Study lib. Upload document Create flashcards. Flashcards Collections. Documents Last activity. Add to Add to collection s Add to saved. Down in Boyle attended primary school at St. At this time, Boyle returned to Belfast where he became a member of faculty at the Department of Law at Queen's University.
At this time in Belfast of the late s, the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and Boyle would find himself at the centre of the movement and its energy.
These times were formative to Boyle developing a keen understanding of peaceful and democratic means of attaining equality and justice for those discriminated against in the North and internationally. Boyle was one of the marchers on the Civil Rights March from Belfast to Derry on 1 January which came under abuse and attack at various points along the March until tensions escalated on 4 January at Burntullot Bridge where the marchers came under further attack from Loyalists.
Key documents in the series of records relating to the Civil Rights period in Northern Ireland includes minutes of meeting of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and of the group 'People's Democracy' as well as regional civil rights groups across Northern Ireland.
Letters between Boyle and various others involved in the movement offer a new and engaging insight into emotions, tensions and experiences in Northern Ireland from the late s and onwards through the s. In an account of his time in America, Boyle would write of his experiences of racism and discrimination of Black communities in the United States as well as the role of policing.
