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David at 15:24, 28 April 2009

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 *[[Charles Moore]] Trustee<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
 *[[Ivan Lawrence]] Trustee<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
-*[[Alistair Cooke]]Trustee<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
+*[[Alistair Cooke, Lord Lexden|Alistair Cooke]]Trustee<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
 *[[Nicholas Budgen]] Patron<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
 *[[George Gardiner]] Patron<ref>Beware the heirs of Enoch, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>

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 *[[Robert Chichester-Clark]] Patron<ref>W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1986-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.96.</ref>
 *[[James Chichester-Clark]] (Lord Moyola)<ref>W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1986-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.137.</ref>
-[[Earl of Caledon]]<ref>W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1986-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.135.</ref>
+*[[Earl of Caledon]]<ref>W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1986-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.135.</ref>
 *[[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil]] (Viscount Cranborne, later Lord Salisbury)<ref>W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1986-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.135.</ref>
 *[[Charles Moore]] Trustee<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
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 *[[Nicholas Budgen]] Patron<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
 *[[George Gardiner]] Patron<ref>Beware the heirs of Enoch, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
-*[[John Wilkinson]] Patron<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
+*[[John Wilkinson (Conservative MP)|John Wilkinson]] Patron<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
 *[[Henry Bellingham]] Patron<ref>John Hicks, Martin Delgado,Alan Ramsay, Powerful friends with a passion for the Union, Evening Standard, 2 February 1995.</ref>
 *[[David Burnside]]<ref>Leonard Doyle & Steve Boggan, Right-wing group at centre of leak row, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>

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-Friends of the Union was founded in 1986 by 'a group of 16 Tory MPs and eight peers including [[Ian Gow]], former chairman of the Tory backbench committee on Northern Ireland', who was killed by the [[IRA]], and '[[Viscount Cranborne]], a member of the Cabinet and Leader of the House of Lords.'<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950203/ai_n13964981 Right-wing group at centre of leak row], by Leonard Doyle/Steve Boggan, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
+[[Friends of the Union]] was founded in 1986 by 'a group of 16 Tory MPs and eight peers including [[Ian Gow]], former chairman of the Tory backbench committee on Northern Ireland', who was killed by the [[IRA]], and '[[Viscount Cranborne]], a member of the Cabinet and Leader of the House of Lords.'<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950203/ai_n13964981 Right-wing group at centre of leak row], by Leonard Doyle/Steve Boggan, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
-The purpose of '''Friends of the Union''', according to the website of [[Jeffrey Donaldson]] MP, was "to increase knowledge and understanding within and without the United Kingdom of the need to maintain the Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".<ref>"[http://www.jeffreydonaldson.org/SiteLinks.asp Useful Links]", DUP Democratic Unionists website, accessed 28 April 2009</ref>
+The purpose of Friends of the Union, according to the website of [[Jeffrey Donaldson]] MP, was "to increase knowledge and understanding within and without the United Kingdom of the need to maintain the Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".<ref>"[http://www.jeffreydonaldson.org/SiteLinks.asp Useful Links]", DUP Democratic Unionists website, accessed 28 April 2009</ref>
 The organisation was wound up in 2006. Blogger James O'Fee stated: "A circular reads that it is no longer practical for the organisation to continue and gives reasons as a lack of recent activity, a lack of funds and the lack of a suitable sponsor."<ref>James O’Fee [http://www.impalapublications.com/blog/index.php?/archives/564-Friends-of-the-Union,-by-James-OFee.html Friends of the Union], ''Impala Publishers Blog Page'', 8 July 2006, accessed 28 April 2009.</ref> Friends of the Union provided a meeting place for a number of figures from the Irish political scene and a younger generation of British conservatives, which saw them come together in the neoconservative cause.  For example [[Paul Bew]] the former Marxist political scientist and [[David Trimble]] the Ulster Unionist leader (whom Bew advised) both ended up as signatories to the British Neocon [[Henry Jackson Society]], along with [[Dean Godson]] and [[Michael Gove]].
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 :More recently, I had become conscious of a weakening in the purity of the Friends’ political vision. It had offered invitations to speak at their fora to favourites of the Northern Ireland Office as [[Brian Mawhinney]], a Government Minister at Stormont when the Anglo-Irish Agreement was introduced, or the then Leader of the [[Alliance Party]]. People such as these did not share the high ideals of the founders of the Friends of the Union, nor did they suffer similar sacrifice. These invitations sickened me.<ref>James O’Fee [http://www.impalapublications.com/blog/index.php?/archives/564-Friends-of-the-Union,-by-James-OFee.html Friends of the Union], ''Impala Publishers Blog Page'', 8 July 2006, accessed 28 April 2009.</ref>
 ==Publication, Website, Notes==

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 ===Publications===
 This listing is from the Friends of the Union website archived on the Internet Archive:
-:This is the definitive list of the pamphlets published by Friends of the Union since 1987. Some of them are still available (free post and packing) by sending a cheque to the address on the Home Page. At the time of writing Friends of the Union is undertaking a programme of publishing all its existing pamphlets on-line. Those that are currently available are labelled as such. If you would like to be kept up to date as pamphlets become available on-line please subscribe to our Mailing List. Views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Friends of the Union or its Trustees.<ref>Frioends of the Union [http://web.archive.org/web/20040110105947/www.friends-of-the-union.org.uk/publications/main.html Publication List], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 10 January 2004, on 2 April 2009</ref>
+:This is the definitive list of the pamphlets published by Friends of the Union since 1987. Some of them are still available (free post and packing) by sending a cheque to the address on the Home Page. At the time of writing Friends of the Union is undertaking a programme of publishing all its existing pamphlets on-line. Those that are currently available are labelled as such. If you would like to be kept up to date as pamphlets become available on-line please subscribe to our Mailing List. Views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Friends of the Union or its Trustees.<ref>Friends of the Union [http://web.archive.org/web/20040110105947/www.friends-of-the-union.org.uk/publications/main.html Publication List], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 10 January 2004, on 2 April 2009</ref>
 *Plan B by [[Patrick Crozier]]. First published February 2000, price £4.50

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 ===Website===
 *[http://web.archive.org/web/20040110104537/www.friends-of-the-union.org.uk/index.shtml Friends of the Union] - from the Internet Archive.
 ==Notes==

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 :The Friends of the Union did much good work... It had an important political influence among the younger generation in Britain who wanted to understand the politics of Northern Ireland.
-:The Friends of the Union’s work captured many important allies. One of these was [[Conor Cruise O’Brien]], from a Southern Catholic Nationalist background who had served as a Minister in a government of the Republic. [[Ian Gow]]’s murder so sickened him, O'Brien wrote, that the time for him to sit on the fence was over. From then on he would support Northern Ireland’s right to exist as a separate polity, and to go whichever way it chose. O'Brien strongly condemned the Republican terrorist campaign. Others of the younger generation, I would suggest, are [[Michael Gove]] (now an MP) and [[Dean Godson]], author of a biography of [[David Trimble]], which happens to offer a crushing indictment of Trimble's political leadershipl. Like Gow, Godson (of Central European Jewish background) had originally no family or other connection with Northern Ireland.<ref>James O’Fee [http://www.impalapublications.com/blog/index.php?/archives/564-Friends-of-the-Union,-by-James-OFee.html Friends of the Union], ''Impala Publishers Blog Page'', 8 July 2006, accessed 28 April 2009.</ref>
+:The Friends of the Union’s work captured many important allies. One of these was [[Conor Cruise O’Brien]], from a Southern Catholic Nationalist background who had served as a Minister in a government of the Republic. [[Ian Gow]]’s murder so sickened him, O'Brien wrote, that the time for him to sit on the fence was over. From then on he would support Northern Ireland’s right to exist as a separate polity, and to go whichever way it chose. O'Brien strongly condemned the Republican terrorist campaign. Others of the younger generation, I would suggest, are [[Michael Gove]] (now an MP) and [[Dean Godson]], author of a biography of [[David Trimble]], which happens to offer a crushing indictment of Trimble's political leadership. Like Gow, Godson (of Central European Jewish background) had originally no family or other connection with Northern Ireland.<ref>James O’Fee [http://www.impalapublications.com/blog/index.php?/archives/564-Friends-of-the-Union,-by-James-OFee.html Friends of the Union], ''Impala Publishers Blog Page'', 8 July 2006, accessed 28 April 2009.</ref>
 But on the downside, concludes O'Fee, there was a weakening of the 'purity' of vision.

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−	Friends of the Union was founded in 1986 by 'a group of 16 Tory MPs and eight peers including [[Ian Gow]], former chairman of the Tory backbench committee on Northern Ireland, who was ~~murdered~~ by the [[IRA]], and [[Viscount Cranborne]], a member of the Cabinet and Leader of the House of Lords.'<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950203/ai_n13964981 Right-wing group at centre of leak row], by Leonard Doyle/Steve Boggan, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>	+	Friends of the Union was founded in 1986 by 'a group of 16 Tory MPs and eight peers including [[Ian Gow]], former chairman of the Tory backbench committee on Northern Ireland', who was killed by the [[IRA]], and '[[Viscount Cranborne]], a member of the Cabinet and Leader of the House of Lords.'<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950203/ai_n13964981 Right-wing group at centre of leak row], by Leonard Doyle/Steve Boggan, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>

	The purpose of '''Friends of the Union''', according to the website of Jeffrey Donaldson MP, was "to increase knowledge and understanding within and without the United Kingdom of the need to maintain the Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".<ref>"[http://www.jeffreydonaldson.org/SiteLinks.asp Useful Links]", DUP Democratic Unionists website, accessed 28 April 2009</ref>		The purpose of '''Friends of the Union''', according to the website of Jeffrey Donaldson MP, was "to increase knowledge and understanding within and without the United Kingdom of the need to maintain the Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".<ref>"[http://www.jeffreydonaldson.org/SiteLinks.asp Useful Links]", DUP Democratic Unionists website, accessed 28 April 2009</ref>

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-The purpose of '''Friends of the Union''', according to the website of Jeffrey Donaldson MP, is "to increase knowledge and understanding within and without the United Kingdom of the need to maintain the Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".<ref>"[http://www.jeffreydonaldson.org/SiteLinks.asp Useful Links]", DUP Democratic Unionists website, accessed 28 April 2009</ref>
+Friends of the Union was founded in 1986 by 'a group of 16 Tory MPs and eight peers including [[Ian Gow]], former chairman of the Tory backbench committee on Northern Ireland, who was murdered by the [[IRA]], and [[Viscount Cranborne]], a member of the Cabinet and Leader of the House of Lords.'<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950203/ai_n13964981 Right-wing group at centre of leak row], by Leonard Doyle/Steve Boggan, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref>
-Friends of the Union was founded in 1986 by 'a group of 16 Tory MPs and eight peers including [[Ian Gow]], former chairman of the Tory backbench committee on Northern Ireland, who was murdered by the [[IRA]], and [[Viscount Cranborne]], a member of the Cabinet and Leader of the House of Lords.'<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950203/ai_n13964981 Right-wing group at centre of leak row], by Leonard Doyle/Steve Boggan, The Independent, 3 February 1995.</ref> It was wound up in 2006. Blogger James O'Fee stated: "A circular reads that it is no longer practical for the organisation to continue and gives reasons as a lack of recent activity, a lack of funds and the lack of a suitable sponsor."<ref>James O’Fee [http://www.impalapublications.com/blog/index.php?/archives/564-Friends-of-the-Union,-by-James-OFee.html Friends of the Union], ''Impala Publishers Blog Page'', 8 July 2006, accessed 28 April 2009.</ref> Friends of the Union provided a meeting place for a number of figures from the Irish political scene and a younger generation of British conservatives, which saw them come together in the neoconservative cause.  For example [[Paul Bew]] the former Marxist political scientist and [[David Trimble]] the Ulster Unionist leader (whom Bew advised) both ended up as signatories to the British Neocon [[Henry Jackson Society]], along with [[Dean Godson]] and [[Michael Gove]].
 ''The Independent'' listed those involved: