Dealing with the past – will stir up a whole range of feelings and emotions.  We should not assume there is some tidy, comprehensive process of clearing up the past available to us.  There may be no closure available.  Instead what we are in the midst of is tragedy, Virgil’s ‘lacrimae rerum’ (the tears of things).  This is an issue of real struggle to know what is best to do or even what is possible to do.  Members of the Corrymeela Community most affected by the conflict emphasise the huge difficulty of finding constructive ways forward.

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