The archiving status of this material will depend on the extent to which RJ bio material is seen as significant. RJ 17/07/10.

Boxes on record has having been transferred to LH:

RJ1LH

6. Minutes of the Technology Group of the Institute of Physics (Irish Branch) exist in a folder in box RJ1LH. Some relevant points in these have been abstracted in the 1980s socio-technical stream.

43. Folder containing political feelers to Haughey, Spring, Quinn re Science & Technology policy, 1984-88. Box RJ1LH

RJ2LH

5. Folder containing the earlier Irish Times series January 9-13 1967 on 'Science in Ireland', and the original more extended paper from which the series was condensed. Box RJ2LH.

6. Folder with material relating to the Pierre Tielhard de Chardin Society of Ireland; circa 1967; Derry Kelleher and the writer took an interest in this, in the then fashionable spirit of enquiry into issues relating to Marxism and Christianity. This episode has been placed on record by Risteard O Glaisne in Irish published by Coscéim in 1994. Box RJ2LH.

RJ3LH

3. I have cross-referenced my analysis of the Garland January 1966 'captured documents' from the Sinn Fein record; they help fill a gap in the Ard Fheis sequence, and relate to how the Army Council saw Sinn Fein during 1965-66. These are available via the National Archive (ref 98/6/495) and I am indebted to Matt Treacy a TCD postgraduate student for picking them up, in the context of his researches into the period. This and my SF Minutes notes are in Box RJ3LH, in a blue IPA folder. This also contains the 'Commission Report' of 1969 (which I have scanned in; this version arrived via a Quaker Unionist NI source) and the 1998 special United Irishman commemorative issue which contains the memoir by Mick Ryan. Also in RJ3LH is a folder containing some backup documentation relating to the Commission meetings, which I have not attempted to analyse; the work of the Commission during 1969 was overtaken by events, and I judged the latter to be more relevant to the narrative.

1. New Ireland Forum, Report of proceedings, public session, October 11 1983; contains submission by the present writer, Micheal O Loinsigh and others; box RJ3LH.

2. The Garland January 1966 'captured documents'; these help fill a gap in the Ard Fheis sequence, and relate to how the Army Council saw Sinn Fein during 1965-66. These are available via the National Archive (ref 98/6/495) and I am indebted to Matt Treacy for picking them up, in the context of his researches into the period. I have put them in an 'Institute of Public Administration' folder along with some Ard Fheis material, and a 1962 Government assessment of the risk of a general release, in Box RJ3LH.

1. Folder containing SF Ard Feis records (incomplete) from 1964 to 1969; also the Roy Garland (UUP) version of the 1969 'Garland Commission Report'. I have included a 1962 report on the state of the IRA from the Minister for Justice to the Cabinet with these. Box RJ3LH.

2. Where We Stand, Tomas Mac Giolla; Carrickmore Republican Clubs Conference, 1972; reprinted by Workers Party 2000; Box RJ3LH.

5. The Ripening of Time - this pocket-sized left-wing theoretical quarterly ran from December 1975 at least up to October 1980 and perhaps later; I have a complete series Nos 1 to 13 (January 1980). It was produced by a group which preferred to remain obscure; it had an anarcho-Trotskyist flavour, and was critical of the USSR. I read a paper to the Wolfe Tone Society on January 24 1978, and I sent them a copy, which they published in No 9, March 1978. Derry Kelleher had a paper in No 11, February 1979. The RoT people lumped these together, and did a critical reply to mine in No 13, October 1980, and promised one on Kelleher, but I don't have it. This is raw material for the 1970s political thread. Box RJ3LH.

6. Co-operation and Community Development in the West of Ireland, Patrick Commins, 5th international seminar on marginal regions, TCD, July-August 1979; Box RJ3LH.

8. On to the Republic, Derry Kelleher, Ripening of Time, 1982; Box RJ3LH.

9. Coalition?, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 1, 1984; Box RJ3LH.

10. Garret's Bloodied Scenario, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 2, 1986; Box RJ3LH.

11. An Alien Ideology, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 3, 1986; Box RJ3LH.

13. An Open Letter to Ian Paisley, Derry Kelleher, Justice Books 6, 1990; Box RJ3LH.

15. Skeff, Andrée Sheehy-Skeffington, Lilliput 1991; there is inserted also the original of my September 1978 MS notes for Andrée S-S, which she used as the basis for her references to the 1940s student left in the book, without acknowledgement, and MS letters from OSS to RJ dated 23-25/04/56, on issues relating to the exposure of Stalin; Box RJ3LH.

16. Patterns of Betrayal, Sean Garland et al; Workers Party, 1992; this is their response to the Democratic Left breakaway; Box RJ3LH.

19. Bodenstown 1998, Sean Garland, Workers Party 1998; Box RJ3LH.

RJ4LH

7. De Valera Centenary Publication Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1982; this was a stimulus for the present writer to try to reopen relations with it, as a follow-on from the TCD Applied Research Consultancy contract. There is correspondence with Ken Whitaker, Stan Nielsen and others. It was a false trail. Box RJ4LH.

RJ5LH

1. Folders (grouped by year) containing internal Irish Workers League material from the period 1949 to 1954, including conference resolutions, and a leaflet on the Ballyfermot Co-op. The 1949 folder contains a memo from Muriel McSwiney dated 1944, which however is outside the scope of this study. I have abstracted as much of this material as seems relevant, starting with the 1940s political module and continuing into the 1950s module. Box RJ5LH.

Some of my own WTS papers relating to the WTS I have also abstracted, and these are available in Box RJ5LH; these include some notes from 1965 relating to republican politicisation at the basic grassroots level, and the Tuairisc 7 paper Our Ideas by Anthony Coughlan, which fuelled the 1966 Maghera meetings of Republican Clubs, where the Civil Rights approach to Norther Ireland politics was first introduced. There is also an abstract of the 1967 Coughlan plan for WTS development. The WTS held a conference in Carrickmacross in November 1972, and C Desmond Greaves read a paper England's Responsibility for the Crisis in Ireland. This was subsequently published in Atlantis, No 5, April 1973, and is here reproduced in full, along with my own 'Irish Utopias' paper which appeared in the same issue.

4. Economic and Social Implications of the Political Alternatives that may be open to Northern Ireland, ed Norman Gibson, NUU Social Sciences, 1975. Box RJ5LH.

1. Folder with 1950s correspondence: Owen Edwards and the 1913 Club, Brian Farrington on Stalin, Plough material in draft, notes on the Wolfe Tone diaries; raw material for the development of politics in the black 1950s. Box RJ5LH.

2. Folder with Connolly Association correspondence, mostly with Desmond Greaves, from the period 1963-68. (I have copied the Greaves letters for the Coughlan archive.) Box RJ5LH.

3. Folder with material relating to the 1964 Sinn Fein draft social and economic programme, including some critical notes by RJ. Box RJ5LH.

4. Folder containing Wolfe Tone material 1964-66, including correspondence with George Gilmore in 1966, and 'economic resistance' papers. Also the Minister Des O'Malley correspondence re Griffith Barricks and the housing crisis. Also the NI Republican Clubs Constitution, and the 1966 Independent 'red scare exposure'. Box RJ5LH.

8. Folder containing a limited amount of 1967-68 Sinn Fein-related material, including correspondence with Derek Peters and Betty Sinclair about the NICRA and how to improve its relationship with the Republican Clubs, primarily regarding arrest without trial etc. It also includes letters from Anthony Coughlan on the abstention question, 'Definition of Socialism' material, draft recruiting leaflet material for the 26 and 6 counties, and miscellaeous correspondence relating to educational conferences etc. Box RJ5LH.

9. Folder containing Wolfe Tone Society material mostly from 1968, supplementary to the Society's records as salvaged and retained by Anthony Coughlan. It includes a copy of the 'Text-books in Irish' report compiled by Micheal O Loinshigh et al in May 1968, and a report of the Maire Mac an tSaoi lecture of July 1967. It includes the August 1968 circular which enshrined the present writer's still-persisting broad-spectrum agenda, at a time when the focus was already narrowing to Civil Rights in the North. Box RJ5LH.

10. Folder with some 'dirty tricks department' material attempting to undermine the politicisation process 1964-73; some from 'ultra-left' sources, others Special Branch forgeries. Box RJ5LH.

11. Folder containing a few papers related to the NICRA, including the original Constitution, the January 1969 constitutional revision memorandum, a slanted press cutting suggesting 'IRA infiltration', the June 1969 'Ultimatum to Stormont' leaflet, and a September 1969 draft of a document supportive of the 'Civil and Political Rights Covenant' campaign. There is also a copy of the abortive August 24 1968 'Dungannon Declaration' which Anthony Coughlan had drafted and attempted to convey as the public message from the Coalisland-Dungannon march, but for which the transmission procedure failed through an unfortunate misunderstanding, between the Dublin WTS people and the NICRA. Fred Heatley mistakenly blocked it, claiming it was an 'Army Council statement'. Box RJ5LH. (I am retaining copies of the latter 2 documents in Box RJ3, in the Cathal Goulding folder b20 above.)

12. Folder containg miscellaneous correspondence relating to local SF work in 1969; this includes the record of the meeting of the Pearse Cumann with George Gilmore and the Rev Ned Watson, the correspondence with Mercy Simms. and also the draft notes for organisers for November 1969, prior to the Ard Fheis on January 1970. Box RJ5LH.

13. Folder with some cuttings and correspondence arising out of the August 1969 crisis, including letters to Bernadette Devlin, Noel Browne and Justin Keating; this material has mostly been abstracted in the 1960s political thread, in its context. Box RJ5LH.

32. Government by Duplicity, a review by RJ of Tom Jones Whitehall Diaries Volume III (on Ireland); this appeared in Atlantis 4, September 1972; box RJ5LH.

33. The New Ireland - Utopian or Scientific? paper by RJ in Atlantis 5, April 1973. I reproduce this in full in the hypertext; it encapsulates the essentials of my vision at the beginning of my post-SF epoch. This vintage issue of a publication edited by Seamus Deane contained papers bt Desmond Greaves, Desmond Fennell, Jack Bennett, JW Foster, WJ McCormack, Lelia Doolan, Ed Walsh and many others; Atlantis was beginning to assume a mantle not unlike that of the Bell and the Irish Statesman; it is a pity if did not survive. Box RJ5LH

47. Folder with political correspondence late 1980s, including a Brendan Clifford review and subsequent correspondence; includes also a 1989 memo on the Gorbachev situation in the USSR. Box RJ5LH.

RJ6LH

14. Folder with some Sinn Fein material circa 1970; includes the Crowe episode, where an aging bachelor farmer was seeking a successor. Box RJ6LH.

16. Miscellaneous cuttings and correspondence etc connected with my resignation from SF in January 1972. Box RJ6LH.

19. Miscellaneous Common Market (Study Group and Defence Campaign) notes from the period 1966 to 1972. Box RJ6LH.

20. A folder with some 1973 Moscow Peace Conference material contains support for some initiatives relating to technology transfer to the third world, treated in the techno-economic stream. It also contains material relating to the political stream, as regards the composition of the group attending the conference, in the context of the republican politicisation process, and the convergence with the Left. Box RJ6LH.

21. Folder containing some CPI material relating to the period 1974-1978, selected papers from which I have reproduced in the 1970s module of the political stream; these relate to partition economics, the 'left alternative' and the 'science and society' question. Box RJ6LH.

22. Folder with material relating to the 'Irish Alternative' meetings which took place in 1977 around Sunningdale-time; this was an attempt to reach out to the IRSP and the Provisionals from the Left, which proved abortive. Box RJ6LH.

23. Folder with Operations Research Society of Ireland material for the period 1977-1980, including conference abstracts and attendances, and some lecture demonstration notes (in a separate folder). Box RJ6LH.

41. Two folders relating to the Constitution Club, which existed in the period 1986-1988, and involved the present writer along with Desmond Fennell, Tom Barrington, Ray Crotty, John Robb and a few others in an attempt to influence public opinion in the direction of Regional Government. One folder collects most if not all of the papers presented, including one by the present writer on the 'Regional Technopole' concept, while the other contains minutes and correspondence. Box RJ6LH.

RJ7LH

7. 'Green Party' folder 1990-1991 includes notes on the use of the Internet, and material on regional policy development. Box RJ7LH.

8. Folder 1992 has some Green policy development papers, and included letters to Roger Garland and then to Trevor Sargent, after the latter's election, attempting to make the case for taking seriously the potential of the Internet. Box RJ7LH.

9. 'Green' folder 1993 has some record of an attempt to introduce the 'social wage' concept into the political currency, both via the Green Party and also via Ruairi Quinn and the Labour Party. Box RJ7LH.

10. There is a 1994 Geen folder containing miscellaneous policy material relating to the European election, including records of an expedition to the West in support of Richard Douthwaite's candidacy. Box RJ7LH.

63. Folder with correspondence between the present writer and leadimg members of the Orange Order, covering the period 1996-1999. The contacts were Henry Reid and Cecil Kilpatrick. I have reproduced some of the outgoing correspondence, but the incoming is handwritten. I later got to review Kilpatrick's popularising biography of William of Orange for Books Ireland, providing an opportunity to link it with Kelleher's 1798 bicenenary offering. Box RJ7LH.

17. Caorthann 1994-95, a fringe Green theoretical publication edited by Laurence Cox, this includes material published by me, in particular a paper on A Green Paradigm for Nationality. Box RJ7LH.

RJ8LH

53. Folder with Campaign for Democracy material 1991-1993, and Robert Lynd School material 1992; also correspondence with Senator Gordon Wilson. It contains also the original of my Irish Times letter dated 11/12/1992 relating John Taylor and the Donegal-Derry question to the opportunities presented by Maastricht. Box RJ8LH.

60. Copy of the 1992 Towards a Lasting Peace in Ireland manifesto published by Sinn Fein, containing 1994 Irish Times letter and related correspondence with Gerry Adams, and a 1996 fax to John Hume. Box RJ8LH.

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