Item 3 - Correspondence

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Correspondence include letters between Kevin Boyle and others relating to the SDLP conference, including letter from Eamon Hanna, Secretary SDLP detailing information on the format for the meeting and possible themes for Boyle's talk (17 Aug 1984) Letter from Hanna enclosing meeting documents, agenda, minutes etc. (17 Sep 1984) Letter from Boyle on University College Galway headed paper, to the Editor [of the Irish Times] concerning their coverage of his talk delivered to the SDLP and outlines and clarifies his proposals on North-South relations and discusses in detail his thoughts on constitutional methods and actions in North/South-Anglo relations. (24 Sep 1984) Letter from Boyle to Tom Hadden discussing Boyle's opinion on the commentary following his own talk to the S.D.L.P (25 Sep 1984) Letters from various people requesting copies of Boyle's talk to the SDLP; TS letter signed by Boyle and sent to David Blake-Knox, Today Tonight Office, RTE, Dublin, detailing information on his past activities on Civil Rights which he forgot to mention on the show and he says ". . .it is important to underline that I am not a 'Civil Righter' of the 1960s, who has turned moderate in his declining years. I was always moderate in political outlook, but happy to be called extremist if it involved the issue of the abuse of state power. Manuscript letter from unnamed person detailing disagreement with Boyle's suggestion on dropping claim to Northern Ireland (24 Sep 1984)

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