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Good Friday Agreement
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1998 peace pacts between the British, Irish, and Northern Irish governments to end the Troubles
Key facts
- Type
- Multilateral agreement
- Signed
- 10 April 1998 ( 1998-04-10 )
- Location
- Belfast , Northern Ireland
- Effective
- 2 December 1999 ( 1999-12-02 )
- Parties
- Government of Ireland Government of the United Kingdom Parties in Northern Ireland
- Language
- English
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- peace treaty
- Part of
- The Troubles
- Named after
- Good Friday
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- signatory
- United Kingdom
- Commons category
- Good Friday Agreement
- applies to jurisdiction
- Northern Ireland
- point in time
- 1998-04-10
- facet of
- The Troubles
- different from
- Anglo-Irish Agreement
- effective date
- 1999-12-02
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement (Irish: Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste; Ulster Scots: Guid Friday Greeance or Bilfawst Greeance) is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April (Good Friday) 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethnic and national conflict in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. It is made up of the Multi-Party Agreement between most of Northern Ireland's political parties, and the British–Irish Agreement between the British and Irish governments. Northern Ireland's present devolved system of government is based on the agreement.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Good Friday Agreement” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.