Aileen McCorkell secretly hosted peace talks between the IRA and MI6 at her Derry home and didn't tell anyone for 30 years.
Amazingly, Aileen and Michael didn't tell anyone about the gathering for another three decades."They never told us about those talks until the government papers were published on New Year's Day 2002. I don't think at that time they realised what a momentous thing it was."when the British Army opened fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing 13 people.
"After the war, my father joined the territorial army. So people knew of him. He was asked to go to Stormont and he was taken in and told 'my boss wants to talk to you'."On the other side John Hume [then SDLP leader] was asked where these talks could be held and because of my mother's reputation that's who he suggested. So both sides were happy.Although Aileen never spoke about the meeting, she did keep a secret record of the event.
"They did meals on wheels and trolley shops in the hospitals. But 1968 changed all that with the advent of the Troubles.""That was the one thing she would never talk about," David added.The McCorkells with Hilary Clinton in 1995. David says he wonders if they told her about the meetingBut "on reflection she realised that it would be very important", said David.Writing about 20 June 1972, she said: "Sometime during the morning a strange man walked up the drive.
He revealed terms for temporary ceasefire were discussed, as were plans to bring the IRA leadership to London.One week later, a delegation, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness,
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