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Photocopy of thesis completed by Ann Hope and submitted for the Ruskin Labour Studies Diploma, with the title of "From Civil Rights to Guerilla War: The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association's Struggle for Democracy 1969 - 1972".

File of documents relating to the planning and organisation of the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement, including the N.I.C.R.A., in Northern Ireland. Includes minutes of meetings of the Commemoration Committee (Dec 2007 - Feb 2008) Chair of the committee is named as Denis Haughey. Notes by Kevin Boyle on a speech he gave at the commemoration and of an article [he wrote] on commemorating the assassination of Martin Luther King as well as the growth of Civil Rights in Northern Ireland, a planning document detailing objectives and names of members of the committee, program for a conference, "1968: Civil Rights - Then and Now", organised by Queen's University, Belfast, (3 Oct 1968) Press cuttings of articles taken from the Irish Times, discussing the 40th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement (2 Oct 2008) and also other newspapers. Copy of 'NIHRC Review - The Magazine of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission." (Summer 2008) An article from the Irish News on Mary Robinson who talks on memories from her life in politics.

Printed flyers, pamphlets and posters issued and published by the N.I.C.R.A. publicising many of their objectives, aims and causes. Flyers are entitled "The Civil Rights Movement Ultimatum To Stormont June 1969", "Justice in Elections", "People of Ulster Support. . . ", "Support the Demands of the Civil Rights Movement", "How to Discredit the Police", "Houses on Need" and other such documents. Also includes a printed poster with the text " Do you agree with Internment, Brutality, Repression, Intimidation, Sectarianism, Discrimination. . ." Also includes a pamphlet published by the Research Department of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association entitled "Discrimination! - The Facts" and a pamphlet entitled "Innocent Equals Guilty Under the Special Powers Act" published by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.

Manuscript notes by Kevin Boyle, being recollections on the outbreak and development of the Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland, based on beginning on October 5, 1968, following riots in Derry and provides personal comments on later events and invol

Typescript copy of document being an essay entitled "The North - The Peace Moves in Context", being an examination of the impact and success of various peace movement in Northern Ireland in the period up to c. 1972. Does not appear to have been written by Kevin Boyle. Author unknown.

Files of documents relating to the group People's Democracy, its activities and members

File of TS minutes of meetings of People's Democracy.

File of TS and also MS documents, being the minutes and agenda of meetings of the Central Committee of People's Democracy, detailing those present, agenda for meetings, discussion of points including plans for marches to highlight and campaign against Human Rights violations on Northern Ireland, updates from various areas and regions within Northern Ireland, notices of meetings with Provisional Republicans (22 March 1970), notice of placement and also defacement of P.D. posters, discussion on P. D. policy and committee, question of setting up a People's Democracy in the South [of Ireland], employment, housing, economy, Unionism, the Civil Rights Movement and other such issues. The file also includes numbered but unallocated membership cards for People's Democracy. Typescript report of P.D. six-monthly Conference, Belfast (24 May 1970), 'Comrade Boyle' was noted as being one of three alternating Chairpersons; Typescript, Central Executive Committee minutes from meeting, 1 June 1970, Kevin Boyle was present and noted as being elected joint Press Secretary. Details of upcoming activities, marches, events regarding P.D. are outlined.

File of letters received by and sent by People's Democracy

MS letter to "Dear Bernadette", and entitled 'A few thoughts that may clarify where we all go from here...', the document is signed off by Kevin [Boyle] and does appear to be in Boyle's hand. The letter is divided by headings: 'The Past' and 'The Present', and includes 10 and 11 points of comment by [Boyle] under each headings and comments on past and current P.D. members, structures, weaknesses and policies.. Points mentioned include "You [Bernadette Devlin] didn't help the claims of Derry and Belfast by having an independent career in Mid-Ulster and Westminster", "The P.D. is in fact organisationally quiet weak..." and "...if [you] linking to the P.D. would mean that [Eamonn] McCann, or yourself, would feel unfree and incapable of developing in the way you think, then it would be best not to have anything to do with it."