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1983 Aug 1 - 1983 Dec 13
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1069
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 14)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 274
Any docs withheld? 12

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83 Aug 18 Th Major Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 1370 to UKE Washington (1200Z) ("Northern Ireland: Possible Exclusion of Irish/American Visitors") [declassified 2013]
83 Aug 19 Fr Major Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 2332 to FCO (2244Z) ("Northern Ireland: Possible Exclusion of Irish/American Visitors") [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 21 We Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [review of Joint Studies Action Check List] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 22 Th Major Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's views on Irish ideas] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 26 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland Prison Escape") [report on escape of prisoners from HMP Maze, 25 September 1983] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 28 We Major Northern Ireland: FCO to UK Embassies and Missions ("Northern Ireland: Breakout from the Maze Prison") ["You should take every opportunity to limit the propaganda benefit the IRA will try to reap from the outbreak"] [declassified 2013]
83 Sep 30 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Maze Prison Escape") [report on escape of prisoners from HMP Maze, 25 September 1983; MT: "Even worse than one thought"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 3 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [new Irish ideas; MT: "We will explore further - but no good will come of it...I believe the risk of violence is very high"] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's response to new Irish ideas] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 11 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("The Maze Escape") [Prior to make statement to the House of Commons] [declassified 2013]
83 Oct 11 Tu Major Northern Ireland: Prior minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations") [Prior meets with John Hume] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 3 Th Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [despite some lack of clarity about Irish ideas, "Officials nevertheless argue that it would be premature to dismiss Dr Fitzgerald's ideas out of hand"] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Butler (response to speech by Enoch Powell) ["he revived his old canard that the Northern Ireland Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were engaged in a conspiracy to work towards the creation of a united or a federal Ireland"] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 21 Mo Major Northern Ireland: MT letter to Pastor Bain (Darkley Gospel Hall shootings) ["I deeply mourn the deaths of your elders"] [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 28 Mo Major Northern Ireland: Enoch Powell letter to Armstrong (response to Armstrong's comments on Powell's speech) [declassified 2013]
83 Nov 30 We Major Northern Ireland: UKREP Brussels to FCO ("European Parliament Report on Northern Ireland") [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("North/South Anglo-Irish Security Cooperation") [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 1 Th Major Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("European Parliament and Northern Ireland") [Haagerup report] [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th Major Northern Ireland: Baroness Elles minute to MT ("Haagerup Report on Northern Ireland") [declassified 2013]
83 Dec 13 Tu Major Northern Ireland: UK Ambassador Dublin to Howe ("The Irish Question: First Impressions from the Republic of Ireland") [declassified 2013]