Archive

1980 Dec 13 - 1981 Apr 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/503
Ireland (Hunger strike at the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland; the 'Dirty Protest') (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 198
Any docs withheld? 1

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80 Dec 19 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Meeting with Dr Paisley") [briefing for MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 2 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Prison") [situation in Northern Ireland prisons] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 9 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Prison") [update on Maze protests] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 16 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Protests") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 23 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Protest at HM Prison Maze") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 18 Th Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Atkins' parliamentary statement) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 17 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (John Hume reports that hunger strikers "may be looking for a face-saving formula") [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 16 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (messages to pass directly to Dermot Nally, bypassing Irish Embassy) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
80 Dec 17 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (present situation in Northern Ireland prisons) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 21 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (situation in Northern Ireland) [request by Irish MPs to meet with MT; Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 19 Su Major Northern Ireland: Pattison message to Alexander (Atkins decides to permit release of Dolours Price) [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 20 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Pattison minute to Sanders ("Irish Affairs") [response to message from Irish MPs requesting meeting with MT; Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 18 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Pike minute to Alexander (visit of Irish Republic MPs to HMP Maze to see Bobby Sands) [reaction by Unionists] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 10 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT ("Robert Sands and the Fermanagh By-Election") [Sands elected MP; response of the Home Office and Northern Ireland Office] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 3 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Text of Enoch Powell speech to East Down Unionist Association AGM (situation in Northern Ireland and hunger strike at HMP Maze) [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 21 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Text of MT's press conference in Riyadh (Bobby Sands and hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["no concessions, no possible concessions on political status"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 12 Mo Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("N.I. Prisons Protest: Developments 9-11 January: Irish Media Reactions") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 25 We Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO (messages to the Taoiseach and Dermot Nally regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze) [need for Irish help in countering "clever mischief" regarding prison dispute] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 13 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Whitmore minute to MT ("Sands") [background briefing on Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 16 Th Major Northern Ireland: FCO to Alexander via UKHC New Delhi ("Maze Hunger Strike") [Bobby Sands' "deteriorating fast"] [declassified 2011]