Education Reform – 1998
1998
Intermediate Implementation 
The Northern Ireland Act brought about substantial changes in terms of outlining strategies to deal with the treatment of languages, a Center Community Relations Unit was established to come up with a language use policy concerning the Irish language.
Several measures were adopted regarding the use of the Irish language in schools. On 21 July 1998, the UK government issued Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 [1998 No. 1759 (N.I. 13)], devolving power to the Department of Education to support and promote Irish language education and Irish-medium schools. In December, the government of Northern Ireland also passed the Education Act.