Ireland’s Charles and Diana wedding ‘snub’ along with five other curious tales
Finding a ‘face-saving’ name for the new NI police force; Trinity College Dublin takes offence; and Casement’s ‘black diaries’
Finding a ‘face-saving’ name for the new NI police force; Trinity College Dublin takes offence; and Casement’s ‘black diaries’
Difference in fuel prices meant terrorists could profit by buying fuel in Republic and bringing it across Border, said Northern Ireland secretary Mandelson
British government came under pressure from Sinn Féin in 2000 to give immunity to republicans who were ‘on the run’ for offences from before the Belfast Agreement
State papers: Newly-released files show how the signatories to the Belfast Agreement came to view it as the least worst option
State papers: An MP colleague also remarked that Mandelson’s tunnel vision was his greatest strength and his greatest weakness
Records released by Irish and British archives include details of a ‘republican’ artefact thief and a ‘radical’ UK proposal to hold asylum seekers on a Scottish island
State papers: Canadian diplomat could not understand how ‘someone of Gerry Adams’s intellect’ failed to recognise benefits to Sinn Féin of decommissioning
State papers: Ahern viewed riots and disturbances around Holy Cross school in 2001 as sign of a ‘deeper malaise’ in Northern Ireland
State papers: After visiting refugee camps in Somalia the president gave an emotional press conference in which she criticised the UN’s approach to the camps and did not hide her anger about conditions
State papers: Justice minister sought ‘pre-emptive round-up’ of 150 dissident republicans
Civil servants feared it would anger Sinn Féin and put the progress of the peace process in jeopardy
State papers: 60% of Northern Ireland would be incorporated into the Republic, leaving just one of the North’s six counties fully intact, under proposal
Newly declassified files span 10 years in which the Republic became more liberal and Northern Ireland gained peace
Former Northern secretary saw the UUP leader David Trimble as ‘a deeply insecure leader’
State papers: Election of new US president raised fears among Irish officials in 2001 that the White House shamrock ceremony would be scrapped
State papers: UUP leader David Trimble was seemingly unaware of meetings being held in 2001 with members of his own party
Prime minister’s private secretary wrote that Blair ‘sees little scope for bi-communal support for a change to the law’
State papers published this week include confidential records showing what civil servants really thought about political leaders
There were calls for decontamination units to operate at capacity while protective clothing and supplies of antidotes, needles and syringes must be ‘built up’, top civil servant urged
State papers: Tony Blair wanted Wimbledon FC to move to Northern Ireland but senior civil servant warned it could be ‘another focus for sectarianism’
President Kennedy’s widow made the call less than 24 hours after her husband’s assassination in Dallas
Veronica Sutherland was alarmed that the depiction of a female British ambassador in Ireland might lead viewers to believe it was based on her
State papers: Gerry Adams wrote to Irish and British governments about the TG4 issue in 2000, citing commitments in the Belfast Agreement
Department of Foreign Affairs official told his British counterpart that as far as he was aware the prime minister and the royal family had ‘received nothing but praise for their gestures of sympathy’
Newly released State papers shed light on the years immediately after the Belfast Agreement, so much of which is still in dispute or open to interpretation
Official records from Dublin, Belfast and London cover years dominated by planning scandals, the dawn of the Celtic Tiger and a new start for Northern Ireland
State papers: British officials also raised issue of prisoner release, saying ‘life of a Garda’ could not be valued differently from that of a UK policeman
State papers: Former NI first minister grew increasingly frustrated during 2000 and 2001 as the IRA refused to decommission
State papers: Higher age of consent for homosexuality was ‘optimum’ to avoid it being seen as ‘perfectly normal’, AG’s office said in 1993
State papers: ‘British intelligence are reportedly fearful that this disclosure could dwarf the Rosemary Nelson scandal,’ note Department of Justice files
Credit card pioneer had plans to create a new town in Northern Ireland in 1972
Declassified State papers detail the journey to the Belfast Agreement, a deal some wholeheartedly endorsed but others reluctantly accepted
Constitution gives the name of the State as Éire or in the English language, Ireland
Economic link between NI and Clinton’s home state was rejected on grounds Arkansas was ‘too poor’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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