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Lifelong political antagonists in Northern Ireland find common ground in The Journey

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Timothy Spall is Ian Paisley and Colm Meaney is Martin McGuinness in this fictional tale about the Troubles. Nick Hamm's historical fantasy The Journey is based on a real-life incident that took place near the end of the decades-long civil conflict between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists in Northern Ireland. In October 2006 the British and Irish governments, along with the major political parties in Northern Ireland, convened in Saint Andrews, Scotland, to hammer out a power-sharing arrangement between the Democratic Unionist Party, led by the fire-breathing Protestant minister Ian Paisley, and Sinn Féin, the left-leaning Irish republican party.…

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