27.05.1993
An internal memorandum produced by an official in the Northern Ireland Civil Service in May 1993. It is reporting on a plan to arrange a meeting between representatives of Unionism in Northern Ireland and the Irish Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: CENT/1/20/33A_1993-05-27
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CONFIDENTIAL
DJW/39/5 FROM: DJ WATKINS US CENT SEC
DATE: 27 MAY 1993
CC: PS/PUS (B&L) – B Mr Thomas – B Mr Bell – B Mr Williams – B Mr Brooker – B Mrs Collins – B Mr Cooke – B Mr Maccabe – B Mr Maxwell – B Mr Mccusker – B Mr Quinn – B Mr Archer, RID – B HMA, Dublin – B
PS/Mr Fell – B
DFA AND UNIONISM
1. Following the meeting chaired by PUS on 27 April, Mr Maccabe and I have now derived the attached list of people who might be fielded before the DFA, in appropriate social circumstances, in the process of encouraging our Irish colleagues to develop a rather more comprehensive understanding of the nature of unionism. I have myself noticed no diminution in the evidence suggesting that that educational process is necessary, though Bishop McMullan provided an effective counterbalance to DFA prejudice.
2. We have sought to provide three very broad categories of unionists, viz:-
(i) those active in party politics;
(ii) those not (or no longer) active in party politics but known to hold unionist views; and
(iii) those such as community leaders who may represent that strand of particularly working-class unionism. This group offers the additional prospect that they might also be able effectively to represent some of the causes of the current ferment in the unionist community at large.
DFA AND UNIONISM
“Unionists” who are active in Party Politics
Jeffrey Donaldson. Robert Coulter. Raymond Ferguson. Ian Paisley (Junior). Gregory Campbell. Roy Bradford. Liz Seawright. Sean Neeson. Seamus Close. Ian Adamson. Hugh Smyth. Drew Nelson
Non – Political Unionists
AT Q Stewart. Clifford Smith. Lord Cooke. Lord Blease. Alisdair McLaughlin. Godfrey Brown. Paul Hewitt. Peter McLachlan. Rae Davey. Basil Glass. Lady Faulkner. William Fitch. Paul Bew. EdnaLongley. James Hawthorne. Peter Smith QC. Robin Bailie. Noel Stewart. Sir A Campbell. Anthony Hart. John Martin. Robert McCartney. Addie Morrow. John Morrow. Sir D Lorimer.
Community Leaders
Jackie Redpath. Billy Hutchinson. Sammy Douglas. Monica Barrett (Quaker). Jackie Hewitt. Jack Hanvey. Rev Jim Rea. Eddie Callaghan.