Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with KAUST [King Abdullah University of Science and Technology], Saudi Arabia, as member of extraordinary 20-member international Board of Trustees, 2009, and is further subdivided into 4 files arranged chronologically.

Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with KAUST [King Abdullah University of Science and Technology], Saudi Arabia, as member of extraordinary 20-member international Board of Trustees. It consists of correspondence from Mr Ali I Naimi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees inviting MR to be a member, 07/06/2008, with publication on KAUST Global Research Partnership, 05/2008 and KAUST annual review 2007, and formal appointment letter, 06/10/2008; correspondence between MR and Nadhmi Al-Nasr, interim President, regarding the selection of the Board of Trustees and planning for first board meeting hosted by King Abdullah in April 2009, along with correspondence from Mr Khalid Al-Falih, Executive Vice President, Saudi Aramco, 23/07-22/10/2008; correspondence relating to organising a briefing ahead of April 2009 meeting, from Al-Nasr, 01-30/08/08/2008 with Bernadette McCusker, Secretary to Interim President, and Jamil Dandany.

Blue leather-covered book with gold edging and lettering, in English and Irish, giving history of Áras an Uachtaráin and its inhabitants, produced during President Mary Robinson (MR)'s successor President Mary McAleese's term of office, and presented in blue leather custom case, with State emblem, the Harp, embossed on cover.

[Archivist' Note: While work to update the building and grounds is covered in this book, very little reference is made to the substantial work that was instigated by MR and NR and carried out during MR's presidency, apart from brief reference to the Visitor Centre being opened.]

Ref: P143/4/10/9

Material relating to Convocation, 23/05/2018, Harvard University, at which Mary Robinson gave convocation address, consisting of programme, invite to dinner to honour candidates for honorary degrees, booklet with menu, entertainment and honorary degree candidates’ information and newspaper cutting from Boston Globe, 22/05/2018 of Boston College graduates.

Letter from Ignacio Arroyo, Harvard Law School Association of Europe to association members in relation to next meeting to be held, 10/01/2002; letter from Robert G Stone Jr, Senior Fellow, Harvard Corporation and chair, Presidential Search Committee, to members of the Harvard Community in relation to announcement by Neil Rudenstine, 26th President of Harvard, that he was concluding his tenure, and asking for assistant in search for new President, 08/2000, with cover note from Michael Cullinan to Mary Robinson (MR) saying he had sent her name to Search Committee, 15/09/2000; material relating to MR's visit to Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government to give speech at Forum event, September 2002, including correspondence between MR, Scott Jerbi, Jacqueline Bhabha, Executive Director, and Molly Curran, Coordinator, University Committee on Human Rights Studies, Harvard University, 30/08-08/10/2002, background material including United Nations Office of High Commissioner report "Draft Guidelines: Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies" and text of address "Making Human rights Matter", 30/09/2002; letter from Bhaba to MR in relation to Human Rights [education/research?] at Harvard and possible future collaborations including with EGI [Realizing Rights - Ethical Globalization Initiative], along with copy of case study on Cambodian textile industry, by Regina Abrami, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, 25/06/2003.

Material relating to a student disciplinary case at Harvard including character reference written by Mary Robinson (MR), and response from Dean Harry Lewis, and photocopies of press articles relating to the case, the perceived excessive punishment and secrecy of the "Ad Board" responsible for hearing case, 22/04-17/05/1998; Order of Exercises for Commencement programme, at which MR was Commencement speaker and received honorary Doctor of Laws, and copy of Harvard University Gazette special Commencement edition, which includes article on MR and other honorary degree recipients including Séamus Heaney, 04/06/1998.

Material in this subseries relates to the work of Mary Robinson (MR) in connection with Harvard University. Material is arranged chronologically across three files and includes material relating to MR receiving hon degree and being commencement speaker, 1998 (P143/6/1), correspondence relating to MR's speech at Forum event and possible future collaborations with the Ethical Globalization Initiative [see P143/6] (P143/3/6/2), and material relating to MR giving Convocation address in 2018 (P143/3/6/3).

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, founded in 1636. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

Correspondence and other material relating to gifts given and received, and presentations made in 1997 in connection with Mary Robinson (MR)'s presidency, including photograph (removed from frame at some stage) of Michael Collins, presented to MR by Michael Noel Griffin, Chairman, Michael Collins Association, London, on 25/01/1997; typed letter from Paul M Kennedy, Dilworth Professor of History, Director, International Security Studies, New Haven, CT, United States of America (USA), thanking Robinsons for gift of work on Edmund Burke and a caricature [by Nick Robinson?], 13/02/1997; letter from Mr Rory MacLean which accompanied his book "The Oatmeal Ark", with copy of typed response from MR, 18/01-17/02/1997; typed letter from Charley Clarke, Department of Economics, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York, USA, thanking MR for visit to Áras an Uachtaráin (Áras) [official residence of the President of Ireland], and which had accompanied a jar of maple syrup, 28/04/1997; typed letter from Mai O'Brien thanking MR for invite to the May day celebration in Áras, and enclosing a poem she had written for MR, 02/06/1997; handwritten note from Office of the Aide-de-Camp which had accompanied a book which was to be passed on to MR from Ms Lindsey Daly, Caragh N.S. [National School?], and which featured a photograph of MR with Daly's grandfather, 04/06/1997; label in black calligraphy and brass plate, which was originally on a presentation bottle of Columba Cream Liqueur, commemorating the 1400th anniversary of death of Saint Columba [aka Colmcille], and presented to MR at Fionnphort, Isle of Mull, 08/06/1997; "The Great Famine": black plastic folder with pages inserted in each plastic sleeve covering the cartography of the Famine, presented to MR on 14 June 1997 at garden party at Áras by Eoghan Ó Riagáin, and including thank-you letter from MR, 25/04-16/06/1997; letter from Mary O'Rourke, TD, Minister for Public Enterprise, who had served on MR's Council of State, thanking MR for her letter and gift prior to departing Office of the President of Ireland, 02/10/1997.

See also P143/4/13/9.

Ref: P143/4/13/8

Correspondence and other material relating to gifts given and received, and presentations made in 1996 in connection with Mary Robinson (MR)'s presidency, including plastic folder with letters and poems in each sleeve, some decorated with pressed flowers, from members of the "Late Starters Club", a group of adults who left school early and returned to study English and complete the Junior Certificate exam at Blakestown Community School, sent to MR, 23 January 1996, ahead of her visit on 13 February, 1996 [note loose petals, pollen etc.]; file of material consisting of Certificado de Autenticidad [Certificate of Authenticity] for oil painting on canvass entitled "Armonia", by artist Ernestine Alganaras with artist's biography, 1994 [date of painting, not of gifting], blank accession sheets, and four letters drafted or sent on 01/04/1996 to donors of gifts suggesting donor would like to display gift on their own premises, with background of events at which MR was gifted the items, including visit of Kerry Association in Dublin to Áras an Uachtaráin (Áras) [official residence of President of Ireland], 19/04/1992, visit of MR to Ballybunnion and meeting with local Sea and Cliff Rescue Service, 22/06/1993, meeting of members of LAMA during visit to Ballina, County Mayo, 16/04/1993 and visit of representatives of the Friedreichs Ataxia Society to the Áras, 15/05/1992; typed letter from Di Jin, Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virgina, United States of America (USA) which accompanied copies of their second and last volume of their Chinese translation of James Joyce's Ulysses, the first volume of which was presented to MR in 1993, 22/04/1996; typed signed letter from Arthur Chaskalson, President, Constitutional Court of South Africa, in relation to gifts of Irish Law Books and Waterford Crystal gavel, sent to him following MR's visit to the Court, 20/05/1996; cream paper folder with emblem for USA, containing official statement with details of the hand-crafted sterling silver cache pot, a signature gift for President William [Bill] Clinton to present during his tenure, which was gifted to MR during her State visit 13/06/1996; typed letter from Newt Gingrich, The Speaker, United States House of Representatives, in relation to MR's gift of "The Green Cockade, by Liam Swords, given to him while she visited the Capitol, and to his enclosed gift of "Undaunted Courage", by Steven Ambrose, on the adventures of explorers Louis and Clark, 17/06/1996; typed signed letter from Al Gore, Vice President of USA, in relation to gift of silver bowl and hand thrown pottery vase, which MR presented during her visit to Washington, DC, USA, 18/06/1996; typed signed letter from Clinton thanking MR for gifts of glass vase, silver bowl, framed photograph gifted by MR to the Clintons during her visit, and with handwritten note "We loved having you. Hillary sends her best", 20/06/1996; typed signed letter from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State, USA thanking MR for gifts of wood turned vessel, by Liam Flynn, and signed pottery jug, given by her during her visit to USA, 05/08/1995; booklet "The Wreck of the British Queen", by Robert F Mooney, sent to the Robinsons "from an admirer in Nantucket", the author, 30/11/1996.

See also P143/4/13/21.

Ref: P143/4/13/7

Correspondence and other material relating to gifts given and received, and presentations made in 1995 in connection with Mary Robinson (MR)'s presidency, including typed letter from Dr Antonina Zhelyazkova, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia, Bulgaria, which accompanied materials on the organisation's activities, and post-it note from Joe Brennan, Deputy Secretary to the President, to MR, noting gift of book had been passed on to Dr Zhelyazkova, 10-12/01/1995; wooden souvenir from Panasonic Hall of Science and Technology, Osaka Castle, stamped and marked "Welcome H.E. M Robinson 1995. 2 27.", 27/02/1995; handwritten letter from Dr John de Courcy Ireland, in relation to his book "the Admiral from Mayo", and MR's upcoming visit to Argentina, and from Eamonn [de Búrca?], de Búrca Rare Books, which accompanied an uncorrected proof of the book, 11/03/1995; typed letter from Gerhard Casper, Office of the President, Stanford University, California, United States of America, thanking MR for gift of crystal bowl, 26/10/1995; typed letter from Anna Zimmer, Grade 21 student, Hopkinton High School, Contoocook, New Hampshire, USA, which accompanied a gift of book "Immigrant's Voice", a compilation of journal excerpts written by students as though they were Irish 13-year-old immigrants in Boston in the 1840s, with copy of typed response from MR, 25/10-15/11/1995; copy of typed letter from Bride Rosney, Special Adviser to the President, to Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, American Ambassador's Residence, Dublin, with publication "Canticles of Word and Colour", by Sr Carmel Kehoe, originally sent to MR for delivery to President Clinton, 06/11/1995.

See also P143/4/13/20.

Ref: P143/4/13/6