Documents relating to the development of a Bill of Rights in Northern Ireland. Includes Irish Democrat and Connolly Association. (n.d.) Conference 'Civil Liberties and a Bill of Rights', paper by Tony Smyth entitled "People in Institutions" organised by National Council for Civil Liberties/The Cobden Trust, (5 Feb 1977) TS article entitled "A Bill of Rights?" by Michael Zander, with MS annotation by Kevin Boyle; "Loopholes and Liberties - The N.I.C.R.A. Bill of Rights" - a reply to the drafts of the N.I.C.R.A. Bill (c. 1975) Draft TS document entitled "Enforcement" [of a Bill of Rights]; "Preliminary Report for the Northern Ireland Commission on Human Rights - Human Rights in the EEC Context" by Douglas Lawton, Prof. of Civil Law, Queen's University, Belfast. (n.d.); Draft Bill of Rights for Lord Brockway to Introduce in the House of Lords" (2 Feb 1977), Copy of Law Faculty (Queen's) Working Party on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland" by Michael O'Boyle and Kevin Boyle (Nov 1975) Copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948; "A Proposed Bill of Rights", prepared for submission to the People of the United Kingdom by the Ulster Citizens' Civil Liberties Centre. (June 1975)

Bill entitled "an Act to establish fundamental rights of subjects in 1977, Northern Ireland."

File of TS documents relating to the development and research on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. Includes a booklet of MS notes and writings by Kevin Boyle, in an exam handbook from Queen's University and entitled "Human Rights Materials"(n.d.); Memo to all members of staff of Law Faculty, Queen's University from Michael O'Boyle, detailing to set up a Working Party to submit evidence on a proposed Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland as requested by the Standing Advisory Commission for Human Rights (15 Oct 1975) TS memorandum on meeting of the Executive Board of the I.S.E., who met to discuss launching a major project in Human Rights" (15 Feb 1977) Law Faculty of Queen's University Working Party Document on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland (Jan 1976) "Bill of Rights Discussion Document prepared by [the N.I.C.R.A.] detailing comment on individual points in the Bill;

Published documents associated to the development of a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, including edition of 'Fortnight' magazine (23 May 1975) Issue no. 105, with cover story "Not Quite Rights - The Errors in the N.I.C.R.A. Bill of Rights"; Edition of 'Fortnight' Magazine, (7 Nov 1975) with cover story "The Republican Feud - 4 Years a Simmering" and other stories, no 114; Press release by the Council of Europe, headline being "New Secretary for the European Commission of Human Rights" (2 June 1976)

Copies of published articles, for research by Kevin Boyle, including "Lawful Power and the Citizen" by A. Douglas Lawton (n.d.); "The Development of the Ontario Human Rights Code: A Decade in Retrospect" by Ian A. Hunter, University of Toronto [Law Journal] Vol XXII, 4, Autumn 1972; "The Declaration of Rights of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974" by Lee Hargrave, Louisiana Law Review, Oct 1974.

TS copy of second report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Human Rights Committee under Article 40 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Files relating to the initial plans and efforts of Prof. Kevin Boyle to establish an Irish Centre for the Study of Human Rights at University College Galway. These files were arranged and labelled by Prof. Boyle as relating to the attempts to raise the profile and fundraise for such a Centre at UCG. The files may overlap in places with similar efforts by Boyle and others at UCG at this time to develop the Law Faculty at UCG. The files relate to fund raising efforts in the U.S., academic and administrative development for a Human Rights Centre and other such related 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 between Boyle and Alan Rutledge, Secretary/Treasurer, The Incorporated Society of Irish/American Lawyers; Michael Kerwin, Michigan; Argine Dalton, Executive Director, The Irish Fund; Leon Lysaght, Prof. of Law, University of Detroit Law School; John A. Flanagan, Attorney, Ohio; Prof. Bery Lockwood, Urban Morgan Institute form Human Rights, University of Cincinnati; David Lowry, Dean of Law, Biscayne College of Law; Anne Anderson, Embassy of Ireland, Washington; Nicholas Robinson, Executive Director, The Heritage Trust, Dublin; Rory Brady, B.L., Dublin; Charles E. Rice, Prof. of Law, Notre Dame University; James Delaney, President, Rand Development Corporation and others.
Also includes undated typed document "Irish Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University College Galway - Planning for the Future".

Copy of TS lecture given by Dr. Declan O'Donovan, former Irish delegate to the UN and Chairman of the third Committee of the General Assembly in 1981, and given at the Irish Centre for the Study of Human Rights, University College Galway.

Newsletter from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway.