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PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minutes to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [annotated agenda for MT's meeting with King and Howe; meeting postponed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [response to Armstrong's minute - MT rejects any gloss on Article 1 in the communiqué] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement: message from Bud McFarlane) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: King minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations") [wants further amendments to Anglo-Irish Agreement; Powell: "risks throwing a large spanner in the works", MT agrees, noting Cabinet had already approved agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: FCO record of conversation (Howe-King-Spring-Barry) [Draft Agreement - difficult to find an agreed interpretation of Article 1; Irish recognised need for improved cross-border security cooperation; ECST; mixed courts not raised; Secretariat - agreed it should be in Belfast - Irish wanted it there from the start, King thought security problems precluded commitment to do so, officials to discuss further; devolution, UDR] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Possible Questions and Answers") [presentation of Agreement by British and Irish governments - MT rejects "more than just consultative" as description of conference and talk of Republic having FORMAL role in the North] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (Anglo-Irish talks and Agreement) [believes meeting yesterday put King at ease over security cooperation; essential that Intergovernmental Conference and Secretariat be located in Belfast from the first] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Mayhew minute to MT ("Proposed Anglo/Irish Agreement") [addresses possible judicial review of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Practical Matters") [signing and presentation of Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Negotiations: Prime Minister's Meeting on Saturday, 9 November") [issues remaining for decision - mainly location of Secretariat; text of joint communiqué as at 8 Nov] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [meeting with King, Howe and Armstrong - Taoiseach has sent you "a rather stern message" on location of Secretariat; Irish still considering whether they can sign the ECST now] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (1615Z-c1715Z) (MT-King-Howe-Armstrong) ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [location - tussle of wills, Secretariat would not be in Stormont, as Irish wished; US unlikely to be able to make firm offer of financial support until after Christmas] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [final drafts of Anglo-Irish Agreement, joint press release and summit communiqué - MT assents without further study; copy of text as at 11 Nov 1985] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Anglo-Irish Summit: suggested message to US Administration to advise on timing) [agreed to tell McFarlane on 13 Nov, so as to give him time to draft US response when agreement is signed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell note to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement: draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell comments on latest amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [proposed location of Secretariat - draft message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald in approved form] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (1820Z) (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [response to Fitzgerald's message: location of Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat - venue close to Stormont suggested] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland Affairs") [brief final report on Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks Dublin 13 November") [Armstrong's final talks with Nally, 12 Nov in Dublin - Irish Government had decided that morning to go ahead with the agreement; Taoiseach rejected our preferred location but was entirely prepared to accept MT's second choice; work on texts completed - no change to agreement, minor alterations to communiqué; Secretariat location - UK compromise proposal agreed; Taoiseach had long emotional meeting with SDLP previous evening and was "clearly pleased with the outcome"; SDLP would support agreement although not containing all they would have liked] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office briefings for MT ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Prime Minister's Briefing for Party Leaders") [MT meetings with Kinnock, Steel and Owen, Molyneaux] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham minute to MT ("Northern Ireland - Cabinet") [media presentation of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3144 to FCO (2015Z) (Anglo-Irish Agreement: text of Reagan statement) ["We applaud its promise of peace and a new dawn for the troubled communities of Northern Ireland"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Discussion with the Taoiseach") [no need for detailed discussion of the Agreement - press conference handling main issue, avoiding divergencies] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ingham briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland - Your Joint Press Conference") ["the agreement has been so comprehensively leaked that,as usual, the central core of the event will be an anti-climax"; way ahead for press will be stories of splits with Irish, way ahead, consequences - e.g.,resignations; "some resignations might be helpful in the sense that you will be seen as standing up to the Unionists"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Press Conference") [bull points] [declassified Dec 2014]
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