Erudite and unusually open-minded, the law professor was not an obvious candidate for greatness. But he helped to craft the architecture that secured peace in Northern Ireland
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskBy 1983 years of violence in Ulster had claimed well over 2,000 lives. The killing seemed unstoppable, the tribalism intractable.
Brexit, something he backed, has unsettled this equilibrium. One of Trimble’s final acts was to give his support to the argument now common to almost all unionists—that the Irish Sea border concocted by theand the British government to avoid a harder Irish land border “rips the heart out of the [Good Friday] agreement”. “I feel betrayed personally,” he said last year.
Erudite and unusually open-minded , Trimble could also be prickly, gauche and intellectually arrogant. He admitted to hubris for believing that unionists would keep accepting compromises while the. But they didn’t desert his agreement. Northern Ireland today was built by Trimble and Hume. Almost all of the gunmen have gone; the principle of power-sharing is accepted; the people are free to choose their future.
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