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Secret meeting between British and Sinn Féin

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Patrick Mayhew, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Michael Ancram, then Political Development Minister at the Northern Ireland Office, held a secret meeting in Derry with Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, and Martin McGuinness, then Vice-President of Sinn Féin. News of the meeting was not broken until 24 July 1995 in the *Irish Times*.

Source Information

Elliott, S., and W.D. Flackes, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory, 1968-1999 (Belfast, Blackstaff 1999)