“The IRA kidnapped the wrong girl, and only when they started to go through the girl’s schoolbooks did they realise they had actually snatched a young girl who happened to resemble Hume’s daughter.”
John Hume was a man of contradictions. Hugely ambitious and with a vision for peace and unity, he could be difficult, cantankerous and his silences were legendary. Stephen Walker, author of a new biography, speaks to Dion Fanning about the criticism of Hume, his vision and the risks he took for peace.
