File with certificate awarded to Carolyn Swift from The Society of Friends of St. Patrick's Cathedral in recognition of support given by Swift. Signed by Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral (No Date).
Certificate from Writers Week Listowel 1978 Literary Competition for one act play highly commended by the judges and awarded to Colm Grant. NOTE: Colm Grant was a name used by Carolyn Swift. The play submitted is noted to have been [Guanche Girl].
Printed booklet and invitation to the Lord Mayor's Awards, Dublin, 2005, in which Carolyn Swift was among the awardees. Short biography of Swift is included.
Also a round tube containing an A3 print certificate of The Lord Mayor's Award presented posthumously to Carolyn Swift for her contribution to the arts by Councillor Michael Conaghan, Lord Mayor of Dublin (23 May 2005)
Photocopy of honorary degree awarded posthumously to Kevin Boyle by NUI Galway (2011).
Certificate awarded to Kevin Boyle in recognition of contribution to its academic programme by the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (1993).
Material in this file relates to Conradh na Gaeilge’s campaign to inspire teachers and graduates to act on behalf of the Irish language and to develop various models to assist in this endeavour. It consists mainly of correspondence.
Tag / Ref: G60/29/23
Axel Zwingenberger and Torsten Zwingenberger. Printed flyer from the concert staged at the Aula Maxima, University College Galway featuring the duo on piano in a concert of boogie-woogie blues. Staged in association with the Goethe Institute, Dublin. File also includes printed press release issued by Music for Galway publicising the concert and also biographical details on both Zwingenbergers. File also includes a letter from Jane O'Leary, Chair of Music for Galway, to Dr. Rott of the Goethe Institute, Dublin (2 Jul 1990) thanking him for arrangements in bringing Axel Zwingenberger to Galway.
Schedule of legal costs and fees incurred in the Süheyla Aydın case (A44/43/1/13), plus a letter to President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe addressing a shortfall in payment received from the Turkish Government.
Materials pertaining to cases filed by Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, owner of the Belge Publishing House and member of the İstanbul Branch of the Human Rights Association, against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights.
Belge Publishing House was founded in 1977 and published a number of books on controversial issues in the fields of politics and economics both in Turkey and abroad which brought she and her husband into frequent conflict with Turkish press laws. Issues Zarakolu helped publicize in Turkey include the Armenian genocide and human rights of Kurdish people in Turkey. Imprisoned multiple times for her publications, she was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International and her legacy continued to face legal challenge in Turkey after her death. She has received multiple awards and honours for her work and the Human Rights Association bestows the Ayşe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought prize in her honour.
The first case, filed on 29 July 1994 (application number 24761/94, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 108), regarded her 1 July 1993 conviction of ‘making propaganda against the indivisibility of the State contrary to Article 8 of the Anti-Terror Law’. In July 1991, Belge published a book by a Turkish sociologist entitles ‘The Republic Popular Party’s Program (1931) and the Kurdish Problem’, which led to Zarakolu’s indictment the following month. On 5 November 1993, Zarakolu was fined 41,666,666 Turkish lira and sentenced to five months’ imprisonment. The application sought to challenge the legitimacy of the convictions and proportionality of the penalty. On 3 August 1994, a majority decision of the Commission declared the application inadmissible due to the violation of the requirement to file within six months of the incident.
The second case, filed on 10 March 1995 (application number 26071/95, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 175 and assigned to Tim Otty as lead), stemmed from her publishing of a book, ‘Our Ferhat: Anatomy of a Murder’ about the murder of Ferhat Tepe, correspondent with the banned newspaper Özgür Gündem (see A44/43/1/30). The police banned the book on 12 October 1994 and confiscated the copies of the book found on Belge’s premises. Again, the application sought to challenge the legitimacy of the convictions and proportionality of the penalty. A third application (37933/97, filed 9 September 1997) was later joined to this case. Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson withdrew as legal representatives in the case on 23 June 2000.
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu passed away on 28 January 2002. Her heirs continued pursuing the applications. On 13 July 2004, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that there had been violations of Article 6 § 1 and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Zarakolu’s heirs were awarded €5,000 in moral damages and €2,500 in legal costs and expenses. The full judgment is available for viewing in French at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-66451.
Notable materials available for access in the file include: 2 copies of the original application including appendices such as the statement of the applicant, copies of Turkish court documents and court decisions, and lists of books published by Belge which had been prohibited in Turkey; the application to the Commission of Ünsal Öztürk (see A44/43/1/49), another Turkish publisher whose works had been censored by the Turkish Government; a copy of the second, successful application; the applicant’s replies of 10 April 1997 to the observations of the Government; and Françoise Hampson’s letter of withdrawal as legal representative.
Memorial of the applicants in the Aytekin case submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, including schedules of costs for just satisfaction.