Good Friday Agreement (1998) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
... Friday Agreement (April 10, 1998 ) Northern Ireland peace accord signed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair , Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern , and representatives from eight political parties in Northern Ireland. The Agreement provided for a new, 108-seat Northern Ireland Assembly with legislative powers devolved from the British Parliament. It created a North-South Ministerial Council to co-ordinate policies between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and a ‘Council of the Isles’ to replace the intergovernmental conference established by...
Good Friday Agreement (10 April 1998) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (5 ed.)
...Good Friday Agreement ( 10 April 1998 ) An agreement on Northern Ireland which proved the centrepiece of a fragile and often interrupted peace process begun under John Major in 1993 . It prescribed a complex system of government for Northern Ireland, which received internal self-government under a First Minister. The members of the Northern Irish government were to receive the support of the Protestant and Catholic deputies, and important legislative decisions were also to be supported by at least 40 per cent of the Catholic and Protestant deputies...
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
... Friday Agreement . The Good Friday Agreement (also known as the Belfast Agreement) of the 10 April 1998 is a political agreement that restored devolution to Northern Ireland as well as bringing to an end a low-intensity conflict. It succeeded the Anglo–Irish Treaty of 1921 and the Anglo–Irish Agreement of 1985 . The Good Friday Agreement was between the British and Irish governments and most of the political parties that organize in Northern Ireland including those associated with the largest three paramilitary groups. The Agreement was subsequently...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
... Friday Agreement . An agreement between the British and Irish governments regarding the future of Northern Ireland, reached on Good Friday, 10 April 1998 . At the core of the agreement was the principle of consent that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and would remain so for as long as the people who live there wish it. Conversely, it was agreed that if the people of Northern Ireland were formally to consent to the establishment of a united Ireland, the government of the day would bring forward proposals to implement this. The agreement thus...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable
... Friday Agreement . The culmination of the so-called Northern Ireland peace process, when on 10 April 1998 a document detailing workable political structures was accepted by a majority on both sides. Properly called the Belfast Agreement, it represented a triumph for the diplomatic skills of the American senator George Mitchell , who had been appointed as peace adviser by President Bill Clinton . The agreement was generally welcomed, except by militant Republicans, who saw it as setting up a sanitized Stormont , while right-wing Unionists saw it as the...
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Garner’s Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...most introductory matter from the main clause, often to prevent misunderstanding. The introductory matter may be a word <Moreover,> , a phrase <In the meantime,> , or a subordinate clause <If everything goes as planned,> . Matter that is very short may not need this comma <On Friday we leave for Florida> , but phrases of three or more words usually do—and even the shortest of subordinate clauses always do <That said,> . On the other hand, a comma may prove helpful for clarity even with shorter phrases <For now, we must assume the worst> . It may even be...
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