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| 1970 |
| | The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is formed in northern Ireland as a coalition of Catholic nationalists and civil-rights campaigners | |
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| 1971 |
| | Ian Paisley and others in northern Ireland form the Democratic Unionist Party, as the intransigent wing of Ulster Unionism | |
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| 1984 |
| | Republican activist Gerry Adams is elected president of Sinn Fein | |
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| 1994 |
| | The IRA declares a cease-fire in Northern Ireland, a gesture followed a month later by Protestant paramilitaries | |
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| 1998 |
| | A proposed referendum on northern Irish issues is accepted by all the relevant political parties in what becomes known as the Good Friday Agreement | |
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| 1998 |
| | In the referendum to endorse the Good Friday Agreement, the terms are accepted by majorities in both the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland | |
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| 1998 |
| | The Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble becomes First Minister of the newly convened Northern Ireland Assembly | |
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| 1998 |
| | The Real IRA kills 26 people and injures about 200 with a bomb planted in Omagh, in northern Ireland | |
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| 1999 |
| | A translation by Irish author Seamus Heaney brings many new readers to the Old English poem Beowulf | |
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| 2000 |
| | The new Northern Ireland Assembly is suspended because of IRA failure to decommission arms | |
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