Book Tickets Now 27 - 30 June 2024

Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the road to peace in Ireland

Peter Taylor

Venue: Church of Ireland – The Jane Barrett Stage

Would the Good Friday agreement ever have happened had it not been for Operation Chiffon?  Peter Taylor’s book Operation Chiffon: the Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland takes us inside the top-secret intelligence operation whose roots go back to the bloodiest years of the Northern Ireland conflict in the early 1970s, involving officers from MI6 and, later in the 1990s, MI5. The remarkable story, which has remained hidden for forty years, is now revealed by legendary BBC journalist Peter Taylor with unique access to the intelligence officers involved. Drawing on exclusive interviews and Taylor's fifty years of covering the conflict, the book narrates in first-hand detail how those involved risked their careers - and their lives - to help secure the fragile peace that exists today. Peter will be in conversation with Myles Dungan.

Price €10
 
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the road to peace in Ireland