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Manuscript research notes by Kevin Boyle in writing and drafting comment and analysis of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

File of press cuttings from newspapers from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland detailing coverage, comment and opinion of the build-up, announcement and following events from the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Includes letters to newspapers by Kevin Boyle, comment on Boyle's proposals for the Anglo-Irish Agreement and other such matters.

Records relating to political and academic conferences organised to discuss the impact and meanings on the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Organised conferences include the Ditchley Foundations Conference on Northern Ireland, (Feb 1986); Colloquium on Self-Expression and Self-Determination in the Commonwealth Context, Edinburgh (Jul 1986) including paper by Kevin Boyle - 'The Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: Differing Perceptions, Differing Realities'; British-Irish Association Conference, Sep 1986 at Oxford. Paper by Boyle and Tom Hadden: 'Hopes and Fears for Hillsborough'; and Anglo-Irish Relations Conference at IALS London, April 1988.

Published documents by various groups in reaction to the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Includes "Towards Peace and Stability: A critical study of the Anglo-Irish Agreement" by an interfaith group on faith and politics", "The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Northern Ireland Perspectives" by E. Haslett; "Ulster - The Prey" by Alderman Peter D. Robinson M.P., M.P.A.; "Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom: Unjust, Undemocratic and Unconstitutional by Christopher and Michael McGimpsey; The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Vol. 37, No.1, Spring 1986, including an article "The Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 - Blue Print or Green Print?" by Bridget Hadfield; "The Anglo-Irish Agreement - A Legacy of Violence" by the Unionist Joint Working Party and "Ireland Today" - Bulletin of the Department of Foreign Affairs with coverage of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. (Nov 1985)

Copy of "The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Commentary, Text and Official Review" written by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden. Included with the book is the a TS letter from Kevin Boyle to Peter Preston, Editor of the Guardian paper, U.K., with a copy of an article by Boyle and Hadden entitled "The Anglo-Irish Agreement - Four Years on and Still Going Strong" to be included in the Guardian and also published in the Irish Times. (Nov 1989)

Documents relating to the case of McGimpsey & McGimpsey Vs. Ireland which was heard at the Supreme Court of Ireland concerning the constitutionality of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Documents include the Judgement of the Supreme Court hearing and a information pamphlet on the case compiled and written by Ken Maginnis, M.P. Typescript document entitled "A Note on the McGimpsey Case and the Irish Constitutional Claim", by Kevin Boyle and delivered at the British-Irish Association annual conference at Oxford in 1990.

File of documents relating to the Intergovernmental Conference group set up as agreed as part of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. File includes a report from the group entitled "Developments since the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement; joint statements issued by the Northern Ireland Information Service following the Anglo-Irish Conference, Nov 1988. File also includes numerous press cuttings of coverage relating to developments and events in Northern Ireland following the signing of the Agreement. Press cuttings include reviews of the Agreement by Boyle and Hadden with articles entitled "Back to the totality of relationships". Also includes text of communique of the Anglo-Irish Summit on 7 Nov 1983.

Document being minutes of evidence given by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden and also Mr. S. Bell and Mr. A Boyd, to the Committee on the Government of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly.

Files relating to reports and discussion documents concerning devolution of powers in Northern Ireland.

Copy of discussion paper, "Devolution and the Northern Ireland Assembly: The Way Forward" presented by the Ulster Unionist Assembly Party's Report Committee.