Robert Andrew

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British prime minister Margaret Thatcher flanked by Geoffrey Howe and Tom King wave goodbye after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in Hillsborough, Co Down, in May 1985. Photograph: Pat Langan
UDR slight to minister over dinner invite angered Northern Ireland secretary

A snub to a direct rule minister over a UDR regimental dinner in the wake of the Anglo-Irish Agreement provoked the ire of the Northern Ireland secre(...)

Lord Robert Armstrong, cabinet secretary under Mrs Thatcher and one of key negotiators of the agreement, at an event marking the agreement’s 30th anniversary in Trinity College Dublin last November. Photograph: Eric Luke
State Papers: Tortuous road to Anglo-Irish Agreement

During the framing of the historic Anglo-Irish Agreement of November 1985, Garret FitzGerald took the opportunity of a joint meeting in Lisbon to comp(...)

Rev Ian Paisley: the private letter from a Garda body in Dublin was addressed to the most senior Irish official at the Anglo-Irish Secretariat at Maryfield. Photograph: Peter Thursfield
Ian Paisley ‘refused to say’ how he intercepted Irish official’s letter

The story of how a private letter from a Garda body in Dublin, addressed to the most senior Irish official at the Anglo-Irish Secretariat at Maryfield(...)