Report Paul Murphy
The co-founder of the Meath Peace Group Julitta Clancy,(middle picture) is one of a number of people who have been honoured with a Quiet Peacebuilder by the John and Pat Hume Foundation in Derry. At a ceremony held in the Guildhall in Derry the Meath resident was among 14 people honoured by the foundation. The secretary of the foundation Tim Attwood said that many of our most tireless advocates for reconciliation and building on our shared peace took place within our communities and on our streets every day. It was important to recognise the work and courage of those who had delivered and continued to deliver on peacebuilding and reconciliation locally within our society.
Julitta Clancy co-founded the Meath Peace Group in 1993. She graduated from University College Dublin with a BA in Archaeology and Hebrew in 1971 and spent a year in Israel teaching English to Palestinian schoolchildren while also studying. Since 1979 Ms Clancy has worked as an archivist and indexer specialising in legal, historical and archaeological projects, including indexes to report such as the Murphy Commission, the Cloyne Commission and the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.
Along with her husband John she served 30 years on the Council of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society and has served as the society’s President and Vice-President. In the Spring of 1993 following a peace rally on the Hill of Slane she met with some likeminded people, each coming from different backgrounds, and each concerned at the human cost of the Northern Troubles and from this nucleus the Meath Peace Group was formed.
