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1979 May 10 - 1984 Sep 5
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1290
Ireland (Anglo-Irish economic co-operation; supply of natural gas from Irish Republic field at Kinsale to Northern Ireland)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 209
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81 Jun 8 Mon Ireland: Atkins PS letter to Lord Carrington PS ("Cooperation North") ["In view of the Anglo-Irish nature of... [its] work... attached note of a recent meeting"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 5 Wed Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Kinsale Gas") [press announcement that project will not go ahead] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 1 Sat Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Kinsale Gas") [Irish unwilling to release joint press announcement that project will not go ahead] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 17 Fri Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin ("Kinsale Gas") [draft text of joint press announcement that project will not go ahead] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 15 Wed Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Kinsale Gas") [timing of MT reply to FitzGerald confirming that project will not go ahead] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 15 Wed Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach FitzGerald ("Kinsale Gas") [failure of the project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 15 Wed Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin ("Kinsale Gas") [lines to take on failure of the project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 8 Wed Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Kinsale Gas") [Irish response to Adam Butler statement about non-viability of the project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 8 Wed Ireland: Taoiseach FitzGerald message to MT (supply of Kinsale Gas to Northern Ireland) ["I regret very much that... [you] are now proposing to abandon the project"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 30 Mon Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach FitzGerald (supply of Kinsale Gas to Northern Ireland) [future of project; Anglo-Irish relations] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mon Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Renegotiation of the deal to supply Kinsale Gas from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland") [future of project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 17 Tue Ireland: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Kinsale Gas") [future of project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 17 Tue Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Kinsale Gas") [future of "now totally uneconomic" project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mon Ireland: Lord Cockfield PS letter to Prior PS ("Kinsale Gas") [Cockfield questions the gas price projections] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 13 Fri Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [future of the project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 11 Wed Ireland: Rees PS letter to No.10 ("Kinsale Gas") [Rees claims project not commercially viable] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 10 Tue Ireland: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (Kinsale Gas project) [concern over shift in UK position] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 4 Wed Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation ("Kinsale Gas") [Adam Butler, Dick Spring: Spring "astounded" to be informed project no longer economically viable] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 2 Mon Ireland: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [options for how to proceed with project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 29 Fri Ireland: Rees minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["the scales have been tipped decisively against the project"] [declassified Jan 2014]