http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 22:19:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/hands-of-history-mcguinness-and-the-queen/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/hands-of-history-mcguinness-and-the-queen/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:44:37 +0000 Jon Tonge http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25746 The meeting and handshake between the Queen and Martin McGuinness is the most important act of healing and reconciliation achieved so far in Northern Ireland. McGuinness was one of the leaders of the Provisional IRA, which killed more than 2,000 people during the conflict. That one of those victims was the Queen’s cousin, Lord Mountbatten, gives the handshake particular poignancy.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/hands-of-history-mcguinness-and-the-queen/feed/ 2