The Good Friday Agreement, or Belfast Agreement, signed on April 10, 1998 was approved by voters across Ireland in two referendums held on May 22, 1998. In Northern Ireland, voters were whether they supported the multi-party agreement. In the Republic of Ireland, voters were asked whether they would allow the state to sign the agreement and allow necessary constitutional changes to facilitate it. The people of both jurisdictions needed to approve the agreement in order to give effect to it.
The Agreement ended most of the violence of the Troubles, a political conflict in Northern Ireland that had ensued since the late 1960s and was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s.
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