Martin McGuinness, Who Lived A Life Divided Between Violence And Peace, Dies At 66

Martin McGuinness, the former Irish Republican Army commander, died Tuesday. He was 66. The Irish Republican Army, representing Catholics who wanted to split from the United Kingdom, fought a bloody war against Protestants, who wanted to remain in the U.K. The decades-long conflict known as "the troubles" left thousands dead.

But eventually, McGuinness played a key role in the power-sharing government that united the two sides after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Here & Now's Robin Young hears reaction from Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen (@globecullen), formerly the newspaper's London bureau chief.