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The Hardest Bridge – viewing in Somerset
ByJo BerryThe Hardest Bridge Thu 26 Mar 2026 at 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Frome Town Hall BA11 1EB Tickets The extraordinary friendship between Pat Magee, a member of the IRA responsible for the Brighton bombing, and Jo Berry CBE, whose father was killed in the attack, is the subject of a new documentary…
Jay Ramsay writes a poem about Jo Berry and Patrick Magee
FOR JO BERRY (and Patrick Magee) The world will be saved by women in the West —H.H. The Dalai Lama All Posts He killed your father, but you forgave him. How did you do that ? How could he do that ? The question searing like the bomb-blast wreckage all your inner life…
Filmed for Basque documentary in Ireland
ByJo BerryJo Berry and Patrick Magee visited Corrymeela in Ireland where they were filmed for a Basque documentary. Corrymela is a special peace centre which means so much to me. Jo Berry Corrymeela is Northern Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organisation. We began before “The Troubles” and continue on in Northern Ireland’s changing post–conflict society. The…
The Possibility of Reconciliation: People and Politics
In the 2020 Una O’Higgins O’Malley Webinar, peacebuilder Jo Berry shared her personal journey of reconciliation following the violent loss of her father, Sir Anthony Berry, who died in the IRA Brighton bombing of 1984. This year’s event, the third in Glencree’s annual lecture series, was hosted online due to restrictions of Covid-19 and attracted…
24 Hours of Peace
ByJo BerryNovember 2019. To create the marathon text of TWENTY FOUR HOURS OF PEACE, writer Neil Bartlett spent nearly six months travelling across the UK and beyond, meeting one hundred remarkable individuals who work for peace to create a Remembrance Sunday act of witness to their work. Jo Berry and Pat Magee were among the 100…
The Hardest Bridge
ByJo BerryThe Hardest Bridge is a new documentary sharing the unique story of Jo Berry and Pat Magee, this is the trailer and the whole film will soon be released. It is directed by Dr Imad Karam, award-winning British-Palestinian film maker, who was brought up in Gaza city. Dr Karam made this film to bring Jo…