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  CAIN: People: Biographies of People Prominent During 'the Troubles' - M   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A lawyer by profession before he entered politics, Patrick Mayhew was elected as a Conservative MP in 1974 for the constituency of Tunbridge Wells (1974-97).
In spite of this Mayhew pressed ahead with efforts to re-start the all-party talks initiated by his predecessor Peter Brooke and with the support of the Irish government these began again in late April 1992.
Mayhew was therefore still in office when the British and Irish governments released the Downing Street Declaration (DSD) in December 1993.
www.cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/people/biography/mpeople.htm   (7350 words)

  
  Patrick Mayhew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Twysden, PC, is a British barrister, and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1992 to 1997, the longest anyone has served in this office.
He also served as Attorney General for England and Wales from 1987 to 1992 as Sir Patrick Mayhew.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Mayhew_of_Twysden   (134 words)

  
 CAIN: Irish Peace Process - Key Dates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Patrick Mayhew, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced that the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) was to be banned from midnight.
Patrick Mayhew, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Michael Ancram, the Political Development Minister at the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), held a secret meeting in Derry with Gerry Adams, the President of Sinn Féin (SF), and Martin McGuinness, the Vice-President of Sinn Féin (SF).
Patrick Mayhew, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, during a visit to Washington said that Republicans could only enter into substantive negotiations when they showed a willingness to disarm by decommissioning some of their arm in advance of talks.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/peace/keydate.htm   (3284 words)

  
 CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1993   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Patrick Mayhew, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, gave an interview to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in which he stated that Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Constitution were "unhelpful" and would be a central element of any future talks.
Patrick Mayhew, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, gave a speech in Bangor, County Down, in which he said that Britain was "neutral" with regard to Northern Ireland's position within the United Kingdom (UK).
Patrick Mayhew, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, claimed that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) had initiated the contacts with an oral message on 22 February 1993 that stated: "The conflict is over but we need your advice on how to bring it to a close.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/chron/ch93.htm   (9410 words)

  
 BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
MAYHEW: Oh yes indeed, if it were to be the case that a package satisfactory to all the participants including the Irish Governemnt were there and the Irish were to say now in those circumstances Articles Two and Three were removed, that would be immensely helpful, of course it would.
MAYHEW: Well they halted you know for a very technical reason, they halted because the Irish Government, as was in entirely within their rights, insisted that there should be a further meeting between the two governments and under the Anglo Irish agreement.
MAYHEW: What I've said previously is that it's up to him, anmd he's the best judge of whom he talks to, but you will have seen that it is a great difficulty for Unionists, that John Hume is talking to Sinn Fein at the moment, they have said so.
www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext92-93/Mayhew13.6.93.html   (2467 words)

  
 CHRONOLOGY 1993
The northern secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, said in a BBC interview that articles 2 and 3 of the republic's constitution were "unhelpful" and would be central to any future talks.
The northern secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, said there would be no new inquiry into the deaths of 13 civilians shot dead by the army on Bloody Sunday in 1972, despite a letter from the prime minister, John Major, acknowledging their innocence.
Patrick Kelly (41), a lorry driver from Co Laois, was jailed for 25 years at the Old Bailey in London for conspiring to plant what would have been the largest bomb in Britain and attempting to murder a policeman who stopped his lorry in Stoke Newington in November 1992.
www.uhb.fr /Langues/Cei/chron93.htm   (22547 words)

  
 Jacksonville's Financial News and Daily Record
According to Mayhew, the fundamental precept of L’Arche is mutuality, the belief that because no one person is more or less valuable than any other, the core members teach the employees and volunteers just as much as the system works in the reverse.
Mayhew had just come back from a meeting with his “accompanier,” a guide or mentor, someone from the L’Arche community who is trusted to talk things through and discuss ideas.
Mayhew said that because less than half of L’Arche’s money (they operate on about a $500,000 budget) comes from government sources, fundraisers like the one at Assumption this week are critical for their ability to function.
www.jaxdailyrecord.com /showstory.php?Story_id=1379   (853 words)

  
 Patrick Mayhew - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
He was MP for Tunbridge Wells, but stood down at the 1997 election.
He was succeeded as Tunbridge Wells MP by Archie Norman.He also served as Attorney General for England and Wales from 1987 to 1992 as Sir Patrick Mayhew.
Patrick Mayhew, British MPs, UK Conservative Party politicians, Life peers, British Secretaries of State, Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland and Members of the Privy Council.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Patrick_Mayhew   (152 words)

  
 From Hell Again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mayhew had a vision of the people on the ships at dock waking from their sleep, lifting taut faces from pints of ale, as the cadaverous wind rolled by.
Mayhew tore the cloak apart when he lifted it--the material shredded with the weight of muck to support.
Mayhew turned it over, disbelieving that it could be in such condition, but the other side was as shiny and unblemished.
www.gregoryfrost.com /pages/fromhell.html   (1050 words)

  
 Mayhew sets out way for Sinn Fein to enter talks
Sir Patrick refused to be drawn on a specific timescale for Sinn Fein's participation in talks following recent Government statements that the IRA could not expect to declare a ceasefire one day and be invited into the talks the next.
Sir Patrick said what was not happening - negative signals as well as positive ones - would be important in judging whether there was an unequivocal as well as dependable ceasefire.
Sir Patrick noted that Mr McGuinness had said that if the conflict was to be ended permanently - "and I note his use of that word" - all should embrace the process in good faith, facing the challenges with imagination, honesty and flexibility.
telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/11/16/npat16.html   (579 words)

  
 Irish Republican Information Service Bulletin #174
Patrick Mayhew, British direct ruler in the Six Counties, said on November 15 in Manchester that he noted McGuinness's use of the word "permanently" and his statement that the surrender of arms ("decommissioning") must be dealt with to the satisfaction of all the participants in the negotiations.
Mayhew and the Dublin administration are interpreting McGuinness as agreeing to parallel decommissioning as outlined in the Mitchell Report of last February.
Mayhew said that he wanted to see the Provisionals' political organisation at the Stormont talks after their military body called a ceasefire.
www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1996-December/000702.html   (2812 words)

  
 The Force Research Unit - Patrick Hamill, Answers sought to claims of murder by British Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Patrick Hamill, 29, was shot dead by two UDA gunmen in September 1987.
A book published in December 1999, however, quotes former soldiers claiming that her father, Patrick Hamill, was targeted by the UDA at the request of a secret unit of the British Army.
Mayhew was in the audience at Mackie's when Cathy Hamill read her message to Clinton.
www.iol.ie /~pfc/fru/fru12022k1j.html   (616 words)

  
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In mid-January 1993, British Secretary of State for the North, Patrick Mayhew, denied that weapons imported by Brian Nelson with the knowledge of British Intelligence are being used to kill Catholics.
Mayhew's denial came in the midst of a sustained loyalist killing campaign.
Patrick Mayhew, MP Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitehall London SW1A 2A1 Mr.
www.etext.org /Politics/INAC/brian.nelson   (3002 words)

  
 BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
MAYHEW: Well, what I wanted was this: the two Governments wanted to have a foundation declaration established, which showed the two Governments standing side by side, stating that the future of Northern Ireland would be based upon consent.
MAYHEW:...'Can Sir Patrick Mayhew get anything out of the wreckage?' This is the dramatic language which I am quite used to, particularly when it's in a negative sense, but it is misleading.
MAYHEW: Yes I would and there are not going to issue it either, I am confident of that.
www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext93-94/Mayhew27.3.94.html   (2817 words)

  
 Sinn Féin: Setting the Record Straight
On Monday, 29 November 1993, Patrick Mayhew, the British Minister with chief responsibility for the Six Counties, lodged in the Library and Vote office at Westminster, what he claimed to be all messages "received and dispatched" in the course of the British government's protracted contact and dialogue with Irish republicans.
On 1 December 1993, Patrick Mayhew admitted thatay, 29 November 1993, Sinn Féin is scrutinising the British version of the protracted contact and dialogue between our party and the British government and the documents provided by Patrick Mayhew on Monday to the British parliament.
Mayhew was wobbling between "pushing for acceptance and wanting a safer longer period of cessation".
www.sinnfein.ie /peace/document/80   (16917 words)

  
 PFC IRELAND NEWS UPDATES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Campaigners for two Belfast men wrongly convicted of the 1974 killing of an RUC man are hopeful that their case may be referred to the Appeal Court following news that the Secretary of State, Patrick Mayhew, is studying documents crucial to the case.
The Board has the power to release Patrick, who has a mental age of 11, and was convicted in one of the most controversial miscarriages of justice seen in recent years.
Patrick was convicted along with Michael Timmons and Sean Kelly following the shooting of two British soldiers during an IRA funeral in W. Belfast.
www.serve.com /~pfc/weekly/inu23feb97.html   (2827 words)

  
 Kevin Mayhew Publishers : Home
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 Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irelandclick.com article
Patrick Hamill was shot in the living room of his Forfar Street home on September 9, 1987.
In 1991 as Nelson faced life in prison for a catalogue of crimes, the British establishment was in danger of being brought down by their disgruntled agent who was threatening to spill the beans about British collusion.
Patrick Mayhew, then Attorney General was flown in at the last minute to broker a deal which saw 15 charges against Nelson dropped - charges including murder.
nuzhound.com /articles/Irelandclick/arts2002/laura_hammill6-24-02.html   (841 words)

  
 CHRONOLOGY 1995
The Observer reported that the Northern Ireland secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, had told sixth-formers in London that unless the government could "help Mr Adams carry with him the people who are reluctant to see a ceasefire", he would "be replaced by someone much harder".
The Secretary of State, Sir Patrick Mayhew, announced in a speech in Quen's university that 50% remission for paramilitary prisoners would be reintroduced, a White Paper on police reform and a review of emergency legislation, but that the government's position on decommissioning arms would be upheld.
Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Secretary of State, said in Australia that the British were not seeking "a complete disposal" of IRA arms, but insisted that a 'start' should be made.
www.uhb.fr /Langues/Cei/chron95.htm   (12731 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Patrick Mayhew
Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign.
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Patrick-Mayhew   (588 words)

  
 Mayhew grants Clegg fresh appeal after new evidence
LEE Clegg, the paratrooper convicted of murder after opening fire on a stolen car in Belfast, was granted leave for a new appeal yesterday after a review of fresh evidence was submitted by his legal team.
L/Cpl Clegg, 27, who was freed on licence in July 1995, was said by relatives to be "absolutely over the moon" after the announcement by Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Northern Ireland Secretary.
The announcement represented a significant victory for Cpl Clegg's advisers and campaigners, who have worked for more than five years to clear his name since he was charged with the murder of 18-year-old Karen Reilly.
telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/01/17/ncle17.html   (579 words)

  
 Irish Echo Online - News
Oct. 10, 1993: Secretary Of State Sir Patrick Mayhew, speaking on RTE, said that in the event of a cease-fire, the IRA would have to make its guns and explosives "available" as proof that violence was over.
March 7, 1995: Sir Patrick Mayhew, speaking in Washington, D.C., demands that before Sinn Fein is allowed to join the talks the IRA must show "a willingness in principle to disarm progressively" and offer a "tangible confidence-building measure", i.e.
Mayhew repeated the demand at his first meeting with Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, on May 24.
www.irishecho.com /search/searchstory.cfm?id=2990&issueid=73   (1260 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 385 - 13 December, 1988 - Private Notice Questions. - Patrick Ryan Extradition Case.
The material in question consists of references to Patrick Ryan which have appeared in newspapers, particularly newspapers with a large circulation, and on radio and television, over a protracted period.
They consisted, inter alia, of attacks on Patrick Ryan's general character, often expressed in intemperate language and frequently in the form of extravagantly-worded headlines, and also assertions of his guilt of the offences comprised in the warrants—and, indeed, assertions of his guilt of other offences in respect of which no charges have been brought.
Many of these statements were expressed in a form which would lead the public to believe that they came, directly or indirectly, from sources who were in possession of facts which conclusively established their truth.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0385/D.0385.198812130018.html   (3608 words)

  
 Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
The two governments were proposing to hold a summit meeting to pronounce a common position on IRA decommissioning and both administraions had arrived at tough public positions on the issue.
These were a declaration in principle by the IRA of its willingness to disarm, an agreement on modalities of decommissioning and lastly some confidence building measures to show the genuineness of its intent.
Sir Patrick Mayhew’s “Washington Three” demands have been met, almost in full although not in return for participation in talks but for participation in government.
www.nuzhound.com /articles/moloney2001/mo8-12-1.htm   (1012 words)

  
 PFC IRELAND NEWS UPDATES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Two brothers of two of those killed on Bloody Sunday had a meeting with Patrick Mayhew, the British Secretary of State on Friday morning (14 February).
The two brothers, John Kelly and Michael McKinney spoke briefly to Mr Mayhew and presented him with the new evidence which is the basis of their demand for a new inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday which is when British troops killed 14 unarmed civilians on the streets of Derry in January 1972.
Mayhew said, in a statement clearly designed to embarrass Hume, that "an apology is for criminal wrongdoing and there is nothing in the Widgery report to support that and therefore it would be wrong.
www.serve.com /pfc/weekly/inu16feb97.html   (2180 words)

  
 CAIN: People: Biographies of People Prominent During 'the Troubles' - M   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A lawyer by profession before he entered politics, Patrick Mayhew was elected as a Conservative MP in 1974 for the constituency of Tunbridge Wells (1974-97).
In spite of this Mayhew pressed ahead with efforts to re-start the all-party talks initiated by his predecessor Peter Brooke and with the support of the Irish government these began again in late April 1992.
Mayhew was therefore still in office when the British and Irish governments released the Downing Street Declaration (DSD) in December 1993.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/people/biography/mpeople.htm   (7350 words)

  
 BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
It was Sir Patrick Mayhew who defined that, at its very least, as being the beginning of a process of actual decommissioning.
Now, if Sir Patrick is going to throw those solemn agreements aside and abandon the tests that he himself set, I wish he would say so, clearly.
I am being assured by Sir Patrick Mayhew that the commission that the British Government is talking about is a commission whose terms of reference relates purely to actual decommissioning and that's a very different sort of operation to the one that you have just mentioned.
www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext95-96/Trimble22.10.95.html   (1920 words)

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