Files of documents collected by ICJP and relating to reports and publications on and about the 1981 Hunger Strikes at the Maze Prison, Belfast and wider prisoner conditions at the Maze. Includes: "The H-Block Issue: An Interim Study" published by the Advisory Forum on Human Rights if the Irish Council of Churches (Feb 1980); "The H-Block Protest: Hunger Strikes and Emergency Law" A second paper presented by the Community of the Peace People, Belfast (17 Feb 1981); "Mercy, Justice, and Peace: Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock", 6 Sep 1981; "H-Block" by Fr. Denis Faul and Fr. Raymond Murray, Christmas 1979; "Help Prisoners - Pope Paul - What Can We Do"; "The Social Policy Implications of Emergency Legislation in Northern Ireland" by John Ditch and Mike Morrissey (Draft) June 1979; European Parliament Working Documents 1980-1981, Motion for Resolution tabled by N. Blaney, L. Castellina, and Mr. Coppieters on the violation of human rights in the community (14 Mar 1980).

File 2 includes: "Christian Morality and the Prison" - Summary of Talk given by Fr. Donal Murray; "Prisoners in the Republic of Ireland - the Advisory Forum on Human Rights, published by the Irish Council of Churches Board of Community Affairs, May 1981; Booklet "Day to Day Life in Northern Ireland Prisons" with text and images, published by the Northern Ireland Office (Mar 1981); Annual Report on Prisons and Places of Detention for the Year, 1978; Resolution of the Council of Europe on "Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (30 Jul 1973); Council of Europe "Tenth Conference of European Ministers of Justice on "Alternative Measures to Imprisonment" Report, 3-4 June 1976, Brussels.

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 lette

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 E

Minutes of AGMs and interim meetings of IALT.

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 regard

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 (Gen

Minutes of AGMs and interim meetings of the IALT.

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. Head

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 letters between Prof. Kevin Boyle and various others, mostly relating to Boyle's appointment as temporary lecturer in University of Essex. For much of this period Boyle was acting as Director of Article 19.