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PREM19/1287
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 17A)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 219
Any docs withheld? 6

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84 Jul 3 Tu Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Forum Debate: Press Comment”) [“on largely predictable lines”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 4 We Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Forum Debate”) [Irish reaction to Prior’s speech] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 4 We Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Forum Report”) [impact of an agreement on Irish politics] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 11 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [meeting with Nally: “aim will be to get the Irish to recognise that ‘joint authority’ as envisaged in the Nally proposals is not available”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 19 Th Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“the Government would be prepared to consider a significant role for the Government of the Republic in the North”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fr Major Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (“Discussion with Irish Ambassador - 19 July 1984”) [Irish “suspicion that we do not fully appreciate the importance of what the Irish are trying to do”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 24 Tu Major Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (“Note of a discussion with HM Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland on 24 July 1984”) [“members of the Irish Cabinet were worried about the inter-party talks which were being initiated”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 25 We Major Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT (“Transfer of power to make regulations under the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1974 to the Lord Chancellor”) [Hailsham agrees to the transfer] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 3 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Nally “said that, at first sight, the British approach appeared to the Irish side to be inadequate”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 4 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Enoch Powell speech (Ulster in peril) [“Ulster representation in a Dublin parliament means the end of the Union”]
84 Aug 6 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Andrew (Prior’s visit to Dublin) [MT said “it is not to be called a farewell visit because other arrangements will still be in the air”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 6 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Hatfield (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT thinks “Irish expectations remain unrealistic”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 6 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Hatfield (“Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Visit to Dublin”) [MT “wishes very careful attention [to be] paid to public handling of the visit”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 12 Su Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2540 to FCO (2206Z) (“Galvin Incident, Belfast, 12 August”) [“There is no love lost between Biaggi and the more moderate Irish-American congressional leadership”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Flesher telegram to MT (Galvin incident) [decision to exclude Galvin “looked like a ‘bad mistake’”] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Press tape story (Galvin incident) [Prior takes responsibility for mistakes]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Kinnock letter to MT (Galvin incident) [seeks independent inquiry] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Flesher minute for MT (Galvin incident) [Prior comments and Kinnock call for enquiry] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 17 Fr Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Kinnock (Galvin incident) [with drafts] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Irish Government Statements”) [Barry “said the Irish Government hoped the Anglo-Irish Summit would be a major step forward”] [declassified 2014]