Brian Faulkner resigned as chief executive of the short-lived Northern Ireland Executive, and the Sunningdale Agreement collapsed on 28 May 1974.
You can now watch back a series of panel discussions that were held in Ulster University to look back at Sunningdale on Tuesday, the 5oth anniversary of its collapse.
Session One – The Negotiations – Sean Donlon, Noel Dorr, Lord Paul Bew, Prof Paul Arthur (chair)
Session Two – Perspectives on 1973/4 Power-sharing NI Executive – Hugh Logue, Chris McCabe, Geoff Martin, Eileen Weir, Dawn Purvis (chair)
Session Three – The Principles of Peacemaking – Non-violence, Dialogue and Diplomacy – Bríd Rodgers
The event was organised by the Hume Foundation, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation. Filmed and edited by Alan Meban @alaninbelfast.
Alan Meban. Tweets as @alaninbelfast. Blogs about cinema and theatre over at Alan in Belfast. A freelancer who writes about, reports from, live-tweets and live-streams civic, academic and political events and conferences. He delivers social media training/coaching; produces podcasts and radio programmes; is a FactCheckNI director; a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland; and a member of the Corrymeela Community.
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