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Deaglan De Breadun

Deaglan De Breadun

Political Correspondent

Deaglán de Bréadún is an award-winning journalist who has held a number of senior positions with The Irish Times, including Northern Editor, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Irish Language Editor and most recently Political Correspondent.

His book, “The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland” (Collins Press, Cork) is regarded as the definitive account of the Good Friday Agreement and its aftermath.

His many foreign assignments include the Middle East and a five-month stint in Moscow and he has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Vaclav Havel, Kofi Annan, Senator George Mitchell, Mary Robinson and Lech Walesa.

Ceisteanna crua faoi ról an tSeanaid

Ba chóir go mbeadh rogha faoina bhfuil i ndán don Seanad

‘I noted instead that pride of place was going to our very own Maeve Binchy, writer and Irish Times journalist. To add to the humiliation of the great ones in the nearby cemetery, a typical Russian mixture of hail, rain and sleet was pouring down from the sky at the time.’ Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Remembering ‘The Irish Times’ circle of friends

An Irishman’s Diary: Commemoration for those who died in the past year

Tony Heffernan: From Merrion Square to Merrion Street, by Brian Kenny

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John Hume ponders the options during final deliberations on the Belfast Agreement
Night of almost unbearable pressure gave way to day of history

It was a dramatic resolution filled with heart-stopping tension

Martin Luther King III continues his father Martin Luther King Jr’s tradition of activism on behalf of the excluded and underprivileged. Photograph: AP Photo
Martin Luther King’s legacy

An Irishman’s Diary: Civil rights speech evoked a different kind of promissory note

Iarcheannaire na hÉigipte, Hosni
Deaglán de Bréadún

Níl deireadh le hÉirí Amach an Earraigh agus na himpleachtaí do lucht cumhachta

UAE tackles plastic bag threat to wildlife

Despite its modern trappings, this desert region is a traditional, patriarchal society

Red rag to the party? Civil-rights marchers in 1969. photograph: pacemaker
Sorting through what was left of the new republic

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