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PDF 84 Jan 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to Hill (paramilitary threat to Associated Foods) [Taoiseach and MT’s shared concerns] [declassified 2013]
PDF 84 Jan 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (“PIRA threat to supermarket chain”) [“The PIRA had threatened to assassinate four people”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to MT (meeting with John Hume) [Prior requests MT see Hume; MT agrees, meeting fixed then Prior unable to attend] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 14 to FCO (1240Z) (“PIRA threat to Weston supermarket chain”) [“Irish anxiety to ensure by all possible means that money does not pass to PIRA”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Armstrong (“Call by Michael Lillis”) [FitzGerald took two messages from Nov summit with MT: “Firstly, that her mind was not closed to new ideas; but secondly that she did not want any secret talks”; Lillis described likely structure of Forum Report and warned British against any dialogue with Sinn Fein; Goodall assured him "absolutely no disposition" to this on British side] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hill letter to Heyhoe (“Ministerial Dealings with Sinn Fein Members”) [“no Northern Ireland Office Minister will meet any Sinn Fein MP or Assembly Member”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior statement (Hennessy Report) [escape from the Maze] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hatfield minute to Taylor (“Destruction of the IRA”) [proposals for new security arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Butler minute to Shipley (letter making recommendations on destruction of the IRA) [despite intelligence background of author, "he knew little about the methods by which we gather intelligence about the IRA"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Armstrong (“Northern Ireland: The Forum”) [renewed conversation with Michael Lillis in Dublin; “affairs in the Forum had taken a turn for the better”; FitzGerald looking forward to serious dialogue with MT] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 5 to NIO (1045Z) (“New Ireland Forum”) [Goodison meeting with Taoiseach who claimed major breakthrough drafting Forum report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [Goodall conversation with Lillis in Dublin; options prepared by officials] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Alison record of conversation (1800Z) (MT meeting with John Hume) [New Ireland Forum, crime and unemployment rates, Sinn Fein] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: JIC report (“The Strategy of the Provisionals”) [provisionals saw "mixed results" from terrorism in 1983; political and terrorist strategies at odds; not clear Sinn Fein will overtake SDLP in 1985 local elections] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: CRD briefing (“Debate on the Hennessy Report on the escape from the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland”) [the report and government action; contentious points; ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall draft record of conversation (MT, Howe, Prior plus officials) [“A crucial precondition for any package of measures must be the Irish Government’s willingness - and ability - to deliver an acceptably formal and binding commitment to waive the Republic’s claim to the North”; joint policing and law enforcement "acceptable basis from which to begin a tentative and confidential exploration of the Irish position"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (draft speaking note for cabinet) [“we do now need to consider the possibility of a new approach to the Irish question”; Armstrong to approach Nally] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 27 to UKE Dublin (0930Z) (“Border Road Closures”) [Prior to Barry: “Our security forces have … been making a thorough survey of crossing points”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Prior-Enoch Powell) [Molyneaux’s position strong - UUP to continue its boycott of the Assembly] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall record of conversation (Goodall-Lillis) (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) ["authoritative but very preliminary" Irish response to ideas put by Armstrong to Nally on 1 Mar] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong (“Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT noted Armstrong's 5 March report of approach to Irish; MT prepared to meet FitzGerald at Brussels summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Irish response to Armstrong's approach on 1 March one of surprise; FitzGerald "heavily preoccupied" with securing consensus report at Forum; he stands by the "basic equation" adumbrated earlier but has no clear ideas how to put it into effect; Irish promise response in 3-4 weeks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom Hadden and Kevin Boyle submission to Forum for a New Ireland (“analysis of the problems in Northern Ireland”) [recommends package of measures for move “towards peace and stability on the island”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hill minute to Coles (“Secretary of State for Northern Ireland”) [topics for discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FitzGerald address (advance text of speech to joint meeting of Congress) [“not one of us, in Britain or in Ireland, is free of some guilt for what has been happening in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Prior-MT meeting on Maze prison) [collusion between prisoner officers and prisoners in the Maze: “Action must be taken to ensure that control was effective”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram to FCO (“European Parliament: Haagerup Report on Northern Ireland”) [“a special group of Commissioners would consider measures for Ireland, in particular trans-frontier projects”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Coles (“Mr Haughey and the British”) [Irish press article suggests his hostile attitude to Thatcher government “reflects and influences the large nationalist element in the Irish electorate”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 7 to NIO (1130Z) (“Northern Ireland: Haagerup Report”) [Barry “said it offered new hope to the people of both traditions”] [declassified 2014]
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