- British-Maze Chaplains
British-Maze Chaplains
Meetings of the representatives of the British government with members of the clergy engaged in the Maze chaplain initiative.
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
This project models the series of formal and informal negotiations which led to the publication, in December 1993, of a declaration issued jointly by the British and Irish Governments. The Joint Declaration was a critical policy document which paved the way for a ceasefire and the entry of Sinn Féin into formal talks. It also laid out a shared set of principles – including, crucially, self-determination for the people of Ireland subject to the consent of the people of Northern Ireland – which would come to underpin the Belfast Good Friday Agreement and provide a framework for its ratification.
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[Exact time unknown] Peter Brooke met with Cardinal Ó Fiaich and Archbishop Eames and was briefed on Fr Murphy and Rev Murphy's communications with the IRA.
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[Exact date and time unknown] Cardinal Daly met with Peter Brooke to discuss the Maze Chaplains' initiative.
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[Exact date and time unknown] British government officials met with the Maze chaplains.
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[Exact date and time unknown] Danny McNeill spoke with Father Murphy and Reverend Murphy in private after a routine lunch engagement on prison matters. This meeting is dated as 10 November in the record of Dermot Gallagher's conversation with Father Murphy. However, it seems likely that the date is in error as the Whitbread speech had not yet happened. The record refers to the Remembrance Event happening 'the previous day (9 November). We have assumed that the routine lunch engagement on prison matters was on Friday 9 November (a weekday, and before the chaplains would have been aware of the Whitbread speech).
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[Exact date and time unknown: the meeting took place between 1 November and 21 November; a wider meeting was postponed from 13 November, so it is possible that the private meeting took place on that occasion instead.] Cahal Daly met privately with Peter Brooke to stress the urgency of responding to the Chaplains's initiative.
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[Exact date and time unknown] John Blelloch and John McConnell met with Cahal Daly to discuss the Chaplains' initiative.
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[Exact time unknown] Cahal Daly met with the new PUS, John Chilcot and the new Head of the Political Affairs Division, Danny McNeill. The Irish report of this meeting (via John Murphy) dates it as Wednesday 21 November, while Danny McNeill's account specifies 20 November. We have taken Danny McNeill's dating since it is the more formal, first-hand account of the meeting.
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[Exact time unknown] Danny McNeill met with Father Murphy and Reverend Murphy.
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