IRA Ceasefire

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The IRA stopped all violence from August 1994 to February 1996. This was known as the IRA ceasefire. Loyalist groups also agreed to stop all violence. During this ceasefire, the military groups in the North began to look for other ways of settling their differences about how the North of Ireland should be ruled.

Many people tried to find a solution to the problems in the North. They tried to find a way for the fighting groups to settle their differences. In November 1995, the US President, Bill Clinton, visited Northern Ireland to show his support for finding peace.