Showing 43324 results

TS and MS drafts and also final submission of observations made by Kevin Boyle, Ralph Crenshaw and others at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, and submitted to the Independent Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland.

Documents relating to the development of a Bill of Rights in Northern Ireland. Includes Irish Democrat and Connolly Association. (n.d.) Conference 'Civil Liberties and a Bill of Rights', paper by Tony Smyth entitled "People in Institutions" organised by National Council for Civil Liberties/The Cobden Trust, (5 Feb 1977) TS article entitled "A Bill of Rights?" by Michael Zander, with MS annotation by Kevin Boyle; "Loopholes and Liberties - The N.I.C.R.A. Bill of Rights" - a reply to the drafts of the N.I.C.R.A. Bill (c. 1975) Draft TS document entitled "Enforcement" [of a Bill of Rights]; "Preliminary Report for the Northern Ireland Commission on Human Rights - Human Rights in the EEC Context" by Douglas Lawton, Prof. of Civil Law, Queen's University, Belfast. (n.d.); Draft Bill of Rights for Lord Brockway to Introduce in the House of Lords" (2 Feb 1977), Copy of Law Faculty (Queen's) Working Party on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland" by Michael O'Boyle and Kevin Boyle (Nov 1975) Copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948; "A Proposed Bill of Rights", prepared for submission to the People of the United Kingdom by the Ulster Citizens' Civil Liberties Centre. (June 1975)

Various submissions made to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, including "Paths to a Political Settlement: Realities, Principles and Requirements - Final paper of the Drafting Committee of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation" by Judge Catherine McGuinness, Forum Chairperson; "A Submission to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties" (Jan 1995) "A Submission by the Committee on the Administration of Justice to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation"; "The Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Peace and Reconciliation in Ireland" - A submission by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden; numerous working drafts of this paper by Boyle and Hadden;

This file contains material relating to INTO's submission to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, Conradh na Gaeilge's response to it and Conradh’s own submissions to the forum. It also includes material relating to their submission to the New Ireland Forum, 1983.

Tag / Ref: G60/30/16/3

This file consists of material relating to Conradh na Gaeilge’s submissions on education in the 1990s, on the Green and White Papers on Education 1990-1995. The file contains minutes of Conradh na Gaeilge’s Education committee 1990-1993, press releases, reports and correspondence.

Tag / Ref: G60/30/16/2

This file consists of material relating to Conradh na Gaeilge’s submissions on education 4/7/1978 – 12/3/1985. It includes their submission on "the Ages of Learning", a discussion on the age of entry into the educational system, the age of transfer at subsequent levels and the restructuring of the post-primary sector June/July, 1984 and their submission to the Curriculum and Examinations board Oct 1984 - 12/3/1985.

Tag / Ref: G60/30/16/1

Articles, stories and poems submitted for consideration for publication in Threshold. The majority are not dated.

Documents submitted by the N.I.C.R.A .and by the Association of Legal Justice and by the National Council for Civil Liberties to the Secretary General of the United Nations and entitled "Communication Concerning Violations of Human Rights in Northern Ireland." Document includes a summary of Human Rights Violations in Northern Ireland related to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, comment on killing and other shooting incidents involving the British Security Forces in Northern Ireland, the use of torture during interrogation, use of rubber bullets, conditions of detention and other such issues.
File also includes supplementary information submitted to the Secretary General of the United Nations.

Files of submission made by various individuals to the New Ireland Forum

Submission of the Catholic Institute for International Relations to the Gardiner Committee on the Northern Ireland Emergency Provisions Act.