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Report from the “Irish Times”, entitled ‘System of community government within UK could provide acceptable basis for solution of the Northern problem’, reporting of Prof. Norman J Gibson’s of UU proposal.

Typescript report by Maurice Hayes of a study trip to the USA, organised as part of his role as first Chairman of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Commission. He details his visits to various academics and others. He concludes that labour dispute resolution won’t work as a model for dispute resolution in Northern Ireland, that the race issues in the States centred on improving people’s lives, not on the great “unbargainables” of nationality and religion, and that the visit has been of great benefit to clarifying his thoughts on his role.

File of correspondence of Maurice Hayes as Director of the Community Relations Commission, includes correspondence with staff, as well as academics. Some material with the Institute for the Study of Conflict which postponed a Ditchley Park conference on the North. Also, some reaction to his resignation as director. Also correspondence organising a conference on housing in Northern Ireland.

Articles, pamphlets and typescript copies of papers on political and social issues in Northern Ireland. Includes typescript ‘Comment on Northern Ireland’; Photocopy of ‘Revolution in Northern Ireland: An Historiography’, by R.D. Scott, Lakehead University Review 4, 2 (1971); Peter Pyne ‘The Irish Bureaucracy’, (University of Ulster, 1973), 44pp; ‘Economic and Social Research in Northern Ireland Government Departments, report of Jeremy Mitchell, Secretary of the Social Science Research Council (December 1972), c.40pp; ‘The Role of the Community Relations Commission’, discussion paper, 1p; undated ts page marked secret, commenting on the need for Direct Rule and initiating discussions on the transfer of powers to the Home Secretary; ‘Political Possibilities for the People of Northern Ireland’, a talk by Prof. Norman Gibson of the new University of Ulster to the Irish Association at Park Avenue Hotel, Belfast (26 July 1972).

File of press cuttings, correspondence and papers during Maurice Hayes time as Commissioner on the Community Relations Commission. Includes correspondence from American academics on research possibilities; ‘Creation of Northern Ireland Employment Commission’ (27 Oct 1972); Address of Senator Eoin Ryan at meeting on “The Ombudsman” (30 May 1972).

File of correspondence and some press cuttings in relation to the work of Maurice Hayes as Chairman of the Community Relations Commission. Includes letter from Alfred McClung Lee to Maurice Hayes saying that he had been prepared for his downbeat letter on Northern Ireland. Discusses academic matters and the possibility of Maurice moving to the States ‘I know that what holds you from making such a move is your attachment to the people there who so much need what leadership they have’ (19 Dec 1974); letter from Alfred McClung Lee discussing Irving Goldaber’s confrontation procedures (16 Jan 1973); letter from Brian [Faulkner] House of Commons, Northern Ireland, thanking him for his kind letter ‘we may yet be able to isolate the tiny minority of wreckers’ (19 Apr 1972); letter from Laurence Doob, Council on African Studies, Yale University to Dr, Maurice Hayes, detailing events at the Sterling Conference the previous August, and discussing difficulties which have arisen, seeking his advice (14 Dec 1972); letter from Maurice Foley MP to Maurice Hayes thanking himself and Joan for the kindness during their visit to Northern Ireland, and seeking his assistance in a speech he must give at the AGM of the Northern Ireland Council on Social Security on the impact of the European Community on voluntary bodies (5 June 1972); graduation photograph of Maurice Hayes (1950s); Copy of the House Purchaser’s Agreement for Bullseye Park (22 Jan 1976); letter from JBC Glass, Chairman of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, asking him if he would like to attend their second annual conference (9 Feb 1972); letter from Bryan Coburn to Maurice Hayes on educational material for the Royal Society for the protection of birds, Northern Ireland Office (3 Feb 1972); Copy of the will of Michael Johnston appointing Maurice Hayes one of the executors of his will (18 Nov 1971); letters of introduction for David C. Rapoport, an American academic studying terrorism (4 Feb 1972); ‘Out of these fierce historic fields (1): Ulster Poetry’, issued by the schools council, 1971; Background note on the Downshire Hospital, Downpatrick; Brief for Minister’s visit to Downe Hospital; copy letter from Maurice Hayes to John Hume, inviting him and members of the SDLP to engage with the Commission (18 Nov 1971); consultation document, ‘Conflict in Northern Ireland: the role of the church’; typescript statement on the role of HMG in Northern Ireland on how to stop the civil war in Northern Ireland; planning application appeal by Maurice Hayes for a house at Strangford Road, Downpatrick (30 Nov 1973); ‘The scope for talks in Northern Ireland’, prepared by Norman Gibson et al; notes for address by Chairman of Commission at Balligan, 16 May [1971].

"Community Forum", 2,2 (1972).

File of press cuttings, including pamphlet, What Happened in Derry by Eamonn McCann; ‘frustrations of Quebec separatists’; John Dunn, ‘The Dream of Revolution’, The Listener, 17 Oct 1968.

‘Civic Education in Northern Ireland’, final report to the Community Relations Commission, Belfast by James L. Russell, University of Strathclyde, 1972, c.100pp

"Fifth Report of the Northern Ireland Commissioner of Complaints": Annual Report for 1972, 155pp.