Correspondence, circulars, reports, agendas and itineraries, background information, receipts and other material relating to the work of the Trilateral Commission (TC) in January 1977. It includes material relating to the TC plenary session in Tokyo, Japan, 09-11/01/1977 such as agendas and itineraries; dinner invites; correspondence and circulars to TC members and directly to Mary Robinson (MR) from Dr Hans Maull, 16/11/1976-08/01/1977, and from Tadashi Yamamoto, Secretary, TC Japan, 11/12/1976-18/01/1977; information booklet on the Japan Center for International exchange; text of opening statement by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 10/01/1977; text of draft message to Jimmy Carter, from TC, following Carter being chosen as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs, 12/01/1977 and text of Carter's own original message at opening of meeting, 10/01/1977; discussion material on future Trilateral Task Force topics, 11/11/1977; report "Economic Prospects and Policies in the Industrial Countries", 11/01/1977; cuttings from local Japanese newspapers relating to meeting; report of the Trilateral Task force "Towards a Renovated International System"; correspondence between MR and Bernard Davenport, First Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs in relation to Ambassador David Nelighan offering dinner in her honour in Japan during visit, 16/12/1976; letter of thanks from Georges Berthoin to MR for the Irish financial contribution to support the TC, 22/11/1976; booklet with list of TC members in Japanese and English; report "Political Trends in Japan - the Recent General Election and its Implications", Rei Shiratori; text of address "Energy and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation - A Japanese point of view", by Kinya Niizeki, commissioner, Atomic Energy Commission, Japan; discussion draft reports of Trilateral Task Force "East-West Overview" and "Expanding Food Production in Developing Countries: Rice Production in South and Southeast Asia"; TC Triangle Papers publications "Collective Bargaining And Employee Participation in Western Europe, North America and Japan", and "Industrial Policy and the International Economy”; correspondence between MR and Ambassador and Mrs Neligan, Embassy of Ireland, Japan, ahead of and following visit, 15/12/1976-18/01/1977 and correspondence with Mr & Mrs MJ Miles, The British Insurance Group (Japan), 18/01/1977, and with Mr & Mrs CJ Hall, Commercial Union Assurance Company Ltd, 21/12/1976-18/01/1977, thanking them for their hospitality during her visit; correspondence from Dr Hans Maull to all European Commissioners and participants of the Tokyo meetings with report on the event, 01/1977.
Correspondence, circulars, reports, agendas and itineraries, background information, receipts and other material relating to the work of the Trilateral Commission (TC) July- December 1978. It includes correspondence between Mary Robinson (MR) and Dr Hanns Maull 10/07-02/11/1978; correspondence between MR and William W Scranton, in particular in relation to "North-South" [hemisphere] relations, 19/07/1978; circulars from Hanns Maull to European members of the TC, 11/07-21/12/1978 and to MR, George Franklin (Coordinator), Charles Heck (North American Secretary) and Tadashi Yamamoto (Japanese Secretary) on TC and the "North/South image problem", 28/07/1978; correspondence between MR and Georges Berthoin, European President/Chairman of TC, in relation to future financial situation of TC, 20/07/1978; correspondence between Scranton and Franklin, Willy Brandt, David Rockefeller (North American Chairman), Horst Ehmke and Takeshi Watanabe (Japanese Chairman) relating to North-South relations and setting up a TC task Force, 04-15/08/1978; "Trialogue", bulletin of North American / European / Japanese Affairs, Fall 1978; correspondence between MR and senior management at Central Bank of Ireland (CBoI), Allied Irish Bank (AIB) and Bank of Ireland (BoI) including Noel McEvoy, International Relations Department CBoI, AIB Secretary, Mr DB Motyer, and BoI Managing Director Ian Morrison, in relation to the work of TC and financial support from the banks, 01-12/09/1978; memo on TC and North/South relations from MR to European TC members 10/1978, and later TC Chairmen and other senior figures, with responses, 19/10-19/12/1978; material relating to TC Chairmen's meeting and European Group meeting, London, 3-4 December 1978, including circulars, agendas, invite from Maull to MR to attend Chairmen's meeting 23/10/1978, ICDA [International Coalition for Development Action] newsletter, 31/10/1978, correspondence 17-28/11/1978, excerpts of World Bank President, Robert McNamara's address to Board of Governors, with cover letter from Pauline Eccles, Researcher, 02/11/1978, memo on Japanese Chairman's report, 30/11/1978, handwritten notes and breakdown of finances and budgetary requirements, list of participants, and report on London meetings from Dr Ken Whitaker, 12/12/1978; circulars, agendas and correspondence between MR and Irish members of TC including Michael Killeen, 16/11/1978.
Correspondence, circulars, reports, agendas and itineraries, background information, receipts and other material relating to the work of the Trilateral Commission (TC), 1980. It includes correspondence between Mary Robinson (MR) and Georges Berthoin (European Chairman of the TC), Takeshi Watanabe (Japanese Chairman), David Rockefeller (North American Chairman), George S Franklin (Coordinator), deputy chairmen and members of the executive committee, in relation to MR resigning from the TC, her reasons for it, and their responses, 04/01-19/02/1980; circular from MR to Irish members of the TC in relation to upcoming meetings, 07/01/1980; agenda for European Regional meeting, Dublin, Ireland, 23-24/11/1980; letter from Ciaran Earley criticising the TC with MR's response, 07-14/11/1980.
Letter to Mary Robinson from Ruth Walsh in which she passed on regards from former Trilateral Commission colleague Kinhide Musharkoji, via a friend of Walsh's, Dr James Skelly who had met him at an international conference.
TEPSA [Trans European Policy Studies Association] project to study and reflect in depth into the meaning and content of the European Union. TEPSA was the first European Community (now European Union) affairs research network, consisting of leading research institutes throughout Europe, with headquarters in Brussels providing policy analysis, assessment, and advice to policymakers, and bridging gap between research, policy-making, and citizens. TESPA institutions include IAI [Istituto Affari Internazionali (Institute of International Affairs, Italy)], IEP [Institut für Europäische Politik (Institute for European Politics), Germany], ISEI [interdisciplinaire studiegroup europese integrate, Amsterdam, Holland], and IAES [Irish Association for European Studies] of which MR was member, Federal Trust, London, AFEUR. See also P143/4/12/7. Material, arranged chronologically, consists of reports, correspondence, minutes, background information and study data and includes that relating to European Economic Community directives and Irish implementation of same.
Material related to European Internal Market (Single European Market) coming into force in 1992 and includes that relating to "Europen", the National Campaign in Ireland to prepare for the completion of the Single European Market by 1992, and the European University Institute research project on implementation at national level of European Community legislation on the completion of the internal market. Mary Robinson was involved through her work as Director of the Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL) [see P143/1/7].
Material is arranged chronologically and includes correspondence, reports, press releases and background material. See also material relating to the Single European Act, P143/2/12.
The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European Community an objective of establishing a single market by 31 December 1992 (see P143/2/11), and a forerunner of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) it helped codify European Political Co-operation. A referendum was held on 26th May 1987 where voters were asked to support constitutional amendment to enable Government to ratify the SEA.
Material in this subseries, consisting of correspondence, reports, submissions, press releases, and background material, relates to the SEA, in particular as it related to Ireland, and arrangement was kept where possible. Mary Robinson was on Joint Committee for Secondary Legislation and material here therefore overlaps with P143/2/2/2.
Report of the Advisory Group to the Irish Parliamentary Select Committee on European Affairs, 04/02/2003, with cover letter from Dympna Hayes, Secretary, to Mary Robinson, thanking her for her briefing to the group at a meeting on the 16th of December 2002.
The Reid Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law [known as The Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology since 1975] is a professorship at Trinity College Dublin. The Chair, established initially in 1888, is named after Richard Tuohill Reid (1823–83), an Irish lawyer and academic who was Perry Professor in Jurisprudence at Elphinstone College, a constituent college of the University of Bombay (now the University of Mumbai). Reid bequeathed £25,000 in trust to Irish education. Mary Robinson was Reid Professor from 1969 - 1975.
Material in this subseries relates to her work while Reid Professor, although no material covers her appointment to this position.
The Chancellor of the University of Dublin is the titular head of the University of Dublin, generally referred to by its sole college, Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Mary Robinson was elected the 25th Chancellor, the first female to be elected to role since the University was established by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592, on 17th December 1998. As Chancellor, she was also one of two Visitors, the other being The Hon Mr Justice Henry Barron. [Visitors are overseers of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution, who can intervene in the internal affairs of that institution. They may also be called upon to give advice where an institution expresses doubt as to its powers under its charter and statutes. The most important function is to determine disputes arising between the institution and its members (students/staff).]
Material in this subsubseries includes that relating to Statutes for TCD, general correspondence, material relating to appeals to Visitors [mostly closed], and material relating to the Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees [mostly closed] and is arranged chronologically across 42 files, where appropriate.