Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland

This repository contains archive file information, coding ontologies, and qualitative methods descriptions for qualitative data on discussions by British Cabinet members about Loyalist, pro-government militias during the first years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1969-1973). This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant #1823547, ``Civil Rights Violations and the Democratic Rule of Law'' (Emily Gade, PI; Michael McCann, co-PI; Noah Smith, co-PI), the University of Washington Curtis Graduate Research Grant, and the Halle Institute for Global Research Award. All archive material are from The National Archives (UK).

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Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland Jun 6, 2025 Weller, Adee; Dreier, Sarah; Gade, Emily, 2025, "Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P5YPXG, Harvard Dataverse, V1 This project compiles and analyzes over 8,000 pages of declassified British government documents from 1969 to 1973 to investigate how the UK state understood and responded to pro-government militias (PGMs) during the Northern Ireland conflict. The data include two original coded datasets: (1) an incident-level event dataset capturing PGM, state, an...
PGMs_NI_archival_sources.pdf Jun 6, 2025 - Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland Adobe PDF - 73.7 KB - MD5: dec3b2f1216625b966046a2bef75d5b8 This dataset details the sources for more than 8,000 pages of declassified UK government documents housed at The National Archives (UK), capturing British internal correspondence on the security situation in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 1973. The documents include top-secret memos, situation reports, interrogation records, internal letters, an...
PGMs_NI_correspondence_codebook.pdf Jun 6, 2025 - Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland Adobe PDF - 95.5 KB - MD5: 8f4a1431e071cac9af8f0fd1815b3170 This dataset consists of hand-coded observations from 8,430 declassified British government documents (1969–1974) from the Prime Minister’s Correspondence Files. These records provide unprecedented insights into how the British state perceived and responded to pro-government militias (PGMs) during the Northern Ireland conflict, known as the Trouble...
PGMs_NI_events_codebook.pdf Jun 6, 2025 - Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland Adobe PDF - 162.0 KB - MD5: de1d66f7377f8963dc1b88f4b0c1efe9 This dataset provides detailed incident-level data on conflict-related events involving pro-government militias, anti-state actors, civilians, and state forces during the early years of the Northern Ireland conflict (1971–1973). Each observation captures an incident-actor, meaning the discrete actions of an individual or group involved in a given i...

Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland

Jun 6, 2025

Weller, Adee; Dreier, Sarah; Gade, Emily, 2025, "Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P5YPXG, Harvard Dataverse, V1

This project compiles and analyzes over 8,000 pages of declassified British government documents from 1969 to 1973 to investigate how the UK state understood and responded to pro-government militias (PGMs) during the Northern Ireland conflict. The data include two original coded datasets: (1) an incident-level event dataset capturing PGM, state, an...

PGMs_NI_archival_sources.pdf

Jun 6, 2025 - Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland

Adobe PDF - 73.7 KB -

This dataset details the sources for more than 8,000 pages of declassified UK government documents housed at The National Archives (UK), capturing British internal correspondence on the security situation in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 1973. The documents include top-secret memos, situation reports, interrogation records, internal letters, an...

PGMs_NI_correspondence_codebook.pdf

Jun 6, 2025 - Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland

Adobe PDF - 95.5 KB -

This dataset consists of hand-coded observations from 8,430 declassified British government documents (1969–1974) from the Prime Minister’s Correspondence Files. These records provide unprecedented insights into how the British state perceived and responded to pro-government militias (PGMs) during the Northern Ireland conflict, known as the Trouble...

PGMs_NI_events_codebook.pdf

Jun 6, 2025 - Analyzing Archived Government Correspondence Files (1969-73): Pro-Government Militias in Northern Ireland

Adobe PDF - 162.0 KB -

This dataset provides detailed incident-level data on conflict-related events involving pro-government militias, anti-state actors, civilians, and state forces during the early years of the Northern Ireland conflict (1971–1973). Each observation captures an incident-actor, meaning the discrete actions of an individual or group involved in a given i...

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