Barbara Pryor Collection of Northern Ireland Ephemera and Publications
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Barbara Pryor is a former member of the Belfast H-Block Committee, and helped produce publications advocating for the rights of political prisoners in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s. The Barbara Pryor Collection of Northern Ireland Ephemera and Publications (dated 1922-1999) consists of ephemera and publications collected by Pryor documenting her engagement with social movements and political action in Northern Ireland in the late 20th century. Major topics include Irish republicanism, anti-British imperialism, socialism, feminism, prisoners' rights, and anti-nuclear activism. The majority of the materials in this collection document activities in or near Belfast, but also include materials produced in Ireland and the United States. The 1981 hunger strikes by Irish republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison and the Armagh Women's Prison are heavily documented. The collection demonstrates varied viewpoints of republican activism, including physical force republicanism, nonviolent advocacy, and legislative compromise.
Biographical Note
Barbara Pryor is a former member of the Belfast H-Block Committee, and helped produce publications advocating for the rights of political prisoners in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The Barbara Pryor Collection of Northern Ireland Ephemera and Publications (dated 1922-1999) consists of ephemera and publications collected by Pryor documenting her engagement with social movements and political action in Northern Ireland in the late 20th century. Major topics include Irish republicanism, anti-British imperialism, socialism, feminism, prisoners' rights, and anti-nuclear activism. The majority of the materials in this collection document activities in or near Belfast, but also include materials produced in Ireland and the United States. The 1981 hunger strikes by Irish republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison and the Armagh Women's Prison are heavily documented. The collection demonstrates varied viewpoints of republican activism, including physical force republicanism, nonviolent advocacy, and legislative compromise.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. Repository is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Barbara Pryor Collection of Northern Ireland Ephemera and Publications; AIA 091; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Barbara Pryor in October 2021; the accession number associated with this gift is 2023.102.
Appraisal
Publications already represented in the Tamiment Library collections were appraised out of the collection and returned to the donor.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials were rehoused in archival boxes and folders, maintaining the original order. The inventory supplied by the donor was re-purposed to create a folder-level inventory.
