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Document given to Muintir na Tíre guilds containing a background history on the Muintir na Tíre Parish Plan for Agriculture submitted to the Department of Agriculture in November 1947, its first implementation the following year in Bansha, County Tipperary in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, the Plan's fundamental aims, how guilds can prepare themselves to implement the plan, and various schemes that can be carried out under the plan.

Cultural heritage report written by Markus Casey describing the history of the former railway bridge over the River Corrib between Steamers' Quay and Newcastle, Galway, and the impacts the potential construction of a pedestrian bridge using the historic remnant pillars and abutments would have on these remnants. See P164/3/1/9/6 for photographs of the pillars, abutments, and surrounding area taken by Casey as part of his survey.

Short statement of the activities and achievements of the Killenaule Guild of Muintir na Tíre, County Tipperary, which was founded in August 1938. The statement notes that the local chairmen of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael sit on their council. The guild have received approval for a water supply scheme for their village, have purchased a location for a sports field, secured repairs for local cottages and road, facilitated a horticultural lecture, and paid for various hospital and funeral expenses, among other accomplishments.

Report published on November 1930 by the Union Popular Católica Argentina (later Acción Católica Argentina), a Catholic Action movement in Argentina, listing the projects it has been able to carry out as result of its Gran Colecta Nacional (Great National Collection), including housing projects and educational seminars.

Report, Appendices and Report of Debates of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (Nov 1975); copies of Dr. John Benn, ‘A commissioner’s complaint’ (18 Jan 1973); two further copies of the Report of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (Nov 1975); Committee for Economic Development, ‘Modernizing Local Government’, (New York, 1966); ‘Ulster Unionist Party’s Consultation Exercise, Aug-Sept 1997; Jan Egeland, ‘The Secrets of the Oslo Channel: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans (Nov 1997); Mountain Echoes: Sliabh an Iarainn’s Story’; ‘Local Government Power-Sharing’, Institute of Irish Studies, QUB (1995); Conference: Legal Aid as a Developing Social Service, Social Studies Building, QUB (11 Nov 1972); ‘Inter Group Project’ a programme of conversations exploring community divisions and community relations, Aug 1972; ‘Town Centres: Current Practice, 1963; Rural Community Network AGM, Dungiven, 1993; ‘F.E. McWilliam; ‘A Survey of Facts, Figures and Opinion relating to the Economic Situation in Londonderry’ [1970s]; copy of Dr. John Benn, ‘A Commissioner’s Complaint’ (18 Jan 1973).

Report written by John J. Nash on the will of the recently deceased Very Reverend John J. Meagher, formerly of Thurles and Annacarty. The first page describes the legal issues surrounding the apparent removal of a legacy of £25 to his niece, Sister Benignus. As this alteration was not witnessed, the will was not initially admitted to probate until the legacy was allowed to stand. The remainder of the report details the clause written into the will allowing Father Meagher's sisters and sisters-in-law to take one article of furniture or ceramics as a souvenir.

Internal report authored by Françoise Hampson on the judgment issued earlier that day by the European Court of Human Rights to impose a friendly settlement in the Mehmet Haran case (A44/43/1/34) and strike the case from its list. Hampson notes that the applicant rejected a friendly settlement and asked the Court to reject the Government's initiative (the request to strike out the case on the basis of the Government's unilateral declaration and offer of £80,000 sterling to Haran). For a number of reasons, Hampson suggests 'we need to consider whether to seek leave to appeal.' Hampson's report, along with the subsequent striking out of two more Kurdish cases within the next two weeks, would lead to a substantial email correspondence chain within the Kurdish Litigation Project team (A44/43/3/2/9).

Photocopy of Canon Hayes' report of his experience at the International Catholic Migration Commission, Barcelona, 28-31 May 1952, which he attended along with Father Joseph Bergin representing Ireland on behalf of Muintir na Tíre. Canon Hayes writes that Ireland's problems are different than other countries due to its declining population and its level of rural-to-urban migration as opposed to other countries' issues with the intake of refugees. He writes that he was able to submit Muintir na Tíre's work and positions to sub-committee meetings. Canon Hayes states that the 'Commission brought home to us that it was our duty to prepare our people for their journey and endeavour to get them to countries and places where their Faith would not be endangered', and that an arrangement was made between Muintir na Tíre and the National Catholic Rural Life Congress in the United States to place rural Irish emigrants in rural Catholic homes.

Françoise Hampson's report (3pp) written for other members of the Kurdish Litigation Project summarising the proceedings and fallout from the 24-25 March 1999 hearings in Strasbourg in the Çakıcı and Tanrıkulu cases. Hampson notes: that the Court turned down their request for use of an interpreter; that the Turkish Government is still using non-exhaustion of domestic remedies as a preliminary objection consistently against all Kurdish applications because of what happened in the Aytekin case despite the Commission delegate arguing to the Government that that case was 'a freakish exception on its facts and that the general pattern was that remedies do not work' (Hampson reminds her fellow lawyers to be prepared to argue the remedies point in their rights of reply); that the Government vigorously objected to the hourly rate claimed by the lawyers in southeast Turkey (Hampson argued that the issue of costs only became relevant to to the Government once they had already been found to have violated the Convention); and that the Court has abandoned the prior practice of having a transcript of proceeding. Attached are Hampson's handwritten notes written while drafting the report (9pp).

Letter and report by W.G. Malcolm to J.H. Parkes, Northern Ireland Office, on the footing of the Department of the Environment in relation to the Emergency Committee. He comments that there needs to be more clarity on the role of the Emergency Committee meeting in Stormont every day and its relation to the rest of the government. He details their own operations room, relating to water and sewerage, as well as detailing wider actions, commenting that some of them would need to be put on a better footing.