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1998
A newspaper billboard on the Falls Road, west Belfast, reports the expected agreement in the peace talks. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/ REUTERS
A newspaper billboard on the Falls Road, west Belfast, reports the expected agreement in the peace talks. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/ REUTERS

11 April 1998: A blessed Good Friday

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A new era of politics is born in Northern Ireland with the historic agreement at Stormont
1999
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The Good Friday agreement was posted to every household in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and put to a referendum. It was passed in May with the support of 94% in the south and 74% in the north.

1999
Bertie Ahern was Taoiseach at the time of the Good Friday agreement.


Click on the photograph above to read Ewen MacAskill's profile of the key players of the deal.

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