Kevin Boyle

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1943 – 2010

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Who was Kevin Boyle?

Christopher Kevin Boyle was a Northern Ireland-born human rights activist, barrister and educator. He was among the first in the academic law community to engage in human rights activism.

Born and brought up in Newry, Boyle studied law at Queen's University Belfast. He was a lecturer in law at Queen's when he took part in the 1969 People's Democracy march from Belfast to Derry which was attacked by loyalists at Burntollet. He was later involved in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. Boyle's brother, Louis Boyle, also an alumnus of Queen's, was at the time active as a Catholic Unionist, and unsuccessfully sought to be the Unionist and Conservative candidate for South Down in the 1969 Stormont elections.

In the 1970s Boyle took up a post at University College, Galway. He became dean of the Faculty of Law in 1978, and in 1980 established the UCG human rights centre. In the 1980s he helped to develop the Essex Human Rights Law Centre, founded by Professor Malcolm Shaw, at the University of Essex in Colchester, England.

Boyle was involved in several missions on behalf of Amnesty International in the 1980s.

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Born
May 23, 1943
Newry
Also known as
  • Christopher Kevin Boyle
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Queen's University Belfast
Died
Dec 25, 2010

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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