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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/506
Ireland (Hunger strike at the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland; the 'Dirty Protest') (Part 5)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 335

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Date Value Title
81 Aug 5 We Major Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Overseas Information Effort on Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 5 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike and ICRC Report") [latest developments; Atkins believes there is no case for a new Government initiative at this point] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 6 Th Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [Irish Government feels that "HMG did not understand the seriousness of the current H-Blocks crisis", makes new proposals for ending hunger strike] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 6 Th Major Northern Ireland: FCO to UKE Dublin ("Hunger Strike") [HMG does not believe that Irish plan would be sufficient to end the hunger strike] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 6 Th Major Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 139 to UKMIS Geneva (1740Z) ("ICRC and Northern Ireland") [HMG "surprised" at ICRC view there are "only minor differences" betweem HMG and hunger strikers] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 7 Fr Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [Irish Administration "disappointed to hear that [HMG] had apparently very little left to offer"] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 7 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to FCO (Atkins' response to statement by Belfast Republican Press Centre on behalf of H Block prisoners) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 13 Th Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("H Blocks: Statement by Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs") [Irish policy on Northern Ireland; hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 13 Th Major Northern Ireland: FCO to UKE Dublin ("Statements by Mr O'Leary and Mr Kelly") [HMG response to Irish Administration statements on policy toward Northern Ireland and hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 14 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike and Related Matters") [recent developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 19 We Major Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 1236 to UKE Washington (1715Z) ("Northern Ireland: Information Effort (Visits)") [plan for sending all-party group of moderate MPs to US] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 19 We Major Northern Ireland: Archbishop of Canterbury letter to MT (proposals on hunger strike at HMP Maze) [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 20 Th Major Northern Ireland: FCO to UK Embassies and Missions ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strikes and the Five Demands") [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 20 Th Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2465 to FCO (2237Z) ("Northern Ireland: Information Effort (Visits)") [hunger strike at HMP Maze: visit to US of moderate Northern Ireland politicians "could be immensely valuable"] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 20 Th Major Northern Ireland: Sharon McCloskey letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["My brother Liam is now on his nineteenth day of hunger stike...I am making a plea to you to save my brother's life"] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 21 Fr Major Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("IRA Propaganda Film") [IRA film reportedly being made in Belgium] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 24 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Owen Carron MP message to MT (urgent request for a meeting "regarding criticial situation in the H Blocks") [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 24 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (consequences of the Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 26 We Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Owen Carron MP (response to Carron's request for an urgent meeting with MT) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 27 Th Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Archbishop of Canterbury (hunger strike at HMP Maze) [negative response to proposals passed on by Archbishop] [declassified 2011]