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1981 Apr 22 - 1981 May 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/504
Ireland (Hunger strike at the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland; the 'Dirty Protest') (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 267
Any docs withheld? 2

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81 Apr 13 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-John Hume-Atkins-Alexander) [situation in Northern Ireland, hunger strike at HMP Maze, terrorism] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 22 We Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO (meeting of British Ambassador to Dublin with Taoiseach Haughey) ["[Haughey] said he was very worried about the recent violence in the north and feared it could spill over into the Republic if Sands dies"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 22 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Sanders (Dermot Nally and Taoiseach Haughey concerned about implications of Sands' death) [concern that "if Mr. Sands died in the next five or six days , "the whole area would go up in flames""] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 23 Th Major Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Whitelaw-Atkins-Stowe-Blelloch-Fifoot-Whitmore-Boys Smith) ["Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike in the Maze Prison and the European Commission on Human Rights"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 23 Th Major Northern Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("Letter to Irish MPs") [suggested changes to draft letter to Irish MPs regarding Bobby Sands and the hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 24 Fr Major Northern Ireland: FCO to Alexander via UKE Salalah ("Maze Hunger Strike") [response to Taoiseach Haughey's concerns and offer of help] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 24 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office minute ("Bobby Sands and ECHR") [application to ECHR by Marcella Sands to request that HMG allows a delegation from the Commission to meet with Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 25 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Lankester minute to MT ("Sands") [arrangements for meeting of European Commission delegation with Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 25 Sa Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Atkins) [Bobby Sands and the European Commission, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 25 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland: The Hunger Strike and Law and Order") [Bobby Sands in "imminent danger of death"; demonstrations in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 26 Su Major Northern Ireland: Sanders minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [updates on condition of Bobby Sands and situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 27 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Stowe (Armstrong talks with Dermot Nally regarding views of Taoiseach Haughey on Bobby Sands) ["They wondered whether we might simply let Sands go, on the ground that, as a Member of Parliament, he was unique"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 27 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Telegrams from Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich and other Catholic churchmen to MT (Cardinals urge MT to implement proposals on prison dress and work) ["This now seems the only way to avoid deaths in prison and widespread violence outside"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 27 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins) [Bobby Sands and the European Commission, position of Taoiseach Haughey, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1319 to FCO (2220Z) ("Northern Ireland: US Media Coverage of Hunger Strike") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Gaffin minute to Sanders (visit of Pope's personal envoy to Bobby Sands) [visit "should be trailed to PA and Reuters to avoid the risk of a misinterpreted "secret" visit"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 28 Tu Major Northern Ireland: MT message to Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich (Bobby Sands the hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["The fact remains that the hunger strike is in support of a demand for political status: the concessions which the hunger strikers are seeking on dress and work are in pursuit of that demand"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 29 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Atkins-Father Magee, Pope's envoy) [Magee's visit to Bobby Sands] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 29 We Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [likely impact of Sands' death] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 29 We Major Northern Ireland: Socialist Group of the European Parliament message to MT (Bobby Sands' hunger strike) ["We suggest that the Government send a representative to talk with Mr Sands in an effort to break the deadlock"] [declassified 2011]