, Guildhall Square, Derry-Londonderry, BT48 6DQ with Mark Durkan, Graham Spencer and chaired by Dr Shelley Deane, Researcher in the Department of Law and Government, DCU.

“Compelling, informative, essential”
– Senator George Mitchell

“Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly witty.”
– Michael Lillis, diplomatic advisor to Garret FitzGerald and Irish government negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Agreement

“Once again, Graham Spencer shows his mastery of the interview technique in The SDLP, Politics and Peace: The Mark Durkan Interviews where he draws on Durkan’s photographic recall of the peace process to throw new light on what we thought were settled accounts.”
– Professor Padraig O’Malley, John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston