Northern Ireland

• 1997 Referendum: first referendum after 30 years of religious conflict. The Belfast Agreement (Good Friday Agreement) was negotiated and put in place in 1998
• the Good Friday Agreement restored the province's devolved powers. An assembly was to be elected using a single transferrable vote system (STV)
• 1998: the Northern Ireland Act was passed, granting devolution, the first elections for the Assembly were held
• 1999: the devolved government took power for the first time
• 2002: increased tension between the Loyalists and Republicans + failure of ministers to cooperate meant the government dissolved the assembly until 2007
• 2017: the Northern Irish government colapss in January as power sharing breaks down
• 2020: the government is restored in January after an agrement between Sinn Fein and the DUP