The Hunger Strike of 1981 saw a surge in violence that left scores killed. With no end to the Troubles imaginable and Sinn Féin emerging as a serious electoral force, constitutional nationalism decided it had to do something. Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald and the SDLP leader John Hume had a meeting of minds resulting in The New Ireland Forum. 

• What does the Forum recommend?  
• Was it more than just a talking shop? 
• And did it lead to the later Anglo-Irish Agreement? 

Ciarán Dunbar spoke to historian Séan Ó Duibhir. 

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