Three Separate Attempts
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During this time, people in the Republic were becoming increasingly apathetic to the troubles in the North. Although Belfast is only three and a half hours drive from Dublin, few from the South would travel there. Everyone became very tired of a low-grade conflict that seemed to go on and on and to be, for historical reasons, insoluble - or at least, without any will to solve it. Yet during this period, the two governments of Ireland and Great Britain continued their efforts to find a practical solution to the situation. As a result of multi-party negotiations, aided this time by the intervention of the United States Senator George Mitchell, the Good Friday Agreement known also as the Belfast Agreement, emerged on 10 April 1998.
During this period, three separate attempts were made to draft an agreement between the British and Irish governments that would lead to a resolution of the Northern Ireland conflict.
remain as they were, in the separate political entity that is Northern Ireland. Despite this provision, the loyalist politicians
once again rejected this agreement.
always been "No Surrender" to nationalist (Catholic) opinion. In the aftermath, the escalation of violence on both
sides, together with a mass hunger strike on the part of interned nationalist prisoners, made further action urgent.
北爱和平协议
The Good Friday Agreement
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目录
CONTENTS
1 历史背景
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4 历史意义
1历史背景 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
历史背景
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The conflicts being played out on the streets of Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, were of course the conflicts that also historically separated the government of the Republic of Ireland from that of Great Britain over larger issues concerning the island. For this reason, it become clear that if a resolution could be arrived at between Ireland and Great Britain as to the status of Northern Ireland, it might then be possible to a halt this terrible conflict within the province itself.
The next attempt at an all-government solution was known as the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985. Under the agreement, the Dublin government was able to make representations to the British government on matters affecting the northern, Catholic minority. This agreement, like the one before it, guaranteed the loyalist Protestant community their right to decide their future either to join with the South, as part of an all-island n
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In January 1974, the British Prime Minister Edward Health set up a power-sharing executive which involved
representatives from both the Republic and the North of Ireland as well as Great Britain in the governance of the North. However, this was brought down by the concerted efforts of the Protestant loyalists, whose watchword has