Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles, 1987-1989, some with notation, including "That Ireland Should Reconsider its Membership of the EEC", inaugural debate organised by FLAC, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), 22/01/1987; "That Seanad Éireann notes the Fiftieth Anniversary of Bunreacht na hÉireann", 1987; "Social Reform - An Urgent Priority", 198[7?]; "The Politics of Anti-Poverty", 14/02/1987; "Sex Education - Its Place in Irish Schools", 25/02/1987; "USI Protest on Third Level Education" [USI is Union of Students of Ireland], 09/03/1987; "Tendencies Towards A European Foreign Policy", Florence, Italy at conference on "Structure and Dimensions of European Community Policy", 11-13/06/1987; "Devant La Cour" [Before the Court], L'Avocat et l'Europe [The Lawyer and Europe], Strasbourg, France, 09/10/1987; "Parliament and Foreign Policy Accountability in Ireland", 10th annual conference of Royal Irish Academy, 27/11/1987; "The Constitution and the Courts", article for Irish Times supplement on the Irish Constitution, December 1987; "Legislative Framework for 1992 - Can the System Cope?", ACCA conference, Rosslare, County Wexford, 07-08/10/1988; "This House believes that the Anglo-Irish Agreement offers no long term solution to Ulster's problem's", Cambridge Union Debate, 03/02/1989; text of article for the Independent, [05/1989?]; "Formal Opening of Clanwilliam Institute", 12/06/1989; "Implications of 1992 for Trade Unions and Staff Associations", ICPSA seminar, 22/09/1989; seminar on equality 1989, annual seminar organised by public service executive union, 23/10/1989; address at launch of pamphlet on judicial separation by AIM Group, 18/11/1989.
Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in the 1990s including handwritten inserts and draft of address by MR (while President of Ireland), with notation, given at Brown University to mark 100 years of the university opening its doors to women, and photocopy of final address ("100 Years of Women at Brown - Ogden Lecture") [1991]; text of speech "The Need To Honour Developing Human Rights Commitments", given by MR at Yale Law School, 16/10/1995; loose programme flyers for Herman Phleger Lecture, "Contrasting Constitutional Shifts - Europe and the U.S.", given by MR at Stanford University, 18/10/1995 (see poster for same P143/3/20/1); letter of thanks from Richard Murphy, Faculty of English Language and Literature, Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tulsa", to MR for coming the to the university and giving speech, 29/02/1996, with poem he wrote "Ardilaun" attached.
Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s attendance at events at Academic Institutions, where date was unknown. Consists of text "Douglas Hyde (Duglas de h-Ide) (1860-1949): The Trinity Connection", 19[90s?] and 15 colour photos from event where MR gave talk at University of California, Irvine, Centre for the Study of Democracy, 20[10s?].
Material relating to launches Mary Robinson (MR) addressed at Academic Institutions in 2000, consisting of partial text of address given at launch of London School of Economics Centre for the Study of Human Rights, [2000]; letter to MR from Sara Cantillon, Co-ordinator, the Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin, relating to Equality Studies 10th anniversary report "Education For Transformation" which Mr was launching on 15 December, along with copy of report and flyer for event, 12-15/12/2000.
Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2002 including material relating to MR giving inaugural University of Melbourne Human Rights Lecture, November 2002, including letter of invite from Alan D Gilbert, Vice-Chancellor, 22/04/2002, draft text of address, background material including report "Alternative approaches to asylum seekers: reception and Transitional Processing System", Justice for Asylum Seekers (JAS) Alliance and Detention Reform Working Group submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission inquiry into Child Detention (Australia) 05/2002, "Refugee" Migration Action magazine, 07/2002, table plan and guest list [11?]/2002; text of lecture "Making Human Rights Matter: Eleanor Roosevelt's time has come", given by MR as part of Harvard University Lecture Series on States, Society and the Future of Rights, 30/09/2002; draft programmes and schedules from 8th October 2002-March 2004, relating to series of American Program Bureau (APB) events including visit to Yale, October 2002, and tour of Australia November 2002 with visit to University of Sydney to receive Sydney Peace Prize Foundation, and to University of Melbourne; email correspondence relating to MR's engagement at University of the Pacific, 3rd December, between Patti Mitrushi, APB, and Cecilia Canessa (for MR), 06/11-02/12/2002.
Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2003 including correspondence between Anne-Marie Slaughter and Cecilia Canessa (for MR) regarding visit to Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University in April 2003, for Princeton Colloquium on International Affairs, 24-29/09/2002, and press release and Princeton weekly bulletin relating to MR presenting lecture "From Rhetoric to Reality: Human Rights and Globalization", on 6th February 2003 for Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs [possibly same event and date/plan changed]; material relating to MR delivering Tanner Lecture, Stanford University, 12-14/02/2003 including programme, text of lecture in two parts "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization" and "The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa", email correspondence between MR and Eavan Boland on MR accepting invite to give lecture, 10/01/2002, correspondence between MR and Dr Grethe Peters, Director, Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Utah, with CV and publishing agreement for lecture to be published by University of Utah Press, 10/01-03/02/2003, text of comments by Larry Diamond on MR's lecture, 14/02/2003 and from Susan Okin, with cover email, and paper by Okin “Poverty, Well-being and Gender: What Counts?, Who’s Heard?”, 14/02/2003, and three copies of MR’s lecture as reported by CL Blake for Niccoli Reporting; photocopy of fax from John K Roth, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of the holocaust, Genocide and Human rights, Claremont McKenna College, California, to MR thanking her for Spring visit, 21/04/2003; material relating to MR delivering the 5th annual Grotius Lecture, "Shaping Globalization: The Role of Human Rights", at American University Washington DC, 2nd April, 2003, including text of lecture, letter of thanks from Daniel D Bradlow, Professor of Law and Director, International Legal Studies Program, 09/04/2003, correspondence between MR and Edra London, Proceedings Production Editor, American Society of International Law (ASIL), in relation to MR's lecture being published in 2003 ASIL Proceedings, 23/09-29/10/2003, and photocopy of its published version, 27/11/2002-29/10/2003; material relating to Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) general conference, 31/08-04/09/2003, Queens University Belfast (QUB), including conference programme, opening ceremony programme, photocopy of conference abstracts and list of delegates, letter from Sir George Bain, Vice-Chancellor, QUB, inviting MR to give keynote address, with reply from MR with handwritten draft, 23/01-20/02/2003 and regarding text of keynote speech, 19/03-29/08/2003, letter from Chris Hogwood, ACU Press Office regarding press for event, 09/05/2003, correspondence between Dorothy Garland, Director of External Relations and Deputy Secretary General ACU, Nicola Skelly, Assistant Secretary, Vice-Chancellor's Office, QUB and Mary Baylis, personal assistant to MR, regarding logistics for event, 11/07-29/08/2003, press release for conference, 04/08/2003,and text of MR's address "Who is your community in a globalizing world?", 01/09/2003; correspondence between Patti Mitrushi, APB [American Program Bureau] and MR relating to MR giving President's Distinguished Lecture, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 25/08-05/09/2003; correspondence relating to MR delivering Will Judy Lecture, on 23rd September, at Juniata College, Huntington, Pennsylvania, from Dr James M Skelly, Senior Fellow, Juniata College, to MR, 28/01/2003, and between Patti Mitrushi, Mary Baylis, and James [Jim] Tuten, Assistant Provost, 14/01-16/09/2003; material relating to “The Future of Globalization – Explorations in Light of Recent Turbulence” conference, Yale University, 10-11 October, including fax and email from Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for Study of Globalization, Yale University regarding MR’s acceptance of invite, 30/05-19/06/2003, conference programme and preliminary programme, draft text of MR’s opening remarks “Globalization and the future of human rights”, and paper by participant Jagdish Bhagwati “A False Alarm, Why globalization HAS a Human Face & How to Make it Work Better”; material relating to lecture given by MR at McGill University, 18 October at alumni event, including correspondence from Martha Crago, Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies with flight details, 14/10/2003, and correspondence between Barbara E Whiston, Assistant to the Dean in relation to payment of honorarium, 18/09-18/11/2003; material relating to MR giving the Deneke Lecture, on 24th October, Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), Oxford, including correspondence between Angela Gustafsson, Development Officer, LMH, and MR’s colleagues at EGI, Scott Jerbi [Senior Advisor] and Mary Baylis [Personal Assistant], 28-31/07/2003, letter to MR from Dr Frances Lannon, Principal, LMH querying who MR wanted to invite, 05/09/2003, draft of MR’s lecture “Reflection on Cancun: making trade work for human rights”, and correspondence from Brian Cronin, American Program Bureau, regarding the honorarium for this engagement and another at Vermillion, South Dakota, 17/04/2003; material relating to MR delivering Silver lecture, at School of International and Public Affairs, on 28 October 2003, including faxed invite from Lisa Anderson, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 16/06/2003, text of lecture "Ethical Globalization: Connecting Human rights, Human Development and human Security", list of previous Gabriel Silver Lecturers, and text of remarks by Douglas Daft (previous Silver lecturer), 30th April 2003; material relating to MR delivering keynote speech at "Globalization with a Human Face" conference jointly organized by William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey and John Jay College, CUNY, including letter of invite from Prof Basil Wilson, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, JJC to MR and her response, 11-18/06/2003 and correspondence between Arnold Speert, President, William Paterson University, and MR, confirming her participation, 01/10/2003; APB event itinerary for talk at Olivet College on 12th November, and correspondence between Alan Nagy, Olivet College, Patti Mitrushi and Mary Baylis, 06-11/11/2003; copy of "Emma Lazarus Lecture on International Flows of Humanity", at Columbia University, 21/11/2003, given by unknown speaker; material relating to lecture given by MR "Towards an Ethical Globalization - Meeting the challenges of an interconnected and divided world", for International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) in cooperation with Prof Georgio Malinverni, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, on 26 November, including correspondence between MR, her colleagues in EGI and Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights Scott Jerbi, Cecilia Canessa, and Dr Mahmoud Mohamedou, Research Director, ICHRP in relation to invite and logistics, 18/08-20/10/2003, and email from Elena Ippoliti who had missed lecture, 26/11/2003; material relating to MR speaking as the Emory University Institute for Women's Studies Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecturer on 3rd December, including correspondence between MR, Rosalynn Carter, Carter's assistant Melissa Montgomery, Berky D Abreu, Office Manager, Emory University Department of Women's Studies, MR's personal assistant Mary Baylis, and Scott Jerbi [Senior Advisor to MR, possibly colleague at EGI], 26/03/2002-02/12/2003.
Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2004. It includes material relating to MR giving Sadat Lecture for Peace, at University of Maryland (UMD), 17th March 2004, consisting of invite from Dr Jehan Sadat, and response from MR, 04-17/09/2004, further correspondence concerning logistics and thanking MR for accepting invite from CD Mote Jr, President, UMD, Aysha Ismail, Co-ordinator, Sadat chair for Peace and Development, Sapienza Barone, assistant to Mote, and Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, 29/10/2003-16/03/2004, text of MR's lecture "The Journey to Peace: Finding ourselves in the other", programme for MR's lecture, and booklets of previous lectures from President Ezer Weizman [of Israel], 1997, Former President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, 2001 and Kofi Annan, Secretary General United Nations, 2002; material relating to MR giving address at Paul O'Dwyer Forum on Ethics and Politics, George Washington University (GWU), Washington DC, on 17th March including invite from Brian O'Dwyer, O'Dwyer and Bernstein LLP, and response from MR 14-27/08/2003, further correspondence concerning logistics and programming to MR and her personal assistant Mary Bayliss, from Dean Christopher Arterton, Richard Virgin, Chief Advancement Officer, GWU, 21/10/2003-11/03/2004, background material on Paul O'Dwyer, correspondence relating to request for interview between Baylis and Rebecca Weber, 01-04/03/2004, photocopy of invite from Irish Ambassador Noel Fahey to Mary and Nick Robinson to lunch on 18th March, official programme, draft address, and background material on GWU's Graduate School of Political Management, including small business card-shaped [shared] compact disc; programme for "A Conversation with Mary Robinson", Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, [Connecticut], 4th April, 2004; material relating to MR giving te Richard S Levitt Distinguished Lecture, at University of Iowa (UI), 16th April 2004, including programme, and folder of letters of thanks from school pupils, ages 10-12 years, at Hoover School, Iowa City, and from their teacher Marlene M Johnson, all of whom attended the lecture, 14-16/04/2004; draft text of John Kevany Memorial Lecture "Global Health - the Challenges", given by MR at Irish Forum for Global Health inaugural conference, Trinity School of Nursing & Midwifery Studies, [Trinity College Dublin], 7th July 2004, and certificate of attendance; printed email from Macdara Doyle, Concern Communications Unit, concerning press release they were issuing announcing MR's participation at Bangkok AIDS conference, 07/07/2004; material relating to MR delivering William W Bishop Lecture in International Law, at University of Michigan Law School, on 21 October consisting of letter of invite from Evan H Caminker, Dean and Professor of Law, with response from May Baylis, personal assistant to MR, 21/01-04/03/2004, and correspondence from Virginia Gordon, Assistant Dean of International Programs, concerning the payment of honorarium, 07/12/2004.
Material also includes letter from James Tuten, Assistant Provost, Juniata College, with transcript of MR's address on 23 September 2003, for approval for publication in their in-house journal Juniata Voices, 03/03/2004; print out of letter of invite to MR to be speaker at new Joan B Kroc distinguished Lecture series, at Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego, Spring/Autumn 2004, 22/09/2003; from Joyce Neu, Executive Director, letter of invite to MR from Thomas J Nolan, Nolan, Armstrong & Barton LLP, Palo Alto, California, to give Tobriner lecture at Hastings College of Law in October 2004, 01/12/2003.
Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2005. It includes material relating to MR's participation at 17th Annual Nobel Peace Prize forum, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, on 11th February, including event itinerary, letter from Cheryl A Maloney, which included a photograph of Maloney with MR, 11/02/2005, and letter of thanks from William V Frame, President, Augsburg College, 04/03/2005; material relating to MR's participation in Compelling Conversations speaker series, at Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC), 15 March 2005 such as flyers, letter to MR from Governor of Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, inviting her to visit during her stay, 09/03/2005, correspondence from Patti Mitrushi, American Program Bureau (APM) to Mary Bayliss, personal assistant to MR, concerning logistics, 13/03/2005, programme, and letter of thanks from Mary L Fifield, President BHCC, 30/03/2005; itinerary for MR's lecture at Old School Square Crest Lecture Guild, 17/03/2005, from Mitrushi to Mary Baylis, 13/03/2005; event itinerary, cue book and background material regarding MR's talk at University of California, Riverside Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series, 01/04/2005; material relating to MR's lecture "Human rights and Ethical globalization" as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego, on 31 March 2005, including correspondence between Mitrushi and Baylis regarding booking and logistics, 03/02-30/03/2005, invite and programme, promotional material and background material relating to the series and the Institute, 15/10/2003-31/03/2005; material relating to MR's participation in University of California, Riverside Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series "Imagining the Future", including programme, flyer, background material and correspondence between Mitrushi and Baylis, 14-18/03/2005; material relating to MR's delivery of 9th Annual Smyth Leadership Lecture, at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, 28/09/2005, including event itinerary, promotional material and biography for MR; material relating to talk MR gave as guest speaker at 25th anniversary event for International College Spain, on 30 September 2005, including itinerary, and background material relating to the college; programme for 2005 Rubin Lecture, Columbia Law School, presented by the Samuel Rubin Program for Liberty and Equality through the Law, on 10th October 2005.
Material relating to two lectures Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2006: University of Ghana, 07-09/03/2006, and International IIED [Institute for Environment and Development], London, England, 11/12/2006. Material includes programme for Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures 2006, University of Ghana, background material, text of MR's lecture number 2 "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization", and for speech "Health in Ghana", and correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis, personal assistant to MR, Scott Jerbi, Senior Advisor to MR, and Prof Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana, 23/09/2002-18/01/2006, and promotional flyer and press release for Barbara Ward Lecture on "Climate change and Justice, IIED, 11/12/2006.
Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2007. It includes printed email from Patti Mirtushi, APB [American Program Bureau] giving list of dates of talks for 2007, 02/11/2006; material relating to MR's talk at International University of Geneva (IUG)'s 10th anniversary ceremony, 13th May including invite and thank you letter from Mr Eric Willumsen, IUG President, email correspondence between MR and Nicholas Howen, Secretary-General, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) regarding meeting for dinner during visit, text of speech by John G Ruggie at Harvard University and United Nations Washington, 7th May 2007, email correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis, [MR's personal assistant] and Dr Claude Martin, IUG Chancellor regarding invite and logistics, email correspondence between Heather Grady [Managing Director, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative], Scott Jerbi [Senior Advisor to MR], MR and Leah Hoctor (ICJ) regarding content of MR's speech and link with Global Compact ICJ report, and press release on IUG's 10th anniversary, 02/02-31/05/2007;material relating to lecture by MR "Human Rights in a global World", at Transylvania University (TU), 2nd October, including itineraries, flyers, handwritten notes and draft speech, background material on TU and email regarding logistics from Mitrushi to MR, 14/08/2007 (see also P143/3/20/4); material relating to MR's four-day residence as Montgomery Fellow and her Montgomery Fellow lecture "Making Human Rights the Compass", at Dartmouth College, including correspondence from Bruce Nelson, Professor of History, background information on Nelson's Irish History course, on Dartmouth College and on people of importance, text of MR's speech, press and programme for event, thank you card and email from Susan Wright, Director [Montgomery Fellow Program?], and Matthew J Slaughter, Tuck School of Business, DC, 06-19/10/2007; material relating to MR's talk at American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) while accepting honorary fellowship, on 13th October, including correspondence between MR and Michael A Cooper, President, ACTL, regarding the awarding of the fellowship and invite to speak, correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis, Dennis J Maggi, Executive Director, ACTL and Peggy Lamberton, Meetings and Conference Manager, ACTL regarding logistics, correspondence from Ozzie Ayscue, Chair of Editorial board of ACTL's periodic publication to members regarding hem seeking permission to publish MR's address, with transcript of address, text of address given by MR at International rule of Law Symposium 16 September 2006 with notation, used as basis for ACTL address, background material on ACTL such as 2007 annual report and President's report, 2007, 11/05/2006-14/11/2007; material relating to MR giving keynote address at international conference "Race, Immigration and Cultural diversity in Ireland", University of Notre Dame (UND), on 14th October including background material on UND, conference programme and correspondence between MR Christopher Fox, Professor and Director, Keough Institute for Irish Studies, UND, Beth Bland of same institute, and Mitrushi and Andrew Walker, APB, 2004-14/10/2007.