1984 Jan 6 - 1984 Mar 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1285
Ireland (Situation in Northern Ireland) (Part 15)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 249 |
| Any docs withheld? | 6 |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 84 Jan 10 Tu | Major | Northern Ireland: Butler minute to Hill (paramilitary threat to Associated Foods) [Taoiseach and MT’s shared concerns] [declassified 2013] |
| 84 Jan 11 We | Major | Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (“PIRA threat to supermarket chain”) [“The PIRA had threatened to assassinate four people”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 12 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“PIRA threat to Weston supermarket chain”) [“Irish anxiety to ensure by all possible means that money does not pass to PIRA”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 16 Mo | Major | Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Armstrong (“Call by Michael Lillis”) [two messages from FitzGerald meeting with MT: “Firstly, that her mind was not closed to new ideas; but secondly that she did not want any secret talks”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 17 Tu | Major | Northern Ireland: Hill letter to Heyhoe (“Ministerial Dealings with Sinn Fein Members”) [“no Northern Ireland Office Minister will meet any Sinn Fein MP or Assembly Member”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 24 Tu | Major | Northern Ireland: Prior statement (Hennessy Report) [escape from the Maze] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 26 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: Hatfield minute to Taylor (“Destruction of the IRA”) [proposals for new security arrangements] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Jan 31 Tu | Major | Northern Ireland: Butler letter [recipient redacted] (Shipley recommendations on destruction of the IRA) [“a considerable intelligence effort is directed at Irish terrorism”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 6 Mo | Major | Northern Ireland: Goodall minute to Armstrong (“Northern Irland: The Forum”) [“affairs in the Forum had taken a turn for the better”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 6 Mo | Major | Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to NIO (“New Ireland Forum”) [progress on draft report] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 9 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: Alison record of conversation (MT meeting with John Hume) [New Ireland Forum, crime and unemployment rates, Sinn Fein] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 9 Th | Major | Northern Ireland: JIC report (“The Strategy of the Provisionals”) [aim “remains that of forcing the withdrawal of the British from Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 10 Fr | Major | Northern Ireland: CRD briefing (“Debate on the Hennessy Report on the escape from the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland”) [the report and government action; contentious points; ministerial responsibility] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 10 Fr | Major | Northern Ireland: Goodall draft record of conversation (No.10 meeting) [“A crucial precondition for any package of measures must be the Irish Government’s willingness - and ability - to deliver an acceptably formal and binding commitment to waive the Republic’s claim to the North”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 15 We | Major | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (draft speaking note) [“we do now need to consider the possibility of a new approach to the Irish question”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Feb 29 We | Major | Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (meeting between Prior and Enoch Powell) [Molyneaux’s position] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 6 Tu | Major | Northern Ireland: Coles minute to Armstrong (“Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT to meet FitzGerald at Brussels summit] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 7 We | Major | Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“the Taoiseach is heavily preoccupied with bringing the Forum to a successful conclusion (ie a consensus report)”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 13 Tu | Major | Northern Ireland: Tom Hadden and Kevin Boyle submission to Forum for a New Ireland (“analysis of the problems in Northern Ireland”) [recommends package of measures for move “towards peace and stability on the island”] [declassified 2014] |
| 84 Mar 14 We | Major | Northern Ireland: Hill minute to Coles (“Secretary of State for Northern Ireland”) [topics for discussion] [declassified 2014] |