Report of the Regional Meeting for Africa of the World Conference for Human Rights. Tunis.

Programme for the 2002 Cúirt International Festival of Literature, held in Galway, and which features a workshop with playwright Enda Walsh, hosted by Druid Theatre. Programme includes details of the workshop. File also includes emails between druid and Walsh with booking information for the workshop for Walsh and also accommodation for Walsh. Also includes email from Walsh to Garry Hynes discussing his content plans for the workshop.

File includes programme and schedule for the workshop on Human Rights and Discrimination Litigation - Law and Practice in International and Domestic Courts. Also includes some research material and notes. Held in Athens, Greece.

Files relating to the Working Party of the Churches' Group on Human Rights and Responsibilities in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, including minutes of first meeting of the Group, held at Corrymeela, Ballycastle (15-16 Apr 1985). Kevin Boyle h

Research material consisting of reports, surveys, articles and other documents relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work on the Working Group on Child Abuse. It includes material gathered on child abuse in schools, by Tadgh Ó Ruairc, with cover letter to MR, 21/02/1983, copy of letter from Patrick Lennon, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (05/07/1982) and copy of legal opinion sent to him by John MacMenamin, B.L.; information pack on incest published by Scottish Women's Aid Incest Group n.d.; thesis "Incest- Project submitted for Diploma in Social Studies by Paula Scully" 198[?]; "Bernardo's Response to the Child Care Bill 1988”; photocopy of Summary of Recommendations of the Working Group with notation, 1988; copy of the ISPCC [Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] National Children's Campaign document with cover letter to MR from Cian Ó Tighearnaigh, Chief Executive Officer, which references the redrafting of the Child Care & Protection Bill, 1985 coming before Dáil Éireann [lower house of Irish parliament], 14/01/1988.

[Archivist’s note: Some material is of a sensitive nature.]

Print-outs of colour images of stage design work by Joe Vaněk and submitted to the PQ (Prague Quadrennial), works include The Goat by Edward Albee; Performances and A Month in The Country by Brian Friel and What Happened Bridgie Cleary?

File includes research relating to compilation of word-lists, local words, place names, phrases etc. Includes offprint of article by Etienne Rynne, "A Word List from the Neighbourhood of Kilkerley, Co. Louth. (Journal of Co. Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. XIX, No. 4, 1980. File includes assorted local history articles, mainly from Munster and Louth, on local words and phrases. Also letters to Rynne from local individuals passing on information regarding certain local words and their use. Offprint of article published by Etienne Rynne: "A Word-List from the Neighbourhood of Kilkerley, Co. Louth", Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society". Vol. XIX, No. 4, 1980.

File includes TS report compiled by Rynne upon visiting the site at Ower Bog, Moycullen, Co. Galway where two wooden spades (slanees) were found in the bog. Drawings included as well as correspondence regarding the transfer and deposit of the items to the National Museum.

Material relating to the production of Wonderful Tennessee, written by Brian Friel and produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, directed by Patrick Mason and designed by Joe Vaněk. Includes production photographs of cast members on set and in costume, including Donal McCann and Ingrid Craigie. Also photographs of the set model-box designed by Vaněk. Also printed play programme from the Abbey Theatre production of the play; printed invitation to opening night celebration following the Broadway opening of Wonderful Tennessee (24 Oct 1993); printed season flyer from Almeida Theatre, London, with productions of Friel's Wonderful Tennessee and Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. (Oct - Dec 1994)

Printed programme from premiere of Brian Friel's 'Wonderful Tennessee' at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Includes chronology of Friel productions and cast and crew information.