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Colour photograph, taken in St. Louis, featuring Andy McCann and Company.

Black and white photograph of Andy McCann, Felix Dolan and Joe Burke, taken in the Catskills, New York.

Black and white photograph of Andy McGann, taken in the Catskills New York.

Black and white photograph of Andy McGann from the Catskills, NY. Taken by Nutton Photography, Kinvara.

Colour photograph taken at Killyclogher, County Leitrim, featuring Andy McGann, Joe Burke and Charlie Lennon.

Black and white photograph of Andy McGann and Paddy and Mrs O'Brien.

Colour photograph taken at Shannon, showing Andy McGann, Joe Burke and Peter O'Loughlin.

Correspondence regarding the publication and editing of The Landmark; includes copies of articles for including in The Landmark; includes contract.

The Anglo-Irish Agreement was a 1985 treaty between the United Kingdom and Ireland, which aimed to help bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The treaty gave the Irish government an advisory role in Northern Ireland's government while confirming that there would be no change in the constitutional position of Northern Ireland unless a majority of its citizens agreed to join the state of Ireland. It also set out conditions for the establishment of a devolved consensus government in the region. The most powerful pressure for the Agreement came from the United States, where the Irish American lobby had a strong influence. Led by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill, and Senators Edward Kennedy and Daniel Moynihan, the Irish lobby regularly denounced what they considered British colonialism and human rights violations in Northern Ireland. Reagan, who was also Irish American and visited Ireland in June 1984, increasingly encouraged British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to make progress on Anglo-Irish talks. By January 1985, Thatcher was persuaded that progress must be made on the issue. Her primary aim was security but realised that for help in this area she would need to concede in other areas, such as grievances over policing and the courts. The Agreement was signed on 15 November 1985, at Hillsborough Castle, by the Thatcher and the Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald and was also known by the alternative title "Hillsborough agreement".

The Agreement failed to bring an immediate end to political violence in Northern Ireland; neither did it reconcile the two communities. The Agreement was widely rejected by unionists because it gave the Irish government a role in the governance of Northern Ireland for the first time ever, and because they had been excluded from the agreement negotiations. The agreement was rejected by republicans because it confirmed Northern Ireland's status as a part of the UK. The devolved power-sharing government envisaged by the Agreement would not become a reality for many years, and then in quite a different form. However, it did improve co-operation between the British and Irish governments, which was key to the creation of the Good Friday Agreement thirteen years later.

Mary Robinson, who subsequently became President of Ireland, resigned from the Irish Labour Party because she believed that the Agreement could not secure peace and stability within Northern Ireland and because she disagreed with how the unionist community had been excluded from negotiations.

Material in this section consists of reports, correspondence and other material relating to the drafting and signing of the agreement, reactions to it, and the fallout of MR's resignation from the Labour party because if it.

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.