My mothers side to come from donegal. Um id grown up with a very clear understanding of the troubles and you would wait literally every morning and the 19 seventies 19 eighties. 19 nineties. Um. To use on on the uk media of acts of terrorism or destruction. Death story, tragic stories of the families of the victims of the troubles. So it was all it was part of my own personal history. But i also thought, you know john major, who would be my predecessors. Prime minister had tried and got somewhere there was some stirring. You could see some possibility, even though the thing is broken down by the time we came to office, and i thought i mean, ive often wondered whether it was just because you were straight into government and maybe the you know you had this feeling that everything was possible. And so youre prepared to give what most people thought was impossible about. So what . For all of those reasons that the first speech i made as Prime Minister was here in Northern Ireland. Um and
to keep people working together at the end of the cold war. but it did strip the sort of a near off of long standing differences . racial religious, ethnic, cultural differences that other people could exploit and so the brexit phenomenon has been all too present. all over the world , including in the united states , where you cannot run a successful democracy in an interdependent world. if it is dominated by people that think the only thing that matters is our differences. but when the northern ireland government has worked and it worked. ian paisley and martin mcguinness. the odd couple and politics produced a few years of on time budgets, agreed upon help when martin mcguinness in the first storm government where sheamus