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Sat 09 Sep 2009A single-minded peacemonger
MEMOIR: Albert Reynolds: My AutobiographyBy Albert Reynolds, Transworld, 488pp, €20 Fifteen years after resigning as taoiseach, and with his achievements in the North secure, Albert Reynolds tells his own story
ALBERT REYNOLDS was taoiseach for just over two and a half years, but in that short period he seized control of Northern policy and was the main architect of what became known as the peace process. By the time he left office the Provisional IRA’s long campaign of violence was effectively over for good. Many others who served in the taoiseach’s office for far longer achieved much less.
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