ID13815
CollectionEphemera
Reference
Description

Archival box 1 Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement, 1980 to 1988 (from Lynda Edgerton).
Plastic folder containing:
Leaflet, 'Women's racism awareness group', 1994.

Various leaflets about the visit of Vinie Burrows to Belfast, 1994, typescript, 'Report from the Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement, seminar held in '84'.

Folder marked '1982, NI women's rights' contains posters relating to International women's day, leaflets about the women's centre, posters on the 'Violence against Women' rally, 1982.

Typescript, 'Development in the women's movement in N Ireland'.

'Women-rite', a newsletter of the women's movement in Northern Ireland.

Typescript about the women's centre, typescript 'Secretary's report, 1982 AGM'.

Typescript, Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement meeting of the management committee, April 1982, minutes for May 1982.

Typescript 'The women's centre, report 1982'.

Folder, marked 'NI women's rights, 1983', includes a number of copies of 'Press statement from the NIWRM, March 1983'.

Folder marked NIWRM, 1980 includes, circular letter 'Unity Meeting', 1980, typescript, 'Sex education and human relationships-some problems', by Lynda Edgerton, 1981, manuscript minutes of meetings, large number of flyers about international women's day, March 1980, typescript 'Problems of women in Northern Ireland statement by the NIWRM', circular letter about the Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement, 1980, typescript, 'Area Education/Rights Centre, Cork "Women at Home", typescript 'meeting of a group interested in producing a women's paper', typescript, 'Police and army brutality against women' by the Belfast Women's Collective. A number of copies of the minutes of the executive committee of the Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement.
Folder, marked NI women's rights, 1981 includes typescript, Rape Crisis Centre meeting February 1981, typescript minutes of meetings on the 'Abortion campaign', financial affairs of the Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement, 1981.

Folder marked NIWRM, '88 includes financial account of the Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement, 1982, typescript about 'Resolution for the women's rights AGM, women's rights movement says Maggie think again!'.

Folder marked NIWRM, 1988 includes, minutes, manuscript and typescript of Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement, typescript newsletter of the 'Irish Women's Right to Choose campaign'.

AccessWhile generally access to material is open to researchers there may be restrictions on some collections.
Date1980-1988
Century20th
Keywords
Repository NameLinen Hall Library
Address17 Donegall Square North Belfast
UK Postal CodeBT1 5GB
Telephone+44 28-9032-1707
Email Addressinfo@linenhall.com
Repository Web Addresshttps://linenhall.com/
Repository Web Address 2https://extraordinarywomenni.com/
CommentSome of the information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists prepared by Dr Eoin Magennis and we are grateful for his assistance. Where partial or no lists were available staff of the Women's History Project constructed an outline list. It must be remembered that due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually. Many of the items held by the Linen Hall have been digitised and are available online through the Extraordinary Women NI Project.
latitude54.59761
longitude-5.93171