This case relates to unequal application of unemployment and pay-related benefit to married women in comparison with married/single men and single women. Tricia Lang was paid unemployment benefit and pay-related benefit for 312 days from date of initial payment, rather than 390 days which was applicable in case of married/single men and single women, she received a lower rate of payment of unemployment benefit than applicable for married/single men and single women and was only entitled to receive Unemployment Assistance on a more restrictive and discriminatory basis.

Case was adjourned, April 1990, on basis of offer of £500 to Tricia Lang and her husband in settlement of part of claim relating to unemployment assistance and ceiling on married couples, and adjournment of remainder of case and question of legal costs pending outcome of decisions in Cotter & McDermott and Emmott (P143/1/2/34). Final outcome of case unknown. See also P143/1/2/37.

Mary Robinson worked as Senior Counsel, and material is arranged across 2 files.

Tribute to Patricia Burke-Brogan in the Cork Literary Review by Sheila O'Hagan in December 2003.

File relating to production of Tribes by Macnas, in Galway and in Waterford, during summer 1994. Includes colour drawings by children, labelled as "Alien Drawings for The Tribes '94". Includes minutes of production meetings by Macnas, June 1994; Budget and accounts details for the production; Specific budget for the production in Waterford; Also letters and correspondence between Paraic Breathnach, General Manager, Macnas, and others such as T.V. Honan and Miriam Dunne, Waterford Spraoí festival, regarding planning of the event for Waterford.

Printed programme from Galway production of Treasure Island by Macnas, directed by Rod Goodall. Includes cast and crew information, as well as a programme article by film-maker Bob Quinn. produced at Leisureland, Galway.

File of correspondence between Etienne Rynne and individuals regarding a cist-burial grave at Treanmacmurtagh, Co. Sligo. Letters are between various academics in archaeology at University of Glasgow (John Waddell); the Ordnance Survey, Dublin; the National Museum, Dublin (Joseph Raftery); A.T. Lucas, and others. Also includes a report written by Rynne on the site. Also includes a number of black and white photographic images taken of the burial site as well as maps and drawings of the site lay-out.

File relating to research and action regarding Travellers Rights in Ireland. Includes draft document entitled "Draft Charter of Travellers Rights, with MS annotation by Boyle (A note from Joan Boyle indicates that Kevin Boyle was involved in this initiative while at University College Galway); Report entitled "About our Travelling People, published by the National Council for Travelling People"; Report of the Travelling People Review Body" (Feb 1983), Irish Government Publications; essay entitled "Travellers Rights - The Failure to Recognise an Ethnic Minority" (Jan 1992) Report entitled "Examination of First Report by Ireland Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights", Geneva, July 1993; Workshop report booklet from "Legal Defence of the Roma (Gypsies) in Central and Eastern Europe", held at Columbia University Law School, New York, 1997; Fax letter from Niall Crowley, Dublin Travellers Education and Development Group, to Boyle, seeking support and advice on various aspects of the Government led task-force and subgroup on education and Travellers. (n.d.) and Copy of Decision of the European Commission on Human Rights as to the admissibility of applicants, John and Patricia Williams et al Vs Ireland, for which Mary Robinson was one of the acting councils for the applicants. (1981)

Receipt from Aran Travel for flight from Shannon-New York, for Kevin Boyle.

File of correspondence, invoices and planning documents regarding the shipping of transport of sets and props belonging to Druid Theatre and which are being transported to venues in Europe and America.

Two files with ticket stubs and full tickets for productions of Brian Friel's "Translations" by Ouroboros Theatre Company, including from venues Oranmore Castle, Galway, as part of the Galway Arts Festival, and Kilmainham Jail, Dublin.

Printed programmes from Ouroboros production of Brian Friel's "Translations". Includes cast listing, information on the production, programme note article by Cathal Courtney, company manager of Ouroboros, entitled "An Encounter with Translations"; programme article "Translations at Kilmainham Jail" by Seán Ó Laoire; Artistic Director's Note by Denis Conway.