Material relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the MacBride principles, a set of guidelines calling for US employers to take positive action when investing in Northern Ireland to counter discrimination, including correspondence and reports, Jan-June 1986. Material includes report on Northern Ireland investment, Office of the Comptroller (Harrison J Goldin), City of New York, 02/1985; memo from New York State Senate to all senators from Senator John E Flynn on the Northern Ireland Investment Bill, 27/01/1986; typed note on position of Irish Government with regard to job discrimination in Northern Ireland, with cover letter from Jim Flavin, Consul General, [02?]/1986; photocopy of report of the Comptroller "Interim report on Implementation of New York City Employees' and New York Teachers Retirement Systems' Resolutions on Northern Ireland", 02/1986; Irish Forum report on The MacBride Principles, 15/02/1986;correspondence between Mary Robinson (MR) and Robert St-Cyr, Senior Researcher, WHO Research Associates, New York 17/02-02/14/1986; memos from Emergency Committee For Jobs in Ulster, Greenlawn, New York, 19-25/03/1986; updates on work on MacBride Principles sent to MR by Jim Flavin, Consulate General of Ireland, New York, 08/04-01/05/1986; "The MacBride Principles", editorial by Michael Rubenstein, Equal Opportunities Review, May/June 1986.

Material consisting of correspondence, reports, flyers, community and party newsletters, handwritten notes and background material relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and events Mary Robinson (MR) attended in 1986, including visit to Belfast to meet various community groups, such as Resource Centre and Community House, South Belfast, 17-18/01/1986, Ditchley Foundation conference on Northern Ireland, 21-23/02/1986, Democratic Socialist Party Meeting on Anglo-Irish Agreement, 22/05/1986, discussion series organised by The Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, Bray, County Wicklow, and held at Buswells Hotel, Dublin, 10/06/1986 and Patrick Magill Summer School Glenties, 19/08/1986.

Material includes newsletter "Northern Star", from the United Ulstermen, 01/1986; "BAHD News", Rathcoole Community newsletter, Newtownabbey, 06/1985, 08/1985, 10/1985 and 01/1986; report "Ulster - The Founding Fathers", EM Griffith, Resource Educational Publication, Belfast, 19[8?]; booklets "Is Sinn Féin Socialist?", 09/1985, and "The New Ireland Forum", 198[?], Campaign for Labour Representation in Northern Ireland; "Community Mirror" [Belfast] newsletter, issues 1-4, 198[?]; "Labour Comment" newsletter, Cork City, 07/12/1985 and 18/01/1986; "Workers' Weekly" newsletter, 11/01/1986; report on housing survey, Rathcoole estate, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, 198[6?]; correspondence between MR and John Robinson, the Resource Centre and Community House, South Belfast, 1985-1986; newsletter "The Equal Citizen: For Equal Rights For Equal citizens in the United Kingdom", 23/11/1985 and 22/12/1985; correspondence, 02/01-17/02/1986, conference programme, attendee list, seating plans, handwritten notes and other background information for Ditchley Foundation conference on Northern Ireland (NI) including reports from groups at the conference: Group A (of which MR was member) on security situation in NI, Group B on political situation in NI and Group C on eternal influences, 21-23/02/1986; "The Anglo Irish Agreement - The Dangers", summary text of speech given by MR at Clarence Hotel, Dublin, 23/04/1986; discussion journal "The Democratic Socialist", Spring 1986, newsletter "Finglas Free Press", 03/1986 and bulletin "After Hillsborough", 04/1986; correspondence between MR and Martin McGarry, Democratic Socialist Party, 14/04-12/05/1986; correspondence to MR from Deirdre McCartie, Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, 19/05/1986 thanking her for agreeing to attend the second series of discussions on the Anglo-Irish Agreement entitled "Southern Views" and enclosing programme and speaker information; "The Anglo Irish agreement - The Need for Review Under Article II", summary text of MR's speech, 10/06/1986, Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin; flyers for series of four public meetings organised by Glencree Centre (03, 10, 17, 24/06/1986); correspondence between MR and Joe Mulholland, Patrick MacGill Summer School, Glenties, County Donegal, in relation to her participation, 26/06-05/09/1986 with text summary of her contribution "The Anglo Irish Agreement - Are the Flaws Fatal?"; letter from Robert Brannick and others, Irish forum, San Francisco, California, in relation to the visit of the California Irish Forum delegation in 1985 to learn more about conflict in NI, and seeking comments and suggestions, 23/04/1986; letter to MR from Fergus O'Hare and others, in relation to a Northern Nationalists' Conference being held on the 1st anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 11/1986.

Reports and correspondence relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and reaction to it, 1987, including letter from Mary Robinson (MR) to the Editor, Irish times in relation to the angry reaction to tom King's "clumsy attempt to create some political space for dialogue with Unionist politicians", 23/01/1987; report "Common Sense (Northern Ireland - An Agreed Process)" with cover letter to MR from John McMichael, Chairman, Ulster Political Research Group, Belfast, 01/1987; text of speech by John Cushnahan, Alliance Party Leader, addressing 17th annual conference of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, 11/04/1987; handwritten letter from Bill Barbour, Alliance party, wishing MR luck in Senate elections, 13/04/1987; press release from Rev Martin Smyth, Ulster Unionist, claiming "Referendum on Single Act should be used to amend claim over Ulster", 15/04/1987 with cover note from his assistant Ron Aitken congratulating MR on her re-election to [to Seanad Éireann, Irish Senate]; flyer from Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London, UK, stating her commitment to equality of employment opportunity in Northern Ireland, 09/1987; two publications on "Religious Equality of Opportunity in Employment" from Department of Economic Development (UK): "Guide to Effective Practice" and "Classification of Schools for Monitoring Purposes", 09/1987; Standing Advisory Commission on Human rights (UK) report "Religious and Political Discrimination and Equality of Opportunity in northern Ireland - report on Fair Employment", with press release and background briefing from Policy Studies Institute, 29/10/1987; "Minority Rights and Majority Rule", paper delivered by Tom Hadden and Kevin Boyle, delivered at Queen's University Belfast, 1987.

Material consisting of correspondence, flyers and background information relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and reaction to it, 1988, including flyer publicising book "Human Rights And Responsibilities in Britain and Ireland: A Christian Perspective", produced by an interchurch working group from United Kingdom and Ireland, 01/1988; correspondence between Dr Christopher McGimpsey, Anthony Moriarty and Mary Robinson (MR) in relation to court challenge to the Anglo-Irish Agreement being brought by McGimpsey, and Michael McGimpsey, 07-25/01/1988; text of statement by Taoiseach [Irish Prime Minister] Charles J Haughey on Anglo-Irish Relations in Dáil Éireann [lower house of Irish parliament], 17/02/1988; correspondence between MR and several Unionists in relation to the efficacy of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, and suggestions for improvement, 30/11/1985-05/03/1988; correspondence between MR and Geoff Gilbert in relation to conference on Anglo-Irish Relations which MR could not participate in due to clash with David Norris hearing in Strasbourg [see P143/1/2/17], 03/1988; flyer for "The Hillsborough Accord A Review", series of four public meetings, Royal Dublin Hotel, 31/05/-21/06/1988, organised by the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, County Wicklow; "The Constitutional Roots of the Troubles of the North of Ireland", draft of address by MR at Irish forum Event in United States of America, 08/08/1988.

Correspondence and other material relating to My Robinson's address to the Union Society of Cambridge debate on the Anglo-Irish Agreement, on 3rd February 1989, including flyers, agenda and text summary of MR's address on motion "this House believes that the Anglo-Irish Agreement offers no long-term solution to ulster's problems".

Reports relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985-1989 including copies of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 11/1985; "Anglo-Irish Encounter" conference on the role of the churches in British-Irish Relationships, Dublin, 26-27/11/1985; "Parliamentary Sovereignty And Northern Ireland - A Review of the party system in the British Constitution, with relation to the Anglo-Irish Agreement", Brendan Clifford, 11/1985; official report of parliamentary debates in Seanad Éireann for 27/11/1985, on Anglo-Irish Agreement motion, including Senator Mary Robinson's address; Co-operation North Annual Report 1985; "Why Unionists Say No" with cover letter from Sylvia Meehan, Chairperson, Employment Equality Agency, 1985; "Parliamentary Despotism - John Hume's Aspiration", Brendan Clifford, 01/1986; "Church & State - A Forum of Irish Secular Opinion", issue 21, Spring 1986 with flyer enclosed for The Social Study conference on theme "Reconciliation in Northern Ireland", Naas, August 1986; "A Better Deal Together", Campaign for a Devolved Government, 198[6?]; "Anglo-Irish Encounter" conference on the role of the media in British-Irish Relationships, London, 19/03/1986; pamphlets including "I am An Irish dimension (A Prod's-Eye-View of Northern Ireland", Vera E Nevin, 1986; "The Democratic Socialist" discussion journal vol 3 no 1, Autumn 1986, with cover letter from Martin McGarry, Secretary, 19/11/1986; newsletter "Unionist", issue 8, [12/1987]; The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (journal), with article "Criminal Justice and human rights in Northern Ireland", William E Hellerstein, Robert B McKay, Petr R Schlam, 03/1988; "The Courage of the brave - The Anglo-Irish Agreement a Politico-military Analysis", James Kelly 1989.

"Changing Skies - Writing Through the Climate Crisis", publication for Creative Nonfiction programme "Writing And Rhetoric and Mission Zero", University of Colorado, Boulder, 2022, with business card attached for Scott King, Executive director, Mission Zero.

Correspondence relating to Northern Ireland arranged chronologically across two files covering the period 1998-2002 (P143/2/3/2/1) and 2004-2011 (P143/2/3/2/2).

Material in this subsubsubseries consists of correspondence sent and received by Mary Robinson (MR) in her role as Senator in Seanad Éireann [Irish Senate], including leading up to elections. It is arranged chronologically and includes correspondence with members of the public in relation to the Family Planning Bill 1973 (relating to removal of contraception ban) (P143/2/2/1/2/3), divorce laws and double taxation issues faced by those living and working on different sides of the border with Northern Ireland, (P143/2/2/1/2/7), and MR's stance on articles 2 and 3 of Irish constitution [which had laid territorial claim to Northern Ireland] and MR not running again for place in Seanad Éireann (P143/2/2/1/2/8).

[Archivist's note: some material in this section overlaps with P143/1/3/1]

Letter from Michael Posner, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, to Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, conveying concern about proposed Northern Ireland Police Bill which they felt did not reflect the Patten Commission's vision for police reform, with cover letter from Lisa Laplante to Mary Robinson (MR), in her role as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 16-22/06/2000, and photocopy of letter from MR to United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair (TB), expressing same concern, 04/07/2000; further letters from MR to TB expressing need for establishment of an independent Human Rights Commission in Northern Ireland, 18/06/1998, 16/07/2001; photocopy of letter from Ciarán Ó Maoláin, Research Worker, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission to Kevin Lyne, Second Secretary, UK permanent mission, in relation to "International human rights treaty monitoring process", with cover letter sent to MR, 13/05/2002.