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PDF 84 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 305 to FCO (1115Z) (“Forum Debate: Press Comment”) [Commons debate covered in Irish press “on largely predictable lines”, although Irish Independent more positive, predicting Irish Government would feel quiet confidence log-jam beginning to break up] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 310 to FCO (1700Z) (“Forum Debate”) [Irish reaction to Prior’s speech - FitzGerald saw "positive and interesting" elements in Commons debate, Haughey characterised Prior's speech as a complete rejection of the Forum Report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 311 to FCO (1627Z) (“Forum Report”) [Haughey seeking to sabotage progress in Northern Ireland in order to retain full control of his party] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [meeting with Nally: “aim will be to get the Irish to recognise that ‘joint authority’ as envisaged in the Nally proposals is not available” and to urge them to consider "institutionalised consultation" plus greater devolution in Northern Ireland instead; consultation would have to be on "a wide range of subjects" to make a package involving constitutional amendment politically viable for Irish] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [conversation with Nally on lines previously agreed with MT, rejecting joint authority in favour of "formalised or institutionalised consultation"; Armstrong noting "these discussions were more in the nature of a joint exploration of possibilities than a negotiation". Irish accepted joint authority not on offer: "We have moved the dialogue onto a more realistic basis"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Andrew-Dorr) “Discussion with Irish Ambassador - 19 July 1984”) [Dorr's suspicion that Prior and Armstrong held incompatible views; MT notes Dorr's attachment to joint authority and hopes further efforts will be made to convince him it is not acceptable to the UK] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Prior-Goodison) (“Note of a discussion with HM Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland on 24 July 1984”) [“members of the Irish Cabinet were worried about the inter-party talks which were being initiated”; Prior saw "unreal hopes within the Irish Government about the prospects for progress on an all-Ireland basis"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Transfer of power to make regulations under the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1974 to the Lord Chancellor”) [Hailsham agrees to the transfer] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Nally gave preliminary reaction of Irish ministers; “He said that, at first sight, the British approach appeared to the Irish side to be inadequate”, "substantial authority" needed for Irish side, but later acknowledged that "consultation was probably what it would come down to in the end"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 4 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Enoch Powell speech (1330Z) (Ulster in peril) [“Ulster representation in a Dublin parliament means the end of the Union”]
PDF 84 Aug 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Andrew (Prior’s visit to Dublin) [MT said “it is not to be called a farewell visit because other arrangements will still be in the air”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell letter to Cabinet Office (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT thinks “Irish expectations remain unrealistic”, notes Armstrong judgment Taoiseach may be persuaded to look more positively at a consultative role] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell letter to Cabinet Office (“Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Visit to Dublin”) [MT “wishes very careful attention [to be] paid to public handling of the visit” - not treated as a farewell or hinting at some new initiative] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2540 to FCO (2206Z) (“Galvin Incident, Belfast, 12 August”) [“There is no love lost between Biaggi and the more moderate Irish-American congressional leadership”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Prior comments on Armstrong's latest contacts with the Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Flesher telex to MT (Galvin incident) [Prior doorstep comment that decision to exclude Galvin “looked like a ‘bad mistake’”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Press Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Press tape story (1056Z) ("Prior takes responsibility") [Galvin incident]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Kinnock letter to MT (Galvin incident) [seeks independent inquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Flesher telex to MT (Galvin incident) [Kinnock letter and draft reply, with comment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT draft letter to Kinnock (Galvin incident) [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegrams 414 and 416 to FCO (1440 and 1615Z) (“Irish Government Statements”) [Barry speech “said the Irish Government hoped the Anglo-Irish Summit would be a major step forward”' Barry and Noonan speeches] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Adam Butler letter to Havers (“Delays in Coming to Trial”) [“Jim appreciates your concern that we should not compound our present security problems”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 427 to FCO (1155Z) (“Visit of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to Dublin on 31 August”) [Prior “attempted to make Irish Ministers' expectations from HMG more realistic”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2664 to FCO (2359Z) (“Northern Ireland: Possible Senate Hearing”) [aim to avoid hearing] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (valedictory note on leaving Northern Ireland Office) [“If unpalatable things are to be imposed upon the majority it can only be done using your personal authority”; best opportunity for progress internally and with Dublin for a decade] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“PIRA Threat to Supermarket Chain”) [“very serious consequences of such a large sum of money finding its way into the hands of the PIRA and being used for the purchase of arms”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [the Irish side “accepted that what was now under discussion was not joint sovereignty or joint authority”, both sides seeing talks as on a strictly exploratory basis; Irish hoping full report on package could be presented to November summit; MT comment: "They are trying to go too fast"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Havers minute to Hurd (“R -v- Dominic McGlinchey”) [“we may be heading for a very difficult and embarrassing series of events in connection with it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Sandiford letter to Butler (“PIRA Threat to Supermarket Chain”) [press reports that “a large sum of money had found its way by a circuitous route to the Dublin branch of the Bank of Ireland, and that some of this money had already been withdrawn”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 (“Mr Barry’s Speech to the British Irish Association, 15 September”) [“the overall impression conveyed was one of optimism about the prospects for significant improvement in the situation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell letter to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [reaction to Armstrong’s account of talks with Nally - Irish going too fast; need early discussion of future handling of these talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS letter to Charles Powell (“Magilligan Hunger Strike”) [Loyalist hunger strike at HMP Magilligan - objective “is to put pressure on the authorities to concede the separation of Loyalists from Republicans”; MT comment "We do NOT give in to hunger strikes. Please UNDERLINE to the NIO"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Capture of PIRA Shipment by the Irish Navy”) [seven tonnes of arms and explosives from US sympathisers seized on trawler Marita Anne; “This capture is a badly needed boost to the morale of the Irish security forces”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT telegram to FitzGerald (PIRA shipment captured) [congratulations to security forces] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Neil Ward minute to Turnbull (“Financial Support for Northern Ireland”) [“level of support has been the subject of some local political controversy in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“the farthest we are likely to get by the time of the Summit is to be able to report to the Prime Minsiter and the Taoiseach on the outlines of a possible package”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 conversation record (0830Z) (MT, Howe, Prior and officials) (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT worried about fast pace and danger of leaks - Unionists so far had been told nothing, "whole exercise could backfire and lead to increased violence"; Prior thought necessary to talk to Unionists soon; Howe wanted Unionists offered offsetting gains in local government; Armstrong to discourage Irish from expecting too much at Nov summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Capture of PIRA Shipment by the Irish Navy”) [“the Americans were not involved at any stage”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers: 5 October. Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [to agree instructions for Armstrong; MT negative about outline package being presented to Nov summit for completion by May 1985] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS letter to Charles Powell (“Meeting with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs”) [proposed Hurd-Barry bilateral; MT agrees] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd letter to Havers (“R v Dominic McGlinchey”) [likely impact of an acquittal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Andrew letter to Charles Powell (Hurd-Barry bilateral) [“meeting did not herald any dramatic new development in Anglo-Irish relations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 461 to FCO (1140Z) (“Appointment of New Secretary of State for Northern Ireland”) [cautious but not unfavourable press reaction] [declassified 2014]
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