Good Friday Agreement

April 13, 2023

US President is visiting Northern Ireland to mark 25^th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement.
GFA was signed in 1998, between factions of Northern Ireland, and governments of Britain and Ireland, to end 30 years of violence known as ‘The Troubles’.
The agreement is hailed as a model deal to end long-standing conflicts, and fetched a joint Nobel peace prize for David Trimble and John Hume, then leaders of the two opposing parties in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland, created in 1921 by partitioning Ireland, remained with United Kingdom after Ireland’s independence from UK.
This resulted in violence between those who wished to remain with UK and those who wanted to join Ireland.