Irish History for Everyone
History of 6-Counties/Northern Ireland 1981-1998
Thu, Mar 02
|Live Online Presentation
This four lecture course will examine the period from the hunger strikes in 1980-81 to the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in 1998


Time & Location
Mar 02, 2023, 7:30 PM EST – Mar 23, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT
Live Online Presentation
About the Event
In 1983, 38 IRA inmates escaped from the Maze Prison, near Belfast. in the biggest prison break in UK history. "Supergrass trials" began. 22 IRA members received over 4,000 years in sentences. Harrods department store in London was bombed. The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative party was having its annual conference.
The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed in 1985. All fifteen Unionist MPs at Westminster resigned in protest. The unsuccessful Northern Ireland Assembly was officially disbanded in 1986. Sinn Fein voted to end its policy of abstentionism and a section that walked out formed Republican Sinn Fein. Loyalists held a closed meeting at the Ulster Hall in Belfast. During the meeting a new organization, Ulster Resistance, was formed to "take direct action as and when required" to end the Anglo-Irish Agreement. 1987 saw the assassination of eight members of the IRA in the Loughall ambush and…
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6-Counties/NI 1981-1998
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