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Senator George J Mitchell’s speech in full marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

From arms bans to agreements, what role has the United States played towards peace?

Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences looks back at the deal that brought peace to Northern Ireland.

Bill and Hillary Clinton visited Northern Ireland three times while Bill Clinton was US President, between 1993 and 2001.

A ceasefire offer from the IRA was made through the back channel in early 1993 as a result of the covert communications that began in 1991. Even if the back-channel fell apart in the public eye in late 1993, it had already laid foundations for the agreement that followed

Secret, behind-the-scenes talks were going on years before the official Belfast Agreement was signed – and made the whole thing possible.

In this compelling account, the author and documentary-maker describes how decades of covert communications between the British government and the IRA eased the path to the Good Friday agreement – helped by an unlikely hero

NATIONALIST politicians in Northern Ireland were last night urged to

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Easter was approaching and an agreement appeared within touching distance — one that would bring to an end the bloody conflict that had raged for 40 years in No