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This project models the series of formal and informal negotiations which led to the publication, in December 1993, of a declaration issued jointly by the British and Irish Governments. The Joint Declaration was a critical policy document which paved the way for a ceasefire and the entry of Sinn Féin into formal talks. It also laid out a shared set of principles—including, crucially, self-determination for the people of Ireland subject to the consent of the people of Northern Ireland—which would come to underpin the Good Friday Agreement and provide a framework for its ratification.
Cite as: Ian McBride, Ruth Murray, Annabel Harris, and Nicholas P. S. Cole, Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993), Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2025).
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
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Created on: 1989-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model internal Irish Government documents and meetings.
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1Created on: 1988-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model internal British Government documents and meetings.
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195715Created on: 1991-12-03
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Description: This committee has been created to model meetings between the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach.
10610914720332963344148152116104Created on: 1991-01-01
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Description: This group was set up as a sub-committee of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. Its remit during this period was to produce a Framework Document which became entwined with the drafting of the Joint Declaration.
183239232413321209Created on: 1991-12-05
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Description: This committee has been created to model meetings of the Butler/Nally Group, which was one of the key structures in the drafting of the Declaration. From Autumn 1993 onwards, Chilcot and Ó hUiginn were also part of the negotiating team working on the Joint Declaration.
91312673183289568427201346750Created on: 1993-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contact between British and Irish government delegates which happened outside of the more formal structures set up for intergovernmental negotiation. These informal meetings were sometimes crucial to the development of the Joint Declaration.
355265101123110940942031151616644Created on: 1981-11-06
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Description: The Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was a consultative body established under the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) to promote cross-border cooperation. It was made up of officials from the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and had a permanent secretariat based in Maryfield.
811234177Created on: 1989-11-19
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and the British government.
13141137105511309Created on: 1991-10-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and the Irish government.
1011813531535151Created on: 1988-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between John Hume and Gerry Adams, along with the bilateral meetings which took place between the SDLP and Sinn Féin.
68263129614210Created on: 1993-09-25
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Reverend Roy Magee and the Irish government.
1321221271Created on: 1993-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Archbishop Robin Eames and the Irish government.
2432435613Created on: 1993-10-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between James Molyneaux and the British government.
172011241718525645214Created on: 1988-02-09
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Alec Reid and the British government.
24121161123033Created on: 1988-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model internal Sinn Féin documents and meetings.
99621181Created on: 1988-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model internal SDLP documents and meetings.
115518Created on: 1988-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model the proposals created by Alec Reid, often shared with or written in collaboration with Tómás Ó Fiaich and Raymond Murray.
14185155Created on: 1989-01-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Alec Reid and the Irish government.
Created on: 1989-01-01
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Description: Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Alec Reid and John Hume.
Created on: 1988-01-01
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Description: Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Alec Reid and Gerry Adams.
Created on: 1981-11-06
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Description: Description: The Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was a consultative body established under the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) to promote cross-border cooperation. It was made up of officials from the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and had a permanent secretariat based in Maryfield. As part of the conference, senior politicians held tête-à-tête meetings.
Created on: 1990-05-01
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Description: Meetings of the representatives of the British government with members of the clergy engaged in the Maze chaplain initiative.
410811512713Created on: 1993-10-22
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Archbishop Robin Eames and the British government.
1516132425211219213916Created on: 1990-01-01
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Description: Maze chaplains, Father Murphy and Reverend Murphy and the church leaders who supported their initiative.
Created on: 1993-10-01
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Description: This committee has been created to represent Archbishop Eames' changes to proposals being worked up.
1346Created on: 1993-10-01
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Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Jim Molyneaux, leader of the UUP, and Archbishop Robin Eames.
2211231122214Created on: 1993-11-01
Dissolved on: 1993-12-14
Description: This committee has been created to model bilateral contacts between Reverend Magee and unknown Loyalist representatives.
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This collection is one box (P254) from a larger selection of Dermot Nally's papers held in the University College Dublin Archives. The documents in the box relate to the development of the Downing Street Joint Declaration, made by the British and...
This collection contains the correspondence and exchange of papers that took place between the SDLP and Sinn Féin in 1988. The original documents are held in the Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and the Quill project is very grateful to the Linen...
A selection of material relating to the Northern Irish Peace Process scanned at The National Archives of the UK. The files are mainly taken from the CJ 4 series (Northern Ireland Office records) and the PREM series (Office of the Prime Minister...
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