Belfast ∙ Nobel Peace Prize laureate David Trimple, the chief architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended three decades of Protestant-Catholic conflict in Northern Ireland, has died. Trimple, who served as First Minister of Northern Ireland in 1998 as part of the peace agreement, resigned in July 2001. He was a member of the British Parliament twice in the 1990s.
More than 3,600 people were killed in the Protestant-Catholic conflict. Trimple, the leader of the conservative Protestant Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Northern Ireland, a part of Britain, saw peace as essential for the good of future generations and successfully lobbied for a peace agreement with John Hume, leader of the Catholic Irish Nationalist Party. The two shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for paving the way for peace in Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement.
English Summary: Northern Irish Nobel Peace Prize Winner David Trimble Dies At 77