--- title: Hillary Clinton Recalls Irish Peace in Pre-St. Patrick's Day Event description: At a pre-St. Patrick's Day event, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recalled a key first step in the Irish peace process. canonical: https://time.com/3746254/hillary-clinton-recalls-irish-peace-process-in-pre-st-patricks-day-event/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-16T18:38:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:21.931Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton Recalls Irish Peace Process Before St. Patrick's og:description: She recalled her husband's presidency. og:url: https://time.com/3746254/hillary-clinton-recalls-irish-peace-process-in-pre-st-patricks-day-event/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5f8f0b627b506d2/698783c3cd1bba3f566f5b3d/465793482.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5415 og:image:height: 3046 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Holds Press Conference Over Email Controversy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton Recalls Irish Peace Process Before St. Patrick's twitter:description: She recalled her husband's presidency. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5f8f0b627b506d2/698783c3cd1bba3f566f5b3d/465793482.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Recalls Irish Peace Process in Pre-St. Patrick's Day Event > Sponsored content. 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Yana Paskova—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Mar 16, 2015 6:38 PM UTC Hillary Clinton talked about how her husband improved relations with Ireland at a pre-St. Patrick’s Day event Monday, recalling how he granted Irish nationalist Gerry Adams a visa in 1994. In a brief speech at the Irish America Hall of Fame ceremony in Manhattan, the former Secretary of State said that President Clinton’s decision to allow Adams to speak at a conference in New York, which many American opposed, was an important first step toward peace in Ireland since it helped end Sinn Fein’s international isolation. “Absent that first step, that first risk, we might not have had the momentum to move forward and get to the Good Friday accords and all that has followed,” Clinton said. She recalled her own involvement in the peace process in Ireland, where she visited half a dozen times in the late 1990s and encouraged women to join the political process of Northern Ireland. “I was privileged to be in Belfast in November 1995,” Clinton said, referring to a visit she paid to the embattled Irish city with her husband. Her address was one of her final public appearances before she announces her expected bid for president in April. 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