The book also provides short essays which look back at the major events, assessing their significance and setting them in context, including: Bloody Sunday (1972), the collapse of the Power Sharing Executive (1974), the Republican hunger strikes (1981), the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), the first IRA ceasefire (1994) and the historic Good Friday Agreement (1998). Other books by Paul Bew Charles Stewart Parnell Northern Ireland Chronology.