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Cover -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Main Parties that Had to Be Reconciled -- Key Negotiators -- Acronyms and Special Terms Used in the Documents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Government Discussions on Devolution in Northern Ireland -- Document -- 1 Governing Northern Ireland: An Integrated Approach, May 1997 -- 2 Letter from Gerry Adams to Tony Blair, 2 May 1997 -- 3 Letter from Tony Blair to Gerry Adams, 2 May 1997 -- 4 The Secretary of State Has Written to Sinn Fein, no date -- 5 Ulster Democratic Party, 2 May 1997 -- 6 The Taoiseach to Call on the Prime Minister, 5 May 1997 -- 7 Statement by the Taoiseach, Mr John Bruton, 5 May 1997 -- 8 Meeting between the Taoiseach and the Prime Minister, no date -- 9 Meeting with Trimble, 7 May 1997 -- 10 Meeting with Dr I R K Paisley, 7 May 1997 -- 11 Speaking Note: Dr Paisley, 7 May 1997 -- 12 Dinner with the Tanaiste, 7 May 1997 -- 13 Address by the Taoiseach: Mr John Bruton TD to the Oxford Union, 7 May 1997 -- 14 Meeting between the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 7 May 1997 -- 15 Call by the UUP, 7 May 1997 -- 16 Northern Ireland: Implementing the North Report, 7 May 1997 -- 17 Meeting with Bruton, 7 May 1997 -- 18 Letter from Gary McMichael, Leader of the Ulster Democratic Party, to the Prime Minister, 8 May 1997 -- 19 Call by the Taoiseach, 8 May 1997 -- 20 On Bruton Visit, 8 May 1997 -- 21 Visit of the Taoiseach, 8 May: East/West Issues, 9 May 1997 -- 22 Contact with Sinn Fein, 9 May 1997 -- 23 Message from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to Sinn Fein, 9 May 1997 -- 24 Northern Ireland: Meetings with Party Leaders, 9 May 1997 -- 25 Northern Ireland Bills, 10 May 1997 -- 26 Call by UUP, 12 May 1997 -- 27 Northern Ireland: Meetings with Party Leaders, 12 May 1997 -- 28 A Response from Sinn Fein, 12 May 1997.

"In March 1949 the security service MI 5 received notice of a suspect person about to enter Britain and went to great pains to keep her under surveillance. This person was the author Doris Lessing. She would eventually go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature as an 'epicist ... who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny'. And it was precisely this scrutiny that troubled the guardians of the status quo. Lessing grew up in colonial Rhodesia and hated the scorn with which the colonists treated the native population. She worked tirelessly for a more just society and this drove her into support for communism. But a communist, as one of her fictional characters says, 'is hated, despised, feared and hunted'. Peter Raina's book, reproducing the secret files kept on Lessing, shows that this was largely true, even though her emphasis in these troubled times was always on Peace. Lessing was eventually disillusioned by communism, and sought a better understanding of human relations than Soviet-conforming clichés could provide. However, her understanding was much enriched by the experiences of her activism and knowledge of the opposition it aroused. The secret files show how strongly Lessing followed her convictions and throw new light on how her perceptions of society evolved. Peter Raina elucidates this in a short Introduction and an Epilogue discussing aspects of her writings"--

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