Endgame in Ireland, television documentary archives

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA: Endgame in Ireland
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: Endgame in Ireland, television documentary archives
Date(s)	: 1994-2001
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 14 boxes and 4 outsize boxes (0.3 cubic metres)
Name of creator(s)	: Brook Lapping Productions

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Endgame In Ireland is a four part documentary produced by Brook Lapping Productions, a London based television company, for BBC television and broadcast during Jun-Jul 2001. The Series Producer was Norma Percy.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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-; Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1997-; Dermot Ahern, Minister of State, Depart of Defence, Ireland, 1991-1992; Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister, 1997-; 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-; 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-; Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein Member of Parliament for Ulster Mid, Northern Ireland, 1997-;
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; Majorie (`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-.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

Collection level description. The depositor's file list is available in hard copy for consultion in the Reading Room

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by Brook Lapping Productions in 2001.

Allied Materials

Related material:

A small reference collection of published books relating to Irish history, 1945-2000, is available in the Archive Reading Room.

Publication note:

Eamonn Mallie and David McKittrick, Endgame in Ireland (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001) was written to tie in with the television series

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Kate O'Brien

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
2003