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1981 Apr 22 - 1981 May 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/504
Ireland (Hunger strike at the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland; the 'Dirty Protest') (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 267
Any docs withheld? 2

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81 Apr 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: MT message to Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich (Bobby Sands the hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["The fact remains that the hunger strike is in support of a demand for political status: the concessions which the hunger strikers are seeking on dress and work are in pursuit of that demand"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 23 Th Major Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Whitelaw-Atkins-Stowe-Blelloch-Fifoot-Whitmore-Boys Smith) ["Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike in the Maze Prison and the European Commission on Human Rights"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 23 Th Major Northern Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Letter to Irish MPs") [suggested changes to draft letter to Irish MPs regarding Bobby Sands and the hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 27 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins) [Bobby Sands and the European Commission, position of Taoiseach Haughey, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Armstrong-Marshall) ["Maze Protestors and the European Human Rights Commission"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foot-Hattersley-Concannon-Atkins-Gow-Alexander) [incomplete] [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Irish Ambassador to London, Dr. Eamon Kennedy-Atkins-Alexander) [Anglo-Irish relations, Irish election, hunger strike at HMP Maze, European Commission of Human Rights, IRA] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 13 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Hume-Atkins-Alexander) [situation in Northern Ireland, hunger strike at HMP Maze, terrorism] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Molyneaux-Atkins-Gow-Alexander) [hunger strike at HMP Maze, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Alexander-Dermot Nally) [situation in Northern Ireland following death of Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 25 Sa Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Atkins) [Bobby Sands and the European Commission, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("ECHR") [hunger strike at HMP Maze and the European Commission of Human Rights] [declassified 2011]
81 May 4 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Funeral of Robert Sands") [arrangements for funeral and potential unrest] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 25 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: The Hunger Strike and Law and Order") [Bobby Sands in "imminent danger of death"; demonstrations in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr John Hume MEP, 13 May") [briefing for MT] [declassified 2011]
81 May 15 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prison Protests in Northern Ireland") [paper on the handling of protests] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (briefing for MT's meeting with Jim Molyneaux) [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (hunger strikes at HMP Maze and the European Commission of Human Rights) [ways for activating the Commission] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 24 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office minute ("Bobby Sands and ECHR") [application to ECHR by Marcella Sands to request that HMG allows a delegation from the Commission to meet with Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 29 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Atkins-Father Magee, Pope's envoy) [Magee's visit to Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]