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Aug 31, 2014 · BBC Knowledge & Learning. It is an iconic image, encapsulating the horror of the Troubles. Father Alec Reid kneels in a Belfast car park as he administers the last rites over the bloodied,...
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Nov 23, 2013 · Corporal Howes and his colleague Derek Wood had been dragged from their car and shot dead by the IRA in a week of murderous mayhem after they drove into the path of a republican funeral, and...
Nov 22, 2013 · Fr Alec Reid who acted as go-between between the IRA and politicians, coaxing the Northern Ireland peace process into life, has died. He was a Redemptorist priest and spent more than 40 years...
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Nov 22, 2023 · “Wednesday – November 22 – will mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Father Alec Reid. It is a matter of wonderment that a decade has passed since he left us. Students of the Irish peace process will know that Alec was a central figure in our search for peace.
Nov 23, 2013 · In 1988, Fr Reid was pictured praying over the bodies of Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes who had been dragged from their car, beaten and shot by the IRA.
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Nov 22, 2013 · Fr Reid, 82, acted as a clandestine go-between ferrying messages to and from republicans and the British and Irish governments in the earliest stages of the peace process in the 1980s.
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Oct 25, 2021 · Actor Alec Baldwin was drawing a revolver across his body and pointing it at a camera during a rehearsal on a US film set when it fired with tragic results, legal documents have revealed.
