Buoyed by the Irish Peace Initiative launched by Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and the SDLP leader John Hume the Association resumed its publications programme, commencing with Orangeism: Myth or Reality in 1997 and The Road to National Democracy: the Story of the Irish Peace Process in 1998. The Irish Democrat also underwent a redesign and was relaunched in April 1997. David Granville was appointed editor, before Padraig Reidy agreed to take over responsibility. The paper was redesigned again in 2004 under the editorship of Mick Hall.