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| 1975 |
| | | Internment is ended in Ulster after the Gardiner Report states that it brings the law into disrepute | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Excavation of the 5200-year-old passage grave at Newgrange in Ireland is completed | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Lord Mountbatten is killed by an IRA bomb that explodes on his boat in the bay of Donegal | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Republican activist Gerry Adams is elected president of Sinn Fein | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Bob Geldof forms Band Aid and releases for Ethiopian famine relief the best-selling UK single Do they know its Christmas? | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Britain's Margaret Thatcher and Ireland's Garret FitzGerald sign an Anglo-Irish Agreement to tackle shared problems | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Mary Robinson is elected president of the republic of Ireland, the first woman to hold the post | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Irish author Brian Friel's play Dancing at Lughnasa has its premiere at the Abbey Theatre | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Irish author Roddy Doyle publishes a novel that wins the Booker Prize, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | |
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| 1993 |
| | | UK and Irish premiers John Major and Albert Reynolds sign the Downing Street Declaration, a strategy for peace in Nothern Ireland | |
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