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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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79 May 10 Thu Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jack Lynch) [Northern Ireland; economic matters] [declassified Jan 2014]
79 May 31 Thu Ireland: Atkins PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Economic Cooperation") [case for continuation; MT agrees, reluctantly] [declassified Jan 2014]
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]
81 Sep 7 Mon Ireland: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Ireland") ["attached paper about the economies of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 11 Thu Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Proposal for Supply of Natural Gas to Northern Ireland from Irish Republic") ["Agreement in principle has now been reached"; details] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 23 Tue Ireland: Lawson minute to MT ("Proposal for Supply of Natural Gas to Northern Ireland from Irish Republic") ["several areas of concern"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 30 Tue Ireland: Brittan letter to Prior (project to supply natural gas from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland) ["I have some reservations about this proposal"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 13 Mon Ireland: Prior letter to Brittan (project to supply natural gas from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland) [Prior letter prompts MT query about unworked coal deposits in Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 16 Fri Ireland: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [report on E(A) sub-committee discussion on future of the project] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 4 Tue Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [contract; Heads of Agreement announcement] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 7 Fri Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Supply of Kinsale Gas from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland") [Memo of Understanding: press release] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 7 Thu Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Proposals for Supply of Natural Gas to Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland") [future of the project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 11 Mon Ireland: Howe minute to Prior ("Proposal for the Supply of Natural Gas to Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland") ["adverse effect cancellation... would have on Anglo/[I]rish relations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 22 Fri Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [options for future of project] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 25 Mon Ireland: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["our minimum requirement for going ahead"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 28 Thu Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["Simple cancellation would... damage Anglo-Irish relations"] [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]
84 Jul 2 Mon Ireland: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [options for how to proceed with project] [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 10 Tue Ireland: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (Kinsale Gas project) [concern over shift in UK position] [declassified Jan 2014]