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1981 Jul 3 - 1981 Aug 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/506
Ireland (Hunger strike at the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland; the 'Dirty Protest') (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 335
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81 Jul 3 Fr Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Gilmour-Pym-Atkins-Alison-Armstrong-Stowe-Woodfield) [hunger strike at HMP Maze: "The Prime Minister said that she felt no concession could be made to the hunger strikers in any way"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 3 Fr Major Northern Ireland: No.10 minute to MT (Alison's meeting with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace) ["no real progress has been made"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 3 Fr Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Henderson) [situation in Northern Ireland, US views on Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 4 Sa Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Alison) [first phone call: hunger strike at HMP Maze; talks with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 4 Sa Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Alison) [second phone call: hunger strike at HMP Maze; talks with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 4 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of telephone conversation (Northern Irish Channel-NIO Official) [statement from pro-hunger strikes source regarding Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 4 Sa Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office message to Cabinet Office (Alison's statement on his meeting with Irish Commission for Justice and Peace) [statement by HMP Maze prisoners] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 6 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: The Hunger Strike") [latest developments] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 6 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Whitelaw-Gilmour-Pym-Woodfield) [hunger strike at HMP Maze; Atkins' minute; Alison's meetings with the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace; prisoners' statement] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 6 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Hunger Strike") [conversations with channel in Northern Ireland: prisoners' statement] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 6 Mo Major Northern Ireland: No.10 minute ("Hunger Strike: Message to be sent through the channel") [HMG prepared to issue statement making certain concessions if and only if it leads to immediate end of hunger strike] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 7 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: the Hunger Strike") [unsatisfactory response to message sent through the channel; draft statement on Alison's talks with Irish Commisssion for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 8 We Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike") [statement by Taoiseach Fitzgerald on death of Joe McDonnell; hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 8 We Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Atkins-Woodfield-Unknown) [hunger strike at HMP Maze] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 10 Fr Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("Hunger Strike, Media Reactions") ["I am becoming increasingly worried at the way in which our handling of the hunger strike is being seen in Dublin"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 10 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Taoiseach Fitzgerald letter to MT (hunger strike at HMP Maze) [Fitzgerald urges MT to accept prison regime recommended by the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 11 Sa Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2100 to FCO (0009Z) ("Northern Ireland: Visit of the Minister of State: Mr Michael Alison MP") [hunger strike at HMP Maze, situation in Northern Ireland] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin to FCO ("H Blocks") [hunger strike at HMP Maze; serious problems anticipated if Kieran Doherty dies; "recruitment into the IRA...now much greater than recruitment into the Irish Army"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: MT message to Taoiseach Fitzgerald (hunger strike at HMP Maze) ["I do beg of you not to be misled into thinking that this problem is susceptible of an easy solution"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 14 Tu Major Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Carrington) [hunger strike at HMP Maze; Carrington says it is "essential that there should not be another death in the Maze...without HMG having been seen to do something"] [declassified 2011]