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Programme for "Listowel Writer's Week", including a lecture entitled Amhran na Saoirse by Margaret Mac Curtain and Siobhán McKenna.

Amicus Briefs US Supreme Court some of which involved Mary Robinson and others which she used as research.

Files relating to the work of Amnesty International and also the positions and work completed by Kevin Boyle for Amnesty International, including acting as Special Rapporteur in Gambia, reporter in South Africa and further commentary on Northern Ireland and other international causes.

Assorted items including a flyer "Amnesty International Irish Section, Conference for the Abolition of Torture, Burlington Hotel, Dublin, 6 Oct 1973, featuring Sean McBride and Mary Robinson; attached is a letter enclosing the programme flyer for the conference to Boyle from KEvin White (24 Sep 1973) "Amnesty International and Ireland 1976 - 1978"; Notice of Amnesty International Irish Section AGM , June 1982; Agenda and minutes of Amnesty International Irish Section, 10 May 1986".

Printed certificate of Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2015, presented to the Corn Exchange Theatre Company and Cusack Projects Ltd., for production of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, written by Eimear McBride and adapted for the Stage by Annie Ryan, performed by Aoife Duffin at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Report (Amnesty International publication number AI EUR 44/146/94) documenting cases of intimidation of medical personnel in southeast Turkey. The report states that a Turkish Medical Association delegation returned to the southeast in March 1994 for a follow-up on their May 1992 visit and indicated that 'the level of human rights violations against health professional in southeast Turkey has increased.'

Pages 1, 3, and 5 of an update (Amnesty International publication number AI EUR 44/24/95) to the February 1995 report (A44/43/1/5/1/6/8) published by Amnesty International documenting cases of 'disappeared' people, torture of common criminals, trials against human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience, and other human rights abuses in Turkey.

Page 13 of a report (Amnesty International publication number AI EUR 44/01/95) documenting cases of 'disappeared' people, torture of common criminals, trials against human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience, and other human rights abuses in southeast Turkey as a result of the conflict between the Turkish Government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The excerpted page discusses the disappearance of four women.

Report (Amnesty International publication number AI EUR 44/01/95) documenting cases of 'disappeared' people, torture of common criminals, trials against human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience, and other human rights abuses in southeast Turkey as a result of the conflict between the Turkish Government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The report accuses both sides of extrajudicial killings of Kurdish villagers, noting: that Turkish gendarmes reportedly torture, 'disappear' and execute villagers in the course of security raids on rural settlements, that the PKK execute village guards (Kurdish villagers paid and armed by the Government to fight the PKK) and kill their wives and children while paying lip-service to the Geneva Conventions; and that the PKK 'has a declared policy of "executing" teachers and other non-military government officials'. The report accuses the Government of denying that security forces have been involved in at least some of the killings.

Report (Amnesty International publication number AI EUR 44/17/93) documenting cases of intimidation, arrests, and killing of medical personnel in southeast Turkey. Appendices to the report include extracts from the Turkish Medical Association's report of their May 1992 visit to the southeast, brief details of torture-related deaths of people in custody, and extracts from the statement of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and from the 'UN Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions'.