Nicholas Fenn
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John Bowman: 1989 a calm year in Anglo-Irish relations
- Politics
- December 28, 2019, 00:57
It was not a high-profile year in Anglo-Irish relations. Everything seemed becalmed in 1989. Yet Charles Haughey was constantly being asked questions (...)

British were in North as ‘one million Irishmen’ wanted them, Haughey told
- Politics
- December 29, 2018, 02:16
The British were in Northern Ireland only because “one million Irishmen” wanted them there, a British ambassador told taoiseach Charlie Haughey 30 yea(...)

Declassified files help to correct ‘distorting’ narrative of Thatcher’s memoirs
- Politics
- December 29, 2018, 02:14
That the official records from the Department of the Taoiseach and of Foreign Affairs for 1988 are becoming available only now after 30 years leaves t(...)

Haughey made repeated efforts to meet Molyneaux without success
- Politics
- December 29, 2018, 02:04
Taoiseach Charles Haughey made repeated efforts to set up a meeting with the unionist leader James Molyneaux during 1988 without success. The two mai(...)

Thatcher furious with Haughey over failure to extradite ‘mad priest’ over IRA claims
- Politics
- December 28, 2018, 03:36
A furious British prime minister Margaret Thatcher rounded on taoiseach Charles Haughey for delays in extraditing Fr Patrick Ryan – an Irish priest wa(...)

Ireland secretly reassured Britain it would not go to European Court over Gibraltar killings
- Politics
- December 28, 2018, 00:17
The Irish government secretly reassured the British government in 1988 it would not take a case to the European Court of Human Rights challenging the (...)

1988: A year of constant bickering between Haughey and Thatcher
- Politics
- December 28, 2018, 00:05
Throughout 1988 Anglo-Irish relations seemed vulnerable to a surprise ambush. Taoiseach Charles Haughey and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher w(...)

Haughey rejected criticism for not condemning violence in US speeches
- Politics
- December 28, 2018, 00:02
A number of speeches delivered in the United States by taoiseach Charles Haughey in April 1988 in which he did not condemn violence provoked an angry (...)

‘Male chauvinist’ Ireland: 5 things we learned from latest British state papers
- Politics
- July 28, 2018, 06:00
The release of British Government files from the UK National Archives in Kew are often as of much interest to Irish historians as they are to British (...)

Margaret Thatcher doubted Irish resolve to combat terrorism
- Politics
- July 24, 2018, 00:01
Former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher complained at the height of the Troubles that the IRA saw the Republic as a safe haven and that the Garda w(...)