Good Friday Agreement archives: Irish in UK greet peace with mixed emotions

The Good Friday Agreement, signed 25 years ago this month, effectively brought an end to more than three decades of violence that had wracked the country. In a series of articles, the Irish Examiner is looking back at how the famous peace agreement was reported.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair (right) US senator George Mitchell (centre) and former taoiseach Bertie Ahern shake hands after they sign the historic agreement for peace in Northern Ireland in 1998. Picture: Dan Chung/AFP/Getty

On April 11, 1998, Aidan Hennigan wrote in the Irish Examiner about being an Irish person in London at the time the Good Friday Agreement was signed. 

THERE are approximately 900,000 first-born Irish in Britain today, the majority of whom watched with mixed emotions the events in Northern Ireland over the past few days.