Video interview with Liz O'Donnell, Irish government delegate during the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement talks, and David Adams, UDP delegate during the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement talks, by Noel Thompson for the US-Ireland Alliance 'Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of the Good Friday Accords' on 10 April 2008. In a symposium on the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement attended by fourteen of its original negotiators, O'Donnell and Adams discuss the issue of negotiating North-South relations in the agreement. The US-Ireland Alliance is a non-for-profit organisation, founded in 1998, which strengthens relations between the United States and the island of Ireland.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 16 April 2008
Name of First Interviewee: Liz O'Donnell
Name of Second Interviewee: David Adams
Role at time of Interview: Liz O'Donnell (Irish government delegate during the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement talks), David Adams (UDP delegate during the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement talks)
Interviewer: Noel Thompson
Purpose: News, Research
Media: Audiovisual
Copyright: © US-Ireland Alliance
Link: Watch the interview
Programme/Book/Article: US-Ireland Alliance Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of the Good Friday Accords
Time Period covered: 1998-2008
Key Individuals: Liz O'Donnell, David Adams, John Taylor, Albert Reynolds, John Major, Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair
Key Words: Belfast Agreement/Good Friday Agreement, North-South relations, border, Irish government, South Africa