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Princess Diana discussed the proposals following her historic 1997 visit to Angola, where she was seen detonating a mine, newly released archives have revealed.

Irish government tried to get Bloody Sunday judicial inquiry in 1997 File photo dated 30/01/1972 of an injured man receiving treatment on Bloody Sunday. Picture from Press Association Éamon Phoenix 30 December, 2020 00:01 THE Irish government continued its efforts in 1997 to get a fresh judicial inquiry into Bloody Sunday in Derry. Declassified files from a meeting of the Joint Anglo-Irish Secretariat on February 27, 1997, show that an Irish offic...

Prince Charles 1996 visit to Ireland was scrapped amid safety concerns, records show The Prince of Wales had planned to visit the Republic a year after his historic maiden trip. By Press Association Wednesday 30 Dec 2020, 7:06 AM Dec 30th 2020, 7:06 AM 12,828 Views 3 Comments People greet Prince Charles as he went for an informal walkabout alo...

Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 03.03 EST The detention of the pregnant daughter of the Northern Ireland civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey threatened to degenerate into a “PR disaster”, John Major was warned, according to files released to the National Archives. The decision to hold Róisín McAliskey in Holloway prison while awaiting extradition to Germany – on suspicion of participating in a 1996 IRA mortar attack on a British army base in Osnabrück –...

Prince Charles abandoned a proposed visit to the Republic of Ireland in the summer of 1996 amid concerns about his personal safety, previously classified documents show. Aides originally planned for the Prince of Wales to undertake a three-day visit to the Republic from June 29, just as early talks laying the way for the subsequent Good Friday Agreement got under way in earnest at Stormont. But secret arrangements for the “low-key” official visit were scuppered when officials either side of...

John Major blocked Irish famine event over apology A typical rural Irish house in the 19th century Éamon Phoenix Former British Prime Minister John Major. Picture by Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire Proposals to mark the 150th anniversary of the Great Famine with an ecumenical service in Liverpool to coincide with President Mary Robinson’s first visit to the UK were vetoed in 1996 by Prime Minister John Major. Newly-released files show the service had been mooted for...