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Northern Ireland’s politics are antagonistic. The Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA), signed at Hillsborough in November 1985 by the Prime Ministers of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Margaret Thatcher and Dr Garret FitzGerald, was designed to replace antagonism with accommodation, to promote peace and reconciliation between the two traditions in Northern Ireland and within both parts of Ireland, and to consolidate better relations between Britain and Ireland (Kenny, 1986).
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O’Leary, B. (1990). Northern Ireland and the Anglo-Irish Agreement. In: Dunleavy, P., Gamble, A., Peele, G. (eds) Developments in British Politics 3. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20795-4_12
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