Catalogue description Home Office: Six Figure Files

Home Office files relating to Northern Ireland and Eire transferred to the Northern Ireland Office on its establishment in 1972. Amongst other matters, the files concern security measures, Eire's repeal of the External Relations Act 1936, the neutrality of Eire, Eire's secession from the Commonwealth, the Ireland Bill 1949, Northern Ireland publicity arrangements in the USA, fisheries, partition, and conscription in Northern Ireland. For other files in the same series see HO 45 and HO 144

For later Home Office files see HO 284