This file consists of material relating to a letter campaign regarding the announcement by Irish Government that equal pay would not be implemented in either public or private sectors in amendments to the Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act 1974 and includes draft letters and cover slips from Mary Robinson (MR) along with copies of correspondence between Françoise Xaviour Ortoli, President of European Commission and various individuals and organisations including Irish Women's Aid, Cherish [Irish Association of Single Parents], Women's Political Association, National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs of the Republic of Ireland, ADAPT [Association for Deserted and Alone Parents], Dr Hazel G. Boland, Irishwomen United, AIM [Action Information Motivation] Women's Centre, Irish Housewives Association, and Dublin University Women Graduates' Association, 06-14/01/1976. It also includes copy of letters from Hilda Tweedy, Chairman of Council for the Status of Women to Liam Cosgrove, Taoiseach [Irish Prime Minister], 19/01/1976, and to each cabinet member, 22/01/1976 and press release 09/02/1976; copy of letter from MR to Dermot Murphy, General Secretary, Civil Service Executive Union, 20/01/1976; and correspondence between MR and Gemma Hussey, 14-20/1/1976.

Letter from [ ], Department of Sociology, Clark University, Massachusetts, to Boyle, stating he has had no funding from the NICRA and updates on his research and publications.

Letter from [ ] to Peter Reeves, Director of the Centre for the Study of Protective Law, Oxford, also enclosing and praising the letters to the press by Reeves, raising the issues of custodial sentences for elderly people.

Letter from [ ], University of Amsterdam, to Boyle, enclosing which may be of interest to Boyle, a copy of new guidelines on the use of minority languages in the broadcast media, which were drawn up by the Office of High Commissioner on National Minoritie

Letter from Ribicoff, United States Senate, Committee on Finance, Washington D.C., to Boyle, regarding Boyle's signature to a petition against the proposed fiscal budget and reduction in federal library funding by the President.

Letter from Robbins, Developmental Editor, Sweet and Maxwell, Isle of Dogs, detailing an update ahead of the launch and first issue of the European Human Rights Law Review, to which Boyle has contributed.

Letter from his Excellency Ambassador Alan Galtie, British Embassy, Khartoum, U.K. Ambassador to the Sudan, to Boyle and thanking him for his letters and adds that he spoke with the Chief Justice but who cannot attend an upcoming conference in Cairo. The

TS letter signed by James C. Heaney, Chairman, Attorney's Committee, to "All United Nations Delegations" on the subject of Northern Ireland, highlighting the killings on Bloody Sunday and commenting on the policy of Internment Without Trial which was acti

Offprint from the American Journal of International Law, of the American Society of International Law, featuring a book review by Boyle for an unnamed publication, but based on the European Convention on Human Rights.

Letter from Buell, Alumnae Association of Smith College, Massachusetts, enquiring if a group could travel to Ireland and include a talk from Kevin Boyle on their 'Literary Tour of Ireland."