Correspondence regarding the appointment of Murphy Ryan to conduct the feasibility study; details of the launch of the study; invites; speech of Jim Quigley; press release; planning of Phase 2 of the plan.
Files relating to the 40th anniversary of Civil Rights movement and events in Ireland during 1968, held in 2008.
File 1 includes typescript minutes of meetings of the Official Commemoration Committee and of the Dublin Sub-Committee, held between 2007 and 2008, with planning and discussions on the Commemoration programme.
File 2 Includes planning documents, press releases about the commemoration programme, a draft schedule and calendar of events, "The Northern Irish Civil Rights association (NICRA) - A History; outline for 1968 Commemoration: Production of DVD; manuscript annotations on above documents by Logue; emails between Logue and Michael Farrell re. Commemoration planning; outline and production of Commemoration booklet and DVD; and website development. Printed final copy of booklet "We Shall Overcome . . . The History of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland 1968-1978". Typed document outlining the contribution of John Hume "Hume the Colossus...."
File 3 includes additional material in relation to the production of the commemorative DVD, including discussions between the Committee (Logue, Farrell, Haughey) and others such as RTÉ archives, about what film footage to access, select, and include, and any additional footage sources; detailed document entitled "Civil Rights Campaign Timeline Possible RTÉ Archives"; printed document (44pp) "We Shall Overcome: A Short History of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement"; emails between Broan Trench, Michael Farrell and Hugh Logue re. production and launch of the DVD; Signed letter from Denis Haughey, Chairman of the Civil Rights 1968 Commemoration Committee to President Mary McAleese, inviting the President to speak at an conference in Derry (4 Apr 2008); Programme and schedule from said conference, Guildhall in Derry (4-5 Oct 2008) with list of speakers and detail of preview screening of "The Day the Troubles Began"; print edition of newsletter "Socialist Vote" - monthly publication of Dublin District, Communist Party of Ireland, as part of a NICRA Anniversary Supplement (Sep 2008); Typed document headed "Hugh Logue Notes - Civil Rights 1968/69" with some manuscript comments; Printed programme from Civil Rights Festival, 4-7 Oct 2018, Derry; print programme from "Housing Rights for All: A Housing Conference Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Caledon Protests (21 June 2008, Armagh; programme and speaker list from McCloskey Civil Rights Summer School, Carlingford, Co. Louth.
File 4 includes typed draft copy of "The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) - History.
Card bearing a address commemorating the 25th anniversary of Father John Power serving at Our Lady of the Rosary & St. Therese of Lisieux, Saltley, Birmingham. The card bears a photograph of Fr. Power on the front.
File includes printed invitation to the programme and opening launch of the 4th Dublin International Theatre Symposium, also programme with listing of all events within the 4th Dublin International Theatre Symposium.
(5) List of legal costs due to Brabazon Browne by Robert J ffrench relating to the matter of James Hennessy, a lunatic. Refers to a lease dated 1784 from Hennessy to Garret Nagle.
This sub-sub-subseries consists of material relating to the 50th anniversary of Conradh na Gaeilge.
Tag / Ref: G60/16/1/1/1
Fiel relating to the 50th Anniversary of the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. File includes detailed manuscript notes and writings in assessing the history and impact of the UDHR and the "UN Charter for Human Rights" by Kevin Boyle; text of the Declaration; texts of conference papers by Boyle on the history of the European Convention for Human Rights.
File includes printed invitation to the programme and opening launch of the 5th Dublin International Theatre Symposium, also programme with listing of all events within the 5th Dublin International Theatre Symposium.
Material in this sub-subseries relates to the move of Conradh na Gaeilge’s head office from 14 Parnell Street to 6 Harcourt street, the maintenance and development of the building, fundraising for same, the building of the Luas on Harcourt street and plans to sell the building which were aborted. It includes minutes, correspondence, floor plans and photographs and is arranged chronologically.
Tag / Ref: G60/1/5/1