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Book Launch - In Good Time - A Memoir

The Saint Patrick Centre, 53A Market Street, Downpatrick, County Down, BT30 6LZ
Rev Harold Book Launch Poster on the 13 February St Patrick Centre Downpatrick

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The Rev Harold Good, former President of the Methodist Church in Ireland and director of the Corrymeela Centre for Peace and Reconciliation will be in conversation with multi-award-winning journalist Martin O'Brien on Thursday 13 March at the Saint Patrick Centre.

Rev. Harold Good is a 'Derry-born Methodist minister, retired Church leader and one of the oldest surviving actors in the Irish peace process and will talk about his remarkable life. From Ian Paisley's turbulent arrival in the early fifties to the burning of Bombay Street and internment; from searching for bomb victims with his bare hands on the Shankill to verifying the destruction of IRA weapons with Fr Alec Reid, Good has seen it all.

The event will start at with this conversation from 7.30pm - 8.30pm and then Harold will launch his new book at the Saint Patrick Centre. Entitled 'In Good Time' - an enthralling memoir made possible by recently excavated phone texts. In the book he reveals his role as a back channel between the DUP and Sinn Féin, when he facilitated secret meetings in his home between Martin McGuinness and Jeffrey Donaldson that helped create the historic partnership government co-led by Paisley and McGuinness.

Good couldn't have imagined that one day he would help change the course of Irish history, play a hitherto undocumented role in weapons disposal by FARC and ETA in Colombia and the Basque Country, and be asked by Queen Elizabeth II over lunch in Buckingham Palace for advice about her visit to Ireland.

This compelling page-turner is an important contribution to the post-Brexit debate about the future of Ireland.

Harold Good, OBE, is a retired Methodist minister, former President of the Methodist Church in Ireland and director of the Corrymeela Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. One of two independent eyewitnesses to the decommissioning of IRA weapons in 2005, he has received numerous awards for his peace work in Northern Ireland and also contributed to conflict resolution in the Basque Country and Colombia.

Martin O'Brien is a multi-award-winning journalist, former senior producer with the BBC and past editor of The Irish News. A native of Fermanagh, he lives in Belfast.

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