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1979 May 2 - 1979 Sep 6
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/79
Ireland (Taoiseach's visits to UK) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2009 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 156
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79 May 2 Wed Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [Lynch would like to meet new PM] [declassified 2009]
79 May 3 Thu Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to FCO ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May 1979") [appropriate for new PM to offer Lynch a short courtesy call] [declassified 2009]
79 May 8 Tue Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("New British Government: Irish Press Reactions") [press reactions "cautious and restrained"] [declassified 2009]
79 May 9 Wed Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Taoiseach: 10 May") [brief for MT] [declassified 2009]
79 May 10 Thu Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Lynch) [Northern Ireland, economic issues] [declassified 2009]
79 May 11 Fri Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Meeting Between the Prime Minister and Mr Lynch: Press Reaction") [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 28 Tue Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ministers) [death of Mountbatten, Warrenpoint Ambush, Northern Ireland] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 30 Thu Ireland: Taoiseach Lynch letter to MT (acceptance of invitation to Mountbatten's funeral, need for talks) [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 30 Thu Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Lynch (suggests meeting during Lynch's vist to London) [death of Mountbatten] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 31 Fri Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Meeting Between Prime Minister and Mr Lynch") [assessment of the impact of Mountbatten's murder on Lynch and Irish Government] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 1 Sat Ireland: FCO to UKE Dublin ("Visit of Irish Prime Minister: 5 September") [Taoiseach "extremely angry" at report that he had been "summoned to London"] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 1 Sat Ireland: Lankester minute to MT ("Visit of the Taoiseach") [Lynch upset about press reports] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 1 Sat Ireland: MT letter to Taoiseach Lynch (arrangements for forthcoming meeting) [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 4 Tue Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Taoiseach's Visit") [draft press communique, interrogation, extradition] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 4 Tue Ireland: MT handwritten notes (briefing for meeting with Taoiseach Lynch) [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 5 Wed Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Lynch) [working lunch meeting; EEC Budget, EMS] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 5 Wed Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Carrington-Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael O'Kennedy) [Middle East, Lome Agreement, Portugal, Vietnamese refugees, Cambodia, South African Rugby tour, Rhodesia and Namibia] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 5 Wed Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Lynch) [tete-a-tete meeting; death of Mountbatten, Northern Ireland, extradition, Garda anti-terrorist Squad, RUC, helicopter overflights, co-operation between British and Irish armies] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 5 Wed Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Taoiseach Lynch) [plenary meeting; Northern Ireland, security services, terrorism] [declassified 2009]
79 Sep 6 Thu Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Meeting Between the Prime Minister and Mr Lynch: Press Reactions") [declassified 2009]