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1980 Mar 12 - 1980 May 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/280
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland; Northern Ireland Conference, Belfast) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 139
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Date Value Title
80 Mar 19 We Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1163 to FCO (2345Z) ("Visit of Irish Foreign Minister: 16 - 18 March: Northern Ireland") [Lenihan meeting with Vance] [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 31 Mo Major Northern Ireland: NIO letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland Conference") [final report] [declassified 2010]
80 Mar 31 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Whitelaw minute to MT ("The Northern Ireland Conference") [conclusions of Ministerial Group on policy in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 1 Tu Major Northern Ireland: NIO letter to No.10 (background note on Enoch Powell's position) [briefing for Gow/Goodhart/Powell meeting] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 2 We Major Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("South Armagh Area Review") [security] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 3 Th Major Northern Ireland: NIO to No.10 (Maurice Oldfield minute on security situation in East Tyrone) [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 10 Th Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Frank Maguire MP (response to claims of British Army harassment in the Armagh/Keady area) [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 18 Fr Major Northern Ireland: NIO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Enoch Powell") [background information] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 25 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Officials from NIO-MOD-FCO) [area reviews, Yellow Card, electricity interconnector, force levels, Atkins/Lenihan meeting, Political Conference] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 30 We Major Northern Ireland: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Enoch Powell") [supposed deal between Powell and Airey Neave] [declassified 2010]
80 May 7 We Major Northern Ireland: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [conclusions of meetings of MISC 24] [declassified 2010]
80 May 9 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Northern Ireland") [prospects for progress] [declassified 2010]
80 May 12 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Hailsham-Carrington-Atkins-Hayhoe-Stowe) [forthcoming meeting between MT and Taoiseach Haughey] [declassified 2010]
80 May 12 Mo Major Northern Ireland: NIO letter to No.10 ("Meeting with Mr John Hume") [brief for MT's meeting with Hume] [declassified 2010]
80 May 13 Tu Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-SDLP leader John Hume) [security and political situations in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2010]
80 May 16 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Irish source briefs the Sunday Times ; suggestion that Haughey has high expectations of his forthcoming meeting with MT] [declassified 2010]
80 May 28 We Major Northern Ireland: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: Proposals for Further Discussion") [problems deciding on publication date for Atkins' proposals on further discussion] [declassified 2010]
80 May 30 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Officials from NIO-MOD-Home Office-FCO) [MT-Haughey meeting, area reviews, Emergency Provisions Act, Yellow Card, Constitutional proposals, energy] [declassified 2010]