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Material relating to President Mary Robinson (MR)'s second address to the Houses of the Oireachtas on 2nd February 1995, "on a matter of national importance: Cherishing the Irish Diaspora", including correspondence, background material, drafts and final text.

Material includes memos regarding, agendas for and minutes of two meetings with the Council of State for the purpose of allowing MR to outline her proposal to address the Houses of the Oireachtas (24/01/1994), and to address them on the stated topic "Cherishing the Diaspora" (24/01/1995), 24/01/1994-24/01/1995; photocopy of draft motion in relation to joint sitting [of both Dáil and Seanad], with handwritten notes on need for motion to be passed in both Dáil and Seanad the following week, 26/01/1995; faxed memo from Department of the Taoiseach on protocol for visit of MR to Leinster House to address Houses of the Oireachtas, 26/01/1995; photocopy of letter from Frank Murray, Secretary to the Government, Department of the Taoiseach, to [Peter Ryan], Secretary to the President, informing him that Government had approved draft text of address MR proposed to deliver, 31/01/1995; copies of address in various forms including in large type for ease of presentation, and as downloaded from Media Library, Áras an Uachtaráin website; correspondence prior to and following MR's address including from Wesley Boyd, Director of Broadcasting Developments, RTÉ [Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's national public service broadcaster], suggesting that in preparing her address MR should note services RTÉ provided for Irish people living and working abroad, 23/01/1995, fax from MR's brother and sister-in-law Adrian and Ruth Bourke, congratulating MR on her speech, telephone message from British Ambassador expressing his regrets for not being able to attend, and from Niall Crowley, thanking MR for invite to address, 03/02/1995; copies of the Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 104th Congress, First Session, Senate, Washington, 27/02/1995 in which her address was introduced and entered into the record by Senator Edward Kennedy; various drafts and background material relating to MR's address, including letter from Luke Dodd, Stokestown Park Famine Museum, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, to MR 09/01/1995.

Ref: P143/4/11/6/2

Material relating to "Tolerance", an address by President Mary Robinson (MR) at NEXUS Ireland and UN50 Anniversary Dinner, Dublin Castle, 22/12/1995 including text of address and various drafts with notation; background material on NEXUS Ireland, an initiative of the Youth Board of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland; programme for "Freedom of Religion and Belief and The UN Year for Tolerance" conference in The Barbican Centre, City of London, September, which has quotes on Tolerance from many including MR; other background material including pamphlet from Island Pamphlets, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland on Shankill Think Tank, 1995, articles by Fintan O'Toole "Toppling The Dreary Steeples: 25 Years of Change in Ireland", Dr Garret FitzGerald, T.D. [and former Taoiseach], "Thoughts on Two Cultures: Learning to Live Together", Annual Memorial Lecture, 25/02/1988, Tess Hurson, "Picasso in Portadown: The Changing Faces of Rural Arts", presented to Irish Association Annual Conference, 10/1995, Gabriel Daly "Religion on the Defensive" and "Irish Catholicism - A Monolith?", and Máire Mac Aongusa, "The Alienation of Irish Travellers From the Educational System", 199[3-5?].

Ref: P143/4/11/6/3

Texts, photocopies of texts and drafts of addresses made by President Mary Robinson at various events, 1996, including "New Challenges to Leadership", keynote address at Stockholm, [Women Leaders event?], 06/05/1996; "Humanitarian Crises: Prevention, Response aid [and?] Rehabilitation", The National Forum on Development Aid, Dublin Castle, 09/07/1996, and draft sent to Government for consideration; opening of Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, 01/10/1996; "Civil Society: Renewal at Work", Rede Lecture given by MR, Cambridge University, England, 02/12/1996; "Humanitarian Crises: Prevention, Response and Rehabilitation", to English Speaking Union, (Churchill 1996 lecture), 03/12/1996.

Ref: P143/4/11/7

Note of contact addresses for Rev. Ray Helmick, S.J., New York and R. Hauser, London.

This subseries consists of material relating to talks, addresses, lectures and other events Mary Robinson (MR) spoke at, which related to her work with academic institutions, and/or took place on the "university circuit", most of which were organised by the American Program Bureau (APB). It is arranged chronologically across 27 files and themes covered include those relating to her work with the United Nations (P143/5), Realizing Rights - The Ethical Globalization Initiative (P143/6), The Elders (P143/7) and The Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice (P143/8), as well as her work as barrister and legislator (P143/1).

From the Divisional Adjutant Peadar O' Loghlen (spelt Loghlin) to the A/General detailing an attempted attack by Free State forces on Republican forces quartered at Edenvale House. Attackers numbered thirty to forty and were armed with a machine gun on 22/7/22 in response to an attack by Republican forces on the Free State forces in Ballinasloe on 19/7/22.

Report from Peadar O' Loghlen Divisional Adjutant 1st Western Division to A/General from 10 a.m. 19/7/22 to 12 a.m. on the night 20/21st. Movement and locations of Free State forces in the Limerick/Nenagh area.

Records from the administration and management of Music for Galway, including Articles of Association and Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Music for Galway

A4 and shorthand spiral notebooks with manuscript notes and writings by Macnas staff regarding detail of event production, costume requirements, set construction, staff meetings, sketches and drawings of characters, logistical information on productions during the period.

The main purpose of the Administration Building was for the offices of the Exposition's departmental members. The architect was Arthur Page Brown, and his design featured Byzantine and Gothic styles.