Former Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald appealed to Ronald Reagan’s sense of Irish history and neighborly pride to help broker the ground-breaking Anglo-Irish agreement, which was signed on this day in 1985.
The Anglo-Irish Agreement, signed on November 15, 1985, gave the Irish Government an advisory role in Northern Ireland's Government and proved to be a stepping-stone in the peace process.
Any return to direct rule in Northern Ireland would potentially involve an authority role for the Irish government, the leader of the Alliance Party has said. N.