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PDF 83 Mar 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: UKE Dublin telegram 71 to FCO (1642Z) ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Personal for PUS") [lunch with Taoiseach FitzGerald and his wife] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: FCO letter to No.10 ("Meeting between the Prime Minister and Dr Garret FitzGerald at the European Council") [FitzGerald seeks longer bilateral; MT agrees] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: UK Ambassador Dublin Valedictory Despatch ("Some Impressions of Ireland") ["real fear of the Irish that violence could erupt here and destroy their institutions"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland Office minute to Prior ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [present state and probable future course over coming months] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: FCO briefing for MT ("Meeting between the Prime Minister and Dr Garret FitzGerald at the European Council") [Anglo-Irish relations; Northern Ireland; European Parliament and Northern Ireland"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Cabinet Office minute for Goodall ("Anglo-Irish Governmental Council (AIIC)") [Irish want to increase official contacts so suggest "AIIC activity should be resumed"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Armstrong minute for Goodall ("Anglo-Irish Governmental Council (AIIC)") [MT and FitzGerald agreed AIIC activity should be resumed, but MT stressed slowly; next steps envisaged] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (0830-0912Z) (MT-FitzGerald meeting at Brussels European Council) [security questions; FitzGerald explains plans for Forum; MT urges caution, concerned at Unionist response] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Mar 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Cabinet Office briefing for Goodall ("Meeting of Anglo-Irish Committee at 11.00am on Friday 25 March 1983: Chairman's brief") [positive signs since crisis in relations owing to Haughey's "hostility and unhelpfulness" during the Falklands War] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Armstrong phone conversation record (Armstrong-Nally) [Irish suggesting four point agenda for next meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Goodall conversation record (Goodall-Lillis) [visit from Lillis, FitzGerald's close adviser; FitzGerald Government "recognised that the British dimension to the Northern Ireland problem required much more explicit acknowledgment from the Irish side than it had received hitherto"; British response to Forum; case for reappointing Prior as NI Secretary after General Election; Armstrong comment that conversation should not be reported to MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: FCO letter to UKE Dublin ("Michael Lillis") [came to London to talk rather than listen; New Ireland Forum; Irish concern HMG favours Sinn Fein over SDLP - Lillis left in no doubt this was false] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Goodall conversation record (Goodall-Irish Embassy) [preparations for MT-FitzGerald bilateral at Stuttgart European Council - confirms Armstrong-Nally to meet first, short agenda, informal character] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Armstrong minute for Coles ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Meeting with Dr FitzGerald at Stuttgart") [FitzGerald likely to press for full-scale summit "fairly soon"; establishing 'Encounter' organisation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-FitzGerald Stuttgart bilateral) [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Jun 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Armstrong letter to Nally (invitation to Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference Steering Committee on 11 July) [personnel, arrangements] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Cabinet Office briefing for Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (Steering Committee meeting, 11 July) [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 8 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office minute (suggested reading for MT) [F.S.L. Lyons, Dervla Murphy ("have read - more than once"), J.C. Beckett, etc] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Jul 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations”) [MT note: “I don’t like this at all…”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Jul 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Cabinet Office conversation record (Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference Steering Committee) [Armstrong, Nally and other officials] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Cabinet Office conversation record (issues raised in margin of AIIC Steering Committee) [Nally raising two security questions with Armstrong] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: No.10 letter to Armstrong PS ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [MT sees little to discuss with Irish besides security and EC matters] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Goodall minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [draft minute for MT on AIIC] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Woodfield minute to Armstrong (UKE Dublin profile of Michael Lillis) [British suspicions, but Goodall finding him "notably calm & unpolemical"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute for MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations”) [meeting with Dermot Nally and other Irish officials on 11 July] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Jul 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations”) [MT agrees British and Irish officials should meet to prepare for Anglo-Irish summit in November] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Jul 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Alison record of conversation (Michael Alison-Enoch Powell) [Powell’s views on electoral system for European Elections; FCO attitude to Official Unionists - difficulty understanding what he meant] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Jul 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Coles (“Anglo-Irish Encounter”) [announcing creation of organisation agreed at Nov 1981 summit] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Michael Lillis approach to David Goodall on 6 September - ideas which the Taoiseach would be prepared to back; "John Hume personally was behind the approach"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's "very sceptical" regarding Irish ideas, without rejecting them out of hand; "considerably greater detail" needed] [declassified 2013]
Info only 83 Sep 25 Su Chronology Major [Chronology] Mass break out from Maze prison
PDF 83 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Anglo-Irish Relations: Goodall minute to Armstrong PS ("Anglo-Irish Relations: AIIC") [Irish would like to know date of next AIIC Steering Committee] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [new Irish ideas as reported by Michael Lillis to Goodall involving amendment to Irish Constitution] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [new Irish ideas as reported by Goodall involving amendment to Irish Constitution; MT: "We will explore further - but no good will come of it...I believe the risk of violence is very high"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Coles minute for MT (“Anglo-Irish Summit: 7 November: Chequers”) [participants and programme - MT decision to invite Foreign Secretary and NI Secretary only] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's response to new Irish initiative - now she has had opportunity to reflect, believes chances are high it will increase violence not reduce it; she requests "considered assessment" of the Irish ideas] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [Prior meets with John Hume - Hume's ideas "certainly not the package described by Mr Lillis" ... "he said they would be suicide for both the SDLP and parties in the Republic"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Molyneaux letter to MT (Ulster attitudes toward Anglo-Irish Summit) [warns of "disastrous consequences" from the summit in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 letter to Goodall (arrangements for Anglo-Irish Summit) [tête-à-tête should continue as long as needed, with notetakers; no Joint Press Conference] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to Coles (“Irish bilateral”) ["the Irish play it for what they want out of it", therefore advises against a press conference or interviews after; FCO briefing of Weekend World] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegrams 313-314 to FCO (1330, 1405Z) (Anglo-Irish Summit programme) [Nally reports Irish plans] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute for Coles (visiting Dublin to finalise arrangements for Anglo-Irish Summit) [will tell Irish MT would have great difficulty with "joint sovereignty"; sees danger in meeting FitzGerald without notetakers, as latter wishes] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Jim Molyneaux MP (MT's meeting with the Taoiseach) [MT's meeting with Fitzgerald has no implications for constitutional status of Northern Ireland] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Coles note to MT (Anglo-Irish Summit Joint Studies review) [with Michael Alison's comments, following MT's request: “Would you ask Michael (Alison) to go through this very carefully before I decide”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Joint Studies Review") [MT comments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 326 to FCO (1020Z) ("Anglo-Irish Summit: 7 November") [FitzGerald's aims for summit ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegrams 324-325 to FCO (0940, 1000Z) ("Anglo-Irish Summit: call on the Taoiseach") [Goodison-FitzGerald conversation - latter seeks "exchange of ideas in a relaxed way without constraint"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute for MT (Anglo-Irish Summit: meeting with Taoiseach) [Armstrong, FitzGerald conversation - latter explained his "new approach", "law and order institutions on which <the nationalist minority> could focus confidence and 'loyalty'"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute for Coles ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Armstrong conversation with Dermot Nally: Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council: Co-ordinating Committee: final text of report, draft communique] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Irish ideas "imprecise and vary significantly according to who is presenting them", assessment therefore tentative, provisionally pessimistic; "Officials nevertheless argue that it would be premature to dismiss Dr Fitzgerald's ideas out of hand"] [declassified 2013]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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