File relating to the Advocates Society Spring Conference in Ireland, of which Kevin Boyle was an invited participant. Includes programmes and details of the conference and the society as well as letters between Boyle and the conference organisers on what is required of Boyle.
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Printed programme from "The Adventures of the West Senor" based on the Spanish Armada survivor Francisco de Cuellar in Ireland, written and directed by Donal O'Kelly; includes images of rehearsal and images and biographies of cast members.
Copy of report by Madge Davison, [Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, which discusses the law surrounding abortion in Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the European Perspective.
Summary of address by Christopher T. Morris, former President of the Language Freedom Movement, to a meeting of SPECTRUM, the Science Debating Society, University College Belfield, Dublin, on 8 February, 1971. Topic: 'That nationalism is dead'. Discusses notions of nationality discussing the tribal system, the concept of a nation, using negative examples of nationalism from the past, and arguing that civil rights today have greater significance than nationalism.
Two copies of the address of Christopher T. Morris, President of the Language Freedom Movement, at a debate held by the Solicitor's Apprentices Debating Society in Dublin on 20 May, 1968. The motion was 'that Ireland without a national language is not worth living or dying for'. Refers to the UNESCO definition of a national language, and discusses revolutionary history, arguing that being prepared to give one's life for a nation has usually been in defence of social justice, civil liberties, and other such values, ahead of language.
"Advertisement for Trinity College Historical Society debate, the motion ""That a nation without language is a nation without spirit'. Lists the speakers for and against, Christopher T. Morris, President of the Language Freedom Movement is one of the speakers against the motion. Two copies of Mr. Morris's address, in which he argues that there are many examples of countries where national spirit is independent of language, and that the LFM are ""sacred cow punchers, but not iconoclasts"". "
Typescripts of various poems by Patricia Burke-Brogan, including: Daughter of Breasail, Explorer, [3rd/4th draft] of The Red Earl of Ulster (and notes), The Three Museum Poems, On Reading a Letter from Elizabeth 1 in the British Museum, For Ivan Sollertinsky, Portraits, Dark Voice, Hunger Strike, Ladies Day.
Text of Presidential addresses made by President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, including "The USA and Europe: a creative partnership" at the World Affairs Council, Los Angeles, 16 Oct 1991; "A Hundred Years - Facing the Future"on the occasion of the Ogden Lecture, Brown University, 19 Oct 1991; "Striking a Balance" - the Allan Lane Foundation Lecture, 25 Feb 1992; "Cherishing the Irish Diaspora" - Address to the Houses of the Oireachtas, 2 Feb 1995.
Print copy of testimony given to the Saville Tribunal by individuals, including Hugh Logue and others involved in NICRA, such as Kevin Boyle, Finbarr O'Kane, and others detailing their testimony and memories of the events of Bloody Sunday.
Typed testimony written by John McGahern regarding his account of Niels Gron, father of Madeline and regarding their relationship.
Also includes a later tped version of a letter dates 16 Feb 1970, from John McGahern, Paris, to Patrick (Paddy Swift?), with a written account on Niels Gron and further details of family history and connections.