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1984 Apr 10 - 1984 Jun 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1286
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 16)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 296
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84 May 24 Th Major Northern Ireland: Goodall draft note for the record (No.10 meeting on policy) [Nally proposals on territorial integrity] [declassified 2014]
84 May 31 Th Major Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Coles (“Anglo-Irish Affairs: Northern Ireland”) [FitzGerald “prepared to seek to amend the territorial provisions of the Irish Constitution”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 7 Th Major Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Coles (“Anglo-Irish Affairs: Visit by the Tanaiste”) [Spring “a figure of crucial importance in Dr Fitzgerald’s Coalition Government”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 11 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Goodall (“Anglo-Irish Affairs: Visit by the Tanaiste”) [MT unable to meet Spring] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 27 Fr Major Northern Ireland: FitzGerald letter to MT (New Ireland Forum report) [“an important event in the political development of this State and for our relations with you and indeed with Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 1 Tu Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to FitzGerald (New Ireland Forum report) [“We shall do our best to avoid saying things which could make it harder for you and us to continue the dialogue”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 3 Th Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Forum Report: Irish Political Comment”) [press conferences and statements] [declassified 2014]
84 May 3 Th Major Northern Ireland: UUP paper (“The Way Forward”) [devolution and the Northern Ireland Assembly] [declassified 2014]
84 May 18 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Ulster Special Constabulary Association telegram to MT (situation) [“For goodness sake Mrs Thatcher, recognise the deficiencies, insucurity [sic] in Northern Ireland and do something about it”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 22 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Alison record of conversation (Molyneaux-MT meeting) [MT “saw no possibility at present of extending the early timescale of the renewal Order”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 25 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Department of Transport letter to Stuart Connolly (“United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland Land Border”) [post at Newry] [declassified 2014]
84 May 28 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Ultey note to Alison (meeting with Prior) [response to Forum report] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 12 Tu Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Anglo/Irish Relations”) [MT-FitzGerald bilateral: “damp down any public expectation of substantial developments”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 18 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Meeting with Irish Ambassador: 18 June 1984”) [Irish willingness to make constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 18 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Taylor letter to Butler (Danny Morrison’s possible election to European Parliament) [“the NIO have drawn attention to the risk of widening support for PIRA if we were seen to obstruct his duties”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 19 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Labour party press release (Kinnock-Spring joint statement) [support for New Ireland Forum report] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 21 Th Major Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (No.10 meeting on Northern Ireland) [Irish constitution, re-partition, future action] [declassified 2014]
84 May 24 Th Major Northern Ireland: Molyneaux minute to Alison (direct rule) [practicalities of renewal] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 28 Th Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Dr FitzGerald’s Visit to London on 27 June”) [Taoiseach’s “wish that Anglo-Irish relations should not become an object of party controversy in the United Kingdom”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 23 We Minor Northern Ireland: Prior PS to No.10 (programme for Charles Powell) [draft itinerary] [declassified 2014]