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1981 Jul 3 - 1981 Aug 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 335
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81 Jul 15 Wed Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [in Figg's view it is "too late" to enlist the help of the International Red Cross] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 15 Wed Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike: Irish Initiative in USA") [Irish Ambassador to US appeals to Reagan to intervene in the hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 15 Wed Northern Ireland: UKMIS Geneva telegram 250 to FCO (1140Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strikers") [Atkins' statement on International Red Cross's initiative on hunger strikes at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 15 Wed Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2162 to FCO (2325Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strikers") [Atkins' statement on the International Red Cross initiative; "The immediate reaction [in the US Administration] has been one of relief" that Red Cross is involved] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 16 Thu Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike: Media Reactions") [reaction to Atkins' statement on the International Red Cross initiative; statements by Taoiseach Fitzgerald] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 16 Thu Northern Ireland: Members of US Congress letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["it is the responsibility of the British Government to seek every possible means to end the strike before any additional deaths occur"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 17 Fri Conservative Party: Atkins letter to MT ("Party Conference 1981") [Atkins inclined to seek a debate on Northern Ireland during Party Conference] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 17 Fri Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike") [FCO advises against allowing the Friends of Ireland to send a delegation to HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 17 Fri Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (adding glucose to water of hunger strikers) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 18 Sat Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Woodfield) ["The Maze hunger strike"; contacts with hunger strikers] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 21 Tue Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Hunger Strike") [update on hunger strike at HMP Maze; message sent to hunger strikers through channel] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 24 Fri Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [UK Ambassador to Dublin meets with Professor Dooge; Dooge warns that Anglo-Irish relations "would suffer if we did not use more imagination in the matter of Brendan McFarlane"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 27 Mon Northern Ireland: MT letter to Ted Kennedy (reply to letter from members of US Congress regarding hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["I am convinced that we have acted honourably throughout"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 28 Tue Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("The Prime Minister's Letter to Senator Kennedy and Others") [hunger strike at HMP Maze: Irish Administration unhappy with claims about Irish stance in MT's letter to Kennedy] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 30 Thu Northern Ireland: UKMIS Geneva telegram 267 to FCO (1616Z) ("ICRC and Northern Ireland") [ICRC's central recommendation; MT: "This is serious - the ICRC was not asked to act as arbitrator"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 30 Thu Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2299 to FCO (2355Z) ("Irish Prime Minister's Letter to President Reagan") [Reagan's "masterfully non-commital" reply to Fitzgerald's letter] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 30 Thu Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Message to the Four Horsemen") [comment on Irish Administration's reaction to MT's letter on hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 30 Thu Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Hunger Strike") [Gerry Adams comments that if hunger strikers choose to end their action this would cause no embarrassment to Sinn Fein; Atkins' proposed response] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 31 Fri Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [Taoiseach Fitzgerald statement] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 5 Wed Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2333 to FCO (0021Z) ("Northern Ireland Hunger Strike") [attempts by Irish Nationalist organisations to organise boycotts of British goods; Four Horsemen's letter to Reagan] [declassified 2011]