Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. Last Friday, that imbalance, which has caused more than 3,500 deaths during Northern Ireland's Troubles, was in part redressed when two men who advocate talk rather than arms were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Hume is a Roman Catholic, Trimble a Protestant.
Beliefs are usually irrelevant to Nobel Prizes.
Not in Northern Ireland. Le Duc Tho in '73. But Bew believes that Trimble would have had to refuse the Nobel if Adams had been included. Trimble has barely been able to carry his Ulster Unionist colleagues, angry that talks were not locked to prior decommissioning of the vast amounts of weapons held by paramilitary groups. He led his own political movement away from violence, and that is a hugely significant step.