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. The letters also detail the relationship between Prof. Boyle, UCG and the University of Cincinnati, especially Prof. Bert Lockwood, Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights. Letters include from Barbara A. Schatz, Executive Director, council of New York Law Associates; Mr. Jerome Shestack; John J. Murphy, Prof of Law, University of Cincinnati; Prof. Bert Lockwood, Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati; Peter O'Rourke, the Incorporated Society of American Lawyers; Prof. John Murphy, University of Cincinnati; James Roche, Vice President of Investment, Schudder, Stevens and Clark; John Flanagan, Attorney at Law, Cincinnati; Ray Carr, Irish Catalogues International, Cincinnati; Morton Sklar, Human Rights Law Group, Washington; Hurst Hannum, Executive Director, The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute and others. Other documents include a report and minutes of Dinner Meeting with Prof. Boyle and various academics as well as legal and business leaders from Cincinnati, where Boyle outlined plans for developing the Human Rights Centre and Law Faculty at Galway (16 Mar 1981); an information booklet/prospectus for the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati;
Files of press cuttings from Irish and international press with coverage of the 1981 Hunger Strikes at the Maze Prison and with some relating to wider work and activities of the ICJP and with coverage of international political events, including in South Africa. Includes issue of The Irish News "28 Nov 2009", with lead headline of "The Hunger Strike - Was there a deal?" with multipage coverage of claims and discussions that a deal was brokered that could have ended the hunger strikes in the Maze Prison.
Files of documents collected by ICJP and relating to reports and publications on and about the 1981 Hunger Strikes at the Maze Prison, Belfast and wider prisoner conditions at the Maze. Includes: "The H-Block Issue: An Interim Study" published by the Advisory Forum on Human Rights if the Irish Council of Churches (Feb 1980); "The H-Block Protest: Hunger Strikes and Emergency Law" A second paper presented by the Community of the Peace People, Belfast (17 Feb 1981); "Mercy, Justice, and Peace: Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock", 6 Sep 1981; "H-Block" by Fr. Denis Faul and Fr. Raymond Murray, Christmas 1979; "Help Prisoners - Pope Paul - What Can We Do"; "The Social Policy Implications of Emergency Legislation in Northern Ireland" by John Ditch and Mike Morrissey (Draft) June 1979; European Parliament Working Documents 1980-1981, Motion for Resolution tabled by N. Blaney, L. Castellina, and Mr. Coppieters on the violation of human rights in the community (14 Mar 1980).
File 2 includes: "Christian Morality and the Prison" - Summary of Talk given by Fr. Donal Murray; "Prisoners in the Republic of Ireland - the Advisory Forum on Human Rights, published by the Irish Council of Churches Board of Community Affairs, May 1981; Booklet "Day to Day Life in Northern Ireland Prisons" with text and images, published by the Northern Ireland Office (Mar 1981); Annual Report on Prisons and Places of Detention for the Year, 1978; Resolution of the Council of Europe on "Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (30 Jul 1973); Council of Europe "Tenth Conference of European Ministers of Justice on "Alternative Measures to Imprisonment" Report, 3-4 June 1976, Brussels.