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PREM19/1289
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 18)

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Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 147
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81 Sep 3 Thu Northern Ireland: MT letters to Miss Sharon and Mrs P McCloskey (hunger strike: response to letters about Liam McCloskey) ["despite what is said and written by some people about my attitude to the hunger strike, I very much regret that young men have been prepared to throw away their lives"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 1 Thu Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [briefing on Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 1 Thu Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on draft position paper] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 5 Mon Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [account of Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 9 Fri Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (Taoiseach Fitzgerald's views on repartition in Northern Ireland) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 14 Wed Northern Ireland: Unknown author minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Industrial Bank") [possible bank collapse] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fri Northern Ireland: Hurd letter to MT ("The Council of Europe and Northern Ireland") [handling of Council of Europe Reports on Northern Ireland] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fri Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Summit") [Irish Foreign Minister Peter Barry speech on summit] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fri Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (Hurd meeting with John Hume) [Hume's thoughts on Anglo-Irish talks/relations] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fri Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT (proposed MT meeting with John Hume) ["You have every reason to be fed up with Hume. But a meeting would help cool things with the Republic"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 26 Mon Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [comments on Irish Foreign Minister's speech; it was "an attempt to start the fence-mending process"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 29 Thu Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo/Irish Relations and Irish Politics") [assessment of current state of relations and politics: Fitzgerald's "standing in the party and with the public is now very low"] [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 29 Thu Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo/Irish Relations") [note of Hurd-Paisley-Robinson meeting] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 1 Sat Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO (text of speech by Irish Foreign Minister Peter Barry) [Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 1 Sat Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["general feeling of frustration and despair" on part of Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 5 Wed Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [reaction to MT's remarks on Anglo/Irish relations at Dublin Castle press conference] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mon Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [planning for next Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 12 Wed Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo/Irish Relations") [request for guidance on way forward in Anglo/Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 14 Fri Northern Ireland: Paisley letter to MT (finding of US court that IRA members cannot be extradicted) [ruling "raises serious questions of the United States sincerity in her fight against terrorism"] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 18 Tue Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (report on Armstrong-Nally talks) [MT: "This whole minute shows that the Irish want more than we can give and always will"] [declassified 2014]