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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Selections from this file
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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 84 Jul 2 Mo | Major | Ireland: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") [options for how to proceed with project] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Jun 8 Mo | Minor | 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] |
| 79 May 31 Th | Major | Ireland: Atkins PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Economic Cooperation") [case for continuation; MT agrees, reluctantly] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Nov 30 Tu | Major | 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] |
| 84 Jul 17 Tu | Major | Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Kinsale Gas") [future of "now totally uneconomic" project] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 81 Sep 7 Mo | Major | Ireland: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Ireland") ["attached paper about the economies of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Sep 16 Fr | Major | 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] |
| 84 Aug 17 Fr | Major | 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 We | Major | Ireland: FCO telegram to UKE Dublin ("Kinsale Gas") [lines to take on failure of the project] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 28 Th | Major | Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["Simple cancellation would... damage Anglo-Irish relations"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 23 Mo | Major | 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 Jun 11 Mo | Major | 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] |
| 82 Nov 23 Tu | Major | Ireland: Lawson minute to MT ("Proposal for Supply of Natural Gas to Northern Ireland from Irish Republic") ["several areas of concern"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 25 Mo | Major | Ireland: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Kinsale Gas") ["our minimum requirement for going ahead"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 16 Mo | Major | Ireland: Lord Cockfield PS letter to Prior PS ("Kinsale Gas") [Cockfield questions the gas price projections] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Aug 15 We | Major | Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach FitzGerald ("Kinsale Gas") [failure of the project] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 30 Mo | Major | Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach FitzGerald (supply of Kinsale Gas to Northern Ireland) [future of project; Anglo-Irish relations] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 17 Tu | Major | Ireland: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Kinsale Gas") [future of project] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 79 May 10 Th | Major | Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jack Lynch) [Northern Ireland; economic matters] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 4 We | Major | 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] |