File of manuscript and typescript letters between Kevin Boyle and various individuals concerning Boyle's appointment as Chair of Law at University College Galway.

File of letters between Kevin Boyle and various others. Letters have been marked 'Personal' and include:
Letter from Gerry [Gerald Dawe] of the English Department, University College Galway, seeking to discuss a piece Dawe is writing on 'Life in the West' (3 Aug 1978)
Letter from Keith Kyle, the Royal Institute of Chartered Affairs, inviting Boyle to speak on the topic of Extradition from the Republic and Ireland's refusal to ratify the European Convention Against Terrorism (5 Feb 1979)
MS letter from Prof. Tim Casey, Dept of German, University College Galway to Boyle stating "Dear Kevin, You should have been a lawyer! Congratulations on taking a stand against standards." (10 Mar 1979).
Letter from C.J. Kitching, The National Archives of the United Kingdom, attaching update on reproduction guidelines for publication of archive material. (19 Apr 1978)
TS letter from Stanley H. Palmer, Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington, seeking to re-establish connection with Boyle and commenting on his writing on policing matters. (2 Mar 1978)
MS letter from Dr. Paul Brand, Assistant [Editor] at the Irish Jurist journal, seeking clarification on points in an article submitted by Boyle. (18 Apr 1978)
Letters from Prof. Richard Rose, Director of Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, discussing teaching of Human Rights at Columbia University and other matters (Oct - Nov 1979)

Files of records including detailed correspondence between Prof. Boyle and numerous others regarding the efforts to raise the idea of an Irish Centre for the Study of Human Rights at U.C.G., fundraising efforts for same and other related issues. The letters also detail the relationship between Prof. Boyle, UCG and the University of Cincinnati, especially Prof. Bert Lockwood, Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights. Letters include from Barbara A. Schatz, Executive Director, council of New York Law Associates; Mr. Jerome Shestack; John J. Murphy, Prof of Law, University of Cincinnati; Prof. Bert Lockwood, Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati; Peter O'Rourke, the Incorporated Society of American Lawyers; Prof. John Murphy, University of Cincinnati; James Roche, Vice President of Investment, Schudder, Stevens and Clark; John Flanagan, Attorney at Law, Cincinnati; Ray Carr, Irish Catalogues International, Cincinnati; Morton Sklar, Human Rights Law Group, Washington; Hurst Hannum, Executive Director, The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute and others. Other documents include a report and minutes of Dinner Meeting with Prof. Boyle and various academics as well as legal and business leaders from Cincinnati, where Boyle outlined plans for developing the Human Rights Centre and Law Faculty at Galway (16 Mar 1981); an information booklet/prospectus for the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati;

File of letters between Kevin Boyle and various others, dating from Boyle's time as a Scholar in Residence at University of Maine, Law School. Items include:
Press cutting from Portland Maine Press Herald, giving a description of Boyle's lecture in Maine on the topic of the current conflict in Northern Ireland.
Other letters are from and by Prof. Rolando Delogu, Law School, University of Southern Maine, a friend of Kevin Boyle and a visiting academic at U.C.G. Delogu deposited such letters and include Rev Theodore M. Hesburgh, President, University of Notre Dame;
James F. Carroll - Aileen Carroll; Letter from Boyle to Delogu, discussing in detail the 'H-Block affair' and the ongoing hunger strikes and their perception in the press and public (item 9);
Letters also detail arrangements for Boyle's lecture as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at University of Maine at Orono;
John C. Tronto of Bowdoin College, Dept. of Government and Legal Studies, Miaine, discussing Boyle's lecture on Northern Ireland and 'the Troubles;
Letter from Boyle to Delogu (14 Oct 1981) mentioning Delogu's contribution of donation of Law reports to the Library at U.C.G. and also mentioning the H-Block hunger strike (item 22);
Argine Dalton of the Ireland Fund, New York; Letter from Yvonne Scannell, Law School, Trinity College, Dublin, to Delogu, outlining, among other things, that Boyle has "now got the Attorney General to provide informal link-ups between academics and government departments..." (item 24);
Letter from Boyle to Delogu, discussing research and teaching, a Smurfit Professorship at U.C.G., Boyle's proposed trip to the Gambia with Amnesty International and other matters. (item 25)
Letter from Boyle to Delogu, Dec 1981, discussing a proposed law text discussion with Jim Casey and also confirming Boyle will be travelling to the Gambia, without his family, for a period in 1982 with Amnesty International (item 26)
Letter from Delogu, detailing a shipment of assorted law books and journals being shipped and donated to the Hardiman Library at U.C.G.; details of a lecture given by Boyle at University of Detroit on "Irish Problem: New Solutions";
Documents from symposium on Northern Ireland at the John F. Kennedy Centre, Mar 1982, with a talk by Boyle on Historical Background on Northern Ireland;
Letters also present between Boyle, Robert Woodbury, President of University of Maine, Kinvin Wroth and Orlando Delogu confirming Boyle's appointment as Scholar in Residence at Maine Law School in Sep 1982.

File of typescript and manuscript correspondence between Prof. Kevin Boyle and numerous others discussing and working on a development plan, led by Boyle, for the Law Faculty at University College Galway. This development drive included building Library and academic staffing resources. Documents include a list of "Current Needs" by the Law Faculty, detailed reports by Boyle on the Law Faculty, facilities, staffing, resources and plans for requirements, details of the 'Friends of U.C.G.' group in Chicago, Report compiled by Boyle on "Development Committee UCG: Report from K. Boyle on Chicago Trip, Nov 1982 and other such records. Letters are present between Boyle and Judge Arthur Dunne, Chicago District Judge, Terence F. McCarthy, Executive Director, Federal Defender Programme, U.S. District Court, Chicago; Dr. Colm Ó hEocha, President, University College Galway; Christine G. Cooper, Asst. Prof. of Law, Loyola University of Chicago; Seamus O'Cathail, Academic Secretary, University College Galway; Mark Rutherford, Centre for Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, New York; Liam Canniffe, Consul General of Ireland, Chicago and Peter E. O'Rourke, Attorney, Detroit, Michigan.

File of letters between Prof. Kevin Boyle and various others. Boyle was based at University College Galway at this time but the letters refer to contacts and teaching at Essex, research and teaching of Human Rights studies and other related issues.

File of typescript and manuscript correspondence between Prof. Kevin Boyle and numerous others discussing and working on a development plan, led by Boyle, for the Law Faculty at University College Galway. This development drive included building Library and academic staffing resources. Documents include letters between Boyle and numerous others such as P.J. Mone, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago; Dr. Joseph A Watson, Industrial Liaison Officer, University College Galway; Charles Brecht, Brakeley, John Price Jones Inc., Connecticut, USA; Judge Arthur Dunne, Chicago; William J. Harte, Attorney, Chicago; Judge Daniel P. Ward, Illinois Supreme Court, Chicago; James Fahy, U.S. Representative and Director of Development, U.C.G.; James O'Connor, Chairman of the board, Commonwealth Edison, Chicago; Terence F. McCarthy, Federal Defender Programme, Chicago; Prof. Chris Cooper, Loyola University School of Law; Robert Clifford, Attorney, Chicago; Liam Cunniffe, Consulate-General of Ireland, Chicago; John Lanigan, Illinois; David E. Walsh; Gordon Christenson, Dean of Law, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Other documents include a program from Eighty-Third Annual Banquet of the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago (17 Mar 1984); a flyer entitled "The Faculty of Law, University College Galway, Ireland, American Appeal", and a report entitled "Documentation on the Law Faculty, prepared for the meeting with President, Registrar and Academic Secretary, Dec 2, 1986".

File of TS and MS letters between Kevin Boyle and others including Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman of New Ireland Forum, Dr. Tom Hadden, Queen's University, Belfast; Prof. Desmond Greer, Queen's University, Belfast; Wallace Kirwin, Secretary, New Ireland Forum an

File of correspondence between Prof. Orlando Delogu, School of Law, University of Maine, Prof. Kevin Boyle, Faculty of Law, University College Galway and numerous others, concerning legal research teaching, exchange programmes between faculties and schools of law at Maine and Galway. Letters from Boyle over this period are based from Galway and also from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia where Boyle was a visiting Academic. Letters include from Delogu to Arthur B. LaFrance, Dean Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon concerning Boyle's interest in developing a visitorship; a copy of an article by Delogu, as visiting Prof. of Law at U.C.G., entitled "The Government's Mental Health Bill: An Inadequate Meeting of Mental Health Needs and Constitutional Obligations."; Letter from the Committee for an Irish Forum and a programme from their second symposium on Northern Ireland, at the John F. Kennedy Library (Mar 1984) Letters regarding visiting lectures by Boyle on his work on South African Pass Laws and on Northern Ireland in Oregon (9 Sp 1985).

File of letters between Boyle and various others. Letters are marked 'Personal' and include:
From Kevin Boyle to Tim Pat Coogan, Editor, Irish Press, Boyle states that he would be interested in a meeting with 'Mr Delaney' and also discussing his arrival at University College Galway in 1978 and his attempts to build up the Law Faculty and Library following the appointment of Dr. Colm Ó hEocha as President of UCG. (n.d.)
Letters to Boyle from Prof. Richard Rose, Director of Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, discussing matters including ongoing research projects and mentions an exception student from Galway, Michael Diskin (1983 - 1986)

Letters between Boyle and Prof. Robert Schwartz, Wolfson College, Cambridge regarding a visiting talk on Law to medical students at U.C.G. (23 Dec 1984)
MS detailed letter from [P...] outlining details of his legal case and challenge to suspension by VEC, Portlaoise, Co. Laois (9 Dec 1984)
Letter from Prof. James E. Starrs, George Washington University regarding extradition request in Mackin case (8 Jan 1985)
TS letters from Don Warren, Attorney at Law, Maine, U.S.A., outlining case being built against U.S. manufacturers of plastic bullets for use in Northern Ireland. (22-28 Feb 1985, items 11-12)
MS letters from John J. Somerville, writing from H-Block 4 of the Maze Prison, Antrim to Kevin Boyle, seeking advice from Boyle to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights as Somerville is being detailed for 35 years for murder but was not granted Special Category Status. (29 Apr 1985, Item 13) and a second letter to Boyle written from H-Block 8 by Somerville, thanking Boyle for his response and further commenting on and criticising the Diplock court system and his lack of Special Category Status. (22 Aug 1985, item 14)
TS copy letter from Boyle to Dr. Colm Ó hEocha, President of U.C.G. commenting on "furore over the Godard Film. . . " (21 Jan 1986, item 43)
TS copy of review of numerous books on Northern Ireland, including "Politics in the Street" by Bob Purdie which focuses on Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement and has image of Boyle on the front cover, sent from Tom Hadden to Boyle (1990)
Other correspondents include Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, U.C.G., Ed Maloney, The Irish Times, Dr. Tom Hadden, extended Boyle family members, Dr. T.K.Whitaker and others.