... terrorist incidents. The murder of the British ambassador in Dublin in 1976 led to a state of emergency and the unpopular measure of strengthening emergency power legislation. In 1980 Prime Minister Fitzgerald launched a constitutional crusade to make the reunification of Ireland more attractive to Ulster Unionists. At the end of the year, the Irish and British governments set up an Anglo-Irish ... ...

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