Why is the Troubles being glorified now?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Chops. |
| 0:07.6 | This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, a deal that for some |
| 0:12.5 | was the end of 30 years of violence, but since then is there still a problem with the |
| 0:17.7 | glorification of violence in Northern Ireland? |
| 0:20.7 | The following is an episode from our Spectator TV show The Week in 60 Minutes, where John |
| 0:26.4 | Connelly speaks to Douglas Murray and Arlene Foster about the legacy of the troubles and |
| 0:32.0 | the Good Friday Agreement. |
| 0:33.7 | To watch the episode in full or the rest of our shows, you can go to spectator.co.uk forward |
| 0:38.8 | slash TV or head to our YouTube channel. |
| 0:41.8 | Douglas Arlene, thank you for joining us on Spectator TV. |
| 0:46.3 | Now Douglas, you write in the magazine this week about people who are involved in the |
| 0:50.8 | troubles now being held up and lauded as heroes and sort of men of peace. |
| 0:56.6 | Can you tell us a bit about that to get us started? |
| 1:00.0 | Yes, it's something which as I mentioned in my column in the Spectator's week, it is |
| 1:04.4 | not new. |
| 1:05.4 | We've just had the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Good Friday Agreement. |
| 1:11.1 | We had of course Joe Biden flying into Northern Ireland for a matter of hours, then doing |
| 1:15.4 | a sort of family trip around the Republic of Ireland for a week or so. |
| 1:20.6 | We had the Clintons arriving in Northern Ireland for conference and a lot of people claiming |
| 1:27.6 | credit for the agreement. |
| 1:30.1 | I mentioned in my piece, let's not be sort of ungracious about this, that the Good Friday |
| 1:36.4 | Agreement has meant that violence in Northern Ireland has been down significantly for the |
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