Good Friday Agreement
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The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethnic and national conflict in Northern Ireland sinc
George J. Mitchell (left) and Bertie Ahern (right) in 2018
Parliament Buildings at Stormont, in Belfast, seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly
The offices of the North/South Ministerial Council on Upper English Street, Armagh, Northern Ireland
A 'Yes' campaign poster for the Good Friday Agreement during simultaneous referendums in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland
Democratic Unionist Party
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The Democratic Unionist Party is a unionist, loyalist, British nationalist and national conservative political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1971 during the Troubles by Ian Paisley, who
Good Friday Agreement
…people of both jurisdictions needed to approve the Agreement to give effect to it. The British–Irish Agreement came into force on 2 December 1999. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was the only major political group in Northern Ireland to oppose the Good Friday Agreement. When the Irish Free State was established in 1922…
Ian Paisley, 1994 2
Peter Robinson headshot, 2011
MLA Arlene Foster
Edwin Poots, 2013