History Ireland Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ?

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Priscilla Duck

The Good Friday Agreement didn't happen until 1998, following the ceasefire of '97, so that won't help you much.

The 1994 ceasefire came about mainly through the work of John Hume, leader of the SDLP, who had been having private negotiations with the Sinn Fein leadership since the late 80s in the hopes of securing peace, and with the British govt in the hopes of bringing them to the negotiating table before complete decommisioning by the IRA. In 1993, the Downing Street Declaration was signed by John Major and Albert Reynolds, a declaration that argued for self-determination on the basis of consensus for all the people of Ireland. This was a major change in the approaches of both the UK and Republic of Ireland governments to NI policy, which basically opened the way to multi-party talks and the peace process as we know it.

This ceasefire did not hold, however, lasting only 17 months. In Feb '96 the IRA planted a bomb in Canary Wharf, London, killing two and injurying over 100.

Orla C

Mo Molam, bless her, got shirty with those bloody men on both sides and MADE them come together and talk out their differences. She was instrumental in making them see sense.

SFF

The economics of the time. More jobs, more money, more education. Less people thinking that the grass is greener on the other side.

[my opinion]

yumphla

John major, gerry adams and Ian paisley had a web conference, and major apparently said to the both of them

...right you 2 pack it in, or i'll have you both!!!...

like 2 lambs they came running

reginaldstower

Northern Ireland peace process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Irish government would try to address unionist fears of a united Ireland. ... The IRA ceasefire had lasted 17 months and 9 days.

slipstreamer

Go look up the good Friday agreement and the links from there.

alan m

The main unrecognised factor was the dominance of the UDA. Previously the IRA could murder anyone and it was accepted by the British government. Around this time the UDA decided on a tit for tat policy. Everytime the IRA murdered a civilian the UDA would kill five IRA murderers. The IRA realising their murder campaign was not working called a ceasefire and eventually in 1998 surrendered completley. The UDA later recognising the end of the IRA also then stopped their defensive campaign as their formation was no longer necessary,.

Ferg

ira bombing campaign forced the britsh government into talks with sinn fein - the political arm of the RA

John G

IRA decided to cease all military operations aug 31st 1994 and the UDA and unionists decided on a wait and see policy, john major and ian paisley continued to disagree on the terms the IRA were offering cease fire lasted 18 months and ceased when the IRA bombed the docklands in london killing 2 people feb 1996 and 85 million damage new cease fire in july 1997 due to new labour government who were prepared to talk to sinn fein, sit at the table and have talks up to this the british government would not recognise them . in may 2000 IRA agreed to talks on Northern Irelands future and to destroy arms and explosives since then several dumps have been proved to have been destroyed and May 2002 IRA ordered total cease fire ,peace still remains

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