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1986 Mar 1 - 1986 Apr 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1812
Ireland (Meetings with the Taoiseach) (Part 12)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 307
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86 Mar 27 Th Major Ireland: No.10 minute to MT (Molyneaux proposal of meeting to discuss situation in Northern Ireland) [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 2 We Major Ireland: No.10 minute: Flesher to Powell, Wicks, MT (Tom King proposal for candidates at Northern Ireland Assembly and District Council elections to denounce terrorism) ["...obvious attractions but... implications for electoral law... [and] problems in making the requirement stick..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 2 We Major Ireland: Molyneaux & Paisley letter to MT (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["We are of course anxious to find a way out of the present impasse, but the terms of your letter... sadly rejects consultation in favour of confrontation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 7 Mo Major Ireland: Northern Ireland Office briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Brookeborough and Lord Moyola to discuss the current political situation in Northern Ireland) [Anglo-Irish Agreement; devolution; dialogue with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 7 Mo Major Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) ["Northern Ireland": security; dialogue with unionists] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 7 Mo Major Ireland: Cabinet Office record of conversation (dialogue with the unionists) [Robert Armstrong, Irish Ambassador] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 9 We Major Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Moyola, Lord Brookeborough) ["[MT] spoke forcefully of the need for moderates in Northern Ireland to stop wringing their hands and to come forward with practical proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 9 We Major Ireland: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Northern Ireland") ["...events of Easter Monday and the attacks by loyalist elements on members of the [RUC]... increasing polarisation in the unionist community and the question... [of] dialogue with the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 10 Th Major Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT,Tom King) [proposed reply to Molyneaux and Paisley] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 10 Th Major Ireland: King PS letter to No.10 (draft reply to James Kilfedder MP) [proposal to write to the Queen requesting she host a Conference to resolve political deadlock in Northern Ireland post-Anglo/Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 18 Fr Major Ireland: MT letter to Archbishop of Armagh (negotiations in the wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement) [offer of assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 18 Fr Major Ireland: King PS letter to No.10 (Police Federation for Northern Ireland) [Eldon Griffiths MP proposal that MT meet with the Federation; records of Ministerial conversations with the Federation] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 21 Mo Major Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting with Sir Eldon Griffiths") [attacks on the RUC; Tom King keen to be present at meeting but Policy Unit advises against] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 23 We Major Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King) [situation in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Apr 24 Th Major Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Eldon Griffiths) [role of the RUC in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]