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PREM19/1285
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 15)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 249
Any docs withheld? 6

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84 Mar 15 Th Major Northern Ireland: FitzGerald address (advance text of speech to joint meeting of Congress) [“not one of us, in Britain or in Ireland, is free of some guilt for what has been happening in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 16 Fr Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (Prior-MT meeting on Maze prison) [“Action must be taken to ensure that control was effective”] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 29 Th Major Northern Ireland: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram to FCO (“European Parliament: Haagerup Report on Northern Ireland”) [“a special group of Commissioners would consider measures for Ireland, in particular trans-frontier projects”] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 29 Th Major Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Coles (“Mr Haughey and the British”) [attitude “reflects and influences the large nationalist element in the Irish electorate”] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 30 Fr Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to NIO (“Northern Ireland: Haagerup Report”) [Barry “said it offered new hope to the people of both traditions”] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 30 Fr Major Northern Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin (“Border Road Closures”) [Prior to Barry: “Our security forces have … been making a thorough survey of crossing points”] [declassified 2014]