article_snippet: Margaret Thatcher's first visit to Northern Ireland as prime minister was to Belfast in August 1979, three months after taking office - and two years before the hunger strikes by republican prisoners in 1981.
article_snippet: And a year after the Brighton bomb,  Margaret Thatcher's signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985, giving the Irish Republic a say in Northern Ireland affairs for the first time - causing unrest among unionists.
article_snippet: On the road: Baroness Thatcher on a campaign bus in south-east London with her husband Denis in 1987 -  a different vehicle to the one now up for sale in Northamptonshire .
article_snippet: Three decades ago: the road: Baroness Thatcher on a campaign bus in south-east London with her husband Denis in 1987 -  a different vehicle to the one now up for sale in Northamptonshire survived the Brighton bombing in 1984 in which the IRA's Patrick Magee attacked a hotel (above) where Conservative Party conference attendees were staying .
article_snippet: Landmark moment: One year after the Brighton bomb, the road: Baroness Thatcher on a campaign bus in south-east London with her husband Denis in 1987 -  a different vehicle to the one now up for sale in Northamptonshire famously signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985, giving the Republic of Ireland a say in Northern Ireland's affairs for the first time .
article_snippet: Baroness Thatcher, who died in 2013, survived the Brighton bombing in 1984 in which the IRA's Patrick Magee attacked a hotel where Conservative Party conference attendees were staying.