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PDF 79 Nov 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT (possibility of hunger strike at Maze Prison) [present policy] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO letter to No.10 ("dirty protest" at Maze Prison and possibility of hunger strikes) [planned Atkins statement] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Martin Meehan") [Irish Government's concerns about hunger striker] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Jul 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO letter to No.10 (hunger strike at Maze Prison by Martin Meehan) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Possible Hunger Strike in H-Block") [Irish Government has concerns] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO letter to Home Office (Republican prisoners announce intent to begin hunger strike) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Armstrong, Wade-Gery and Hastie-Smith note circulated to OD Committee - OD(80) 58 (Northern Ireland Prisons: Possible Hunger Strike) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Hunger Strike at Maze Prison") [hunger strike about to begin; HMG should not compromise] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Maze Prison Hunger Strike") [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (threatened hunger strike at the Maze Prison) ["Once a strike starts it will probably be impossible to stop it and people will inevitably die"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Irish Ambassador to the UK) [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Paisley message to MT (Maze Prison hunger strike) ["Any concessions to the IRA H Block murderers will be a grave insult and betrayal"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 36th (The Situation in the Prison Services, Queen’s Speech, Civil Service Manpower, etc) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Text of Parliamentary Answer by Michael Alison (changes in rules for prisoners at Maze Prison) [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ian Paisley (hunger strike at the Maze Prison) ["Amnesty is not an option"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Oct 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO letter to No.10 ("Disclosure of the Government's Decision on Prison Clothing in Northern Ireland") [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to Alexander ("Disclosure of Cabinet Decision on Northern Ireland") [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Pope John Paul II message to MT ("Ulster Prisoners") [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Oct 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland") [present situation in Northern Ireland; hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Gow record of conversation (Backbench Northern Ireland Committee) [hunger strikes] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Prime Minister's visit to Dublin") [contingency arrangements in case "developments at the Maze prison [make] a visit to Dublin inadvisable"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 39th (1981-82 Cash Limits & Votes, Rate Support Grant Supplement 1981-82, Public Expenditure 1981-82, etc) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Possible Developments on the Hunger Strike and Related Activity: An Assessment") [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 7 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Dublin") [Taoiseach suggests that MT's trip to Dublin should be shortened given "emotional pressures likely to be building up over the H-Block hunger strike"] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Cardinal Archbishop of Rennes (hunger strike at the Maze prison) ["Their objective is to establish a political justification for the crimes they have committed"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Pope John Paul II (hunger strike at the Maze prison) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 40th (The Fire Service, 1981-82 Cash Limits & Votes, Public Expenditure 1981-82 to 1983-84, European Convention on Human Rights, Social Security Expenditure, etc ) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: MT draft letter to Pope John Paul II (hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
PDF 80 Nov 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland (OD(80) 67 and 68)") [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Officials from NIO-MOD-FCO-Home Office) [security situation and Maze Prison hunger strike, military assistance during industrial action, Yellow and Pink Cards, MT-Haughey meeting] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cardinal Casaroli) [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Anglo-Irish Summit - 8th December") [current arrangements and meeting objectives] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Italy: UKA Vatican despatch to FCO ("The Prime Minister's Visit to the Pope") [welcomed by Vatican, will have helped counter pressure over hunger strikes] [declassified Dec 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Transcript of Michael Alison television interview (Maze Prison hunger strike) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Wright minute to Alexander ("European Council, Luxembourg: Northern Ireland") [Haughey wants to meet with MT in the margins of the Council meeting; hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to NIO (Maze Prison hunger strike) ["The Prime Minister...feels that it would be right to ensure that in future no prisoner in Northern Ireland should be permitted to be interviewed" unless it is an exceptional circumstance] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Nov 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Pope John Paul II (hunger strike in the Maze prison) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Nov 29 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT message to Pope John Paul II (hunger strike at HMP Maze) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) EC: Record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Haughey) [Northern Ireland, hunger strikes] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Northern Ireland prison regime) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Text of Parliamentary Answer by Humphrey Atkins (Maze Prison hunger strike) [rights and privileges of Maze prisoners] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 43rd (New Zealand Butter, Northern Ireland, Luxembourg European Council, etc) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Mr Atkin's Statement: Irish Media Reactions") [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Carrington-Fitzgerald) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Prison Hunger Strike") [responses to Atkins' statement on the hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO (letter delivered to Embassy at the end of H-Block protest march) [Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Haughey) [tete-a-tete session: hunger strike at HMP Maze, political situation in Northern Ireland and the Republic, economic situation, Poland, UN, political cooperation] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Haughey-British and Irish Ministers) [plenary session: economic situation, hunger strike at HMP Maze, Anglo-Irish cooperation, Poland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Dublin") [communique] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Meeting Between Mrs Thatcher and Mr Haughey: Irish Media Reactions") [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Paisley letter to MT (anger at communique issued following MT-Haughey meeting) ["[the Ulster Unionist community] note that they have been portrayed as dissenters and thus the minority in their own nation"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Holy See to FCO ("The Protesting Maze Prisoners") [UK Ambassador discussion with Vatican diplomat Silvestrini on Maze Prison hunger strike] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Home Office letter to No.10 (hunger striker at Brixton prison) [prisoner professes sympathy with IRA] [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(80) 44th (Parliamentary Statements, Civil Service Manpower, etc) [declassified 2010]
PDF 80 Dec 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office (discussion with Dermot Nally regarding visit by Gerry Adams to HMP Maze) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (messages to pass directly to Dermot Nally, bypassing Irish Embassy) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich message to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["we appeal to you to intervene personally in the prison crisis"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Alexander note to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["The 'loyalists' abandoned their hunger strike this afternoon"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT (situation in HMP Maze and Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT message to Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich (hunger strikers at HMP Maze) ["political status is what the protestors and hunger strikers are demanding. This the Government cannot and will not give"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (present situation in Northern Ireland prisons) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (John Hume reports that hunger strikers "may be looking for a face-saving formula") [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Maude note to all Ministers (briefing note on the Maze Prison dispute) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Atkins' parliamentary statement) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (relief at finish of Maze hunger strike) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Meeting with Dr Paisley") [briefing for MT] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to UKE Lisbon (Portuguese Assembly passes resolution on Northern Ireland and hunger strikes at HMP Maze) [resolution "will be widely seen as insulting to the Government and people of the United Kingdom"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 4993 to FCO (0045Z) ("Northern Ireland: American Media Coverage of the End of the Hunger Strike") [declassified 2011]
PDF 80 Dec 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("The Maze Prison") [hunger strike called off: "There is no doubt that we have scored a notable victory over the IRA"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Prison") [situation in Northern Ireland prisons] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Text of Enoch Powell speech to East Down Unionist Association AGM (situation in Northern Ireland and hunger strike at HMP Maze) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Prison") [update on Maze protests] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("N.I. Prisons Protest: Developments 9-11 January: Irish Media Reactions") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Molyneaux letter to MT (meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council) [hunger strike at HMP Maze, Anglo-Irish joint studies and MT-Haughey meeting communique, DUP referendum proposal] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Protests") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Oliver Napier, Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) [hunger strike at HMP Maze, political situation, security situation, economic situation, Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Jim Molyneaux MP (hunger strikes at HMP Maze) [Anglo-Irish joint studies, no intention of holding referendum on NI's constitutional status] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Jan 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Protest at HM Prison Maze") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jan 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Molyneaux (response to points made by the Ulster Unionist Council) [hunger strike at HMP Maze, Anglo-Irish joint studies] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Stowe ("Meeting with the Irish: The Maze and Security Co-operation") [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Maze Prison") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Gow record of conversation (MT-Enoch Powell) [Northern Ireland, Anglo-Irish relations, hunger strike, Paisley] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Hunger Strikes at HMP Maze and Armagh") [second hunger strike expected] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Feb 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach Haughey ("Hunger Strike") [second hunger strike at HMP Maze begins] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Feb 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO (messages to the Taoiseach and Dermot Nally regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze) [need for Irish help in countering "clever mischief" regarding prison dispute] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins statement to House of Commons ("Northern Ireland Prison Protests") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 15th (Fermanagh and South Tyrone By-Election, Parliamentary Affairs, Poland, Belize, China/Hong Kong, Japan, Pakistan, US, EC Affairs, Civil Service Pay, Pay of MPs and Others) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Aftermath of the Prime Minister's Visit to Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze; candidature of Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins letter to Pym (candidature of Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election) [contingency arrangements for possible election of Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Havers minute to MT ("Byelection - Fermanagh and South Tyrone") [legal situation regarding Sands' candidacy] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT ("Robert Sands and the Fermanagh By-Election") [Sands elected MP; response of the Home Office and Northern Ireland Office] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1177 to FCO (0215Z) ("Northern Ireland: Fermanagh, South Tyrone By-Election") [impact on US opinion] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary Affairs") [Fermanagh and South Tyrone By-Election] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Alexander (advice on MT's response to the Fermanagh and South Tyrone By-Election) [Armstrong forsees possibilty of PIRA ceasefire] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to MT ("Sands") [background briefing on Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Hume-Atkins-Alexander) [situation in Northern Ireland, hunger strike at HMP Maze, terrorism] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 16th (Fermanagh and South Tyrone By-Election, Civil Service Pay) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to Alexander via UKHC New Delhi ("Maze Hunger Strike") [Bobby Sands' "deteriorating fast"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office information leaflet ("Day to day life in Northern Ireland prisons") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Pike minute to Alexander (visit of Irish Republic MPs to HMP Maze to see Bobby Sands) [reaction by Unionists] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Pattison message to Alexander (Atkins decides to permit release of Dolours Price) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Irish MPs message to MT (request for urgent meeting with MT regarding Bobby Sands) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Pattison minute to Sanders ("Irish Affairs") [response to message from Irish MPs requesting meeting with MT; Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Text of MT's press conference in Riyadh (Bobby Sands and hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["no concessions, no possible concessions on political status"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to Alexander via UKE Abu Dhabi (situation in Northern Ireland; hunger strike; Bobby Sands; request by Irish MPs to meet with MT) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (situation in Northern Ireland) [request by Irish MPs to meet with MT; Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to UKE Abu Dhabi ("Northern Ireland: Security Situation") [update on unrest and hunger strikes] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO (meeting of British Ambassador to Dublin with Taoiseach Haughey) ["[Haughey] said he was very worried about the recent violence in the north and feared it could spill over into the Republic if Sands dies"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Sanders (Dermot Nally and Taoiseach Haughey concerned about implications of Sands' death) [concern that "if Mr. Sands died in the next five or six days , "the whole area would go up in flames""] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Whitelaw-Atkins-Stowe-Blelloch-Fifoot-Whitmore-Boys Smith) ["Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike in the Maze Prison and the European Commission on Human Rights"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Letter to Irish MPs") [suggested changes to draft letter to Irish MPs regarding Bobby Sands and the hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to Alexander via UKE Salalah ("Maze Hunger Strike") [response to Taoiseach Haughey's concerns and offer of help] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office minute ("Bobby Sands and ECHR") [application to ECHR by Marcella Sands to request that HMG allows a delegation from the Commission to meet with Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Lankester minute to MT ("Sands") [arrangements for meeting of European Commission delegation with Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Atkins) [Bobby Sands and the European Commission, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: The Hunger Strike and Law and Order") [Bobby Sands in "imminent danger of death"; demonstrations in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [updates on condition of Bobby Sands and situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Stowe (Armstrong talks with Dermot Nally regarding views of Taoiseach Haughey on Bobby Sands) ["They wondered whether we might simply let Sands go, on the ground that, as a Member of Parliament, he was unique"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Telegrams from Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich and other Catholic churchmen to MT (Cardinals urge MT to implement proposals on prison dress and work) ["This now seems the only way to avoid deaths in prison and widespread violence outside"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins) [Bobby Sands and the European Commission, position of Taoiseach Haughey, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1319 to FCO (2220Z) ("Northern Ireland: US Media Coverage of Hunger Strike") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Gaffin minute to Sanders (visit of Pope's personal envoy to Bobby Sands) [visit "should be trailed to PA and Reuters to avoid the risk of a misinterpreted "secret" visit"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT message to Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich (Bobby Sands the hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["The fact remains that the hunger strike is in support of a demand for political status: the concessions which the hunger strikers are seeking on dress and work are in pursuit of that demand"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Atkins-Father Magee, Pope's envoy) [Magee's visit to Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [likely impact of Sands' death] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Socialist Group of the European Parliament message to MT (Bobby Sands' hunger strike) ["We suggest that the Government send a representative to talk with Mr Sands in an effort to break the deadlock"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 17th (Parliamentary Affairs, Namibia, Lebanon, EC Affairs, Civil Service Pay, Pay, Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 18th (Parliamentary Affairs, NATO, Namibia, Lebanon, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland, Public Expenditure, MPs' and Ministers' Pay) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: HMG message to Socialist Group of the European Parliament (Bobby Sands' hunger strike) ["I am afraid...that no useful purpose would be served by such a visit" of HMG representative to Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Funeral of Robert Sands") [arrangements for funeral and potential unrest] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [Taoiseach Haughey's statement on Sands' death] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1395 to FCO (2100Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strike") [Ted Kennedy's statement on Sands' death] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Governor Carey of New York message to Carrington (Bobby Sands' hunger strike) ["I appeal to you to use your stature and influence in the Cabinet to halt this widening tragedy"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Northern Ireland: Death of Sands") [reporting on Sands' death and situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1409 to FCO (2200Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strike") [message of Four Horsemen to MT] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Delhi to FCO ("Sands") [request for briefing on death of Sands; MT: "it does NOT appear that our Missions have been kept properly informed"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ted Kenny, Moynihan, O'Neill and Carey message to MT (death of Bobby Sands) ["we urge you to act now before additional lives are lost"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hermon, RUC Chief Constable letter to Atkins (thanks for letter of support) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Alexander-Dermot Nally) [situation in Northern Ireland following death of Sands] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Alexander (John Hume to ask for concenssions from HMG for prisoners) [hunger strike at HMG Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT (developments in Northern Ireland following Sands' death and funeral) [hunger strike at HMG Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Marie Howe, Massachusetts state representative, letter to MT (death of Bobby Sands) ["We have now lost two brave Irishmen in your notorious Long Kesh concentration camp. In the name of God grant them their five demands!"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hughes' Death: Demonstrations in Dublin") [hunger strike at HMP Maze; Taoiseach Haughey's statement] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike: Public Opinion in the Republic") ["I believe it would be a mistake to think that public opinion will remain unmoved by further deaths"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Irish Ambassador to London, Dr. Eamon Kennedy-Atkins-Alexander) [Anglo-Irish relations, Irish election, hunger strike at HMP Maze, European Commission of Human Rights, IRA] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1472 to FCO (2302Z) ("Northern Ireland: US TV and Radio Coverage") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") [South Tyrone and Fermanagh by-election] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hoskyns minute to Alexander ("The Hunger Strikers and John Hume") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (hunger strikes at HMP Maze and the European Commission of Human Rights) [ways for activating the Commission] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr John Hume MEP, 13 May") [briefing for MT] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich message to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["Having already appealed to the hunger strikers on several occasions to give up their fast, I now repeat my earnest request to you and the Cabinet in London to abandon the inflexible policy [regarding] prison dress..."] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 720 to UKE Washington (1059Z) (MT's response to message from the Four Horsemen) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (briefing for MT's meeting with Jim Molyneaux) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Molyneaux-Atkins-Gow-Alexander) [hunger strike at HMP Maze, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foot-Hattersley-Concannon-Atkins-Gow-Alexander) [incomplete] [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: CG New York telegram 12 to UKE Washington (2105Z) ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike") [demonstrations outside British Government offices in New York] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1489 to FCO (2205Z) ("Prime Minister's Reply to the Four Horsemen") [hunger strike at HMP Maze; Ted Kennedy issues statement in reply to MT] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Stephens record of conversation (Stephens-Paisley) [Paisley angry at length of meeting with MT offered to him] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Paisley message to MT (Paisley angry at length of MT's meeting with John Hume) ["Considering that you are reported to have given Mr Hume...some 60-90 minutes to put the case of the IRA murderers I regard your offer of 15 minutes for me to make representations...as a calculated insult"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 19th (Parliamentary Affairs, Fermanagh and South Tyrone By-Election, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, France, Anglo-German Consultations, Civil Service Pay, Legislative Programme 1981-82) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Cardinal O'Fiaich (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["We cannot treat persons convicted of criminal offences as prisoners of war, which is what they want"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 May 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["the solution does not lie in our hands. It lies with the hunger strikers themselves..."] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prison Protests in Northern Ireland") [paper on the handling of protests] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 17 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Father Bryan McCreesh message to MT (hunger strike of Raymond McCreesh) ["I beg you to respect his dignity and save him"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("ECHR") [hunger strike at HMP Maze and the European Commission of Human Rights] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Armstrong-Marshall) ["Maze Protestors and the European Human Rights Commission"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Prison Protests in Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to Whitmore (Raymond McCreesh's hunger strike at HMP Maze) [transcript of conversation between Raymond and Father Bryan McCreesh] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Paisley (arranging a meeting with Paisley) [responding to Paisley's concerns about MT's longer meeting with John Hume] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Whitmore letter to Father McCreesh (Raymond McCreesh's hunger strike) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Carrington-Gilmour-Atkins-Havers-Armstrong-Wade-Gery) [hunger strikes at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1578 to FCO (2301Z) ("Northern Ireland: US TV and Radio Coverage 11-18 May") [hunger strikes at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Stowe-General Sir Richard Lawson-Jack Hermon-Ranson) [security situation in Northern Ireland, hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Hunger Strike") [attitudes in the Protestant and Catholic communities] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Northern Ireland Church Leaders) [hunger strikes at HMP Maze, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prison Protest in Northern Ireland and European Commission of Human Rights") [extensive annotation by MT: "I am utterly dismayed and very angry that at no time today was [this policy] raised with me"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cardinal O'Fiaich letter to MT (proposed meeting with MT) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Bishop Edward Daly letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze and situation in Northern Ireland) ["I do think that if your Government could see its way to implement some changes in prison regime applying to all prisoners here...it would receive a positive response"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 21st (Parliamentary Affairs, France, Belize, Poland, Canada, EC Affairs, Disqualification of Prisoners from Election to Parliament, Civil Service Pay) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prison Protest in Northern Ireland and European Commission on Human Rights") [note of meeting between representatives of NIO, FCO and European Commission of Human Rights] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Fergus Montgomery MP (hunger strike at HMP Maze) [BBC and other media coverage of the hunger strike] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Northern Ireland - Propaganda") [British and overseas press comment on hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Holy See to FCO (message from Archbishop Silvestrini to Atkins) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1791 to FCO (1325Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strike") [action on hunger strike in US Congress] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 22nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Poland, Iran, Israel, EC Affairs, Legislative Programme 1981-82, Local Authority Expenditure) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: The Need for Movement") [political and prison situations in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Bishop Edward Daly (situation in Northern Ireland and hunger strike at HMP Maze) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [the "mood in the Republic [is] hardening against us following the surprisingly high vote for the H-Block committees candidates in the recent elections"; new initiative required] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Jock Stallard MP letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) [Labour Party Northern Ireland Group recommends prison reforms] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [steps for dealing with the hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: Political Development and the Prison Situation (OD(81) 32 and 33)") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [meeting with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (message from Taoiseach Haughey) [situation in Dublin, situation in Northern Ireland, hunger strikes at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (hunger strikes) [IRA gaining support; urgent need to find solution] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [hunger strike at HMP Maze, situation in Northern Ireland, position of new Irish Government lead by Fitzgerald] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins letter to Cardinal O'Fiaich (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["I felt I should write to tell you how much I admired the statement which you and your colleagues made last week about the hunger strike"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (establishment of a Committee to advise on Northern Ireland prisons) [statement by Catholic Bishops on hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Irish Ambassador, Eamon Kennedy) [message from Taoiseach Haughey regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Taoiseach Haughey letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["The recent suggestions by the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace may provide a basis for progress"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1930 to FCO (1915Z) ("Northern Ireland: Meeting with Friends of Ireland") [Henderson meets with Ted Kennedy and others] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (latest developments regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze and Alison's meeting with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cardinal O'Fiaich letter to Atkins (hunger strike at HMP Maze) [proposals of Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland: Prisons and Politics (C(81) 36)") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1959 to FCO (2255Z) ("Northern Ireland: Meeting with the Friends of Ireland") ["The ignorant and partisan nature of a lot of American comment is a further aggravation..."] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (message from Taoiseach Haughey) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Paisley) [situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office note ("Conversation with Mr. Nally") [Armstrong talks to Nally regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Alison-Irish Commission for Justice and Peace) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO (UK Ambassador to Dublin meets with Taoiseach Haughey) [hunger strike at HMP Maze: Haughey decries lack of "sense of urgency required to end the hunger strike" on part of HMG] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Gilmour letter to Atkins (possibility of feeding hunger strikers intra-venously) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to UKE Luxembourg ("Northern Ireland Prisons Protest") [statements by Haughey and Atkins on hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 1 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Kathleen McElwee (McElwee's brother joins hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["I regret the situation which has arisen whereby young men have determined to throw away their lives"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Taoiseach Haughey) [Fitzgerald elected as Taoiseach; situation in Northern Ireland; Hunger Strikes in HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [British Ambassador to the UK meets with Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (brief for MT's meeting with Cardinal O'Fiaich) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cardinal O'Fiaich-Bishop Lennon-Atkins) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: The Hunger Strike") [resolution of the hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Overseas Information Effort on Northern Ireland") [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Most Confidential Record to Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 26th (Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Bishop Tutu, Northern Ireland") [sending of bogus telegram, supposedly from Tutu, to MT regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Gilmour-Pym-Atkins-Alison-Armstrong-Stowe-Woodfield) [hunger strike at HMP Maze: "The Prime Minister said that she felt no concession could be made to the hunger strikers in any way"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 minute to MT (Alison's meeting with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace) ["no real progress has been made"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Henderson) [situation in Northern Ireland, US views on Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Alison) [first phone call: hunger strike at HMP Maze; talks with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Alison) [second phone call: hunger strike at HMP Maze; talks with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of telephone conversation (Northern Irish Channel-NIO Official) [statement from pro-hunger strikes source regarding Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office message to Cabinet Office (Alison's statement on his meeting with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace) [statement by HMP Maze prisoners] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 5 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (hunger strikes and pro-IRA march in Northern Ireland, riots in Southall, Economy, Afghanistan, Unions, Industry, internal strife for Labour party) [released 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: The Hunger Strike") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Whitelaw-Gilmour-Pym-Woodfield) [hunger strike at HMP Maze; Atkins' minute; Alison's meetings with the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace; prisoners' statement] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Hunger Strike") [conversations with channel in Northern Ireland: prisoners' statement] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 minute ("Hunger Strike: Message to be sent through the channel") [HMG prepared to issue statement making certain concessions if and only if it leads to immediate end of hunger strike] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: the Hunger Strike") [unsatisfactory response to message sent through the channel; draft statement on Alison's talks with Irish Commisssion for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Northern Ireland Office) Northern Ireland: MT meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary (record of conversation) [authorises communication with PIRA over hunger strikes] [declassified 2009]
PDF 81 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [statement by Taoiseach Fitzgerald on death of Joe McDonnell; hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Woodfield-Unknown) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 27th (Parliamentary Affairs, East-West Relations, EC Affairs, Civil Unrest, Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (hunger strikes) [Irish-Anglo relations deteriorating] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike, Media Reactions") ["I am becoming increasingly worried at the way in which our handling of the hunger strike is being seen in Dublin"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) [Fitzgerald urges MT to accept prison regime recommended by the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2100 to FCO (0009Z) ("Northern Ireland: Visit of the Minister of State: Mr Michael Alison MP") [hunger strike at HMP Maze, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("H Blocks") [hunger strike at HMP Maze; serious problems anticipated if Kieran Doherty dies; "recruitment into the IRA...now much greater than recruitment into the Irish Army"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["I do beg of you not to be misled into thinking that this problem is susceptible of an easy solution"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [hunger strike at HMP Maze; Carrington says it is "essential that there should not be another death in the Maze...without HMG having been seen to do something"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [in Figg's view it is "too late" to enlist the help of the International Red Cross] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike: Irish Initiative in USA") [Irish Ambassador to US appeals to Reagan to intervene in the hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKMIS Geneva telegram 250 to FCO (1140Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strikers") [Atkins' statement on International Red Cross's initiative on hunger strikes at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2162 to FCO (2325Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strikers") [Atkins' statement on the International Red Cross initiative; "The immediate reaction [in the US Administration] has been one of relief" that Red Cross is involved] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike: Media Reactions") [reaction to Atkins' statement on the International Red Cross initiative; statements by Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Members of US Congress letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["it is the responsibility of the British Government to seek every possible means to end the strike before any additional deaths occur"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 28th (Parliamentary Affairs, Cambodia, Poland, Belize, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland, Public Order) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Conservative Party: Atkins letter to MT ("Party Conference 1981") [Atkins inclined to seek a debate on Northern Ireland during Party Conference] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike") [FCO advises against allowing the Friends of Ireland to send a delegation to HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (adding glucose to water of hunger strikers) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (hunger strike at HMP Maze: briefing on ICJP talks for Ottawa G7) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 18 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Woodfield) ["The Maze hunger strike"; contacts with hunger strikers] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Jul 18 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Northern Ireland Office) Northern Ireland: MT meeting/phone exchange with Northern Ireland officials & Secretary of State (record of conversations) [decision not to take further initiative on hunger strikes] [declassified 2009]
PDF 81 Jul 19 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Jock Stallard MP (view of the Parliamentary Labour Party's Northern Ireland Group about prison situation and hunger strikes in Northern Ireland) [released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Northern Ireland Office) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 Downing Street (hunger strikes) [PIRA left in no doubt government’s public statements represent true position] [declassified 2009]
PDF 81 Jul 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Hunger Strike") [update on hunger strike at HMP Maze; message sent to hunger strikers through channel] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [UK Ambassador to Dublin meets with Professor Dooge; Dooge warns that Anglo-Irish relations "would suffer if we did not use more imagination in the matter of Brendan McFarlane"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Senator Edward Kennedy (hunger strikes at HMP Maze) [MT responds to criticisms of her handling of the situation] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ted Kennedy (reply to letter from members of US Congress regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["I am convinced that we have acted honourably throughout"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("The Prime Minister's Letter to Senator Kennedy and Others") [hunger strike at HMP Maze: Irish Administration unhappy with claims about Irish stance in MT's letter to Kennedy] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Maude (IRA propaganda in the US) [hunger strikes] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKMIS Geneva telegram 267 to FCO (1616Z) ("ICRC and Northern Ireland") [ICRC's central recommendation; MT: "This is serious - the ICRC was not asked to act as arbitrator"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2299 to FCO (2355Z) ("Irish Prime Minister's Letter to President Reagan") [Reagan's "masterfully non-commital" reply to Fitzgerald's letter] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Message to the Four Horsemen") [comment on Irish Administration's reaction to MT's letter on hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Hunger Strike") [Gerry Adams comments that if hunger strikers choose to end their action this would cause no embarrassment to Sinn Fein; Atkins' proposed response] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [Taoiseach Fitzgerald statement] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ministers: Atkins letter to Carrington (“Ministerial visits to the United States during September”) [conveying UK government position on hunger strikes] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Aug 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2333 to FCO (0021Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strike") [attempts by Irish Nationalist organisations to organise boycotts of British goods; Four Horsemen's letter to Reagan] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Overseas Information Effort on Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike and ICRC Report") [latest developments; Atkins believes there is no case for a new Government initiative at this point] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [Irish Government feels that "HMG did not understand the seriousness of the current H-Blocks crisis", makes new proposals for ending hunger strike] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to UKE Dublin ("Hunger Strike") [HMG does not believe that Irish plan would be sufficient to end the hunger strike] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 139 to UKMIS Geneva (1740Z) ("ICRC and Northern Ireland") [HMG "surprised" at ICRC view there are "only minor differences" betweem HMG and hunger strikers] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [Irish Administration "disappointed to hear that [HMG] had apparently very little left to offer"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to FCO (Atkins' response to statement by Belfast Republican Press Centre on behalf of H Block prisoners) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("H Blocks: Statement by Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs") [Irish policy on Northern Ireland; hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to UKE Dublin ("Statements by Mr O'Leary and Mr Kelly") [HMG response to Irish Administration statements on policy toward Northern Ireland and hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike and Related Matters") [recent developments] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 1236 to UKE Washington (1715Z) ("Northern Ireland: Information Effort (Visits)") [plan for sending all-party group of moderate MPs to US] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Archbishop of Canterbury letter to MT (proposals on hunger strike at HMP Maze) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO to UK Embassies and Missions ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strikes and the Five Demands") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2465 to FCO (2237Z) ("Northern Ireland: Information Effort (Visits)") [hunger strike at HMP Maze: visit to US of moderate Northern Ireland politicians "could be immensely valuable"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sharon McCloskey letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["My brother Liam is now on his nineteenth day of hunger stike...I am making a plea to you to save my brother's life"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Armstrong record of conversation (Armstrong-Secretary General to the Presidency of the Republic of France, Beregovoy) [arrangements for Anglo-French summit, G7 summit, Iran, Northern Ireland, hunger strikes at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("IRA Propaganda Film") [IRA film reportedly being made in Belgium] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Owen Carron MP message to MT (urgent request for a meeting "regarding criticial situation in the H Blocks") [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (consequences of the Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Owen Carron MP (response to Carron's request for an urgent meeting with MT) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury (hunger strike at HMP Maze) [negative response to proposals passed on by Archbishop] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Aug 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation ("Mr Alison's meeting with Mr Owen Carron - Friday 28 August 1981") [Michael Alison, Carron: Maze hunger strikes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Aug 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Alison-Owen Carron MP) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Sep 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 317 to FCO (1300Z) ("H Blocks: Meeting between Haughey and Carron") [Maze hunger strikes - Haughey's equivocal stance on the five demands] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 396 to FCO (0050Z) ("Sydney Hunger Strikes") [strike in sympathy with Maze prisoners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Miss Sharon McCloskey (Maze hunger strikes) ["demands... which no Government could concede"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Lord Brockway (Maze hunger strikes) [declines offer to mediate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letters to Miss Sharon and Mrs P McCloskey (hunger strike: response to letters about Liam McCloskey) ["despite what is said and written by some people about my attitude to the hunger strike, I very much regret that young men have been prepared to throw away their lives"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [extract - "Northern Ireland": Maze hunger strikes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [one-to-one session: Northern Ireland and hunger strike at HMP Maze, Cancun, EC] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIOM(81) 5th (note of meeting: security, hunger strike, political, joint studies, baton rounds, 'Panorama' documentary) [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 81 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Mrs P. McCloskey (Maze hunger strikes) [declines request for meeting; offers sympathy & emphasises Government's position] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Church of Ireland press release ("Connor Diocesan Synod") [Bishop of Connor speech on the hunger strikes] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Sep 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Michael Foot (hunger strikes at HMP Maze) [MT will not allow Fenner Brockway to visit hunger strikers] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Oct 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 344 to FCO (1430Z) ("End of Hunger Strike: Reactions from Politicians in the Irish Republic") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 346 to FCO (1055Z) ("End of Hunger Strike: Irish Media Reactions") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram 153 to UKE Dublin (1825Z) ("Northern Ireland: End of Hunger Strike: Statement by Northern Ireland Secretary of State") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Rome telegram 398 to FCO (1615Z) ("End of IRA Hunger Strikes: Italian press reactions") [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Oct 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Armstrong minute to MT ("The Queen's Speech on the Opening of Parliament") [revisions to text of Queen's speech] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ian Paisley (post-hunger strike concessions) [MT defends actions] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Germany, Arms Control, Arab-Israeli Conflict, EC Affairs, Northern Ireland) [declassified 2011]
PDF 82 Mar 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Nicholas Scott letter to MT (“The Overseas Information Effort”) [NIO/FCO reassessment since end of hunger strikes] [declassified Dec 2012]
Text 83 May 18 We Declassified documents Key Conservative Party Conservative General Election Manifesto 1983
PDF 84 Mar 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Possible Hunger Strike in Belfast Prison") [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sandiford letter to Charles Powell (“Magilligan Hunger Strike”) [objective of the strike “is to put pressure on the authorities to concede the separation of Loyalists from Republicans”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Magilligan Hunger Strike") [prisoners at Magilligan prison end hunger strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Macgilligan Hunger Strike”) [“it is useful that in this incident the authority of the Government in the prisons has been maintained”] [declassified 2014]
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