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Aug 31, 2014 · Two British Army corporals had just been tortured and shot in broad daylight after driving into an IRA funeral. The violence in Northern Ireland seemed to have spiralled completely out of control.
Nov 30, 2013 · A famous photograph shows the naked soldier lying on the ground as if crucified while the kneeling priest prays over him with bowed head. Alec Reid later wrote to the parents of slain...
Nov 22, 2013 · Decommissioning witness. Fr Alec Reid died in a Dublin hospital on Friday morning. Former Presbyterian moderator Very Rev Dr Ken Newell described Fr Reid as a visionary: "The one who saw the...
Apr 10, 2023 · Television: RTÉ's The Secret Peacemaker is a detailed portrait of Fr Alec Reid and his pivotal role in persuading the IRA that talking was in the end more productive than slaughter
Nov 22, 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.
Jun 7, 2017 · One of the men in the trapped car “stood up and fired a shot in the air”. Somebody got a wheelbrace “and smashed the windscreen of the car”. Fr Reid went to investigate.
Nov 22, 2013 · Father Alec Reid, who was 82, acted as a broker between the IRA and the British Government. He was famously photographed delivering the last rites to two soldiers killed by the IRA in west Belfast ...
