File 5 - Anglo-Irish Agreement Part 5

423pp

Material consisting of correspondence, reports, flyers, community and party newsletters, handwritten notes and background material relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and events Mary Robinson (MR) attended in 1986, including visit to Belfast to meet various community groups, such as Resource Centre and Community House, South Belfast, 17-18/01/1986, Ditchley Foundation conference on Northern Ireland, 21-23/02/1986, Democratic Socialist Party Meeting on Anglo-Irish Agreement, 22/05/1986, discussion series organised by The Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, Bray, County Wicklow, and held at Buswells Hotel, Dublin, 10/06/1986 and Patrick Magill Summer School Glenties, 19/08/1986.

Material includes newsletter "Northern Star", from the United Ulstermen, 01/1986; "BAHD News", Rathcoole Community newsletter, Newtownabbey, 06/1985, 08/1985, 10/1985 and 01/1986; report "Ulster - The Founding Fathers", EM Griffith, Resource Educational Publication, Belfast, 19[8?]; booklets "Is Sinn Féin Socialist?", 09/1985, and "The New Ireland Forum", 198[?], Campaign for Labour Representation in Northern Ireland; "Community Mirror" [Belfast] newsletter, issues 1-4, 198[?]; "Labour Comment" newsletter, Cork City, 07/12/1985 and 18/01/1986; "Workers' Weekly" newsletter, 11/01/1986; report on housing survey, Rathcoole estate, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, 198[6?]; correspondence between MR and John Robinson, the Resource Centre and Community House, South Belfast, 1985-1986; newsletter "The Equal Citizen: For Equal Rights For Equal citizens in the United Kingdom", 23/11/1985 and 22/12/1985; correspondence, 02/01-17/02/1986, conference programme, attendee list, seating plans, handwritten notes and other background information for Ditchley Foundation conference on Northern Ireland (NI) including reports from groups at the conference: Group A (of which MR was member) on security situation in NI, Group B on political situation in NI and Group C on eternal influences, 21-23/02/1986; "The Anglo Irish Agreement - The Dangers", summary text of speech given by MR at Clarence Hotel, Dublin, 23/04/1986; discussion journal "The Democratic Socialist", Spring 1986, newsletter "Finglas Free Press", 03/1986 and bulletin "After Hillsborough", 04/1986; correspondence between MR and Martin McGarry, Democratic Socialist Party, 14/04-12/05/1986; correspondence to MR from Deirdre McCartie, Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, 19/05/1986 thanking her for agreeing to attend the second series of discussions on the Anglo-Irish Agreement entitled "Southern Views" and enclosing programme and speaker information; "The Anglo Irish agreement - The Need for Review Under Article II", summary text of MR's speech, 10/06/1986, Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin; flyers for series of four public meetings organised by Glencree Centre (03, 10, 17, 24/06/1986); correspondence between MR and Joe Mulholland, Patrick MacGill Summer School, Glenties, County Donegal, in relation to her participation, 26/06-05/09/1986 with text summary of her contribution "The Anglo Irish Agreement - Are the Flaws Fatal?"; letter from Robert Brannick and others, Irish forum, San Francisco, California, in relation to the visit of the California Irish Forum delegation in 1985 to learn more about conflict in NI, and seeking comments and suggestions, 23/04/1986; letter to MR from Fergus O'Hare and others, in relation to a Northern Nationalists' Conference being held on the 1st anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 11/1986.

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