Ceasefire
Secret meetings between Provisional IRA leaders Ruairi þ Br daigh and Billy McKee with British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Merlyn Rees secured an IRA ceasefire from February 1975 until January of the next year
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Billy McKee Biography and Timeline
Follow Billy McKee through 2 dated historical records for Ireland.
Billy McKee, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
2Distinct records
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1975–1975Years on this page
1975
IRA
Secret meetings between Provisional IRA leaders Ruairi þ Br daigh and Billy McKee with British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Merlyn Rees secured an IRA ceasefire from February 1975 until January of the next year
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.