How the Peace Was Won

How the Peace was Won is the inside track on how the deal was done. Rowan talks to the players in the endgame, and brings his years of reporting experience to the pages of this book. He discusses the dilemmas of reporting a war while living in that conflict – a conflict in which the puppets and strings became a tangled mess.

How did Adams and McGuinness change the orders? What made Paisley say yes? How now does the North make peace with its past? In How the Peace was Won the hardest questions are asked and answered.

In Northern Ireland, old and bitter enemies are sharing power. Ulster’s historical No men — first Ian Paisley and now Peter Robinson — lead a devolved administration with IRA hawk Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister. How was this deal of all deals achieved? How was war transformed into peace? .