File of letters between Kevin Boyle and various others, dating from Boyle's time as a Scholar in Residence at University of Maine, Law School. Items include:
Press cutting from Portland Maine Press Herald, giving a description of Boyle's lecture in Maine on the topic of the current conflict in Northern Ireland.
Other letters are from and by Prof. Rolando Delogu, Law School, University of Southern Maine, a friend of Kevin Boyle and a visiting academic at U.C.G. Delogu deposited such letters and include Rev Theodore M. Hesburgh, President, University of Notre Dame;
James F. Carroll - Aileen Carroll; Letter from Boyle to Delogu, discussing in detail the 'H-Block affair' and the ongoing hunger strikes and their perception in the press and public (item 9);
Letters also detail arrangements for Boyle's lecture as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at University of Maine at Orono;
John C. Tronto of Bowdoin College, Dept. of Government and Legal Studies, Miaine, discussing Boyle's lecture on Northern Ireland and 'the Troubles;
Letter from Boyle to Delogu (14 Oct 1981) mentioning Delogu's contribution of donation of Law reports to the Library at U.C.G. and also mentioning the H-Block hunger strike (item 22);
Argine Dalton of the Ireland Fund, New York; Letter from Yvonne Scannell, Law School, Trinity College, Dublin, to Delogu, outlining, among other things, that Boyle has "now got the Attorney General to provide informal link-ups between academics and government departments..." (item 24);
Letter from Boyle to Delogu, discussing research and teaching, a Smurfit Professorship at U.C.G., Boyle's proposed trip to the Gambia with Amnesty International and other matters. (item 25)
Letter from Boyle to Delogu, Dec 1981, discussing a proposed law text discussion with Jim Casey and also confirming Boyle will be travelling to the Gambia, without his family, for a period in 1982 with Amnesty International (item 26)
Letter from Delogu, detailing a shipment of assorted law books and journals being shipped and donated to the Hardiman Library at U.C.G.; details of a lecture given by Boyle at University of Detroit on "Irish Problem: New Solutions";
Documents from symposium on Northern Ireland at the John F. Kennedy Centre, Mar 1982, with a talk by Boyle on Historical Background on Northern Ireland;
Letters also present between Boyle, Robert Woodbury, President of University of Maine, Kinvin Wroth and Orlando Delogu confirming Boyle's appointment as Scholar in Residence at Maine Law School in Sep 1982.
File of typescript and manuscript correspondence between Prof. Kevin Boyle and numerous others discussing and working on a development plan, led by Boyle, for the Law Faculty at University College Galway. This development drive included building Library and academic staffing resources. Documents include a list of "Current Needs" by the Law Faculty, detailed reports by Boyle on the Law Faculty, facilities, staffing, resources and plans for requirements, details of the 'Friends of U.C.G.' group in Chicago, Report compiled by Boyle on "Development Committee UCG: Report from K. Boyle on Chicago Trip, Nov 1982 and other such records. Letters are present between Boyle and Judge Arthur Dunne, Chicago District Judge, Terence F. McCarthy, Executive Director, Federal Defender Programme, U.S. District Court, Chicago; Dr. Colm Ó hEocha, President, University College Galway; Christine G. Cooper, Asst. Prof. of Law, Loyola University of Chicago; Seamus O'Cathail, Academic Secretary, University College Galway; Mark Rutherford, Centre for Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, New York; Liam Canniffe, Consul General of Ireland, Chicago and Peter E. O'Rourke, Attorney, Detroit, Michigan.
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 between Boyle and Alan Rutledge, Secretary/Treasurer, The Incorporated Society of Irish/American Lawyers; Michael Kerwin, Michigan; Argine Dalton, Executive Director, The Irish Fund; Leon Lysaght, Prof. of Law, University of Detroit Law School; John A. Flanagan, Attorney, Ohio; Prof. Bery Lockwood, Urban Morgan Institute form Human Rights, University of Cincinnati; David Lowry, Dean of Law, Biscayne College of Law; Anne Anderson, Embassy of Ireland, Washington; Nicholas Robinson, Executive Director, The Heritage Trust, Dublin; Rory Brady, B.L., Dublin; Charles E. Rice, Prof. of Law, Notre Dame University; James Delaney, President, Rand Development Corporation and others.
Also includes undated typed document "Irish Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University College Galway - Planning for the Future".
File of letters between Prof. Kevin Boyle and various others. Boyle was based at University College Galway at this time but the letters refer to contacts and teaching at Essex, research and teaching of Human Rights studies and other related issues.
File of letters between Boyle and various others including Berthan Macaulay Q.C., The Gambia; Mr. T. Bouchier -Hayes, Solicitor, Dublin; Richard Elsner, International Secretariat, Amnesty International; Mr. A.N.M Ousainou Darboe, Banjul, the Gambia; His Excellency Momadu Lamin Saho, Minister for Justice and Attorney General, the Gambia; Mr. Mboob, Minister for the Interior, The Gambia; Sarah Pennington, Amnesty International; Carolyn Norris, Secretary, West Africa, Amnesty International; Prof. John Dugard, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; His Excellency Fafa Mbye, Minister for Justice and Attorney General, Republic of the Gambia; His Excellency Sir Dawda Jawara, President of the Republic of the Gambia; His Excellency A.M.K. Bojang, High Commissioner for the Gambia; Carolyn Yates, Lecturer in Law, University of Essex; Marilyn McKim, Amnesty International; Jean Cross, Amnesty International;
Minutes of AGMs and interim meetings of IALT.