Sub-section 1 - 1978 - 1980

1 folder, 7 items

Files of records including detailed correspondence between Prof. Boyle and numerous others regarding the efforts to raise the idea of an Irish Centre for the Study of Human Rights at U.C.G., fundraising efforts for same and other related issues. Letters include from Boyle to the Irish Ambassador to America, Washington D.C., stating he has moved from the epicentre of revolution in Belfast to the tranquillity of Galway and outlines in details his plans for developing the school and faculty of law at UCG including a centre for the study of Human Rights (8 Dec 1978). Other people Boyle corresponds with in which he discusses developing the Law Faculty at UCG and also in developing the Human Rights Centre include Mr. G. E. Kelly McClusky, Irish American Law Society, Washington, USA; Lord Robert Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Belfast (13 Nov 1979) where Boyle outlines in detail his belief for a Human Rights Centre at Galway and his vision for the Centre being "concerned with and relevant to both jurisdictions in Ireland."; Letter from Boyle to Cormac O'Malley of the Ireland Fund; David Carliner, Washington and John Corcoran, Attorney, Philadelphia.

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