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PREM19/1293
Ireland (Hunger strike at the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 106
Any docs withheld? 3

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81 Aug 28 Fr Major Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation ("Mr Alison's meeting with Mr Owen Carron - Friday 28 August 1981") [Michael Alison, Carron: Maze hunger strikes] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 2 We Major Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 317 to FCO (1300Z) ("H Blocks: Meeting between Haughey and Carron") [Maze hunger strikes - Haughey's equivocal stance on the five demands] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 3 Th Major Ireland: MT letter to Miss Sharon McCloskey (Maze hunger strikes) ["demands... which no Government could concede"] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 3 Th Major Ireland: MT letter to Lord Brockway (Maze hunger strikes) [declines offer to mediate] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 4 Fr Major Ireland: UKE Brussels telegram 139 to FCO (1430Z) ("IRA Propaganda Film") [Belgian Government explanation of financial support they gave the film; no evidence of political animus; thoughtless, low level] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 11 Fr Major Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) [extract - "Northern Ireland": Maze hunger strikes] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 14 Mo Major Ireland: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("IRA Propaganda Film") ["allegedly... being made in Belgium"; details] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 14 Mo Major Ireland: Cabinet Office letter to Sir Michael Palliser (Owen Carron MP and Sean Sands visit to Paris) [details] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 15 Tu Major Ireland: MT letter to Mrs P. McCloskey (Maze hunger strikes) [declines request for meeting; offers sympathy & emphasises Government's position] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 18 Fr Major Ireland: Church of Ireland press release ("Connor Diocesan Synod") [Bishop of Connor speech on the hunger strikes] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 19 Sa Major Ireland: UKE Havana telegram 230 to FCO (1650Z) ("Castro and Northern Ireland") [two and a half hours of private conversation with Castro, almost all on Northern Ireland] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 23 We Major Ireland: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: ICRC Report on Prisons") [progress report on No.10 request for diplomatic dialogue] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Sep 29 Tu Major Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 335 to FCO (1240Z) ("Revision of Constitution: Reactions from Fianna Fail") ["Taoiseach's remarks... attacked by the Fianna Fail leader"; summary of press reports] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 2 Fr Major Ireland: UKMIS Geneva telegram 324 to FCO (1713Z) ("ICRC and Northern Ireland") [Red Cross report on visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 2 Fr Major Ireland: FCO guidance telegram 138 to Immediate Certain Missions and Dependent Territories (1630z) ("Northern Ireland") [summary of recent FitzGerald comments in media; line to take; background] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 4 Su Major Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 344 to FCO (1430Z) ("End of Hunger Strike: Reactions from Politicians in the Irish Republic") [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 5 Mo Major Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2972 to FCO (2225Z) ("Northern Ireland: CBS '60 Minutes'") [proposed amendments] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 5 Mo Major Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 346 to FCO (1055Z) ("End of Hunger Strike: Irish Media Reactions") [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 5 Mo Major Ireland: FCO telegram 153 to UKE Dublin (1825Z) ("Northern Ireland: End of Hunger Strike: Statement by Northern Ireland Secretary of State") [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Oct 6 Tu Major Ireland: UKE Rome telegram 398 to FCO (1615Z) ("End of IRA Hunger Strikes: Italian press reactions") [declassified Jan 2014]