Northern Ireland - Key Facts

Question 1

Name of the Agreement that was signed in 1985

Answer 1

Anglo-Irish Agreement

Question 2

Name of the Agreement that gave the Irish government an advisory role in Northern Ireland

Answer 2

Hillsborough Agreement

Question 3

Name of the prison which house the PIRA prisoners

Answer 3

Maze Prison

Question 4

Thatcher’s famous Northern Ireland quotes

Answer 4

• ‘I do not compromise with terrorists’
• Refused them ‘the oxygen of publicity’

Question 5

Leader of the hunger strikes

Answer 5

Bobby Sands

Question 6

Number of hunger strikers that died

Answer 6

10

Question 7

Name of the President of Sinn Fein

Answer 7

Gerry Adams

Question 8

Number of people that attended the protests against the Hillsborough Agreement

Answer 8

200,000

Question 9

Leader of the DUP

Answer 9

Iain Pasley

Question 10

Name of the new paramilitary organisation set up in response to the Hillsborough disaster

Answer 10

Ulster Resistance

Question 11

Number of people the Brighton Bomb killed

Answer 11

5

Question 12

Name of the Inquiry into the alleged ‘shoot to kill’ policies of the Army

Answer 12

Stalker Inquiry

Question 13

Name of the attack which involved the PIRA trying to blow up a police station

Answer 13

Loughall Ambush

Question 14

Name of the SAS opperation against the attack ‘on the rock’

Answer 14

Operation Flavius