“I would like to introduce you to two men who are making history, two men who have taken a leap of faith out of the past and into the future.”
– Bono
John Hume and David Trimble shared a stage in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall during a U2 concert on this day in 1998. pic.twitter.com/ENWeECZJvN
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) May 19, 2022
1998.
Waterfront Hall, Belfast.
Powerful and original.
*cough*
Getty
This afternoon.
St Eugene’s Cathedral, Derry
Scenes from John Hume’s funeral attended by President Higgins (pics 1 and 4) and Taoiseach Micheál Martin (pic 3).
It’s too early for me to get my head around Laura Whitmore’s ad for the British Army podcast, followed by a John Hume quote. pic.twitter.com/ESNE8aCZeM
— Lisa Hughes (@_Lisa_Hughes) August 4, 2020
As a journalist I’m sure you know it is important to have conversations and research yes? Also as Hume spent his life speaking out (and I have quoted) it’s not about one side better than the other. It’s about respect for each other. Peace and love x
— Laura Whitmore (@thewhitmore) August 4, 2020
Yesterday.
Meanwhile…
Totally agree! And apologies if it looks like I’m recruiting or something mad like that! Just a conversation as I think it’s important to have with anyone you don’t understand. And always important to listen to people’s lived experiences. It’s how we all learn x
— Laura Whitmore (@thewhitmore) August 5, 2020
Elle who I speak to has an army job. Though totally see the confusion so I’ll change!
— Laura Whitmore (@thewhitmore) August 5, 2020
Laura Britmore, amirite?
FIGHT!
This afternoon.
Iveagh House, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.
A defiant tricolour flies at half mast (actually 2/3) on the Department of Foreign Affairs for the late John Hume who died yesterday.
John Hume online Book Of Condolence
Earlier: Back Home In Derry
Meanwhile…
This morning.
Government Buildings, Dublin 2.
John Hume
This evening.
John Hume’s remains will be taken to St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry at 5pm with a funeral mass on Wednesday at 11.30am. Attendance at both will be in line with current Covid-19 restrictions with strictly limited numbers.
The Hume family said:
“We realise this will mean that many will be unable to join us and we will arrange a memorial service and a celebration of his life in due course. Above all, we know that John would have prioritised public health, and the safety and health of our communities.”
John Hume funeral Mass to take place in Derry on Wednesday morning (Irish Times)
Meanwhile….
Vile British secret services forged documents to convince journalists #JohnHume had stolen money from charities to line his own pocketshttps://t.co/wmHEevdikP
— Village Magazine (@VillageMagIRE) August 3, 2020
Meanwhile….
The Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu has opened an online book of condolence in memory of the late John Hume.
Dubliners are being invited to sign the book and express their sympathies for this Irishman who wanted us not to be trapped in the past but to have a future of peace.
The book of condolence is available to sign until Monday August 10 [at link below]
The National Flag on top of the Mansion House will be flown at half-mast from today until Wednesday.
Clearly not much of an overlap between #Irishtwitter and Jeopardy, or else I’d have seen better quality videos of this clip. To be fair, I get these two lads confused all the time… pic.twitter.com/yCB7YTuBVD
— John Curry (@irishcurry) January 16, 2020
“Enda Kenny?”
“Chris Adams?”
The identity of ‘Ireland’s greatest Irishman’ leaves the panel on US quiz show Jeopardy! – including the game’s best-ever contestant – stumped.
‘Jeopardy!’ GOAT winner Ken Jennings is the ‘greatest of all time’ (New York Post)
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
Narrated by Liam Neeson with an original musical score by Bill Whelan.
This 90-minute documentary by Maurice Fitzpatrick tells of how John Hume cultivated the support of a succession of US presidents to help forge peace in Northern Ireland and why Bill Clinton (top right) called him the ‘Martin Luther King of Northern Ireland politics”.
This November 17, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America will be released in select IMC Cinemas nationwide (Dublin Savoy, IMC Tallaght, IMC Santry, IMC Dun Laoghaire, IMC Athlone, IMC Carlow, IMC Dundalk, IMC Galway, IMC Ballymena, IMC Enniskillen and IMC Omagh).
Tickets here
Thanks Christina and Joanne
This is a mural we could all get behind. Real leadership! #JohnHume pic.twitter.com/ReSbRf2HsY
— Clíona McCarney (@clionamccarney) May 2, 2014
Meanwhile…via L.A.D
New Mural in West Belfast pic.twitter.com/YFG0OzBLgO
— L.A.D (@LADFLEG) May 2, 2014
Can you guess who it is yet?
Previously: Political Strokes
(As chosen by Miriam O’Callaghan and voted by the Late Late Show viewers)
“I want to see Ireland – North and South – the wounds of violence healed, play its rightful role in a Europe that will, for all Irish people, be a shared bond of patriotism and new endeavour.
“I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals, rather than fighting for them, and by viewing each and every person as worthy of respect and honour.”
John Hume, Nobel speech.