File 1 - Anglo-Irish Agreement Part 1

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Material relating to the drafting and signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (on 15th November 1985), Mary Robinson (MR)'s objection to it and her subsequent resignation from the Labour party and consisting of reports, correspondence, minutes, agendas, cuttings, press statements, and Dáil debates. It includes photocopy of article in the Irish times "Helping America to understand Ireland", by John Cooney, with cover letter to MR from Mairtin McCullough, in relation to article and the Ireland Fund, 18/07/1985; discussion journal [newsletter] "The Democratic Socialist", Spring, Autumn and November 1985; "The Anglo Irish Agreement - Are the Flaws Fatal?" typed, cut and pasted draft summary of contribution by Senator MR to Patrick McGill summer School, Glenties, County Donegal, 19/08/1985; "Northern Ireland Assembly", 3rd report from the Devolution Report Committee, 29/10/1985; papers from Labour History Workshop, Dublin 1985: "The Ralahine Commune of County Clare 1831" and "James Fintan Lalor, the Real Revolutionary of 1848" by Frederick Ryan, founding secretary of Socialist Party of Ireland (1909)", "Ralahine And Land Nationalisation" by Reverend Bruce Wallace, Belfast Christian Socialist, and "A Ralahine in Galilee" by Theodor Herzl, founding president of the World Zionist Organisation, with introduction by Manus O'Riordan and circular inserted from Ireland-Israel Friendship League, Nov 1985 along with report "Communism and a Real Existing Road to socialism - A Century Evaluation of Ernest Bevin, British Labour Leader", O'Riordan, Dublin, July 1981; "Dear Mr Whitelaw", Vera E Nevin: booklet of letters from 1972 printed specially "because of the Westminster-Dublin 'agreement'", 1985; Anglo-Irish Summit meeting joint communiqué, "Summary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985" joint press release, "Remarks by the Taoiseach, Dr Garret FitzGerald, TD, on the Occasion of the Signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement" (press release), photocopy of statement from Dick Spring, Tánaiste [Deputy Irish Prime Minister] and leader of Labour Party with handwritten notes from MR on reverse, and circular from Ruairí Quinn, TD, and Minister for Labour, 15/11/1985; official pamphlets from The Labour Party, and Fine Gael relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 16/11/1985; MR's copy of typed letter to Dick Spring, resigning from Labour party and related letters to Michael D Higgins [Labour Party Chairman] and Garret FitzGerald, 18/11/1985; official statement and draft by MR on her reservations about the Anglo-Irish Agreement, disputing message media were given that it had unanimous support and endorsement, and announcing her resignation from the Labour Party, 18/11/1985; Democratic Socialist Party press release on Anglo-Irish agreement on emergency resolution passed at its annual conference, 18/11/1985; draft and final article written by MR for press, with photocopy of newspaper cutting of it, "Government must back out of agreement", [11]/1985 [this appeared in the Irish times, 25/01/1986]; photocopies of text of MR's address to Seanad Éireann on the Anglo-Irish Agreement, and Seanad Éireann Order paper 27/11/1985.

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