The Papers of Sir Robin Chichester-Clark

Includes letter to RCC from Sir Norman Stronge MP (former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Parliament), 13 April 1970; RCC's correspondence with the Apprentice Boys of Derry relating to RCC's comments in the House of Commons on 3 July 1970; letters to RCC from Francis Pym MP (Government Chief Whip), 3 July 1970, and from Richard Sharples MP (Minister of State, Home Office), 16 September 1970; copy of letter by RCC to the Home Secretary [Reginald Maudling MP] relating to ".. the Security Forces action in Northern Ireland on Friday morning", 27 July 1971, and a further letter on the same subject from RCC, with Stratton Mills MP and Rafton Pounder MP, to the Home Secretary, 28 July 1971; letter to RCC from 'Winston [Churchill MP]', 18 September 1971; note on a House of Commons order paper to RCC from 'Willie [William Whitelaw MP]' praising his speech the previous day, 22 September 1971; correspondence with 'Brian [Faulkner, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland]', January 1972; letters to RCC from Michael O'Halloran MP and Phillip Whitehead MP thanking him for sending a circular about the operation of Courts in the Republic [of Ireland], 22 February 1972; telegram to RCC from Sir George Clark relating to the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act, 27 March 1972); letter from 'Jim' Scott-Hopkins MP, 29 March 1972; press release issued by RCC on the suspension of Stormont, April 1972; letter to RCC from William Whitelaw MP (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) after Whitelaw's meeting with representatives of the IRA, 11 July 1972; and copy of RCC's letter to Whitelaw, "Referendum on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland", 17 July 1972; quotations from press and television on Northern Ireland compiled by the Conservative Research Department, 1970; and statement by the Northern Ireland Prime Minister (Brian Faulkner) to the House of Commons, 30 March 1971. Also includes security forces letters, 27-28 July 1971.