Chronology of events -- Introduction -- The hunger strikes -- The Sagart -- First, tentative steps -- The Anglo-Irish agreement -- Searching for a breakthrough -- The battle of the funerals -- Murder on the rock -- John Hume plays his part -- The killing of Pat Finucane -- The end of the Thatcher era -- Early cease-fires -- British preconditions -- President Robinson comes to Belfast -- The Downing Street declaration -- Americans for a new Irish agenda -- Party conferences -- A space for hope -- America again -- Seizing the moment -- Major mistakes -- My hero, Nelson Mandela.;The leader of the Irish Repulican movement offers a personal perspective on the road to peace, from the radicalization of Northern Ireland's Catholic population, through long years of violence, to the Good Friday Agreement.