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"The Link between Climate Change and Human Rights" talk and book signing at Princeton University, 10 November 2014 [see P143/3/17/19]

Folder 1: Letter from Marie Heaney, Commissioning Editor of 'Town House and Country House', inviting Robinson to write an essay on a topic that has given him spiritual sustenance for a book called 'Sources' in aid of Focus Ireland. Robinson's submission is included - handwritten and typed, on the sequence of prime numbers.

Folder 2: Correspondence with Dr John Cosgrave from the Department of Mathematics at St Patrick's College in Drumcondra who discovered a Prime Number with 2,000 digits. Folding Landscapes published 'A Prime for the Millennium', and the file discusses the publication, their mutual love of mathematics, press cuttings about the project, and a letter from John Banville declining to launch the book on the grounds of his fluency in mathematics.

Promotional flyer from Prime Cut Theatre, Belfast, detailing a "Friends" scheme to support the theatre company.

Clipping of article, 'Priest Urges New Land Policy', from the 23 March 1942 issue of the Irish Independent. The article covers the lecture given by Reverend Cornelius Lucey, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, 'The Church and the Use of the Land', which opened Catholic Social Week in Tipperary the previous evening.

Index card for the townland of Pribbaun, [An Preabán].

Report published from Minority Rights Group International, "Preventing Genocide and Mass Killing: The Challenge for the United Nations" by William A. Schabas.

Press material relating to Mary Robinson's presidential election campaign, including minutes of the Media committee, a sub-group of the campaign committee, correspondence, press releases, draft designs, material relating to interviews with the press. Press cuttings can be found in the following section P143/4/1/6.

Ref: P143/4/1/5

Material relating to design of posters, flyers and other campaign publicity and sourcing of content including copies of Mary Robinson (MR)'s senate election addresses 1973, 1977, 1981, 1983 and 1987, MR's CV and drafts and correspondence relating to design of promotional material including pantone colour samples.

Ref: P143/4/1/5/7

Photographs taken for press including 8 black and white contact sheets, 26/06-03/07/1990, Mac Innes Photography Ltd., Merrion Square, Dublin and 2 full black and white images, no date or credit information. Also includes letter from Ercus Stewart, Chairman, Irish branch of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, with official photograph of him running in Dublin City Marathon just prior to election in 1990, wearing "Vote Mary Robinson", 01/11/1991.

Ref: P143/4/1/5/6

Correspondence relating to press strategies, press interviews and the printing and posting of press material including letter from Brian MacLochlann, Executive Producer, RTÉ, sharing disappointment Mary Robinson (MR) had not agreed to facilitate making of documentary he had proposed, 18/09/1990; letter from Ruairí Quinn, Campaign Director, Campaign to Elect Mary Robinson, to Director General of RTÉ in relation to coverage campaign was getting on RTÉ, 24/09/1990; correspondence with Kevin Dawson, Sunday Tribune, listing assets, liabilities, income sources and other personal financial information 09-12/10/1990; material relating to visit to Spiddal in Gaeltacht [Irish speaking region], County Galway where MR was giving interview on Raidió na Gaeltachta and opening an Art exhibition, 16/10/1990. Also includes correspondence with Anne O'Donnell relating to MR's decision not to name her as press officer, a decision which AO'D did not take well, and which MR explained was due to MR's "already high profile in the abortion information area", 20-22/07/1990; faxed text of speech by Dick Spring TD, Leader of Labour Party, in Tralee, 14/09/1990 and faxed transcript extract of interview given by another candidate, Brian Lenihan referring to phone calls made by him and Taoiseach Charlie Haughey to the then President, 25/01/1990; letter from Larry O'Toole to Arthur Murphy, Mailbag programme, RTÉ relating to RTÉ's application of Section 31 censorship laws which saw earlier interviews with him, August 1990, as Chairperson of the Gateaux workers' Strike Committee, blocked from airing due to his membership of Sinn Féin 30/10/1990.

Ref: P143/4/1/5/5