- Abortion is banned following a referendum in the Republic.
- Anglo-Irish Agreement splits the Protestant community in Northern Ireland.
- Divorce ban is reconfirmed in the Republic.
- An IRA bomb kills eleven mourners at Remembrance Day Service in Enniskillen, causing widespread outrage across political and religious divides.
- Mary Robinson elected President of the Republic.
- The flight of Bishop Eamon Casey after an affair of twenty years ago is made public starts a landslide of scandals involving the Catholic church in Ireland.
- Ceasefire announced by IRA and loyalist paramilitaries.
- EU aid and an aggressive policy of wooing foreign investors creates the "Celtic Tiger".
- Ireland develops from an economic backwater with mass unemployment into the richest country in the EU within a decade.
- Divorce and re-marriage is introduced into Irish law as the result of a referendum.
- IRA bombs Canary Wharf (London), ending the 1994 ceasefire.
- Labour victory in the UK, Mo Mowlam becomes Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- Irish coalition government under Bertie Ahern formed between Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats (PD).
- IRA re-establishes ceasefire.
- US Senator George Mitchell chairs peace talks in Stormont (Belfast), culminating in the Good Friday Agreement.
- The DUP alone refuses to sign the agreement.
- Good Friday Agreement accepted by electorate in Ireland.
- Dissident republicans explode massive bomb in Omagh, killing 31 civilians.
- Devolved (power-sharing) government meets for first time in December; later breakdowns of Northern Executive and elections result in a polarization of the vote towards either Sinn Fein or the DUP lead to political stalemate.
- IRA declares end to armed struggle and decommissions arms.
- Loyalist paramilitaries descend into criminal activity and vicious in-fighting.
