☢️VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED☢️ If you watch ANYTHING on the troubles - WATCH THIS - My TOP 10. In the late 1980s, Reid facilitated a series of meetings between Gerry Adams and John Hume, in an effort to establish a 'Pan-Nationalist front' to enable a move toward renouncing violence in favor of negotiation. Reid then acted as their contact person with the Irish Government in Dublin from a 1987 meeting with Charles Haughey up to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In this role, which was not public knowledge at the time, he held meetings with various Taoisigh, and particularly with Martin Mansergh, advisor to various Fianna Fáil leaders. After the eventual success of the peace negotiations, Gerry Adams said “there would not be a peace process at this time without [Father Reid’s] diligent doggedness and his refusal to give up.” In 1988 in Belfast, Reid delivered the last rites to two British Army Royal Signals corporals killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) – an event known as the corporals killings – after they drove into the funeral cortège of IRA member Kevin Brady, who had been killed in the Milltown Cemetery attack. A photograph of his involvement in that incident became one of the starkest and most enduring images of the Troubles. Unknown until years later, Reid was carrying a letter from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams to Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume outlining Adams' suggestions for a political solution to the Troubles. Adams later told the BBC in 2019 that Reid also advised U.S Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith during the peace process, stating "He (Fr Reid) was talking to her (Kennedy-Smith) on the side and she was talking to her brother Teddy (Kennedy)." After he moved to Dublin, Reid was involved in peace efforts in the Basque Country. In January 2003, he was awarded the Sabino Arana 2002 "World Mirror" prize, by the Sabino Arana Foundation in Bilbao, in recognition of his efforts at promoting peace and reconciliation. Reid and a Methodist minister, the Rev. Harold Good, announced that the IRA had decommissioned their arms at a news conference in September 2005. Reid was involved in controversy in November 2005 when he made comments during a meeting in Fitzroy Presbyterian Church concerning the Unionist community in Northern Ireland. Reid said: "You don't want to hear the truth. The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. They were treated like the Nazis treated the Jews". He later apologized, saying his remarks had been made in the heat of the moment. In an interview with CNN, Reid said that "The IRA were, if you like, a violent response to the suppression of human rights". Disclaimer: The videos uploaded by A Troubled Land are historical. Uploaded to protect and save our troubled history for future generations. We do NOT glorify war by anyone nor condone it. --------------------------- ✅PayPal Donation link here : https://paypal.me/RetroZom?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB ✅Become a fan, get exclusive access and join our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/ATroubledLand ✅ATL Shorts on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@atroubledland ✅Like ATL on X: https://x.com/ATroubledLand - Have content you want shared? Contact me here [email protected] - Have an issue with this video or any other? Get in touch! Disclaimer: The videos uploaded by A Troubled Land are historical. Uploaded to protect and save our troubled history for future generations. We do NOT glorify war by anyone nor condone it. Please keep comments respectful. Any offensive or hateful comments will be removed. Users who consistently post remarks of this nature will be blocked. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO READ ... ✅ A Troubled Land does not own/claim rights to these documentaries - they are checked, verified and passed by YouTube. ✅ ATL strives to only show/use Creative Commons but will not censor our history/Fair Use Documentary. ✅ Owners of these documentary "allow them to be shown online" in which they receive part of ad revenue. ✅ YouTube will not allow A Troubled Land to monetize this history channel - instead, it exploits our traffic and subscribers using Adverts. ✅ If you would like to show your appreciation for our work - please join our Patreon channel which we offer early access and your name in all videos in return Join our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/ATroubledLand ✅ All responses are made by A Troubled Land - a human - because we like to read the feedback as it helps us develop the channel. ✅ Due to YouTube's strict copyright policy, certain documentary may not be shown - those we can't are on our Patreon channel here : https://www.patreon.com/ATroubledLand