Diarmuid Ferriter and Peadar Thompson in conversation with JJ Hurley

Diarmuid Ferriter is Full Professor and Chair of Modern Irish History at UCD, as well as the author of numerous books, including The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012), The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics (2019) and Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War (2021). His latest book is The Revelation of Ireland 1995-2020 (2024). He is a regular television and radio broadcaster and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times. In 2019 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

A lifelong Gael from West Belfast, Ireland, Peadar Thompson is a fluent gaeilgeoir and member of Naomh Eoin (St John’s), Belfast. Strongly motivated by his own family’s campaigning for truth and justice, Peadar read law at both Newcastle University and Leiden University, before working in human rights, law and victim advocacy, including at Relatives for Justice. Peadar is named after his paternal uncle Peter, who was killed on 13 January 1990 by undercover British Army Intelligence Officers