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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 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") [South Tyrone and Fermanagh by-election] [declassified 2011]
81 May 19 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Prison Protests in Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Alexander (John Hume to ask for concenssions from HMG for prisoners) [hunger strike at HMG Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 22 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Sanders (Dermot Nally and Taoiseach Haughey concerned about implications of Sands' death) [concern that "if Mr. Sands died in the next five or six days , "the whole area would go up in flames""] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 27 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Stowe (Armstrong talks with Dermot Nally regarding views of Taoiseach Haughey on Bobby Sands) ["They wondered whether we might simply let Sands go, on the ground that, as a Member of Parliament, he was unique"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT (developments in Northern Ireland following Sands' death and funeral) [hunger strike at HMG Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich message to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["Having already appealed to the hunger strikers on several occasions to give up their fast, I now repeat my earnest request to you and the Cabinet in London to abandon the inflexible policy [regarding] prison dress..."] [declassified 2011]
81 May 17 Su Major Northern Ireland: Father Bryan McCreesh message to MT (hunger strike of Raymond McCreesh) ["I beg you to respect his dignity and save him"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 24 Fr Major Northern Ireland: FCO to Alexander via UKE Salalah ("Maze Hunger Strike") [response to Taoiseach Haughey's concerns and offer of help] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Gaffin minute to Sanders (visit of Pope's personal envoy to Bobby Sands) [visit "should be trailed to PA and Reuters to avoid the risk of a misinterpreted "secret" visit"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: Gilmour minute to MT ("Information Work on Northern Ireland Overseas") [declassified 2011]
81 May 5 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Governor Carey of New York message to Carrington (Bobby Sands' hunger strike) ["I appeal to you to use your stature and influence in the Cabinet to halt this widening tragedy"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 8 Fr Minor Northern Ireland: Hermon, RUC Chief Constable letter to Atkins (thanks for letter of support) [declassified 2011]
81 May 1 Fr Major Northern Ireland: HMG message to Socialist Group of the European Parliament (Bobby Sands' hunger strike) ["I am afraid...that no useful purpose would be served by such a visit" of HMG representative to Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Hoskyns minute to Alexander ("The Hunger Strikers and John Hume") [declassified 2011]
81 May 19 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to Whitmore (Raymond McCreesh's hunger strike at HMP Maze) [transcript of conversation between Raymond and Father Bryan McCreesh] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 25 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Lankester minute to MT ("Sands") [arrangements for meeting of European Commission delegation with Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Marie Howe, Massachusetts state representative, letter to MT (death of Bobby Sands) ["We have now lost two brave Irishmen in your notorious Long Kesh concentration camp. In the name of God grant them their five demands!"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 15 Fr Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["the solution does not lie in our hands. It lies with the hunger strikers themselves..."] [declassified 2011]
81 May 19 Tu Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Paisley (arranging a meeting with Paisley) [responding to Paisley's concerns about MT's longer meeting with John Hume] [declassified 2011]