TS and MS letters between Kevin Boyle and others regarding the New Ireland Forum, including Wallace Kirwan, Secretary of New Ireland Forum and Dr. Tom Hadden, Queen's University, Belfast. By this time Kevin Boyle had moved to Australia as a visiting professor as La Trobe University. Boyle and Hadden discuss drafts and outline for their joint publication, Ireland: a Positive Proposal. Letter from Wally [Walter] P. Kirwan, Department of the Taoiseach, th
king Boyle for previous letter and commenting on Boyle and his work for the New Ireland Forum, also wishing Boyle well ahead of his trip to Australia (La Trobe University) for seven months.

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.

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;

These files relate to Boyle's time at University of Maine Law School, at which he was Scholar in Residence in September 1982. This period saw the growth of the professional connections and relationship between Prof. Kevin Boyle and Prof. Orlando Delogu, Law Faculty, University of Maine. This relationship saw exchange programmes in law between Galway and Maine and the deposit of a major collection of U.S. law texts and journals to the Hardiman Library of University College Galway which was arranged by Delogu.

File of correspondence between Kevin Boyle and various others during his time as Scholar in Residence at University of Maine, Law School, Portland, Maine, U.S.A.

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 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 contains documents relating to travel by Kevin Boyle to Maine, Portland, U.S.A., notes and drafts of itinerary, notes and drafts of talks for public lectures and engagements and correspondence relating to such lectures including at Franic Deak International Law Society, University of Maine at Orono, Rutgers University School of Law, New Jersey, Harvard International Law School and many others.

File of MS and TS teaching materials, such as lecture notes and scripts, research notes and other such material used and written by Kevin Boyle for teaching at University of Southern Maine, with module headings including International Human Rights Law and also Constitutional Law. Material is written in 'University of Southern Maine' branded A4 notepads with loose leaves inserted.

Files of records relating to Prof. Kevin Boyle's appointment to the University of Essex as an academic within the Faculty of Law and as Director of the Human Rights Centre. Correspondence relates to Boyle's research, teaching and professional as well as personal contacts within the international field of Human Rights. Letters also relate to the publishing of material by Boyle in this period, contribution on various boards and journals in an advisory capacity, public speaking engagements and other such matters. Other series of files in this section include manuscript teaching notes and files on various graduate Human Rights Courses at University of Essex, matters relating to the administration of the Centre for Human Rights, international research projects, conferences and other related issues.