Minutes of AGMs and interim meetings of IALT.
File containing minutes of meetings, agendas of meetings, letters to Board members and other such documents discussed by the Board of Article 19 and which detail activities, areas and items of interest and focus and issues raised by Article 19.
File of press cuttings kept by Kevin Boyle in relation to Article 19 and of international issues such as censorship and freedom of expression which Boyle and Article 19 had an interest in. Articles include coverage of the founding of Article 19 also. Headlines within include "Opening the Secret Society" (Article 19 - 29 June 1987); "Article 19 and the fight against censorship" ([ ] August 1987); "Haughey's Dilemma" - Extradition in Ireland (19 Nov 1987); "Censorship Costs Lives" (11 Apr 1988) "Filling in the Anglo-Irish gaps, taking out the hate" (2 Sep 1988, by Boyle and Hadden discussing the Anglo-Irish Agreement) "Ireland named in first world censorship report" (23 May 1988) "Article 19 survey studies of freedom of speech" (July 1988) "Booksellers [in Ireland] show fear of taking a flyer" (Case of Nell McCafferty's book 'Peggy Deery') 23 Oct 2010) "Bloody Ireland 0 A reporter chronicles her attempt to investigate killings in Northern Ireland and describes the forces that conceal a dirty war." by Jo Thomas, Columbia Journalism Review (May/June 1988) and other such items.
Minutes of AGMs and interim meetings of the IALT.
File of records including programme of speakers, lists of events and talks, letters regarding organisation or the theme or topic of the conferences, including a lecture series on Libel and the Press; the Role of information and the U.N. and the Media (Geneva 1986); Annual meeting of the Administrative Law Group, University of Warwick (Apr 1988); "Making European Policies Work" - Irish Association for European Studies; Merriman Summer School, "The Law and the People", August 1986; Human Rights Documentation Conference, August 1987.
File of drafts and notes made by Kevin Boyle as part of his Amnesty International mission to South Africa, including an internal Amnesty document entitled "South Africa: "Pass Laws" Mission", detailing a background to the trip (18 May 1984); a memo regarding details and arrangements for the trip (2 Apr 1984); typescript notes by Boyle on "A.I Mission to South Africa - Week commencing 2 April 1984"; 4 copies of draft typescript report by Boyle entitled "Amnesty International Report of a Mission to South Africa to Enquire into the Pass Laws and Their Enforcement" written by Kevin Boyle - Including some manuscript comment and annotation.
Minutes of AGMs and interim meetings of IALT.
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".
File of letters between Boyle and various others including Berthan Macaulay Q.C., The Gambia; Mr. T. Bouchier -Hayes, Solicitor, Dublin; Richard Elsner, International Secretariat, Amnesty International; Mr. A.N.M Ousainou Darboe, Banjul, the Gambia; His Excellency Momadu Lamin Saho, Minister for Justice and Attorney General, the Gambia; Mr. Mboob, Minister for the Interior, The Gambia; Sarah Pennington, Amnesty International; Carolyn Norris, Secretary, West Africa, Amnesty International; Prof. John Dugard, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; His Excellency Fafa Mbye, Minister for Justice and Attorney General, Republic of the Gambia; His Excellency Sir Dawda Jawara, President of the Republic of the Gambia; His Excellency A.M.K. Bojang, High Commissioner for the Gambia; Carolyn Yates, Lecturer in Law, University of Essex; Marilyn McKim, Amnesty International; Jean Cross, Amnesty International;