Exhibition celebrating John Hume’s Nobel Peace Prize win opens in Belfast – The Irish News

An exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of her joint Nobel Peace Prize award with John Hume has opened in Belfast.

The exhibition, including artwork and panels outlining the late former SDLP leader’s role in the peace process and the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, has opened at Ulster University’s (UU) Belfast campus.

It is completing a tour of all UU campuses and is the result of a partnership between the John and Pat Hume Foundation and the European Parliament Liaison Office in the UK.

It is a quarter of a century since Hume, who was a member of the European Parliament for more than two decades, won the Nobel Peace Prize alongside the late former UUP leader David Trimble in the autumn of 1998.

The free exhibition – which runs until August 30 at the campus reception in the Birley Building – also features one of five bronze busts of Hume created by Ballymena sculptor Liz O’Kane.

The other four are on display at the Irish embassies in Washington DC and London, the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Leinster House in Dublin.

John and Pat Hume Foundation Secretary Tim Atwood said the organisation welcomed “this exciting opportunity to partner with the European Parliament Liaison Office in the UK and the University of Ulster to showcase John Hume’s work as a Member of the European Parliament and the fact that the mission of the European Union inspired his courageous journey to build peace and reconciliation in Ireland through dialogue, partnership and bridge-building.”