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This collection was scanned and the metadata was recorded by Ruth Murray, Isha Pareek, Annabel Harris and Eleanor Williams.
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This submission from the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland on 10 September purports that the Unionist parties have breached the Mitchell Principles. The document begins with a later note from Alliance leader John Alderdice dating 16 September 1996, which asks to strike a factually incorrect detail from the submission. The submission proper cites the Secretary of State, Patrick Mayhew, who described the Drumcree conflict as a “violent” challenge to the rule of law and alleges that senior members of the Unionist parties encouraged the Orange Order, a Protestant order which organizes yearly marches to Drumcree Church, to challenge the rule of law. The submission also raises concern with CLMC [Combined Loyalist Military Command] threats towards their opponents and criticises the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party] for not distancing themselves from “militant loyalist” Billy Wright.
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The National Archives of Ireland have kindly granted the Quill Project interim permission to publish our research scans, despite not meeting their usual reproduction standards. This agreement does not cover any re-publication or manipulation of these images. Any enquiries about reproductions should be directed to the National Archives of Ireland.
We are making this document available online for the purposes of research and increasing public access to information about historical political processes. In deciding whether to publish it, we drew a distinction between documents written in a private capacity and those written by public figures acting in their capacity as political or community leaders. This document was produced by members of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland during the course of their duties, and we understand the party to be the copyright holder. We have written to all the parties concerned to inform them of this and invited them to preview the collection in advance of publication. If you are, or have further information about, the copyright holder for this document, please contact us.NAI, 2021/51/19, accessed via the Quill Project at https://www.quillproject.net/resource_collections/353/resource_item/33992.