Abstract
Abstract The present chapter is being written at a time of guarded hope. On 15 December 1993, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Irish Republic issued the Downing Street Declaration of principles aimed at inducing the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Sinn Fein to accept ‘a permanent end to the use of, or support for, paramilitary violence’. Then, ‘democratically mandated parties which establish a commitment to exclusively peaceful methods and which have shown that they abide by the democratic process’ (presumably including Sinn Fein) will be ‘free to participate fully in democratic politics and to join in dialogue in due course between the Governments and the political parties on the way ahead’.
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