... on the future of Northern Ireland, if both groups denounced violence. In 1994, the United States granted a visa to long-outlawed Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams. The IRA responded later that year with a declaration of its own announcing "a complete cessation of military operations" in August. ... drop it's insistence that the IRA begin disarming before entering negotiations. Movements on Mitchell's six principles of non-violence entry into all-party talks progressed into 1997 as the IRA renewed its cease-fire in July. In September, both Sinn Fein and the Ulster Unionist agreed ... ...

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... violence throughout Ireland the opposition only grew. "In 1972, the United Kingdom suspended Northern Ireland's local government and began to rule directly from London," (Gallis, 2002). At this time violence reached its peak "when 468 people died. Since then it has gradually declined to an annual average of below 100," (Darby, 1995). From that time until the early 1990s, the level ... ), Northern Ireland seemed at least on the brink of a durable peace," (The Economist, 1996). However, in 1995, the parties were again becoming suspicious of each other and the IRA's political party, Sinn Fe...

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... ). This treaty not only partitioned the state of Ireland, it separated the organization once known as the Irish Republican Army and its representative political party known as Sinn Fein.. One side that supported this treaty was led by Michael Collins. He " took the pragmatic view that it was ... Free State of Ireland that resulted from the treaty which passed. The ensuing civil war ended in 1923 with de Valera's followers establishing a new party called Fianna Fail (Porter, 1998). The Turmoil of Twenty Years: 1960-1980 Up until the 1960's, the political violence that persisted between Br...

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... in events in Northern Ireland. (BBC News, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/2927845.stm ) However it was at that time that an agreement was reached with both leaders of the British and Irish Governments, John Major and John Bruton, who had only recently taken up the role as Taoiseach, that Mitchell would chair the International ... not surrender lightly in its aim to keep hold of its arms. At the same time a new Loyalist force was founded after Billy Wright was thrown out of the original party due to drugs trafficking. This new organization was not on a ceasefire...

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... had been threatening to seek independence from Britain by an armed revolution. In the general election of 1909, a hung parliament paved the way for John Redwood (leader of Home Rule Party) to get his way and subsequently the Liberals were obligated to introduce the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912. This Bill was being discussed and fine tuned up until the ... UK went to war with Germany, and any ideas of Home Rule in Ireland were to be postponed until after the war. When the war reached a stalemate in 1916 and seemed as if it may go on for years the IRB, led by Padraic Pearse and the ICA, l...

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... . Both sides of the nationalist movement were worried that divisions between them could allow other parties like the Labour Party, to make gains in the election. A new constitution was agreed between both sides prior to the election that offered hope a compromise could be reached. However, the British government objected to the new constitution and threatened military intervention unless the terms of the ... ...

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