British concerned Ireland could 'exaggerate' 1997 Famine apology to draw parallel with Bloody Sunday
Tony Blair received a ‘warm’ welcome for the apology made in Cork in 1997.
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Tony Blair received a ‘warm’ welcome for the apology made in Cork in 1997.
Mandela was deputy president of the African National Congress (ANC) and was negotiating an end to the apartheid regime.
From Intel to Coillte, the State Papers show the foundation of modern Ireland.
While Iran sent flowers, Pakistan praised Haughey’s “outstanding qualities of wisdom and leadership” after the general election.
People across Dublin raised concerns about spates of crime in their locality in the 1980s, State Papers reveal.
Giuliani had just launched his 1989 mayoral campaign when a Government official lunched with the Republican politician.
Details of correspondence and government letters have been released by the National Archives.
The government also took special care with the visit of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah.
Charles Haughey wished “to reply personally” to Adare’s Managing Director.
The £40m building was projected to attract 500,000 visitors every year.
Naturally, as Taoiseach, Haughey was given two free pairs.
Details of the plan were released this week under the 30-year State Papers rule.
Peter Brooke said that it was “difficult to envisage a military defeat” of the IRA, and compared Ireland to Cyprus.
The Irish and UK governments expressed their concern at a travel advisory being issued to US travellers, confidential documents show.
Ireland and the UK disagreed over how to handle the case of Fr Patrick Ryan, and the US considered intervening, State papers reveal.
Irish troops have been deployed to the region with the UN since the 1970s.
The jewels were given as security by Russian envoy in America in 1920 for a $20,000 loan advanced by the Irish Republic.
US officials conveyed their worries about a Cobh shipyard to the Taoiseach in 1989.
The Birmingham Six and IRA semtex consignments were also spoken about.
“This will be the 16th Christmas that my father and the five men… will spend imprisoned for a crime that they did not commit,” one letter said.
The spat was the subject of talks between a UK minister and an Irish ambassador in 1989.
Douglas Hogg was criticised for remarks he made in the House of Commons three weeks before Finucane was killed in 1989.
“This is the first positive thing you have done for us,” Paddy Joe Hill said in a handwritten letter to the Fianna Fáil Taoiseach.
Hundreds of thousands of these bonds were issued in the 19th century to raise support for Irish nationalism.
Some people even wrote their own.
Yuri Ustimenko was Russian news agency TAAS’ Irish correspondent from 1969 to 1971.
Locally produced copies of “extremely poor quality” were a persistent issue for importers.
The government had ordered a seal census on the west coast to determine whether a cull was necessary.
19 women wrote to the then-Minister for Women’s Affairs and Family Law about the issue, State Papers reveal.
Ireland had built up a valuable beef export partnership with Libya.
The frank assessment came in meeting between the pair in The Hague in 1986.
The convictions of the nine men and one women were ultimately quashed.
A letter from John Bruton to Alan Dukes has been released to the national archives.
“I will break every bloody bookshop in the city up,” Kavanagh barked at Hodges Figgis staff.
By 1988, The Guildford Four had served over 13 years in prison having been handed down life sentences.
Father Patrick Ryan was suspected of being an IRA quartermaster active in Belgium.
It would also feature an underground rail tunnel from Heuston Station to Connolly.
The Irish Embassy had to rebook flights and arrange interviews for RTÉ when its crew visited in 1987.
The Irish government raised its concerns to the British over the RUC’s handling of Larry Marley’s funeral.
A tale about a Qualcast Punch Lawnmower worth £210 made it all the way into official Irish government records.