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  1. Meeting between politicians of the Irish
  2. Republic and Northern Ireland May 1983. It
  3. offered three potential solutions to the
  4. Northern Irish problem, but all were rejected
  5. by the UK the following year. The Forum was
  6. the idea of John Hume (1923-), leader of the
  7. Northern Irish Social Democratic Labour
  8. Party, and brought together representatives
  9. of the three major political parties of the
  10. republic, including Fianna Fail and Fine
  11. Gael. The Forum suggested three possibilities
  12. for a solution to the Northern Irish problem:
  13. unification under a nonsectarian
  14. constitution, a federation of North and
  15. South, or joint rule from London and Dublin.
  16. It recognized that any solution would have to
  17. be agreed by a majority in the North, which
  18. seemed unlikely. All three options were
  19. rejected by the UK government after talks
  20. between the British and Irish leaders,
  21. Thatcher and Garret FitzGerald, in Nov 1984
  22. (known as the Anglo-Irish summit), although
  23. the talks led to improved communication
  24. between the two governments.
  25.