Anglo-Irish Agreement
In 1985, the British and Irish governments agreed to cooperate to find some solution to the violence in the North. The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed in 1985 by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, and the Taoiseach of the Irish Republic, Dr. Garreth Fitzgerald. For the first time, the Republic of Ireland was given some say in how Northern Ireland should be ruled. Some groups in the North, particularly the unionists, were very unhappy with this agreement in the beginning, however the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement did help to build peace in Ireland.
In 1993, the Irish Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds, and the British Prime Minister, John Major, made another agreement called the Downing Street Declaration.