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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 23 We Minor Northern Ireland: Prior PS to No.10 (programme for Charles Powell) [draft itinerary] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 15 Fr Minor Northern Ireland: Butler note to MT (future of Ireland meetings) [Alison’s request to attend] [declassified 2014]
84 May 22 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Prior PS note to FCO (Barry visit to London) [request to meet with Prior] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 6 We Major Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Ulster Special Constabulary Association”) [“There has been a steady build up in terrorist violence by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 11 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Mr Spring’s Visit to London”) [“it might be tactful to ofer a meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe or Mr Prior”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 15 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Visit by Mr Spring”) [“he feels that a meeting with Mr Prior in these circumstances would attract undue publicity and attention”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 14 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [post-Forum realities] [declassified 2014]
84 May 23 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [New Ireland Forum report] [declassified 2014]
84 May 23 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“options available to us in the light of Mr Nally’s approach”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 5 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [amendments to Irish constitution] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 12 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [papers on “problems involved in any proposals for re-partition or re-drawing the boundaries of Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (“European Council: Meeting with the Taoiseach”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 18 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“Irish Govermment would be ready to have it solemnly declared and registered with the United Nations that there could be no change in the present position of Northern Ireland without the consent of a majority of the people of the Province”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [meeting “to assess the position reached in our secret exchanges with the Irish”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 27 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [Irish constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 10 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Prior letter to Elles (Haagerup report) [“appreciation of all your efforts to secure a reasonably favourable outcome”] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 10 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Northern Ireland prisons”) [“some prison officers were so intimidated by fear of attack outside the prison that they were turning a blind eye to some of the rules”] [declassified 2014]
84 Apr 26 Th Major Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“New Ireland Forum”) [“The report is disappointing”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 1 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Forum Report”) [“The Irish would like us to say very little and leave them to make the running”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 22 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Political Development”) [“We have to recognise that any attempt at political advance carries risk, including a deterioration in security”] [declassified 2014]