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Peace by Piece
Honest stories & insights from peace activists in Northern Ireland/ the north. What energises them to keep on going? What have they salvaged from their own back stories? What's working & not working when it comes to reconciliation? Listen in as people put words to their most challenging stories, as we reflect together on how peace is really doing.
Episodes
13 episodes
Davy Adams
Davy Adams is someone who turned his life around 180; he was a paramilitary insider at the height of the conflict who went on to help make peace here and then travel to war torn parts of the globe as an impassioned peace advocate. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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41:23
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Dana Masters
What defines a home? Jazz singer Dana Masters, who hails from the deep south of America and has found her heart in Northern Ireland, joins us to unravel this profound question. Through Dana's lens, we explore the concept of home as a sou...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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Megan Phair
For this special Peace by Piece conversation I was joined live on stage at the Duncairn Arts Centre in north Belfast by Megan Phair. Megan is an all round activist and justice campaigner. She’s a programme co-ordinator for Invisible Traff...
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22:59
David Eagleson
David Eagleson was deputy director of the NI Prison Service and has held leadership roles in a number of prisons. David had an interesting vantage point at a key period of our history, working within the Maze Prison in the run up to the release...
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36:14
Sarah Lorimer
Sarah Lorimer is a young woman who is leading conversations in communities impacted by peace walls. She works on the International Fund for Ireland’s Peace Barrier programme in north Belfast. Sarah has 15 years experience in ...
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38:20
Fr Martin Magill
Fr Martin Magill is known by some as a peacemaker priest. He is parish priest at St Johns on the Falls Road in Belfast and is also an author and organiser of the Four Corners' Festival. He’s someone who is constantly crossing divide...
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37:35
Sipho Sibanda
Sipho Sibanda is a Zimbabwean refugee activist who has made Belfast home for her and her son. Sipho fled her native country in 2015 amid ongoing political unrest and didn’t even get to hug her family goodbye. She works for PP...
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42:25
Debbie Watters
Debbie Watters is co-director of restorative justice project NI Alternatives and is a former vice chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board.In this conversation Debbie takes us back to her childhood to share how her faith has al...
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43:33
Sue Divin
Sue Divin is a Derry based writer and community relations worker who has much to say about the impact of post conflict life on communities.She has recently published her first novel Guard Your Heart; it focusses on the relationships of ...
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35:43
Anne Walker
*Warning you may find some details in this story triggering and distressing*Anne Walker is a peace facilitator and a participant in the powerful Theatre of Witness programme in Derry’s Playhouse Theatre. Through this tra...
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44:36
Kathleen Gillespie
*Warning you will find details within this story distressing*Kathleen Gillespie courageously shares her family’s story of extreme trauma, and how she has fought hard to salvage peace from pain. Her husband Patsy was killed ...
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39:21
