'Everybody needs to remember that there were women at the table.' Twenty-five years on from the Good Friday Agreement, has the contribution women made to peace in Northern Ireland been sidelined?
Mo Mowlam was the secretary of state for Northern Ireland during the 1998 talks process
She visited the paramilitary prisoners at the Maze high-security jail in an effort to get them to support peace talks.Talking about the days leading up to the agreement, Monica McWilliams said Dr Mowlam put her "heart and soul into making those last nights work".Prof Yvonne Galligan said the secretary of state had "incredible courage, confidence in herself and belief in a positive outcome and in the trajectory towards a peace process".
"For example Mo Mowlam, Martha Pope and other women like Bríd Rodgers, Bairbre De Brun, women from the Women's Coalition and and women in smaller parties - all played important roles and highlighted the institutional misogyny that existed," said Dawn Purvis. For Bríd Rodgers, who would go on to be an executive minister, the role of women was underplayed, which she said was "nothing new in Irish history".Bríd Rodgers pointed to women who were not directly involved in politics, including the late Pat Hume - the wife of then SDLP leader John Hume
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