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PDF 84 Nov 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong suggests draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald on MT's remarks at press conference; MT: "This whole proposal is too contrived and too apologetic"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Lillis explains Taoiseach's worry that MT will face "hostile situation" and "difficult press questioning" at Dublin European Council unless she says something first; Armstrong redrafts arranged Parliamentary Q&A] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT not enamoured of his proposals; attaches briefer message to Taoiseach she would be prepared to sign] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Ireland: Letter to Dr Fitzgerald") [draft message; Michael Lillis visit "to calm things down"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (response in Ireland to MT press conference) [Anglo-Irish relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (1855Z-1912Z) (MT, Garret FitzGerald in Dublin) [bilateral at European Council to discuss Northern Ireland - MT's disappointment with Hume's reaction; need for "extra sensitivity" commenting on the Irish problem; MT agreed to try to comment positively on Forum Report and recognise problems of the minority community in her press conference] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT (Taoiseach Fitzgerald requests bilateral meeting with MT) [MT: 'I will if he wishes - but I really think the less said the better'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [meetings with Taoiseach Fitzgerald, Spring and Barry in Dublin on 22 Mar; no constitutional amendment without a share in decision-making in NI; no commitment made on timing of next summit; "still a significant gap to be bridged"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("EC Summit: Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Body") [guidance for MT meeting with Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Your Meeting with Dr. Fitzgerald") [media presentation of meeting - fearful of a long meeting (ie lasting more than 30 minutes), give reasonably full account of subjects discussed plus approximate date of next summit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (0825-0855Z) (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland - agreed that "progress had been made in adjusting expectations"; press briefing; MT concerned at lack of SDLP commitment in devolution talks, FitzGerald replied that they needed Irish dimension first; joint courts; FitzGerald raised "confidence building measures"; he wanted to work for a summit in early June, MT resisted ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong record of conversation (Armstrong-Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [FitzGerald seeks UK help with the Swiss in connection with case arising from successful confiscation of IRA funds] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: OD(I)(85) 2") [issues for decision] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [issues to decide at first meeting of OD(I)] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on further meeting with Nally; paragraph 2 agreed; Irish still pressing for joint courts; economic and social issues discussed; agreement to be registered at UN, first formal commitment of Irish Government to principle of consent] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Neighbourhood Policing") [RUC Chief Constable rejecting FitzGerald's proposal for a local community police force in NI as impracticable; MT agrees this should be conveyed to the Irish] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland District Council Elections: 15 May 1985") [analysis of results - UUP reasserting its dominance over DUP; SDLP holding its ground] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Northern Ireland: Anglo-Irish Talks") [damagingly accurate leaks to Irish Times: "the Irish are convinced that they come from London", some suspicion about Irish Ambassador, but Irish believe NIO to blame; Armstrong speculates a junior minister possibly the source] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland; Meeting of OD(I), 4.30 p.m. 23 May") [progress of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell briefing for MT ("OD(I)") ["very poor proposal" to introduce the word 'joint' into the name of the Standing Committee; Hurd may propose a review mechanism, still worried about an Irish office in Belfast; cannot conclude negotiations before marching season - September/October possible target date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 326 to FCO (1200Z) ("Call on Irish Leader of the Opposition") [Anglo-Irish negotiations; UK ambassador met Haughey 28 May; "Mr Haughey would be very much opposed to any Anglo-Irish agreement that we could make"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [no real scope for review mechanism - just denounce the agreement if it does not work out] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland: Revised British Proposal") [supports giving revised text to Irish; clause to suspend or terminate Standing Committee unnecessary - in practice it would cease to operate if relations deteriorated too much] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Havers minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [supports Armstrong's view about review mechanism] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (c1000Z) (MT-Hurd) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland"; MT and Hurd agree need for a review mechanism in draft Anglo-Irish agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [suggests a review mechanism for the Standing Committee; Powell doubts this practicable, must review Agreement as a whole; MT concurs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [text as amended to include review mechanism - options for discussion with Irish] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT agrees with Hurd that it is essential to include a review mechanism in the text - propose language for it and circulate to OD(I)] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [latest British version of Anglo-Irish agreement as being sent to Irish government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-Taoiseach Fitzgerald in Lisbon and Madrid) [FitzGerald relayed "anxiety which he had and many of his colleagues felt about whether the agreement now under discussion would have enough substance"; pressed for joint courts; discussion of early parole for terrorist prisoners; FitzGerald raised press leaks, Howe replied both sides leaking, "no reason to suggest a deliberate British plan of destructive leaks"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [report on latest stage of negotiations on 14 Jun; few problems on draft agreement except joint courts, new difficulties on confidence building measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 378 to FCO (0925Z) ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Donlon told UK Ambassador that Taoiseach was "very upset" at British decision to appoint new members of NI Police Authority without consultation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegrams 379-341 to FCO (1700 onZ) ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Taoiseach summoned UK Ambassador to complain at British decision to appoint new members of NI Police Authority without consultation; "very concerned" at plan for Hurd to brief Unionists on our talks before marching season] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [new appointments to Police Authority for Northern Ireland; Taoiseach summoned British Ambassador to object; MT approves Hurd reply] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [short meeting after cabinet to to decide for next steps in Anglo-Irish talks; MT rejects offering to consider joint courts or confidence building measures; MT: "They are asking for too much. Possibly this is deliberate"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (Anglo-Irish negotiations: position of Unionist parties) [cannot keep them at arms length, despite FitzGerald's expressed concern; speaking note] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Briefing the US Administration") [FCO suggests taking "US Administration a little more into our confidence"; MT agrees Goodall should brief Poindexter in strict confidence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 conversation record (1100Z) (MT, Howe, Hurd, Armstrong, Powell) ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [new Irish objectives - speculation "they were deliberately upping the ante because they did not want the negotiations to go further"; lines agreed for Hurd briefing of Unionist leaders - security cooperation, no executive role for Republic in NI; Police Authority - UK being asked to comply with an agreement not yet reached; better delay agreement until after marching season] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 400 to FCO (1540Z) ("N.I. Police Authority") [appointments to NI Police Authority; UK ambassador and Goodall meeting Taoiseach who called British position "a slap in the face"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations: Reactions of Party Leaders") [Hume non-committal; "Dr Paisley, predictably, totally rejected the Anglo-Irish initiative"; Molyneaux similar but in much more moderate terms; "Unionist reactions were no more than was to be expected ... Nothing emerged which causes me to suggest any change in the policy which we are now following"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Brief for Prime Minister's meeting with Dr Garret Fitzgerald in Milan on Saturday, 29 June 1985") ["well within sight of an acceptable agreement which could be presented as a useful, if modest, contribution to the improvement of peace and stability in Northern Ireland for this generation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [proposals as to timing, method and venue for conclusion of Anglo-Irish agreement - Powell suggests mid-October at Chequers; too soon to decide] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Police Authority for Northern Ireland") [suggests reconstitution of police authority in consultation with Irish government; MT: "This would have a very bad effect on the Unionists"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Police Authority for Northern Ireland") [disagrees with Howe's suggestion to announce reconstitution of NI Policy Authority in consultation with Irish government at time of agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO telegram 7 to UKDEL Milan (1630Z) ("Joint Anglo-Irish Courts") [personal from Brennan, NIO, to Private Secretaries: Fitzgerald may claim NI judges do not support Lowry in opposing joint courts - line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 29 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (0815Z-0915Z) (MT-Taoiseach Fitzgerald; Nally and Powell) [Anglo-Irish talks; associated measures essential to Republic; MT fearful of Unionist reactions, but remarked "Equally it would be very damaging now not to go ahead with the proposed agreement"; MT rejecting joint courts; UDR; RUC; FitzGerald "speaking with considerable emotion" declared that unless agreement reached "Sinn Fein would gain the upper hand amongst the minority in the North and provoke a civil war"; timing of possible agreement - FitzGerald urged late Aug, MT thinking mid-Oct] [declassified Dec 2014]
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