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| 1998 |
| | | A proposed referendum on northern Irish issues is accepted by all the relevant political parties in what becomes known as the Good Friday Agreement | |
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| 1998 |
| | | In the referendum to endorse the Good Friday Agreement, the terms are accepted by majorities in both the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble becomes First Minister of the newly convened Northern Ireland Assembly | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Real IRA kills 26 people and injures about 200 with a bomb planted in Omagh, in northern Ireland | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A translation by Irish author Seamus Heaney brings many new readers to the Old English poem Beowulf | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The new Northern Ireland Assembly is suspended because of IRA failure to decommission arms | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Ian Paisley's hard-line Democratic Unionist Party wins in elections to the suspended Northern Ireland Assembly | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to dump all their weapons | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly bring the same result as in 2003, with extremist rivals DUP and Sinn Fein the dominant parties | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Long-term enemies Ian Paisley (DUP) and Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein) agree to share power in a reconvened Northern Ireland Assembly | |
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