File includes minutes of meetings held by Charter 88 throughout 1990 and other documents including commentary by C88 on the 3rd report of the United Kingdom to the United Nations Human Rights Committee; Proceedings of Charter 88's first Constitutional Convention, London, July 1990; document calling for a fair electoral system; details of C88 seminar on the Constitution and the Media; text of talk by Kevin Boyle entitled "Possible Rise and Fall of Two Women in the News - Thatcher and Robinson" (8 Dec 1990)

File of documents including Board minutes of meetings held by Charter 88 April - Nov 1989, also minutes regarding meeting of C88 and Nuffield Foundation; Correspondence concerning same and other such documents. Includes background document on 'Who is behind Charter 88' and details of aims, objectives etc.; a list of signatories of C88; Draft statement of Charter 88 Wales; Written constitution of C88; position paper on the monarchy; 'Charter 88: Planning for the Next Stage; Executive Director's report, Nov 1989; Report "The Nineties: A Decade for Constitutional Change" - Charter 88 Campaign and Financial Plan; a document on Israel being an international link and also a political report for Charter 88.

Printed programme from a Sleeping Dog Theatre production in association with Canada's National Arts Centre English Theatre of "Blood on the Moon", written and performed by Pierre Brault, directed by John Koensgen. Includes information on the play and head-shot images and biographies of cast and creative crew members.

Report published by Article 19 entitled Blasphemy, Prior Restraint and Freedom of Expression: Third Party Intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in Otto-Preminger-Institut V. Austria".

File of documents relating to the case of Bladet Tromsø A/S and Stensaas V. Norway, and a case for which Kevin Boyle acted as Council on behalf of the applicants. Documents include letter from Steingrim Wolland to Kevin Boyle, informing him of the admissi

Printed programme from National Theatre of Scotland production of Blackwatch, staged at the RDS Shelbourne Hall, Dublin, as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Written by Gregory Burke and directed by John Tiffany. Includes Director's Foreword; Writer's Note; images from the production; images and biographies of cast members and also details of other events as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

File of research and planning material regarding design by Joe Vaněk for the production by Landmark Productions of Blackbird by David Harrower. Includes print-outs of internet images researched as part of planning the set and space design; colour costume drawings in pencil of character outfits by Joe Vaněk; Minutes from production meeting held at the LAB on Foley Street, Dublin 2; print-outs of colour photographs of the set model-box; photographs of chairs and tables sourced for potential use in the play; spreadsheet with lists of furniture and props used in the play; email correspondence between Eamonn Fox, Joe Vaněk discussing props and furnishing on stage; assorted versions and successive drafts of technical drawings for Blackbird by Joe Vaněk and also outsize Ground Plan drawing by Vaněk.

Printed programme from Landmark Productions presentation of "Blackbird" written by David Harrower and directed by Michael Barker-Caven. Includes Director's Note; an article by clinical psychologist Marie Murray; a biography of Harrower and also of cast members.

Printed programme and poster from production by the Trinity College Dublin, Bachelor in Acting Class of 2008, of "Black Snow" by Keith Dewhurst, adapted from the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, Directed by Deirdre Roycroft and Jason Byrne. Staged at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.

The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were the collective names of two groups whose convictions in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 were eventually quashed after long campaigns for justice. The Guildford Four were wrongly convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA); the Maguire Seven were wrongly convicted of handling explosives found during the investigation into the bombings. Both groups' convictions were eventually declared "unsafe and unsatisfactory" and reversed in 1989 and 1991 respectively after they had served up to 15–16 years in prison.

The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen who were each sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal on 14 March 1991. The six men were later awarded financial compensation ranging from £840,000 to £1.2 million.

Material is arranged across three files: P143/1/2/36/1 relates to the Annie Maguire case, P143/1/2/36/2 relates to the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford Four cases and P143/1/2/36/3 consists of related cuttings.

[Archivist's note 1: It is unclear how much involvement Mary Robinson had in these cases apart from giving legal opinion on Annie Maguire case, giving interviews on behalf of the Birmingham 6 and chairing public events. It is clear she followed the cases closely.

Note 2: Regina in Law means Queen and represents UK Crown or State in case].