Long-term Conservative Peter Carrington dies at 99
Tributes paid to the last surviving member of Churchill’s post-war government
From the Archives: August 29th, 1979
The weekend it murdered Lord Mountbatten, off Mullaghmore in Co Sligo, the IRA also killed 18 British soldiers in an ambush at Narrow Water, in Co Down. Another casualty that day was an English visitor shot dead by British soldiers who thought they were under fire. Fionnuala O Connor visited the area the next day
Margaret Thatcher was told ‘some’ IRA leaders wanted violence to stop in 1981
Thatcher papers raise questions about why it took until 1994 for IRA to declare its first major ceasefire
British believed elements of IRA wanted peace in 1981
Papers disclose Thatcher was told of unnamed “Provisionals” prepared to consider stopping “terrorist campaign”
Witty, argumentative and emotional: the human side to Thatcher’s political resolve
‘I had the impression she enjoyed the sometimes heated arguments of our negotiating process’
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