internal memorandum produced by an official in the Northern Ireland Civil Service in May 1993

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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

Edna Longley

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