- Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
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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.
Cite as: Ian McBride, Ruth Murray, Annabel Harris, and Nicholas P. S. Cole, Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2024).
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Committees (27)
Created on: 1989-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model internal Irish Government documents and meetings.
Created on: 1988-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model internal British Government documents and meetings.
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2, 46,
8
92, 70, 2, 5, 45,
44, 75
76, 10, 40,
3, 1, 19
57, 15
Created on: 1991-12-03 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model meetings between the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach.
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106, 109,
14
7, 20, 3, 31,
96, 32
43, 14, 7,
1, 5, 2
116, 104
Created on: 1991-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This group was set up as a sub-committee of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. Its remit during this period was to produce a Framework Document which became entwined with the drafting of the Joint Declaration.
Created on: 1991-12-05 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model meetings of the Butler/Nally Group, which was one of the key structures in the drafting of the Declaration. From Autumn 1993 onwards, Chilcot and Ó hUiginn were also part of the negotiating team working on the Joint Declaration.
Created on: 1993-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contact between British and Irish government delegates which happened outside of the more formal structures set up for intergovernmental negotiation. These informal meetings were sometimes crucial to the development of the Joint Declaration.
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21
5, 64, 1, 2, 29,
109, 33
53, 18, 30,
14, 14, 1
66, 44
Created on: 1981-11-06 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: The Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was a consultative body established under the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) to promote cross-border cooperation. It was made up of officials from the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and had a permanent secretariat based in Maryfield.
Created on: 1989-11-19 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and the British government.
Created on: 1991-10-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and the Irish government.
Created on: 1988-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and Gerry Adams, along with the bilateral meetings which took place between the SDLP and Sinn Féin.
Created on: 1993-09-25 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Reverend Roy Magee and the Irish government.
Created on: 1993-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Archbishop Robin Eames and the Irish government.
Created on: 1993-10-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between James Molyneaux and the British government.
Created on: 1988-02-09 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Alec Reid and the British government.
Created on: 1988-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model internal Sinn Féin documents and meetings.
Created on: 1988-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model internal SDLP documents and meetings.
Created on: 1988-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model the proposals created by Alec Reid, often shared with or written in collaboration with Tómás Ó Fiaich and Raymond Murray.
Created on: 1989-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Alec Reid and the Irish government.
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Created on: 1989-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Alec Reid and John Hume.
0 member
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Created on: 1988-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Alec Reid and Gerry Adams.
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Created on: 1981-11-06 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: Description: The Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was a consultative body established under the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) to promote cross-border cooperation. It was made up of officials from the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and had a permanent secretariat based in Maryfield. As part of the conference, senior politicians held tête-à-tête meetings.
Created on: 1990-05-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: Meetings of the representatives of the British government with members of the clergy engaged in the Maze chaplain initiative.
Created on: 1993-10-22 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Archbishop Robin Eames and the British government.
Created on: 1990-01-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: Maze chaplains, Father Murphy and Reverend Murphy and the church leaders who supported their initiative.
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Created on: 1993-10-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to represent Archbishop Eames' changes to proposals being worked up.
Created on: 1993-10-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: None
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Jim Molyneaux, leader of the UUP, and Archbishop Robin Eames.
Created on: 1993-11-01 00:00:00
Dissolved on: 1993-12-14 00:00:00
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Reverend Magee and unknown Loyalist representatives.
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