Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict

by David McKittrick

Unionists developed working relationships with the SDLP and Irish government, but no basis of trust was established between them and Sinn Féin.

There were many uncertainties and difficult moments before, against the odds, it all seemed to come together. Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern, George Mitchell and the others gathered for a tense and often fraught all-night session which eventually produced, on 10 April, what came to be known as the Good Friday Agreement.