File marked Office of the Commissioner for Complaints: Speeches (20/6). Includes ‘The Blasket Writers’; ‘Whose Health is it Anyhow? (8 Mar 1989); The Background to the Fair Employment Act (NI, 1989 – LLM; Some approaches to the development of health services research in Ireland – Health Research Board Seminar – Dublin (7 June 1989); ‘Whither Cultural Diversity’, MSSc Irish Studies Forum (1990); Launch of Interpreting Ireland by John Whyte – University Bookshop (22 Nov 1990); Lessons from Northern Ireland – the Ombudsman; How much of an advance is the Canadian Bill of Rights? – LLM; ‘Public Policy in Northern Ireland – Adoption or Adaptation (book review) (1990); Prize Day St. Malachy’s High School, Castlewellan (June 1990); ‘The Challenge of the City’ Irish Inter-Church Meeting, Ballymascanlon (15 Nov 1990); Charter Day dinner, QUB (1990); notes for talk to policy management course.
Education for Mutual Understanding, a collection of papers presented at the final DENI Summer School Conference held at Stranmillis College in August 1990, (Belfast, 1990), including an opening address by Maurice Hayes, 48pp.
Typescript copies of essays and dissertation submitted by Maurice Hayes in fulfilment of his LLM degree at Queen’s College Belfast. His dissertation title is ‘The Relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights to the Work of the Ombudsman’.
Conference proceedings, minutes and agendas of meetings, speaker notes, position papers and draft codes of practice from a Steering Committee to establish an Ombudsman for Press Complaints and a Press Council, coming in the main from academic research and the National Newspapers of Ireland. Includes remarks by Maurice Hayes who chaired the steering group.
Typescript copy of Maurice Hayes’ LLM Dissertation ‘The Relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights to the work of the Ombudsman’, 98pp.
File of personal letters, many congratulating him on his new appointment to the Local Authority Boundary Commissioner. Includes correspondence with D.A. Hill, Northern Ireland Office, Whitehall on the set-up and running of the Commission and the District Electoral Areas Review (1991-1992). Also letters from many other ombudsmen around the world thanking him for reports or wishing him well in his new role. Also some correspondence on the Lartigue Railway Committee, a book on the railway being launched by Maurice Hayes. Draft paper on ‘Harassment by security force personnel in Northern Ireland’, Committee for the Administration of Justice (22 May 1991). Also two letters from Mary Robinson, President of Ireland.
File of correspondence in relation to his role as Local Authority Boundary Commissioner, including letters from his colleagues in the Northern Ireland Office wishing him well in his new post, as well as a number of letters from local councils on boundary matters. Includes material on Hans Sloane.
Conference folder of material for a conference entitled ‘Beyond Hate: Living with our Deepest Differences’ held in Derry.
Files relating to the production of documentary film "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey', directed by Lelia Doolan, and telling the story and life of activist Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey.
File of black and white and sepia photographic prints featuring images of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Photograph labels include Devlin pictured with Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant (1969); portrait headshot of Devlin, 1986; Other prints are copies of photographs of Devlin taken at political events, rallies, public gatherings and other such events in London and Northern Ireland mostly in the 1970s and 1980s.