Material in this subseries consists of correspondence, speeches and statements relating to political parties and Northern Ireland, Anglo-Irish relations and the Good Friday Agreement.
File G60/37/7/1 includes a set of speeches and statements on Irish Unity, Northern Ireland, and Anglo-Irish Relations 1969-71, by the Taoiseach John Lynch TD; a request from Sinn Féin to Conradh na Gaeilge to take a public stand against attacks and killings by Provisionals on members of Republican clubs and includes a list of attacks (1-6/11/1975) and an extract from the column "An UVF agus an Ghaeilge", le Breandán Ó hÉithir 9/5/1974.
File G60/37/7/2 includes correspondence with Sinn Féin regarding the status of Irish in prisons in both Ireland and Northern Ireland 1985-1986 and a letter from prison regimes division of Northern Ireland office to Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge stating that the use of Irish in prisons had been reduced to greetings on letters, that GAA games and language classes had stopped since escape from the H-Block in 1983. It also includes correspondence relating to the Belfast Telegraph changing the Irish name of one of Sinn Féin's councillors to English and the Social Democratic and Labour Party correspondence re their Irish language policy 1986, 1987.
The final file G60/37/7/3 includes material relating to the agreement reached in the Multiparty Negotiations 10/4/1998 (Good Friday Agreement); copy of the referendum booklet on the constitutional amendments required; flyers for “Economic Development and the Irish language” conference May 1994, and Sinn Féin Slógadh 1994; invitation from British Council of Northern Ireland to attend symposium "Law and language matters in Northern Ireland" 03/02/2003.
Tag / Ref: G60/37/7
