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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 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]
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 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 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 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]
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 (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 (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 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]

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