Would the Good Friday agreement ever have happened had it not been for OperationChiffon? Peter Taylor’s book Operation Chiffon: the Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and theRoad to Peace in Ireland takes us inside the top-secret intelligence operation whose roots go back to the bloodiest years of the Northern Ireland conflict in the early 1970s, involving officers from MI6 and, later in the 1990s, MI5. The remarkable story, which has remained hidden for forty years, is now revealed by legendary BBC journalist Peter Taylor with unique access to the intelligence officers involved. Drawing on exclusive interviews and Taylor's fifty years of covering the conflict, the book narrates in first-hand detail how those involved risked their careers-and their lives to help secure the fragile peace that exists today.PeterTaylor was in conversation with Myles Dungan at the 2024 Hinterland FestivalRecorded live at Hinterland Festival of Literature and Arts. For more episodes and artist information, visit: www.hinterland.ie https://www.facebook.com/HinterlandFestivalKells/ https://www.instagram.com/hinterlandfestivalkells/ music by https://soundcloud.com/xcaliberbeats
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Episode 1 - Annie West
In addition to her hilarious, pomposity-puncturing and (apparently) hourly interventions on Twitter/X, Annie West is one of the country’s most celebrated illustrators and cartoonists. Her unique style is instantly recognisable as is her stalwart support of her home county of Sligo and her passion for the love life of William Butler Yeats. Many of her interests have coalesced in the writing of The Late Night Writers Club where Ireland’s most famous deceased writers desert their pantheon(s) and gather, after hours, in the reading room of the National Library. Annie was in conversation with Gerry Foley at Hinterland 2024.Recorded live at Hinterland Festival of Literature and Arts. For more episodes and artist information, visit: www.hinterland.ie https://www.facebook.com/HinterlandFestivalKells/ https://www.instagram.com/hinterlandfestivalkells/ music by https://soundcloud.com/xcaliberbeats
Hinterland is an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival based in the spiritual home of the Book of Kells in Co. Meath. The podcast features artist interviews with an array of stellar guests to Kells, including all the leading Irish fiction writers, and a number of major UK writers and many wonderful participants, crossing all genres.
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