Northern Ireland

Question 1

Mortar attack on 10 Downing Street

Answer 1

Feb 1991 - IRA launched an attack while the war cabinet was in session

Question 2

Downing Street Declaration

Answer 2

1993 - declared that the people of NI had the right to choose whether individual provinces should or shouldn’t remain in the UK. The people of Ireland also had the right to resolve north-south issues by mutual agreement

Question 3

How many were killed in a 1992 bombing and where?

Answer 3

3 killed in London by the IRA

Question 4

Irish PM

Answer 4

Albert Reynolds

Question 5

Bill Clinton’s contribution

Answer 5

He encouraged Sinn Fein away from an armed struggle

Question 6

When did the IRA announce a ceasefire?

Answer 6

1994

Question 7

Why was reaching a settlement difficult? When did the IRA return to their violent methods?

Answer 7

Unionists didn’t believe in the IRA’s commitment to peace and the IRA grew impatient, bombing Canary Wharf and the centre of Manchester in 1996

Question 8

Significance of the Downing Street Declaration?

Answer 8

Lay the foundations for the Good Friday Agreement