Читать книгу John Hume in America - Maurice Fitzpatrick - Страница 7

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Michael Lillis has provided unremitting support for the book and was at all times unintrusive in offering his perspectives for which I am most grateful. I am also grateful to Frank Sheridan and Tom Fleming for their huge help in research; to Pat Hume, John Hume Jr and Aidan Hume and the Hume family for their comments and help; to Sean O’hUiginn for reading the book in an early draft. Responsibility for any mistakes is mine.

Infinite thanks to Marina for her endless patience with my absences and to Seamus and Bernadette Fitzpatrick, and Orla and Natasha Fitzpatrick. Thanks to Eoin Brophy, Josephine Farrelly and Hume Brophy.

I am grateful to the interviewees who include (in alphabetical order) Gerry Adams TD, Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair, Bono, President Jimmy Carter, President Bill Clinton, Senator Chris Dodd, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Ambassador Seán Donlon, Congressman Charles Dougherty, John A. Farrell, Robert Fisk, Mayor Ray Flynn, Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Pat Hume, Ambassador Robert Hunter, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Senator Paul Kirk, Ambassador Michael Lillis, Sir John Major, Seamus Mallon, Eamonn McCann, Karl E. Meyer, Senator George Mitchell, Congressman Bruce Morrison, Matthew Murray, Congressman Richie Neal, Prof. Brendan O’Leary, Tom O’Neill, Ambassador Sean O’hUiginn, Paul Quinn, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, Ted Smyth, Nancy Soderberg and Lord David Trimble.

Thanks also to Richard Ryan, Dr P.J. McLoughlin, Mark Durkan, Jim King, Prof. Ronan Fanning, Dr. Martin Mansergh, Phil Coulter, Austin Currie, Hugh Logue, Brian Barrington, Chuck Daly, Christine Daly, Ivan Cooper, Frank Costello, David McKittrick, Martin McGuinness, Ambassador Peter Jay, Jimmy Neary, Tom Melia and Kevin Cullen.

And thanks to Ciaran Murray, Tom Arnold, Paul Duane, Eugene and Adele Hutchinson, The American Ireland Funds, The Derry Journal, Sean McLaughlin, Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Donal Donovan, Mike Connolly and Becky Hitchcock, Tom O’Grady and Katie Conboy, Prof. Mike Cronin, Prof. Crawford Gribben, Jack Roney, Charles H. Dolan, Aideen Kane, Bill McNally, Francis and Gena McGrath, Joseph and Sabryna Reciniello. I am grateful for the institutional support of the Moore Institute NUI Galway, the Cavan Arts Council, Boston College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast.