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PDF 85 Jul 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Briefing the US Administration") [Goodall briefed Poindexter who said "the President would be much reassured"; told State Department "unionist opposition was inevitable, but we hoped and believed it would be containable"; unprompted State Department talked of US economic assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (1545Z-1730Z) (MT-Hurd) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland"; MT spoke of her bilateral with FitzGerald in Milan; she had refused associated measures but had agreed to consider how the agreement could be implemented promptly; White Paper being prepared on way forward in event of breakdown of talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [rapid implementation - draft communiqué; venue for signing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft communiqué; timing of signing and venue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Howe content with Armstrong's suggested line to take in next meeting with Nally] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Joint Courts") [urges caution on Anglo-Irish joint courts in Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd PS letter to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong's proposed negotiating position - do not offer Flags and Emblems Act repeal immediately; honour undertaking that Parliament could discuss and take a view on the agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [asnwers to MT's two questions (1) Flags and Emblems Act would be repealed by Order in Council; (2) non-ratification of Anglo-Irish agreements dates from Ireland's Commonwealth membership] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Havers ("Anglo-Irish Talks about Northern Ireland: Joint Courts") [Irish insisting on commitment to joint courts as condition of agreement; Nally suggesting Havers meet with Irish Attorney General; Armstrong recommends; MT: "We CANNOT agree to this"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Meeting of OD(I) at 4.45p.m. on Monday 15 July Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["text for an agreement virtually agreed" except for joint courts; rapid implementation in place of "associated measures"; timing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of OD(I)") [text of Anglo-Irish agreement nearly ready except for joint courts; "rapid implementation"; venue - MT thinking of Irish Embassy in London; US involvement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [talks with Nally 15-16 July - new Irish proposals for preamble; Irish still insisting on joint courts; suggestions as to venue; MT rejecting forcefully] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 23 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("British-Irish Association") [suggests Government seeks to persuade Association to cancel or postpone meeting at Oxford; Taoiseach agrees; MT concurs] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [state of play in Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [talks with Nally 21-22 July - joint courts still unresolved; Irish suggesting Armagh as possible venue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (evening) (Hurd-Molyneaux-Enoch Powell) [Hurd offered briefing on Privy Councillor terms - Molyneaux agreeable, but Powell not; offer left on the table] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [decisions for next discussion with Nally, 30-31 Jul: timetable for agreement, implementation; changes to Ulster Defence Regiment and possible terrorist prisoner release if agreement reduces level of violence: MT: "I am utterly astounded by this minute. I am not prepared to go ahead with either of these things"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Scott minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Overseas Information Effort") [report on work to explain Northern Ireland policies overseas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [revised draft communiqué for Armstrong's next meeting with Nally; MT approves subject to Hurd's agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [latest meeting with Nally 30-31 Jul; Irish seek a "side document" secretly agreeing joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong minute on his latest meeting with Nally 30-31 Jul; Irish seek a "side letter" secretly agreeing joint courts, "rather dishonest"; MT rejects] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft communiqué - MT rejects wording on military support for civil power] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland) [private dinner to discuss joint courts - Hurd said government would go no further than to consider the idea; asked Lowry if he had any proposals to develop cooperation between the two judiciaries, discouraged him from speaking with Irish Chief Justice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [marching season in Northern Ireland passed without serious public disorder, despite Galvin affair; joint courts - "side-document" no use; Ulster Defence Regiment; Anglo-Irish summit and communiqué; proposed "expenditure fund" in Ireland; possible venues] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Secretary of State and others at 1130 on Friday 30 August") [instructions for next round of Anglo-Irish talks; contingency plans for a political strike in Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (1040Z) (MT-Hurd-Goodall (representing Howe)) [instructions to Armstrong for Anglo-Irish talks: wording on joint courts; Ulster Defence Regiment - possible steps, but "invidious to enter into private understandings"; summit communique; venue; attitude of SDLP; Intergovernmental Committee secretariat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (1630Z) (MT-Molyneaux-Paisley-Hurd) [Anglo-Irish talks: Molyneaux and Paisley present letter which they did not propose to publish "at this stage"; Paisley warned of a "dangerous situation ... developing in the Province"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("British Irish Association") [Association agree to postpone annual meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland") [latest round of talks with Nally, 3 September; Irish complained at press leaks; mixed courts - Irish wanted an understanding that they would be introduced in defined period, say 6-12 months, "crucial to the Irish decision whether to go ahead with the agreement"; more needed on UDR - British reluctance to spell out rapid implementation contrary to "the spirit of Milan"; Taoiseach wanted Kilmainham as venue, if not acceptable revert to idea of Hillsborough; UDR the key - "a small move by us could bring the Irish to decide to conclude an agreement"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland") [Irish Government "trembling on the brink of an agreement" but need a concession on joint courts or UDR "to tip them over the edge"; former impossible for us, so consider latter; Taoiseach very much against a two site summit; Ingham thinks press conference without questions (as Irish suggest) impossible] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-King-Howe-Armstrong) ["Anglo-Irish Talks: Northern Ireland"; ministers prefer to have no reference to mixed courts at all; Irish to be given assurance that a higher proportion of UDR operations would be undertaken with the RUC by end October; venue - MT against meeting in Republic, would consider Hillsborough; date 23 or 24 Oct] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letters to Rev. Ian Paisley MP and Jim Molyneaux MP (Anglo-Irish talks: response to joint letter) ["unqualified assurance that sovereignty over Northern Ireland will be undiminished"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (Anglo-Irish talks: latest meeting with Nally, 12-13 Spt) [joint courts - Nally said Irish ministers might not accede to European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism without it; UDR - Irish wanting to limit its role; role of Secretariat of Intergovernmental Committee; Summit arrangements - 23/24 Oct, Hillsborough discussed - Nally mentioned risk of Unionist demonstrations; Irish hopeful of "very generous" US offer of financial support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Irish want 28 Oct so summit can be followed immediately by Parliamentary debate without weekend press intervening; MT disagrees, must be at least five or six days between signature and debate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [presses for early message to US government regarding economic fund for Northern Ireland; MT rejects so as not to link it to agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Talks - Session on 22-23 September 1985") [Nally says Irish ministers will go ahead with current draft agreement, but withdraw their commitment to accede to the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism; UDR; title of committee; Taoiseach now favours 28 Oct signature and prepared to think seriously about Hillsborough as venue] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [speaking note on Irish talks for MT meeting with Bud McFarlane, "a modest but useful step forward"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong minute on his latest meeting with Nally; Irish ministers have finally decided to go ahead with withdrawing commitment to accede to ECST, which "calls into question their good faith"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [line for talks with Nally - Irish retreat on acceding to European Convention on Suppression of Terrorism a serious retrograde step but advises against questioning Irish good faith; new Secretary of State urging delay in signing; risk that Taoiseach could break off discussions and blame UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations") [King's first detailed comment on Anglo-Irish agreement since appointment; "the Agreement as it now stands strikes me as offering considerably more to the Irish than it does to us"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [comment on King's minute: "It is a bit of a bombshell. ... in effect a declaration of no confidence in the present negotiating team"; scope to delay summit; MT agrees balance of agreement is heavily in favour of the Irish; wants meeting next week with Howe and King] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations") [comment on King's minute - risk to "Irish good faith in our determination to strike, if possible, a bargain that will stand the test of time"; thinks he and King should see Irish FM] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 29 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [line to take in Armstrong's next round of talks with Nally - indignant about Irish retreat on ECST, possible need for further ministerial contact in Irish talks, alert Irish to possible brief postponement; Howe's 'predictable' response to King's minute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Date of Summit") [Powell mentions 15 November as first possible date] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks: An International Fund") [official discussions with Irish reaching "a measure of agreement on the nature of a Fund" for Northern Ireland with possible US support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Jim Molyneaux MP and Rev. Ian Paisley MP joint letter to MT (Anglo-Irish talks) [concerns about secrecy and substance of talks] [declassified Dec 2014]
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