File of material relating to the Emergencies Steering Committee (BL 3/74), including internal correspondence, minutes of meetings, papers on utilities and one on emergency planning. The role of the Committee is to prepare contingency planning in the wake of the experience of the Northern Ireland Office with the UWC general strike in May. Includes plan for the use of armed forces to run services such as electricity, oil supply, gas, water, docks, fire, prisons and coal supply. Also Interim Report on Emergency Planning issued by the Emergencies Steering Committee. For the second meeting (24 Sept 1974) includes Maurice Hayes representing the Executive Secretariat; a NIO note states that they would hope to provide essential services for a limited period (of a fortnight) and skeleton services for a longer period (6 Nov 1974).
File marked “Policing (0-1/74).” Includes a ts copy of a memorandum by Maurice Hayes on policing to Mr. Bloomfield (16 July 1974) outlining his vision for policing, including the role of the RUC, giving the UDR a role in guarding static targets, deploying the British Army more on the border, and a local warden force augmented by a Youth Training Corps for local community policing (16 July 1974); Memorandum from M.K. Harris to Sir Frank Cooper enclosing a report from a NIO working party examining the possibility of forming a “Community Corps”, commenting that ‘only a minority of us are confident that the concept is feasible’ (7 Aug 1974); Notes of meeting of NIO working party on the feasibility of a civilian corps, focusing on the operational problems associated with such a proposal following a discussion with the Chief Constable (6 Aug 1976); proposal on the formation of a Civilian Patrol Corps (5 Aug 1974); meeting of the NIO working party on the feasibility of a civilian corps, focusing on non-operational issues such as organisation, recruitment and training (1 Aug 1974); note on possible establishment of a community corps; copy letter from M.K. Harris to J.V. Morrison, Secretary of the Police Authority for Northern Ireland, detailing the proposed community corps, and detailing the steps now to be taken to examine the feasibility of the proposal (30 July 1974); discussion paper, ‘Beyond Hunt: a police policy for Northern Ireland of the future’, G.H. Boehringer, Department of Social Studies.
File of material marked draft papers – community relations (1). Note of meeting (22 July 1974) discussing the role of community relations, breaking it down into inter-community relations, community development and community and social work. Notes the tendency would deliver practical projects in communities to prove their worth, taking Sir David Holden’s paper a group was put together to create a general strategy. Letter from N. Dundale, Department of Health and Social Services, to Maurice Hayes, outlining a number of ministerial decisions that need to be made in relation to co-ordination, community work etc., of paramount interest is the allocation of resources to deal with the proposed transfer of functions (14 Sept 1974); Note of a meeting of NIO officials to discuss the draft SOSEC paper. It was agreed that a Community Relations Unit be established as part of the Office of the Executive, while the administration of the Special Need Fund and Community Centres would go to Health and Social Services, if this was agreeable to the ministers (17 Sept 1974); Draft SOSEC Paper: Community Relations (17 Sept 1974); Draft EXMEMO on ‘Co-ordination and Communication (2)’; Draft SOSEC paper for Maurice’s comments (17 Sept 1974); Draft minute to the Secretary of State from KP Bloomfield, N Dugale and K Shimeld on the re-allocation of functions from the Department of Community Relations (18 Sept 1974); photocopy of ms draft SOSEC memo from Ken Darwin to Maurice Hayes; circulated copy of minutes of the meeting of 16 Sept and the second draft of SOSEC paper on Community Relations [19 Sept 1974]; Secretary of State’s Executive Committee: Co-ordination and Communications (EXMEMO 97/74); paper on the areas of special social need aspect of Community Relations (23 Sept 1974); Final minute to the Secretary of State (27 Sept 1974).
File marked NI Executive: Community Work/Community Relations (2) containing papers on community relations, also memoranda written by Maurice Hayes on the subject for consideration by the executive. Includes copy of a discussion document on future party policy issued by the Unionist Party (1975); Memorandum from Maurice Hayes to Miss Owens on the Supplementary Benefits Commission, suggesting names for the Commission, noting that ‘It is hard to defend the lack of Roman Catholic representation on the Supplementary Benefits Commission, suggesting that she might have a few more additions, especially women, who could join (18 Dec 1974); outline of conference on politics and community action to be held at the Institute of Continuing Education; memorandum on the Council of Ireland for the Northern Ireland Assembly by James Knight (28 Feb 1974); transcript of RTE interview with Mr. Desmond Boal “Tangents” programme – 20 Feb 1974; transcripts of BBC radio interviews with David O’Connell (Daithi Ó Conaill) on the Price sisters and also in relation to the security situation in the north (4 June 1974); Report on the Civil Service College Seminar, April 1974, entitled ‘Problems of Urban Renewal’ by Gordon E. Cherry (11 June 1974); ‘Shop Stewards in a Sectarian Situation’ by Brian Gormally discussing the rejection of the Loyalist Association of Workers by trade unionists (Feb 1974); draft memorandum on Community Work and Community Development issued by the Department of Health and Social Services; Memorandum from Maurice Hayes to Mr Smythes entitled ‘Communications between Government and Governed’, detailing informal and formal means of communication both ways (20 Feb 1974); Memorandum from Maurice Hayes to Mr. Bloomfield entitled ‘Communicating with the People’, recommending the development of local information offices and legal aid boards, area boards and a reform of District Councils (4 Mar 1974); draft memorandum entitled Organisation of Community Work: Areas of Multiple Deprivation’, detailing the setting up of Area Boards, the use of the Special Needs Fund, and the involvement of local politicians in the process; final draft of same memorandum (27 Mar 1974); Memorandum from Maurice Hayes to Mr. Bloomfield on ‘SEP 73: Community Work, agreeing with most of its recommendations. He pushes for the role of the District Councils, with more resources for deprived areas amongst other recommendations (11 Mar 1974); Co-operation, Communication, Community Work, observations of Department of Education on PCC 74/2 (revised), Department of Education (22 Apr 1974); Co-ordination, Communication, Community Work, PCC 74/2 (revised), by Maurice Hayes; draft of same document with handwritten amendments; Comments on the paper by Bill Slinger, Department of Community Relations (11 Apr 1974).
File marked Northern Ireland Office Commentaries, circulars on particular political topics giving an outline of the position of the NIO, sent to leading civil servants, including Maurice Hayes. Includes commentary on the UUP discussion document on future party policy ahead of it’s conference (12 Sept 1974); Commentary on joint statement issued by the SDLP executive Committee and the Assembly Party, calling on the British government to stand firm on power-sharing (24 Sept 1974); Commentary on the policy statement from the Foundation Conference of the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland (25 Sept 1974); Commentary on general election manifestos (7 Oct 1974); Commentary on General Election Results from the Northern Ireland Constituencies (15 Oct 1974); Attitudes of Northern Ireland Political Parties to the Constitutional Convention (9 Dec 1974); Current attitudes of Northern Ireland political parties to detention (12 Dec 1974); Northern Ireland – Party and paramilitary policies (13 Dec 1974); SDLP Annual Conference (27 Jan 1975); Reactions to the Report of the Gardiner Committee (26 Feb 1975); Alliance Party Annual Conference (12 Mar 1975); Party Nominations for Election to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (17 Apr 1975); Convention Election: Party Manifestos (23 Apr 1975); Results of the Election to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (8 May 1975); Current attitudes of Political parties in Northern Ireland (22 May 1975); Single Loyalist Party (27 June 1975); Progress of the Constitutional Convention (22 July 1975); Convention Report: the UUUC Draft (24 Oct 1974); Irish Republican Socialist Party (27 Oct 1975); UUUC Pamphlet: “Security Policy in Northern Ireland”; The Reports submitted by the minority parties in the Convention (31 Oct 1975); Devolution to Scotland and Wales – White Paper (28 Nov 1975); Devolution to Scotland and Wales: House of Commons Debate (17 Feb 1976); Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis (17 Feb 1976); Note for the record on the Corrymeela/Glencree Study Conference on models of Political Co-operation (23 Apr 1981) giving the impressions of M.J. Moriarty and S.J. Leach who attended as NIO Observers.
Northern Ireland Discussion Paper Finance and the economy, Northern Ireland Office, 1974, 32pp
File marked Discussion Paper (2nd file) 0-5/74-2 dealing with discussion papers from the Convention and some discussion on membership between civil servants. Includes typescript of chapter on North-South Relations; Discussion Paper, Second draft forwarded by R. Ramsey to Mr. Bloomfield and others including Dr. Hayes (6 Sept 1974); a third discussion paper setting out the task of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (12 Dec 1974); Memorandum from Mr. Ken Bloomfield to Sir Frank Cooper, entitled ‘Direct Rule: a new pattern’, seeking more local involvement in the governing process under direct rule (16 Dec 1974); Memorandum from K.P. Bloomfield to Sir Frank Cooper, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, giving him a brief on the relationships between Stormont and Westminster and the prospects of devolution in Northern Ireland (19 Dec 1974); view of K.P. Bloomfield to Sir Frank Cooper on the membership of the Convention (19 Dec 1974); letter from K.P. Bloomfield to Mr Trevelyan (PS/PUS) enclosing correspondence from Mr John Dobson who had been a member of the Northern Ireland cabinet before direct rule ‘His ideas on devolution are quite interesting coming as they do from a man who is a fairly typical mainline traditional Unionist (21 Jan 1975).
The Northern Ireland Situation 4: Church Statements, 1974-1975, issued by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, June 1975, 16pp.
New Ulster Movement, A Challenge to Statesmanship (June 1975), 16pp
Typescript entitled ‘Northern Ireland: A Time for Choice’, by Professor Richard Rose, University of Strathclyde, pre-publication draft, c.300pp.