Category: IRA

How did the Good Friday agreement come about and why is it so significant?

Held up as a model for peace, the historic agreement ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland over 58 tense hoursThe historic Good Friday agreement that ended three decades of the Troubles, brought peace to Northern Ireland...

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Revealed: how a false name nearly exposed IRA plot to kill Margaret Thatcher

Why did Brighton bomber Patrick Magee risk all by checking into the Grand hotel under the pseudonym of a fellow IRA member?Shortly after noon on 15 September 1984, a young, smartly dressed man walked into the Grand hotel at...

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Minister said ‘elements’ in UK security services hostile to NI peace process

Notes from 2002 record John Reid saying there was a potential ‘coalition’ trying to frustrate peace process in Northern IrelandThe Northern Ireland secretary in mid-2002 told a cabinet meeting that “elements in...

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