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Correspondence relating to the Irish language including in relation to the push for it to become an official language of the enlarged European community. It consists of correspondence from Dónall Ó Móráin, Gael Linn, and background material including text of lecture delivered by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich, 18/11/1988, "Europe 1992: The Irish Contribution", a supplement produced by Fortnight Educational trust, Northern Ireland "The Future of Irish - 10 essays celebrating one hundred years of the Irish language movement" and newsletter from the Ultacht Trust "The Protestant Gaelic Tradition". The file also includes a draft speech in Irish and English which may have been given on 10/07/1992, and newsletter from An Comhchoiste Réamhscolaíochta Teo [organisation concerned with Irish medium Pre-school education] with cover Christmas card from Máire Uí [Arnín?], 12/1992.

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Reports: "The State and the Crisis in Africa: In search of a second liberation - report of the Mweya conference in Uganda, May 12-17,1990", Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1992; "Women Worldwide: Common Interests?", report on conference organised jointly by Banúlacht [Irish Women for Development] and The Council for the Status of Women, May 18 1991, and prepared by Banúlacht, with cover letter from Rita McNulty to Mary Robinson, 19/01/1992; two publications from the Department of The Environment published March, 1992: "Referenda in Ireland 1937-1987", and "Presidential Elections 1938-1990".

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Report: "Commission of the European Communities 21st Report on Competition Policy" 30/04/1992.

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Reports: "Final Report of The IEWS Task Force on Western Assistance to Transition in The Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Hungary and Poland: Moving Beyond Assistance", Institute for EastWest Studies, European Studies Centre, June 1992; IEA [Institute of European Affairs, MR was Patron] Occasional Papers "The Economic Consequences of Maastricht" Paul Tansey, June 1992; programme and final report - UN DPI/NGO Annual Conference 9-11 September 1992: "Regional Conflicts: Threats to World Peace and Progress"; "Catch", Kilkenny Health Project newsletter, Winter 1992, with compliment slip from Emer Shelley, Project Leader.

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Commission of the European Communities final report, European Conference and Summit "Women in Power", Athens, Greece 02-03/11/1992

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Briefing notes, background information, reports and other research material used by Mary Robinson ahead of meetings and for reference, 1993, including material sent by the Department of Foreign Affairs.

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Folder of photocopies of typed documentation "Department of Foreign Affairs Selected Briefing Material for week ending 12th February 1993", marked confidential, with cover letter from Kevin Conmy, Private Secretary to the Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs, to Peter Ryan, Secretary to the President, for attention of President Mary Robinson. Consists of reports from various ambassadors and embassies to the Taoiseach including from Bonn, Germany, Copenhagen, Denmark, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Paris, France relating to currency and the EMU [Economic and Monetary Union]; from Washington, USA and Bonn in relation to visit to Washington by German Foreign Minister, Klaus Kinkel on 4th Feb 1993; from Rome, Italy relating to visit by Italian Foreign Minister Colombo to Bosnia and Croatia, 4th Feb 1993; from The Hague on EC [European Community] luncheon with new Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs at which Yugoslavia, EMU, Zaire and transparency in workings of the Community were discussed; from Madrid, Spain in relation to Spanish policy on Gibraltar; from Moscow, Russia in relation to ratification of START II Treaty by Russian Parliament; from Paris in relation to domestic situation in Morrocco, Western Sahara and Mahgreb Arab Union; from Lagos, Nigeria on new government structures in Nigeria, from Canberra, Australia on visit of Australian Foreign Minister, Gareth Evans, to Thailand and Cambodia, from Tokyo, Japan on efforts being made by Japan to develop closer ties with ASEAN countries [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] and from New Delhi, India on visit to India by UK Prime Minister, John Major, on 26 Jan 1993.

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Folder of photocopies of typed documentation "Department of Foreign Affairs Selected Briefing Material for week ending 19th February 1993", marked confidential. Consists of reports from various ambassadors and embassies to the Taoiseach including from Paris, France in relation to conversation with Commission President Delors regarding the currency situation and the EMU [Economic Monetary Union], and coverage of same in press; from Madrid, Spain regarding tensions between Delors and Spanish Economic Minister, Carlos Solchaga, following comments by Delors re preparedness of Member States for EMU; from Bonn, Germany relating to article in Bonn newspaper "Market battles in EMS leave scars - the Irish and Germans are no longer close"; from Bonn on conference on security policy in Munich and from The Hague, The Netherlands on reports on discussions on roles of NATO and WEU [Western European Union]; from EC Division and from Permanent Representation Brussels, Belgium in relation to EC [European Community] Enlargement and Trade; from Moscow, Russia in relation to implications of President Yeltsin's offer to abandon April referendum; from Ottawa, Canada on development of Canada / Russia relations; from Permanent Representative, New York, USA on briefing by Lord Owen on US policy in Bosnia; from Vienna, Austria on EC/Czech relations and from Bonn on visit of German Foreign Minister Kinkel to Prague; from Vienna on political developments in Hungary and from Madrid on Spanish reservations on UN Secretary General's proposals for a referendum in the western Sahara on terms considered favourable to Morocco.

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Folder of photocopies of typed documentation "Department of Foreign Affairs Selected Briefing Material for week ending 26 February 1993", marked confidential. Consists of reports from various ambassadors and embassies to the Taoiseach including from Paris, France relating to meeting with Mr Jaques De LaRosiere, Governor of the French Central Bank, and with French Treasury Director Trichet covering devaluation, outlook for 1993 and acceleration of EMU [Economic and Monetary Union]; from Bonn, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark in relation to the Maastricht Treaty ratification; from Rome, Italy in relation to fall-out from bribery scandals for Amato Government; from Somalia in relation to the tragic death of Irish Concern volunteer Valerie Place and meeting of Minister of State Mr Tom Kitt with US State Department and United Nations to discuss security of aid workers; from Tehran, Iran in relation to the fatwa endorsed by late Ayatollah Khomeini against author Salman Rushdie; from Cairo, Egypt in relation to activities of "terrorist Islamicist groups" directed at foreign tourists and at police; from Canberra, Australia on upcoming General election in Australia; from Beijing, China on views of a Chinese academic on human rights issues in China, Taiwan, on US-Sino relations and on the leadership of Communist party of China; from Stockholm, Sweden on visit of Prime Minister Bildt to Moscow, Russia 03-05 Feb; from Bonn on visit of Foreign Minister Kinkel to the Ukraine on 15/16 Feb; on Warsaw, Poland on internal and foreign policy issues in Poland; from Vienna, Austria on visit to Hungary with Mr Bela Kadar, Minister for International Economic Relations, for EC [European Community] working luncheon, 18 Feb; from PMUN NY [Permanent Mission to United Nations, New York, USA] on unanimous adoption of resolution to establish "War Crimes Tribunals" in former Yugoslavia, 22 Feb; and from Buenos Aires, Argentina on nominations for Presidential election in Chile and economic boom there.

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Typed list of female elected Heads of State/Heads of Government from 1960-1993; typed background note on US Morrison Visas, prepared by the consular section of Foreign Affairs, with post-it note from Joe Brennan [Deputy Secretary to President Mary Robinson], 03/09/1993; two typed papers by Mary Condren - "Women in Religion", presented/prepared at Magill Summer School. Glenties, Donegal, 1993, and "Women and Colonization"; "Light Up the Earth" an outline proposal presented to Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith by Noel O'Shea and Dr Anthony Collis, September 1993, with objective "to arrest the destruction of planet Earth by humankind".

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