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Geoffrey Corry is a self-employed specialist in conflict resolution, mediation training and dialogue facilitation working through his own Athena Consultancy for the last twenty-three years. He is a former board member and chief facilitator of peace workshops at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation.
In this oral history interview Geoffrey talks about his background in ecumenical youth work and how this led him to work with different communities and peace work in the 1980s and at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in the 1990s. He explains the early peace initiatives in Ireland of the 1970s. Geoffrey talks about Brendan O'Regan (1917-2008) in relation to the Irish Peace Institute [IPI]. Geoffrey mentions the struggles of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation to continue their work and describes how The Atlantic Philanthropies helped fund the political dialogue workshops as well as workshops for both victims and former combatants at the centre. Geoffrey gives insights into the peace process in Northern Ireland and his own skills in conflict management and peace negotiation.
This oral history interview was conducted by the Digital Repository of Ireland as part of the Atlantic Philanthropies archive project (2017-2020) titled Amplifying change: A history of the Atlantic Philanthropies on the island of Ireland in 2019. The oral history is related to The Atlantic Philanthropies grant documentation for the grantee Irish Refugee Council.
This recording contains the personal views of the participants, they do not reflect the views of the DRI.