1984 Oct 6 - 1984 Oct 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1288
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 17B)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Top Secret |
| Page count: | 239 |
| Any docs withheld? | 3 |
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Selections from this file
Showing items 21 - 40 of 52
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 84 Oct 17 We | Major | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Nally talks: package of security arrangements] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 17 We | Major | Northern Ireland: Goodison record of conversation (“Anglo-Irish relations”) [FitzGerald “regarded it as absolutely essential that HMG should be seen to be taking action on the ground in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 17 We | Major | Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Irish Gun-Running”) [US Customs action against ship owner] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 17 We | Major | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Visit to Ireland by United States Bishops”) [“Everyone they had met had placed their hopes for political change on the Anglo-Irish Summit”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [account of secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (record of conversation between UK Ambassador to Dublin and Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell: "This shows Dr Fitzgerald wildly over-optimistic...we are in a different world following the Brighton bomb"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks; MT: "'the bomb' has slowed things down and may in the end kill any new initiative"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [“anxious that neither you nor I should be accused later of misleading the Unionists”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [talks with Irish leaders] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 18 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“We agreed that the exchanges were continuing on a basis of no commitment by either side”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Major | Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 19 Fr | Major | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “has commented that the terrorist bomb in Brighton has slowed these confidential talks down”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 20 Sa | Major | Northern Ireland: Powell letter to Armstrong (Anglo-Irish talks) ["The Prime Minister thinks that the Ambassador did well to make clear to the Taoiseach that there was no possibility of reaching agreement on 19 November"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 20 Sa | Major | Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on record of Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 20 Sa | Major | Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “does not agree with the proposal put forward by the Irish side for a Ministerial Committee for Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 23 Tu | Major | Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["[I] continue to believe that the process we are engaged on represents the least unpromising way forward on the Northern Ireland question"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 23 Tu | Major | Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland”) [“there has been a marked increase of realism and lowering of expectations on the Irish side”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Major | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [plan for informing Unionist parties of Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Major | Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT on Howe's minute: "Her general comment is that she is becoming very pessimistic about this exercise"] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Oct 24 We | Major | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Hurd meetings with Irish and Northern Irish leaders] [declassified 2014] |