File relating to the annual conference of the group 'Liberty', entitled "Can Human Rights Save Society?". Kevin Boyle was a speaker at this conference with a paper entitled "International Human Rights Comparisons - What Can We Learn from International Examples?". File includes text of speaker notes for presentation by Kevin Boyle; speaker biographies; notes from presentation by Brice Dickson, Chief Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, focusing on Northern Ireland's Experience'; issue of 'Liberty' newsletter (Spring 2003) and other brochures and ephemera from the conference.
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File includes copy of a thesis by Sinead Conroy (Galway-Mayo IT), "A Bio-Bibliography of Liam S. Gogan 1891 - 1979". Also other manuscript research notes by Etienne Rynne, and some printed materials regarding Liam S. Gogan, a former Assistant-Keeper at the National Museum, poet, and who was also interned at Frongoch Prison, Wales, after the 1916 Rising.
Three copies (third copy is missing one page) of a statement by the Language Freedom Movement on the Fine Gael language policy. The LFM welcomes the statement as a step in the right direction, and wholeheartedly supports proposals on removing compulsion in passing Irish exams for employment and in Certificate examinations. The statement describes some elements of the policy as being ambiguous, and challenges the proposal to give top priority to the Gaeltacht as being discriminatory against other economically challenged areas.
Part 1 of the Rules and Regulations of the LFM, covering the Structure of the LFM. There is an index at the start which refers to other parts that are not included within the collection.
Public letter from Patrick Browne, Secretary of the Language Freedom Movement, enclosing a standard Civil Service form to be completed by the lowest-paid grades in the civil service in connection with their oral test in Gaelic at the end of their probationary period. Objects to questions which concern how the Civil Servant spends their time outside office hours, and asking for information on the Irish ability of the Civil Servant's colleagues.
Public letter to the press from Patrick Browne, Secretary of the Language Freedom Movement, responding to recent correspondence in the press on a statement made by John B. Keane. Mr. Keane had said that the LFM was not opposed to the revival of Irish, and some of the correspondence claimed otherwise. The letter explains that the LFM and Mr. Keane are of the same view.
Statement by Patrick Browne, Honorary Secretary of the Language Freedom Movement on the results of the Parish Priests' plebiscite in Ahascragh, stating that the results completely discredited the Gaelic League's plebiscite, and backed up the results of plebiscites conducted elsewhere in Crab Lane, Cork, and in St. John's Park, Waterford. Criticises the plebiscites conducted by the Gaelic League on the basis of not asking the right question, and on not being strictly anonymous.
Press release issued by the Language Freedom Movement quoting remarks made by Christopher T. Morris, President of LFM, at an address to the Arts Society at University College Galway. Mr. Morris comments on the 'wrath of the Fíor Ghaels', saying that priests and religious who disagreed with the replacement policy were discouraged from openly stating this. The press release also addresses the cost of the replacement policy to the primary education system.
Press release summarising an address by Christopher T. Morris, President of Language Freedom Movement to the Debating Society of Bolton Street College of Technology. Begins with a note to say the Gaelic League had declined an invitation to take part in a debate against the LFM, and it was agreed that Mr. Morris address the students, and take questions from the floor. Issues covered in the address include the White Paper on language (1965), the proportion of education in the schools dedicated to the Gaelic language, and the cultural value of the Gaelic language.
Press release referring to current controversy on censorship in the Seven Days Programme. States the programme filmed a piece on the Language Freedom Movement the previous year which was never aired.