Framed typed prayer "A Prayer for Peace", by Joe Noonan on behalf of Athlone VTOS, no date.

[The Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme is a second chance education and training scheme for adults which provides courses of up to two years duration for jobseekers].

Ref: P143/4/13/13

Material relating to 2023 Global Women Leaders’ Summit, organised by Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Georgetown University, and The Rockefeller Foundation, 05-08/06/2023, consisting of summit programme, participant biographies and background material, including LPR [Lake Research Partners] article "Best Policies in Governance: Confronting Challenges to Women's Political Leadership", She Persisted article "Gendered Disinformation and Online Abuse Against Women in Politics are a Threat to Democracy", NDI "Ending Online Violence Against Women in Politics: Current Status and Next Steps", backgrounder "Advancing Inclusive Climate Action", and reprint of article "Toward a Progressive Economic Agenda", Mariana Mazzucato, 05/10/2022, two colour photographs of the Women Leaders including Mary Robinson and Hillary Clinton, and list of participants' hotel rooms (excluding Clinton).

Material relating to "Tribute to Daniel O'Connell", an address President Mary Robinson made to the Reform Club, London, England, 15/05/1997, including text and drafts of address, background information on Daniel O'Connell prepared by Maurice O'Connell, The King's Hospital, Palmerstown Dublin, and his cousin Professor Emeritus Maurice R. O'Connell, both possibly descendants of Daniel, April 1997; background material on The Reform Club, 21/03/1997; newspaper cutting on Daniel O'Connell "New Ireland writes The Liberator out of History", The Irish Catholic, 08/05/1997.

[Archivist's Note: 1997 marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Daniel O'Connell.]

Ref: P143/4/11/8

Typed draft of address given by Mary Robinson "Human Rights and the Empowerment of Women", at 75th anniversary of the admission of women to Columbia University Law School, 18/10/200[2], with notation, and possibly repurposed for later event.

Material including correspondence, itineraries, receipts and programmes, relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 1980s, including that concerning talk "Ireland and the Communities - after the honeymoon period", given at Centre of European Governmental Studies, University of Edinburgh, 12/12/1980, with correspondence between MR and Prof John DB Mitchell, and later between MR and John MacPherson, Deputy Secretary, University of Edinburgh, on sudden passing of Mitchell, 10/10-31/12/1980; correspondence between MR and Claire O Jackson, College Theological Society, Trinity College Dublin relating to talk "Law and Conscience", given by MR to the society, 23 November 1981 and copy of Jackson's own paper "Law and Conscience - A Conflict of Laws", 22/09-26/11/1981; correspondence between MR, Mary Kirwan, Secretary, Dublin University Law Society inviting MR to participate in opening meeting on 19 October, and same between MR and Angela Foyle, Hon Secretary, 22/06-05/08/1982; correspondence concerning MR chairing David Coombes Inaugural Lecture, National Institute of Higher Education, Limerick (NIHEL) [now University of Limerick] from Coombes, and from Paddy Doran, Dean, College of Humanities and Edward M Walsh, President NIHEL, 12/12/1982-24/01/1983; material concerning talk MR gave at Alexandra College exhibition on Non-Traditional Careers for Girls, at the RDS [Royal Dublin Society], April 1985, [22/04?]-10/05/1985; material concerning talk "Women and Parliament" given by MR at Merriman Summer School Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, 09-24/08/1985; correspondence concerning talk on "Family Law" MR was giving to Dublin University Women Graduates Association on 4 Feb 1986, from Marion Barrett, Hon Secretary, Gerry Watts and Amy Phillips, 17/12/1985-14/02/1986; material concerning talk MR gave "Irish Women and Ireland's Laws in the European Context" at "Women in Contemporary Ireland" conference at Center for Irish studies, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, April 1986, 06/12/1985-14/11/1986; correspondence and maps relating to speech MR gave as Guest speaker at Trinity College Dublin Association annual dinner, in Royal Portrush golf club, county Antrim, Northern Ireland, on 25 April 2986, 18/12/1985-27/04/1986; and material concerning keynote speech MR gave at "Women and Law in Ireland" seminar organised by University College Dublin Women's Studies Forum, May 1986, including letter of thanks from Ailbhe [Smyth] 11/03-03/05/1986.

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.