And here's a link to a peace song I wrote when the ceasefire was new - White Snow of the Springtime.

The Thirty Years I see as a tragic detour, but perhaps they were inevitable. Giving the legacy of those years the power to destroy what's been gained in the last few years would be terrible.

Here's an article from today's Guardian by a Unionist politician who supports the Good Friday Agreement, who is clearly feeling that way, and is clearly critical of his party's present position:

The irony of this for unionists is that, just as 30 years of IRA violence was effective in preventing any political settlement developing, now the unwillingness of republicans to divest themselves of the threat of violence is having a similar effect - and by reacting in such a predictable and Pavlovian manner, unionism is again allowing republicans to dictate the future for Northern Ireland.