Real IRA
"Armed Opponents of Peace Accord Elude Pursuers"
Newspaper article
By: John Murray Brown
Date: August 6, 1998
Source: Financial Times.
About the Author: John Murray Brown is a staff writer for the Financial Times, a daily newspaper based in London.
INTRODUCTION
For the majority of Northern Ireland's population, the Good Friday Agreement—a peace treaty signed in April 1998 by all the main parties involved in Northern Ireland's thirty year-long troubles—had finally seemed to bring a political settlement to the province. It offered power-sharing between the main parties in a government that was devolved from Westminster (England). The hope of most Irish...
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