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* 1993 – History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
* Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada, child of Irish Quebecers.
* Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada, mother an Irish Quebecer.
* 1990 – Terence O ' Neill, Baron O ' Neill of the Maine, Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland ( b. 1914 )
* 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
* 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
* 1925 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Ireland ( d. 2006 )
* 1914 – Terence O ' Neill, Baron O ' Neill of the Maine, Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland ( d. 1990 )
Further, Prime Minister Éamon de Valera used the departure of the Monarch as an opportunity to remove all monarchical language from the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
These were slaughtered by government forces, but these rebellions convinced the British under Prime Minister William Pitt that the only solution was to end Irish independence once and for all.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George failed to introduce Home Rule in 1918 and in the December 1918 General Election Sinn Féin won a majority of Irish seats.
; 1886: Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and the Liberal Party tries passing the First Irish Home Rule Bill, but the House of Commons rejects it.
* October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.
On October 11 negotiations were opened under British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Arthur Griffith, who headed the Irish Republic's delegation.
Lloyd George ( British Prime Minister at the time ) attempted to persuade other nations that it was not a war by refusing to use the army and using the Black and Tans instead but the conflict was conducted as an asymmetric guerilla war and was registered as a war with the League of Nations by the Irish Free State.
Cosgrave ( standing, far-right ) representing the Irish Free State at the 1926 Imperial Conference in London, along with King George V of the United Kingdom | George V and the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Canada, Dominion of Newfoundland | Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand and Union of South Africa | South Africa.
Following the collapse of the rebellion, the British Prime Minister William Pitt introduced a bill to abolish the Irish parliament and manufactured a Union between Ireland and Britain.
Visitors to Omagh have included Queen Elizabeth II, Charles, Prince of Wales, former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, Irish president Mary McAleese, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
There is a monument to him in his native Carlingford, County Louth, unveiled during a visit in 1991 by former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney and Irish Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
Two attempts were made by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith during World War I to implement the Third Home Rule Act, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.
The agreement was signed in London on 6 December 1921 by representatives of the British government ( which included Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was head of the British delegates ) and envoys of the Irish Republic, including Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, who claimed plenipotentiary status ( i. e. negotiators empowered to sign a treaty without reference back to their superiors ).
Although the Unionist parties spurned his invitation to join, and the Forum ’ s conclusions proposing various forms of association between Northern Ireland and the Republic were rejected outright by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Forum provided the impetus for the resumption of serious negotiations between the Irish and British governments, which culminated in the Anglo-Irish Agreement of November 1985.
Although the Irish people were reassured of their neutrality before agreeing to the Nice Treaty, the Finnish Prime Minister, Matti Vanhanen, on 5 July 2006, while speaking to the European Parliament as Council President declared:
The third Gladstone administration paved the way towards the generous response to Irish demands that the new Prime Minister had promised, but was unable to obtain the support of several key players in his own party.

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Anglo-Irish relations hit one of their lowest ebbs, with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Patrick Hillery, going specially to the United Nations in New York to demand UN involvement in the Northern Ireland " Troubles ".
In 2005, Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell told Dáil Éireann that the organisation had a maximum of 150 members.
Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.
The Minister for the Environment was criticised for allegedly changing the law to suit one company and other agencies protested the law change as damaging to small businesses while the government defended their decision stating that the move was a positive one for Irish consumers.
In 13 November 1997, Liz O ' Donnell ( Irish Minister for State ) spoke about the relationship between the two nations and Ireland's future commitment towards Lesotho.
During their period in office, the Irish Green Party held two Cabinet portfolios including Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.
* Frank Aiken ( 1898 – 1983 ), born in County Armagh, Irish Republican, Irish Minister for External Affairs, Tánaiste

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* 1951 – Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
The Irish government followed a similar line to other EU governments during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, with the Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, condemning the actions of Israel as " reckless and disproportionate " and calling for an immediate ceasefire on both sides, while also condemning the actions of Hezbollah.
On 3 May 2007, following recent negotiations between the Progressive Unionist Party ( PUP ) and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and with Police Service of Northern Ireland ( PSNI ) Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde, the UVF made a statement that they would transform to a " non-military, civilianised " organisation.
* Time reported Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as warning his country against " upsetting the apple tart " ( i. e., apple cart ) of his country's economic success.
Celia Larkin is a former Irish civil servant and was the partner of then Irish Taoiseach ( prime minister ) Bertie Ahern.
His former constituency colleague and rival, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, described Jim Mitchell as having made an " outstanding contribution to Irish politics.
On March 15, 2005, Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern visited Tipperary Hill where he had his photo taken by the Green-on-Top traffic light and dined at a local Irish pub.
The Irish general election of 2002 was held on Friday, 17 May 2002 just over three weeks after the dissolution of the 28th Dáil on Thursday 25 April by President Mary McAleese, at the request of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.
Nevertheless, it was in August, 1994, while Quinn and Fianna Fáil's Bertie Ahern were economic ministers, that the Irish economy was first described as the " Celtic Tiger ".
Mr. Bertie Ahern, the Irish Taoiseach, said on 27 September 2006 on the occasion of unveiling the new statue of Brown on Admiral Brown Way, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin: " Back in 2001, it was my honour to lay a wreath at the Admiral Brown monument in Buenos Aires and to unveil a plaque commemorating my visit there.
* Irish Singer Nicky Byrne of Westlife marries Georgina Ahern, daughter of Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Roman Catholic Church of St Pierre et St Paul in Gallardon, Eure-et-Loir, France
* Bertie Ahern, former Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach, was mentioned on several occasions to have taken sums of money and kickbacks from property developers during the Celtic Tiger.
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in a report in the Financial Times said that his decision in 2001 to create a new financial regulator was one of the main reasons for the collapse of the Irish banking sector and “ if I had a chance again I wouldn ’ t do it ”.
Though the proposed route of the motorway at Tara has been the subject of an international outcry from academics, historians, environmentalists and others, the Irish government under the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his successor Brian Cowan, publicly supports the plans, and condemned those who criticise them.
Academics who were elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy ( Ireland's highest ranking academic body ) while based at Ulster include: Bertie Ussher ( Classics ), Norman Gibson ( Economics ), Amyan Macfadyen ( Biology ), Bill Watts ( Chemistry ), P G ( Gerry ) McKenna ( Biomedical Sciences, Genetics ), Sean Strain ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Marshall McCabe ( Geology ), Peter Flatt ( Biomedical Sciences, Diabetes ), Séamus MacMathúna ( Celtic Studies ), Bob Welch ( Literature ), Vani Borooah ( Economics ), Máréaid Nic Craith ( Celtic Studies ), Graham Gargett ( French ), Helene McNulty ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Pól Ó Dochartaigh ( German ), Robert McBride ( French ), Ullrich Kockel ( ethnography ) and John McCloskey ( Geosciences ).
Shortly after the ceremony, at 10. 30 am, the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern signed the declaration formally amending Articles 2 & 3 of the Irish Constitution.
* Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern ( known as the Teflon Taoiseach ) as scandal after scandal failed to have any lasting effect on him, until he was forced to resign in 2008.
In September 2006, Kennedy approved the publication of an article in The Irish Times giving confidential details of investigations being made into payments purported to have been made in 1993 to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
MLE was created in July 2000 and was initiated by the Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern represent the Irish people at his funeral.

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