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| Professor Kevin Boyle |
An
activist, a scholar and a leading human rights advocate, Kevin Boyle has left a
legacy of impacts and memories working on behalf of others both in Ireland and
internationally. Boyle is a figure who witnessed and was part of the growth and
direction of the Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland in the 1960s; was
instrumental in the development of the Law Faculty and Human Rights Centres at
NUI Galway and later at University of Essex; as well as leading major
international NGOs, and later working alongside Mary Robinson at the United
Nations in 2001. Boyle's archive of over 120 boxes of manuscripts includes letters, records of
legal cases, academic research, notebooks, as well as ephemera from major
international political and social events around the world.
Available
at the Hardiman Library, NUI Galway, the Boyle archive is an insight into the
life and career of activist scholar, Kevin Boyle. This podcast is an overview and introduction to the archive
of Kevin Boyle and of the documentation of a career and life spent working in
law and human rights, from Northern Ireland in the 1960s to the United Nations
in the post 9/11 world.
You can listen to the podcast below and also search the catalogue of the Boyle archive online here.
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| Civil Rights March, Northern Ireland [January 1969] Kevin Boyle Archive, NUI Galway |
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