Archive

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 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (hunger strikes at HMP Maze and the European Commission of Human Rights) [ways for activating the Commission] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr John Hume MEP, 13 May") [briefing for MT] [declassified 2011]
81 May 13 We Major Northern Ireland: Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich message to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["Having already appealed to the hunger strikers on several occasions to give up their fast, I now repeat my earnest request to you and the Cabinet in London to abandon the inflexible policy [regarding] prison dress..."] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 720 to UKE Washington (1059Z) (MT's response to message from the Four Horsemen) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 (briefing for MT's meeting with Jim Molyneaux) [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Molyneaux-Atkins-Gow-Alexander) [hunger strike at HMP Maze, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Foot-Hattersley-Concannon-Atkins-Gow-Alexander) [incomplete] [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: CG New York telegram 12 to UKE Washington (2105Z) ("Northern Ireland: Hunger Strike") [demonstrations outside British Government offices in New York] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1489 to FCO (2205Z) ("Prime Minister's Reply to the Four Horsemen") [hunger strike at HMP Maze; Ted Kennedy issues statement in reply to MT] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: Gilmour minute to MT ("Information Work on Northern Ireland Overseas") [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: Stephens record of conversation (Stephens-Paisley) [Paisley angry at length of meeting with MT offered to him] [declassified 2011]
81 May 14 Th Major Northern Ireland: Paisley message to MT (Paisley angry at length of MT's meeting with John Hume) ["Considering that you are reported to have given Mr Hume...some 60-90 minutes to put the case of the IRA murderers I regard your offer of 15 minutes for me to make representations...as a calculated insult"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 15 Fr Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Cardinal Thomas O'Fiaich (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["the solution does not lie in our hands. It lies with the hunger strikers themselves..."] [declassified 2011]
81 May 15 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Prison Protests in Northern Ireland") [paper on the handling of protests] [declassified 2011]
81 May 17 Su Major Northern Ireland: Father Bryan McCreesh message to MT (hunger strike of Raymond McCreesh) ["I beg you to respect his dignity and save him"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("ECHR") [hunger strike at HMP Maze and the European Commission of Human Rights] [declassified 2011]
81 May 18 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Armstrong-Marshall) ["Maze Protestors and the European Human Rights Commission"] [declassified 2011]
81 May 19 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Prison Protests in Northern Ireland") [declassified 2011]
81 May 19 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Ingham minute to Whitmore (Raymond McCreesh's hunger strike at HMP Maze) [transcript of conversation between Raymond and Father Bryan McCreesh] [declassified 2011]
81 May 19 Tu Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Paisley (arranging a meeting with Paisley) [responding to Paisley's concerns about MT's longer meeting with John Hume] [declassified 2011]