File of correspondence between Prof. Orlando Delogu, School of Law, University of Maine, Prof. Kevin Boyle, Faculty of Law, University College Galway and numerous others, concerning legal research teaching, exchange programmes between faculties and schools of law at Maine and Galway. Letters from Boyle over this period are based from Galway and also from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia where Boyle was a visiting Academic. Letters include from Delogu to Arthur B. LaFrance, Dean Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon concerning Boyle's interest in developing a visitorship; a copy of an article by Delogu, as visiting Prof. of Law at U.C.G., entitled "The Government's Mental Health Bill: An Inadequate Meeting of Mental Health Needs and Constitutional Obligations."; Letter from the Committee for an Irish Forum and a programme from their second symposium on Northern Ireland, at the John F. Kennedy Library (Mar 1984) Letters regarding visiting lectures by Boyle on his work on South African Pass Laws and on Northern Ireland in Oregon (9 Sp 1985).
File of letters between Boyle and various others. Letters are marked 'Personal' and include:
From Kevin Boyle to Tim Pat Coogan, Editor, Irish Press, Boyle states that he would be interested in a meeting with 'Mr Delaney' and also discussing his arrival at University College Galway in 1978 and his attempts to build up the Law Faculty and Library following the appointment of Dr. Colm Ó hEocha as President of UCG. (n.d.)
Letters to Boyle from Prof. Richard Rose, Director of Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, discussing matters including ongoing research projects and mentions an exception student from Galway, Michael Diskin (1983 - 1986)
Letters between Boyle and Prof. Robert Schwartz, Wolfson College, Cambridge regarding a visiting talk on Law to medical students at U.C.G. (23 Dec 1984)
MS detailed letter from [P...] outlining details of his legal case and challenge to suspension by VEC, Portlaoise, Co. Laois (9 Dec 1984)
Letter from Prof. James E. Starrs, George Washington University regarding extradition request in Mackin case (8 Jan 1985)
TS letters from Don Warren, Attorney at Law, Maine, U.S.A., outlining case being built against U.S. manufacturers of plastic bullets for use in Northern Ireland. (22-28 Feb 1985, items 11-12)
MS letters from John J. Somerville, writing from H-Block 4 of the Maze Prison, Antrim to Kevin Boyle, seeking advice from Boyle to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights as Somerville is being detailed for 35 years for murder but was not granted Special Category Status. (29 Apr 1985, Item 13) and a second letter to Boyle written from H-Block 8 by Somerville, thanking Boyle for his response and further commenting on and criticising the Diplock court system and his lack of Special Category Status. (22 Aug 1985, item 14)
TS copy letter from Boyle to Dr. Colm Ó hEocha, President of U.C.G. commenting on "furore over the Godard Film. . . " (21 Jan 1986, item 43)
TS copy of review of numerous books on Northern Ireland, including "Politics in the Street" by Bob Purdie which focuses on Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement and has image of Boyle on the front cover, sent from Tom Hadden to Boyle (1990)
Other correspondents include Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, U.C.G., Ed Maloney, The Irish Times, Dr. Tom Hadden, extended Boyle family members, Dr. T.K.Whitaker and others.
TS and MS correspondence between Kevin Boyle and others regarding the New Ireland Forum, including, Wallace Kirwin, Secretary of the New Ireland Forum; Michael Lillis, Assistant Secretary, Dept of Foreign Affairs; A.M. Connelly, Faculty of Law, University College Dublin; Dr. Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman of the New Ireland Forum; Michael Willis, Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Foreign Affairs; [Jim Elliott]; Vernon Bogdanor; Bernard Crick, Nether Liberal House, Edinburgh, Scotland; Superintendent T.J.C. McGovern, Private Secretary to Commissioner of Garda Siochana; Prof. John Whyte, Dept. of Ethics and Politics, University College Dublin; The Editor, Belfast Telegraph and Brian Girvin, Dept. of Modern History, University College Cork.
File of drafts and notes made by Kevin Boyle as part of his Amnesty International mission to South Africa, including an internal Amnesty document entitled "South Africa: "Pass Laws" Mission", detailing a background to the trip (18 May 1984); a memo regarding details and arrangements for the trip (2 Apr 1984); typescript notes by Boyle on "A.I Mission to South Africa - Week commencing 2 April 1984"; 4 copies of draft typescript report by Boyle entitled "Amnesty International Report of a Mission to South Africa to Enquire into the Pass Laws and Their Enforcement" written by Kevin Boyle - Including some manuscript comment and annotation.