Margaret Thatcher was wrong: Ulster has never been and will never be as British as Finchley. Letter of the day: nationality debate. Belfast Telegraph letters to the Editor. Fri 6 Oct 2017 at 10:19.

Even before becoming Prime Minister in 1979, for Margaret Thatcher, the Troubles of Ulster were a personal matter. Shortly before her election, her close political ally Airey Neave ...

Thatcher weighed Ulster retreat. By Thomas Penny, Robert Hutton and London. December 31, 2011 — 3.00am. Save. ... Margaret Thatcher on a 1981 visit to Northern Ireland. Credit: AFP.

Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher of Britain and Garret FitzGerald of Ireland will meet Friday to sign a historic agreement giving Dublin a voice in Northern Ireland affairs for the first time, sou… ...

Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe in 1980. Geoff Bruce/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Features. March 2020. Margaret Thatcher’s traitors. ... He is more of an Ulster Unionist than she was, less ...

Back in 1979, Carter was at the heart of a decision to ban US arms shipments to the hated Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) police force, an attitude that infuriated Margaret Thatcher who had just ...

Margaret Thatcher, her husband Denis (left) and aide Cynthia Crawford (right) leave Brighton after the IRA bomb attack in Brighton in October 1984. ... In November 1981 he was wounded in the leg when ...

Margaret Thatcher is "still adored and revered" by the Conservative Party, "grudgingly respected" by Labour prime ministers past and present, and "despised and reviled on the left and in many ...

On the evening of October 11, 1984, Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, had her picture taken with a giant blue Teddy bear.It was the prize in a raffle at a gala being ...

In 1984, the IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel in the seaside resort of Brighton, England, targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The bomb detonated on Oct. 12, 1984 — the aftermath ...