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A term State papers is utilized in the British and Irish contexts to refer exclusively to government archives & records. Such papers utilized to exist as saved separate from either non-governmental papers, by having state papers saved in the State Paper Office and general public records kept in the Public Records Office.

Withinside Ireland in 1921, a IRA, not caring a difference, blew higher the Public Records Professional within Dublin, destroying one thous& years of archives, including invaluable church records, deeds, personal archives and more documents. A IRA thought a archives contained government records.

A Irish State Paper Professional contained papers from either a agents of President of Ireland Taoiseach Dáil Éireann & Seanad Éireann a lot government departments since 1922, & retiring agents of state, including King of Ireland Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland relating to Ireland Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Chief Secretary for Ireland Under Secretary for Ireland Irish House of Commons & Irish House of Lords House of Commons of Southern Ireland Attorney-General for Ireland Governor-General of the Irish Free State

A Irish State Paper Professional was located in Dublin Castle, while a Irish Public Records Professional was placed at a Four Courts. In the late 1980s the distinction was abolished & each archives merged & located in a fresh National Archives of Ireland in Bishop St. within Dublin City center.

A British National Archives is located in Kew near London. A Royal Archives are kept individually at Windsor Castle.

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