Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1979-2001 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
14 boxes and 4 outsize boxes (0.3 cubic metres)
Scope and content
The Endgame in Ireland archive, 1994-2001, consists of videotaped interviews, interview transcripts, videotapes and scripts of the transmitted programmes, press cuttings and published material relating to the peace process in Northern Ireland, 1981-2001. The interviewees are politicians from the mainland British Government, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and from the USA, and include: Gerard ('Gerry') Adams, President of Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland, 1983-2007; Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1997-2008; Dermot Ahern, Minister of State, Depart of Defence, Ireland, 1991-1992; Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007; John (Gerard) Bruton, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1994-1997; Frederick Edward Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service, UK 1988-1998; William ('Bill') Jefferson Clinton, President of the USA, 1993-2001; (John) Mark Durkan, Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Northern Ireland, 2001-2010; Garret Fitzgerald, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1981-1982 and 1982-1987; John Hume, Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Northern Ireland, 1979-2001; Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1984-1985; Edward ('Ted') Moore Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, USA, 1962-2009; Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein Member of Parliament for Ulster Mid, Northern Ireland, 1997-2013; Kenneth ('Ken') Wiggins Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 1983-2001; John Major, UK Prime Minister, 1990-1997; Peter (Benjamin) Mandelson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1999-2001; George John Mitchell, Senator from Maine, USA, 1980-1995; Marjorie ('Mo') Mowlem, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1997-1999; Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1992-1994; Richard ('Dick') Spring, Deputy Taoiseach of Ireland, 1982-1987 and 1993-1997; (William) David Trimble, Leader of Ulster Unionist Party, Northern Ireland, 1995-2005.
System of arrangement
The original arrangement has been preserved, namely: interview transcripts arranged into mainland Britain, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, USA; press cuttings, arranged chronologically; VHS videotapes of filmed interviews.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by Brook Lapping Productions in 2001.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Physical Description
Some videotape (VHS) material
Finding aids
This collection level description. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.
Existence and location of originals
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
Related materials
Publication note
Eamonn Mallie and David McKittrick, Endgame in Ireland (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001) was written to tie in with the television series
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Adams, Gerard (Gerry), b 1948, politician (Subject)
- Ahern, Bertie, b 1951, Taoiseach of Ireland (Subject)
- Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony), b 1953, Prime Minister (Subject)
- Bruton, John Gerard, b 1947, Taoiseach of Ireland (Subject)
- Butler, Frederick Edward Robin, b 1938, Baron Butler of Brockwell, civil servant (Subject)
- Clinton, William Jefferson (Bill), b 1946, US president (Subject)
- Durkan, John Mark, b 1960, politician (Subject)
- Fitzgerald, Garret, b 1926, Taoiseach of Ireland (Subject)
- Hume, John, b 1937, politician (Subject)
- Hurd, Douglas Richard, b 1930, Baron Hurd of Westwell, politician (Subject)
- Kennedy, Edward Moore, b 1932, US Senator (Subject)
- Maginnis, Kenneth Wiggine, b 1938, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, politician (Subject)
- Major, John, b 1943, Prime Minister (Subject)
- Mandelson, Peter Benjamin, b 1953, politician (Subject)
- McGuinness, James Martin Pacelli, b 1950, politician (Subject)
- Mitchell, George John, b 1933, US Senator (Subject)
- Mowlem, Marjorie (Mo), b 1949, politician (Subject)
- Reynolds, Albert, b 1932, Taoiseach of Ireland (Subject)
- Spring, Richard (Dick), b 1950, politician (Subject)
- Trimble, William David, b 1944, First Minister of Northern Ireland (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Compiled by Kate O'Brien