1998 Irish constitutional referendums

none April 2022 Two referendums were held together in the Republic of Ireland on 22 May 1998, each on a proposed amendment of the Irish constitution. Both measures were approved. A referendum in Northern Ireland was also held on the same day. The total number of people who voted (both countries) was 2,499,078. Eighteenth amendment Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Eighteenth Amendment introduced two new articles into the constitution which allowed the government to ratify the Amsterdam Treaty. Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland referendumhttp://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,1894,en.pdf Referendum Results Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government 14 August 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141224084849/http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad%2C1894%2Cen.pdf 24 December 2014 932632 1510702 578070 2747088 33228 Nineteenth amendment Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Nineteenth Amendment to the constitution allowed the government to ratify the Good Friday Agreement signed in Belfast on 10 April 1998, which included changing articles 2 and 3 of the Irish constitution which effectively claimed Irish sovereignty over Northern Ireland. The agreement was also endorsed in the simultaneous referendum in Northern Ireland. Articles 2 and 3 were subsequently changed in December 1999, and the territorial claim was replaced with an aspiration for a united Ireland to be achieved "by peaceful means with the consent of a majority of the people, democratically expressed, in both jurisdictions in the island". Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland referendum 1442583 1528331 85748 2747088 17064 See also Constitutional amendment Politics of the Republic of Ireland History of the Republic of Ireland Politics of Northern Ireland History of Northern Ireland References Irish constitutional referendums Constitutional referendums Constitutional referendums Irish constitutional referendums Ireland 1998 Irish constitutional referendums Constitutional 1998