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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1069
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 14)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 274
Any docs withheld? 12

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83 Dec 8 Th Major Northern Ireland: Baroness Elles minute to MT ("Haagerup Report on Northern Ireland") [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 20 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [paper on possible policy options for Northern Ireland] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 3 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [new Irish ideas; MT: "We will explore further - but no good will come of it...I believe the risk of violence is very high"] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 3 Th Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [despite some lack of clarity about Irish ideas, "Officials nevertheless argue that it would be premature to dismiss Dr Fitzgerald's ideas out of hand"] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Butler (response to speech by Enoch Powell) ["he revived his old canard that the Northern Ireland Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were engaged in a conspiracy to work towards the creation of a united or a federal Ireland"] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 21 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 21 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland: Possible Proscription of Sinn Fein") [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 21 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [review of Joint Studies Action Check List] [declassified 2013]