Typed draft of an address on Muintir na Tíre given by Father Hayes in Wexford [see also P134/12/1/2/10/23]. Father Hayes laments the rural economic depression in Ireland, and notes that it exists in England as well. Father Hayes also laments the lack of marriage in rural Ireland which he claims is due to lack of wealth, and condemns the 'propaganda' that has led young Irish people to leave for the cities. Hayes notes that the Minister for Agriculture, James Ryan, is in attendance, but it would take 'a miracle worker to use the present accepted economic position to bring satisfying and permanent relief to Agriculture.' Hayes also congratulates the attendees on their new bishop (James Staunton, Bishop of Ferns, appointed 10 December 1938) and mentions that the 1939 Rural Week will take place in Galway. Includes annotations and corrections.
Typed copies and drafts of keynote speeches and contributions by Senator Mary Robinson (MR), 1973-1987, at various conferences and events which related to women, equality, and the law. They include "Equality for Women", contribution on discussion paper of ITGWU [Irish Trade and General Workers' Union] at annual delegate conference, 29/05/1980; summary of contribution by MR "the Contribution of Women Graduates to society", at meeting of Dublin University Women Graduates, Trinity College Dublin, 04/11/1980; summary of contribution by MR "Young Women and Employment", European Youth Forum, 03/12/1980; statement on annual report of Employment Equality Agency, 05/01/1982; summary of contribution by MR "Women in Europe - the Socialist Approach", Mansion House, Dublin, 23/03/1984 and public meeting in support of Michael D Higgins, Atlanta Hotel, Galway, 09/06/1984; 10th Countess Markievicz Memorial Lecture, "Women, Work and Equality", 198[5?]; summary of speech "Labour Women in Dublin", given by MR at Labour press conference, 09/06/1985; summary of contribution by MR, "Women and Parliament", Merriman Summer School, 24/08/1985; summary and drafts of keynote speech by MR, "Women and the Law in Ireland" at seminar organised by UCD Women's Studies forum, 02/05/1986, another version of same speech given at Women's Worlds Conference, 01/07/1987 and correspondence between MR and Ailbhe Smyth, WERRC [Women's Education Research Resource Centre], University College Dublin in relation to a copy of speech being published in a Reader of Irish Women's Studies, 30/12/1992-11/01/1993; typed document "Women and 1992" and outline of lecture by MR "Equal Pay and Equal treatment - Analysis of Recent case Law of ECJ [European Court of Justice] and National Courts, 19[8?].
Typed texts and drafts of addresses given by Mary Robinson (MR) in her role as Senator, arranged chronologically across nine files. Many of these addresses touched on legal and legislative topics and overlap with P143/1 as a result. The final file in this section consists of copies of all six of MR's election addresses as Senatorial candidate from 1969-1987.
Texts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles 1972-1973, including "Opportunities for Young People - Male and Female" for Women's Council Newsletter, 197[?]; “The Political Implications of the Vedel Report ", 197[?] and "Vedel and After… The Institutional Problems of the Enlarged Community", 27/10/1972; "The Irish European Communities Act, 1972", 197[?];"The Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act, 1972, Incorporated Law Society Gazette, 02/1973; "Ireland and the European Community", 1973; "Not in God's Image", edited by Julia Ó Faoláin and Lauro Martines, reviewed by MR, 03/04/1973; "The Problem For Ireland In Formulating A Defence Policy", 03/04/1973;"Europe - the Triumph of Bureaucracy", for Irish Times, 24/05/1973; "Irish Parliamentary Scrutiny of European Community Legislation", 197[?]; "Irish Constitutional Problems in Ratifying EEC Convention", for "Melanges Fernard Dehousse", 197[?]; "Common Law Developments in Europe", 197[?]; "Re Irish European Communities Act 1972", 11/1973; "The role of the Irish Parliament", note by MR for European Parliament symposium on European integration and the future of parliaments in Europe, 197[?]; Also includes "Legal and Constitutional Implications For Ireland of Adhesion to the EEC Treaty", John Temple Lang, 05/1972.
Texts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles 1974-1976, some with notation, including "The role of the Irish Parliament", Spring 1974; "The Special Criminal Court", 16/05/1974; "Abuse of the Special Criminal Court", 02/12/1974;"Some Reflections on Personal Liberty and the Constitution", 27/02/1975; "Law as an Instrument of Social Change", 21/10/1975; "that the Senate is an Unnecessary Extravagance", 06/1/1975; "The Regional Policy of the EEC - Implication for Ireland", 03/1976; "WB Yeats, The Senator", (incomplete) speech to open 17th Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, 08/08/1976.
Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles 1977-1978, some with notation, including "The State Shall Not Legislate for Private Morality", Trinity College [Dublin, (TCD)] Historical Society, 02/02/1977; "The Effect of European Social Legislation on Ireland", Law Students' annual conference, TCD, 11/02/1977; "Further Extension of the European Community - Political Implications", 197[?]; "Irish Fishing in the EEC - The Real Emergency", 197[?]; "That a Woman's Self Realisation is thwarted in a Capitalist Society", at UCG [University College Galway, now University of Galway] branch Labour party meeting, 10/02/1978; "Status of Aliens and Right to Vote at Municipal Elections in Ireland", Irish report for colloquium in Louvain, Belgium, 28/02/1978; "The European Communities and the ECHR", 197[?]; correspondence for, drafts, proofs and final text (photocopied) of "Preparations in Ireland for Direct Elections to the European Parliament", Common Market Law Review, 10/05/1977-11/04/1978; "Opportunities for Young People - Male and Female", 07/11/1978, at meeting organised by Labour Party Constituency Council, Rathmines West, Dublin; "European Commission for Low Energy Working Group", 11/1978; correspondence for and texts and drafts of "Irish Parliamentary Scrutiny of European Community Legislation", Common Market Law Review, 10/05/1977-22/12/1978.
Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles, 1979, some with notation, including "For a Europe Active in the Service of Peace in the World", 10th Congress of the Confederation of the Socialist Parties of The European Community", 12/01/1979; "That the Law is the Preserve of the Rich", 07/02/1979; "Senator Mary Robinson argues that the Senate could be transformed if there was simply the political will to do so"; 197[?]; "Strategy for a Living City", 10/05/1979; "AGM of the Old Men's Home", 02/05/1979; "Traffic in Dublin - The Southern Cross Ring Road", at meeting organised by Dodder Residents' Association, Rathfarnham, Dublin, 02/05/1979; "Belgrade Square Residents Association", 22/05/1979;"Churchtown Residents Association", 28/05/1979; "the Jury system in Ireland", 197[?]; "In Favour of an Energy-efficient Society", 06/1979; "Family Law Reform and Access to remedies", public meeting organised by Clontarf Constituency Council, Labour Party, 18/07/1979;"Bail Explained", article for "Labour", 197[?]; "Deeds of trust for Community Schools - A New Discrimination?", 26/09/1979; "Urban Legal Studies", 197[?]; "Public Order and Emergency Legislation (Reply to Paper by Dr Paul O'Higgins)", 197[?]; "Interview with Senator Mary Robinson by Brian D'Arcy, C.P.", 197[?]; "The Role of Parliament and European Integration", paper outline for symposium, 197[?]; 7th International Congress for European Law, "The Individual and European Law", Commission 3, (MR as Rapporteur), 197[?]; "the Role of The Irish Parliament", symposium on European Integration and Parliaments in Europe, 197[?]; "the Influence of US Federal Supreme Court Decisions on the Development of Constitutional Law in Ireland", 197[?].
Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles, 1980-1982, some with notation, including "A Sense of Ireland", 198[?]; "The Single Parent Family", 198[?]; "IS Marriage threatened by Abolishing Status of Illegitimacy", 198[?]; "the Oireachtas in the 80s", summary of contribution by MR to conference on "Parliament in Crisis - A European Perspective", 18/01/1980; "Housing and Land: The Constitutional Issue", Labour: Action on Housing event, 24/02/1980; "The Protection of Human Rights in the Republic of Ireland", Belfast, 18/04/1980; "the government's Scheme of Civil Legal Aid and Advice", 26/04/1980;"Irish Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights", 02/05/1980; "The Single Parent Family", AGM of Medical Union, 16/10/1980; "Young Women and Employment - workshop on accumulation of social handicaps", European Youth Forum, Brussels, 03/12/1980; "Law in Morality in Ireland", Bedford College, London, 10/12/1980; summary of speech to one-parent family group, Clonsilla, Dublin, 05/02/1981; "Ireland Plus Thirty - A Political Perspective", 08/07/1981; "The Senate's Legal Powers", WPA meeting, 23/09/1981; "Law and Conscience - A Conflict of Laws?", 198[?]; "the Brandt Report: Implications for Ireland", 09/02/1982; "Legal Education - Public Injustice", students' union meeting, Trinity College Dublin, 10/03/1982; opening address at seminar on health hazards and safety in the environment, Labour Women's Council, 03/04/1982; "Social Reform - A New Legislative Approach", 26/04/1982; comment on "Survey of Arklow's People's Knowledge of, and Attitude Towards Family Matters 1981/82", 13/05/1982; "Our Bluff Called", 07/09/1982.
Material including correspondence, itineraries, receipts and programmes, relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 1980s, including that concerning talk "Ireland and the Communities - after the honeymoon period", given at Centre of European Governmental Studies, University of Edinburgh, 12/12/1980, with correspondence between MR and Prof John DB Mitchell, and later between MR and John MacPherson, Deputy Secretary, University of Edinburgh, on sudden passing of Mitchell, 10/10-31/12/1980; correspondence between MR and Claire O Jackson, College Theological Society, Trinity College Dublin relating to talk "Law and Conscience", given by MR to the society, 23 November 1981 and copy of Jackson's own paper "Law and Conscience - A Conflict of Laws", 22/09-26/11/1981; correspondence between MR, Mary Kirwan, Secretary, Dublin University Law Society inviting MR to participate in opening meeting on 19 October, and same between MR and Angela Foyle, Hon Secretary, 22/06-05/08/1982; correspondence concerning MR chairing David Coombes Inaugural Lecture, National Institute of Higher Education, Limerick (NIHEL) [now University of Limerick] from Coombes, and from Paddy Doran, Dean, College of Humanities and Edward M Walsh, President NIHEL, 12/12/1982-24/01/1983; material concerning talk MR gave at Alexandra College exhibition on Non-Traditional Careers for Girls, at the RDS [Royal Dublin Society], April 1985, [22/04?]-10/05/1985; material concerning talk "Women and Parliament" given by MR at Merriman Summer School Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, 09-24/08/1985; correspondence concerning talk on "Family Law" MR was giving to Dublin University Women Graduates Association on 4 Feb 1986, from Marion Barrett, Hon Secretary, Gerry Watts and Amy Phillips, 17/12/1985-14/02/1986; material concerning talk MR gave "Irish Women and Ireland's Laws in the European Context" at "Women in Contemporary Ireland" conference at Center for Irish studies, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, April 1986, 06/12/1985-14/11/1986; correspondence and maps relating to speech MR gave as Guest speaker at Trinity College Dublin Association annual dinner, in Royal Portrush golf club, county Antrim, Northern Ireland, on 25 April 2986, 18/12/1985-27/04/1986; and material concerning keynote speech MR gave at "Women and Law in Ireland" seminar organised by University College Dublin Women's Studies Forum, May 1986, including letter of thanks from Ailbhe [Smyth] 11/03-03/05/1986.
Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles, 1984-1986, some with notation, including "The Strasbourg Connection", 198[?]; "That our Written Constitutional has served us well", debate in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), 24/10/1984; "The Mechanics of Law Reform", public lecture in series on Law and social policy by Law School Staff, TCD, 29/11/1984; "Legislative Change - Too Many Bottlenecks", Law Students' Congress, UCC [University College cork], 01/02/1985; draft of interview for New Labour & Ireland, 03/1985; "One-parent Families - the Need For an Integrated Approach", Cherish conference, 26/04/1986; "The single European Act: Has the correct Constitutional Procedure Been Followed?", article for Irish Times, 198[?]; "Family Law in Ireland", 18th Triennial Conference of the Associated Countrywomen of the World, Killarney, 27/05/1986; "Liberty and Society", University College Dublin, 28/11/1986; "Judicial Protection of Freedom of Expression in the Other Common Law Countries: United Kingdom and Ireland", 198[?].