A4 notepad with manuscript notes by Kevin Boyle on various aspects of Human Rights in Northern Ireland, including Corrymeela Estate in Northern Ireland, Anglo-Irish relations, economics, constitutional study, communal rights and other such issues.

File of manuscript research notes relating to Article 19 and Freedom of Information issues, written by Kevin Boyle

Envelope filled with small pieces of paper, described as Plants Index Aran. Each piece of paper gives the name of a specimen and a number. Unclear what the number corresponds to.

A small leaf specimen found roadside, north east of Tullyconnelly.

List of species found on Inishmore, divided into seashore species, plants of wet places, weeds and ruderals, and plants from roadsides or shallow soil. This is a typed list with handwritten edits. It is attached to a notice of a field trip to the Aran Islands by the Botanical Society of the British Isles (2-7 Sep 1976).

Handwritten notes on specimens found in Turloch Mór (27 Jun 1978).

Typed index of specimens found in Aran (T Curtis 1979 written at end).

Handwritten index of specimens found in creigs, heath, thin grass and fissures, with a corresponding calendar tracking growth.

Notes on kelp handwritten by Tim Robinson, from a reading of 'The Chemical Revolution' by Archibald and Clow. (Undated).

Typed piece entitled 'Plant Records from Co Galway' by Tim Robinson, which expand on some of the distributions described in Webb and Scannell "The Flora of Connemara and the Burren".

Press cutting from the Irish Times on weeds in Aran. (5 May 1989).

Manuscript research notes by Kevin Boyle regarding the use of plastic bullets by security forces in Northern Ireland and referring to individual cases of people killed by plastic bullet use.

Manuscript research notes on policing by Kevin Boyle.

File of manuscript research notes, entitled "Neolithic Insular", by Etienne Rynne. Includes notes, drawings, sketches and printed materials regarding neolithic features and objects from various locations in Ireland, U.K., Isle of Man, and Europe.

Manuscript research materials on Special Powers Act, Northern Ireland and signed by 'Kevin Boyle, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Belfast. Includes letter from [Siobhan]. Permanent Secretary's Office, Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland, Belfast, to Kevin Boyle, enclosing and discussing aspects of the Special Powers Act.

File of research documents, including manuscript notes by Kevin Boyle, on the subject of policing and police brutality, internationally and in Northern Ireland. Documents include copy of Decision on the admissibility of United Kingdom V. Royaume-Uni (May 1980); Copy of book chapter "Two models for Criminal Process" from 'The Limits of the Criminal Sanction', 1968; case details of Neville Francis King V. The Director of Public Prosecutions and the Attorney General; "A Brief History of the Police Federation" by Peter Payne; "Complaints against the police - A working paper submitted to the joint conference on the administration of justice in Northern Ireland" (April 1992) submitted by Tom Foley and Martin Burton; "The Legal Framework of Penal Practice and Policy" written by Kevin Boyle, 1980. File includes letters between Pauline Morris and Kevin Boyle, discussing hoe Morris has "been asked by the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure to prepare a critical review of the literature on police interrogation. . ." and seeks advice from Boyle. (Dec 1977) File also includes TS statistics on various aspects such as numbers of incidence of terrorist activity in Northern Ireland, numbers in the security forces in Northern Ireland, those shot dead by security forces, details of Diplock Courts figures and other such information.

File of assorted documents including manuscript paper by Kevin Boyle, entitled "Legal Education Comes of Age: A Note on the [ ] of the Irish Association of Law Teachers."
Text of document being a proposal to Launch an IALT Journal (n.d.); "Law Teaching in the Non-University Third Level Sector in the Republic of Ireland (n.d.).
"The Aims and Methods of Academic and Professional Legal Education in Ireland in the 1990s - the University Sector" by Brice Dickson, University of Ulster.
"Emerging Norms in the Protection of Minorities" by Tom O'Malley of UCG.
Paper by Teresa Blake - "Human Rights: Irish Governmental Attitudes as Gleaned from the National Archives" (from IALT conference, Galway, 1991).
Typed submitted by the IALT to "The Restrictive Practices Commission" (Jan 1987).

Two typed copies of a talk entitled 'The ABC of Mapping', given by Robinson at the Researching the Burren conference held in Ballyvaughan in February 1999. In the talk, Robinson reflects on when he first mapped the Burren in 1976, describing his methodology, and reading extracts from his diary at the time. He outlines contrasts between 'the two dates upon which the Burren year hinges' and farming practice in Connemara. Of the placenames he says 'placename studies in Ireland are a rescue-archaeology of a shallowly buried sacred landscape'.

Two newspaper clippings of articles written by Eileen Battersby for the Irish Times reporting on the conference and quoting Tim Robinson. The controversy over the proposed interpretive centre at Mullach Mór is referenced in this file. (See P120/3/2/5/2 for more about the campaign to oppose the centre).