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January 1st, 2012 
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Margaret Thatcher on a 1981 visit to Northern Ireland. Photo: AFP
Thomas Penny, Robert Hutton, London
Sydney Morning Herald
December 31, 2011
MARGARET Thatcher considered pulling out of Northern Ireland in 1981 as hunger strikes by republican prisoners brought international condemnation, in contrast to her public position that she would ”not flinch” from keeping the province in the UK, previously secret papers show.
While members of Mrs Thatcher’s cabinet warned that such a move risked bloodshed, civil war and unrest among the Irish diaspora in British cities, the then British prime minister said all options should be considered, according to files released by the National Archives under the 30-year rule.
The documents reveal how the Conservative government sent messages to the IRA leadership through a secret intermediary promising concessions if the hunger strikes were called off. Mrs Thatcher took part in drafting proposals to the prisoners aimed at bringing protests over their conditions to an end even as her government said publicly it was not involved in negotiations.
”Many people in Britain now believed a settlement of the complex problems of the area would be more easily reached by the Irish on their own and that continued British involvement could only mean the futile sacrifice of further British lives,” the confidential report of a cabinet meeting on July 2 says.
In her summing-up, Mrs Thatcher ”said that further thought would need to be given to all possible courses of action in regard to Northern Ireland, however difficult or unpalatable”.
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