Indhold: Official leader of the opposition, 1975-9 (Thatcher and the Conservative Party's Northern Ireland policy, 1975-9 ; Airey Neave and the Conservative Party's Northern Ireland policy, 1975-9) ; First-term in office, 1979-83 (Thatcher and the evolution of the British government's Northern Ireland policy, 1979 ; The Atkins' talks and the Haughey-Thatcher relationship, 1980 ; Thatcher, the second Irish Republican hunger strike and Anglo-Irish relations, 1981 ; The Prior Initiative, the Falklands War and Anglo-Irish relations, 1982) ; Second-term in office, 1983-7 (The FitzGerald-Thatcher relationship and the evolution of Anglo-Irish relations, 1983-4 ; Anglo- American relations and the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985-6) ; Third-term in office, 1987-90 (Thatcher, British state collusion and the genesis of the Northern Ireland peace process, 1987-90)