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  1. Overview: Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
  2. Full Record: Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
  3. Committee:British-Maze Chaplains
  4. Friday, 09 November 1990, at 12:00

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.

British-Maze Chaplains

Meetings of the representatives of the British government with members of the clergy engaged in the Maze chaplain initiative.

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Session 21738: 1990-11-09 12:00:00

[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).

Membership (at session start):

John Blelloch, Peter Brooke, Cahal Daly, Danny McNeill, Father John Murphy, Reverend Will Murphy (6 total)

Representing 3 delegations:

British Government , Catholic Clergy, Protestant Clergy

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Transcript of Peter Brooke's Whitbread Speech Delivered on 9 November 1990 - (file)

This is the transcript of the speech delivered by Peter Brooke on 9 November 1990 at the Whitbread Restaurant in London. The speech outlined four aspects of "British Presence" in Northern Ireland, and affirmed that the British Government had no selfish strategic or economic interest in Northern Ireland.

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