It's interesting for historians of the IRA to contemplate why Christopher Hitchens would write (in Slate) --
There is nothing in the latest Northern Irish agreement that was not easily available to both sides way back in 1967 or '68.
and therefore not accept the more conventional and famous dating by Seamus Mallon of the current agreement as "Sunningdale for slow learners".
The Sunningdale Agreement was implemented in 1974. Here is one one useful item in divining Hitch's agenda. Any parallels with Hitch's current positions on the Middle East are a matter of pure speculation.
UPDATE: Can't resist another look at Hitch's slyness. He writes --
The British laws of libel forbid me to tell what I heard when I was a young reporter in the pubs and back streets of Belfast, but I'll put it like this: Both Paisley and Adams know very well of things that happened that should never have happened.
Now who would Hitch the Younger, then the radical leftie, have been chatting to in the Belfast pubs and hearing tales about Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley?
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