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"Handwritten rough drafts of song ""Una Bhán"", from Thomas Ridge, Conamara, County Galway, from Mrs Cosgrove, County Mayo and Michael McCaffrey."

"Handwritten rough drafts of song ""Una Bhán"", from Thomas Ridge, Conamara, County Galway, from Mrs Cosgrove, County Mayo and Michael McCaffrey."

Offprint of article, in French, by Etienne Rynne, entitled 'Un Tacheron Irlandais À Tournus Au 15e Siècle'.

File relating to the UN Human Rights Commission and the Sub Committee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Includes press cutting from May 1982 stating "Ireland was yesterday elected to serve, for the first time, on the UN Commission on Human Rights. . . "; Attached are manuscript notes by Boyle on the Human Rights Commission; progress report from the Sub-Commission on the 'Status of the Individual and Contemporary International Law' by Mrs, Erica-Irene A. Daes, Special Rapporteur (26 June 1984); provision list of attendees and list of consultative groups for the Sub-Commission; Timetable for consideration of agenda items of the 36th session of the sub-commission; and also various articles such as 'The 1984 UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities: Review and Prognosis' by Garber and O'Connor; Also, a commentary on the work of the Sub-Commission published in International Commission of Jurists - The Review, no. 41, 1988"

Texts of various resolutions adopted by the UN, its Security Council and other bodies in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the global campaign against terrorism. Includes text of the Internation Convention on the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (Dec 1999); text of statement from UN Secretary General on "Human Rights Must not be Sacrificed to Counter-Terrorism (12 Apr 2002); Text of address by Segio Vieira de Mello, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered to the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Security Council (21 Oct 2002); Text of report (with MS annotation by Boyle) from the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and entitled "Civil and Political Rights, Including the Question of Torture and Detention" (16 Dec 2002) and other such documents.

File of documents being records of sessions, commentaries on agendas, observations of the Covenant on matters relating to civil and political rights, including specific comment and consideration of reports on Great Britain and Northern Ireland (26 July 1995); concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee on Ireland (22 Jul 2008)

File of documents relating to the Human Commission including a document by [Boyle] entitled "The Functioning of the Commission"; booklet for participants at the 58th session on Human Rights (Mar - Apr 2002); agendas and reports of various subgroups such as on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights and working group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; text of paper "United Nations Commission on Human Rights: The Victim of False Expectations" (2007) by Miko Lempinen at a conference in Potsdam.

Documents relating to agendas, commentary, resolutions adopted, discussions and reports of sessions and meetings of the UN Economic and Social Council. Documents include annex to 1966 Resolution; from 38th session - 'Question of the Human Rights of all Persons Subjected to Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, in Particular: Question of Missing and Disappeared Person', report of the working group on enforced or involuntary disappearance (Dec 1981); 'The Administration of Justice and the Human Rights of Detainees - Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religious Belief" (Aug 1993); 'Advisory Services in the Field of Human Rights' (Mar 1996)' Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' (June 1999); Report from Special Rapporteur on 'Civil and Political Rights, including Religious Tolerance' (15 Feb 2000); 'Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' (4 Jul 2000); 'Report of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights on its 53rd Session (22 Nov 2001); Report of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Indigenous Issues (4 Feb 2002); Report of Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Mission to U.S.A. on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Education (17 Jan 2002)

File relating to Kevin Boyle and membership of the United Association of Great Britain and Ireland, including issue of magazine of the Association (Jul - Sep 2005) with details of work of the Association. Also documents relating to Boyle being keynote speaker for the UNA conference in 1999, including a letter to Boyle from Malcolm Hill, Chairman of Sudbury branch of UNA, attaching a series of documents and reports reviewing various aspects of the UN Security Council.