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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/501
Ireland (Prime Minister's meeting with widows from Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, July 1980)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 62
Any docs withheld? 1

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Date Value Title
80 Jun 10 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Ian Paisley message to MT (widows from County Fermanagh request meeting with MT) ["This deputation represents some fifty women whose husbands have been murdered by the IRA and those murderers escaped safely across to Charlie Haughey's Republic"] [declassified 2011]
80 Jun 13 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT ("Fermanagh Widows") [declassified 2011]
80 Jun 18 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office to No.10 (Atkins meets with the Fermanagh widows) [declassified 2011]
80 Jun 20 Fr Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ian Paisley (MT agrees to meet with Fermanagh widows) [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 4 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Fermanagh Widows: 7 July 1980") [brief for MT] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 7 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Fermanagh widows) [terrorism; situation in County Fermanagh] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 10 Th Minor Northern Ireland: MT letter to Mrs Kernaghan of County Fermanagh (thanks for gift and meeting) [MT's meeting with Fermanagh widows] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 10 Th Major Northern Ireland: Fermanagh widows letter to MT (thanks for meeting) [MT: "these four ladies and their families must come to the Trooping [of the colour] next year"] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 28 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Meeting with the Fermanagh Widows") [commentary of Northern Ireland security authorities on the suggestions of the Fermanagh widows] [declassified 2011]
80 Aug 9 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Fermanagh widows letter to MT (request for MT's help regarding border security) ["we would implore you to intervene personally to see that security operations are no longer bluff, but REAL"] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 1 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (letter from the Fermanagh widows to MT criticising border security) [comment on security operations in Fermanagh] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 2 Tu Major Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Mrs Harriet Howe (response to letter from the Fermanagh widows to MT criticising border security) ["there has been no slackening whatever in the efforts of the Security Forces in the Newtownbutler area, or indeed anywhere else in Fermanagh"] [declassified 2011]