Leading figures from politics and the arts are among those who will receive honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast this year.
They include: the Northern Secretary, Dr Mowlam; the First Minister, Mr David Trimble; the Deputy First Minister, Mr Seamus Mallon; the SDLP leader, Mr John Hume; the novelist and playwright Edna O'Brien; the actor and former QUB student Simon Callow; and the chairman of the North's Fair Employmen Commission, Sir Robert Cooper.