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‘Kneecap’ Producer Trevor Birney on ‘The Negotiator’ Doc About the Irish Peace Agreement and Its Architect George Mitchell: ‘That’s What America Can Achieve’
Trevor Birney's 'The Negotiator' tells the story of George Mitchell, the U.S. senator who became instrumental in Ireland's Good Friday Agreement
While Kneecap the band are still touring (they recently played at Glastonbury) and sparking headlines as they go, the film’s producer Trevor Birney returns to Galway this week with an altogether different project. For Birney, who alongside “Kneecap” has produced docs including the “Let the Canary Sing” about Cyndi Lauper and Alex Gibney’s “No Stone Unturned” about an unsolved Irish mass murder in 1994, “The Negotiator” took him back to his roots as a journalist. An IRA ceasefire had come into effect in August 1994, but Ireland was also experiencing a booming economy, while the Irish soccer team had just made it to the last 16 of the World Cup having famously beaten Italy in the group stage.
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