Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s attendance at "Freedom of information and the audio-visual revolution" colloquium organised by The European Policy Unit, European University Institute (EUI), Florence 18-19 May 1989. It includes correspondence, in English and French, between MR and Antonio Cassese, Department of Legal Sciences, EUI, in relation to logistics for attending colloquium, and with programme and list of participants, 20/02-28/04/1989; correspondence to Peter Sutherland, in French, from Louis Edmond Pettiti, Judge, European Court of Human Rights Strasbourg, and Lawyer, Court of Appeal, Paris, France, 27/02-21/04/1989, which his secretary Judy Harper faxed to MR, which related to a colloquium "La Liberte D'Expression, conquête révolutionnaire" [Freedom of Expression, a revolutionary conquest] taking place in Paris to mark the 200th anniversary of the French revolution, which clashed with the EUI colloquium, 03/05/1989; paper "Freedom of information and the audio-visual revolution: Case-law under the European Convention on Human Rights", HC Kruger and M Buquicchio-de Boer, 02/05/1989; background material including report from European Commission of Human Rights "Autronic AG against Switzerland", 08/03/1989; transcription of MR's "interventions" during colloquium, sent by Cassese and A Clapham, joint editors, with handwritten corrections made by MR, 08/06/1989; work application form from University of Florence, sent to MR which was completed and return via fax, 19/07/1989; declaration of expenses for colloquium, completed by MR and sent to EUI, 23/11/1989.

General correspondence excluding that related to Mary Robinson's term as Chancellor (1998-2019), which includes material relating to Trinity College Dublin (TCD)'s 400th anniversary in 1992 and correspondence between Mary Robinson and colleague and friend John Temple Lang.

General correspondence, including personal, sent to and received by President Mary Robinson (MR) during and relating to her presidency (1990-1997), and arranged chronologically by year.

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General correspondence to and from President Mary Robinson (MR), 1990, including photocopy of letter received from J Curtis Mack II, President, Los Angeles World Affairs Council congratulating MR on election as President and issuing standing invitation to address a luncheon or dinner meeting of the Council, 05/12/1990; loose pages possibly part of other correspondence which lays out case for Homeless People needing short term accommodation in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, and gives case of lady calling to centre on 19 October 1990, and difficulty encountered to find her a place.

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General correspondence to and from President Mary Robinson (MR), and other presidency related material, [1990-1997] including poem in Irish about Mary Robinson's visit to Inis Meáin [Inishmaan Island, one of Aran islands off West Coast of Ireland], by Dara Beag Ó Fatharta; typed background information on Blennerville Windmill, Tralee, County (Co.) Kerry, on headed paper of Michael Diggin Photography; typed background information on St Fergal's Resource Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow; two phrases typed in block capitals in Irish to be used when sending condolences; several blank pages of headed stationary from Áras an Uachtaráin [official residence and office of the President of Ireland], including one in Seanchló [Old Irish script.]

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General correspondence to and from President Mary Robinson (MR), 1991, including handwritten and typed correspondence from Niall Crowley [Equality and HR expert who later was Chief Executive of Equality Authority] thanking MR for various invites, and complimenting her on her Presidency, including one letter which refers to an address she gave at The Allan Lane Lecture, Trinity College Dublin, to the cross section of invitees including from Northern Ireland and from the "Travelling community" and to a launch [possibly news of the President Robinson Awards for the Design of Travellers' Accommodation (see P143/4/6/6/2)]; photocopy of letter sent by Ann Lane, Personal Assistant to the President, to Peter Doyle, Commission of the European Communities, thanking him for congratulating MR on her election and apologising for delay in response, 05/06/1991.

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General correspondence to and from President Mary Robinson (MR), and other presidency related material, 1992, including typed letter from Joe R McRay relating to a private dinner in San Francisco, and a tentative line-up of Irish forum events, 07/01/1992; handwritten letter from Leo, Mary and Loftus family, Ballina, Co Mayo congratulating both Robinsons on work they were doing, 10/05/1992; correspondence from Mr Justice Declan Budd enclosing a photocopy of a letter he came across while going through "Hist Bicentenary records" [Trinity College Historical Society] which was from MR (then Mary Bourke, Senator) to Ian Ashe, Auditor of the society, in 1970, thanking Ian and congratulating him on various bicentennial functions, as well as two letters from Budd in 1992 inviting MR to attend St Columba's College 150th anniversary, with reply from MR apologising for having to decline, 11/03/1970-15/07/1992; material relating to design and printing of new Christmas Card for 1992, including correspondence between Nick Robinson and artist John Nankivell who did pencil drawing of Áras an Uachtaráin [official residence of the President of Ireland] for card, correspondence from Peter Ryan to Nick, in relation to printing costs and deadlines, several copies of new card and samples of older Christmas cards from the Áras, 19[90?]-14/11/1992; typed letter from Michael O'Leary to Bride Rosney, Special Adviser to the President, flagging that Dr AJ McConnell, retired Provost of Trinity College, was going to be 89 years old and requesting MR send birthday card as he was quite elderly and infirm, with note from A[nn] Lane that card was sent, 09-16/11/1992; typed letter from Peter Maguire, S.C. who was guest of Richard M Flynn, Chairman of the New York Power Authority at 95th annual dinner of the American Irish Historical Society, in which Maguire alerted MR to Flynn's acceptance speech for 1992 Gold Medal, during which he quoted from her inauguration speech, where she in turn had quoted Irish poet, Séamus Heaney 12/11/1992.

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General correspondence to and from President Mary Robinson (MR), and other presidency related material, 1993, including correspondence from Dr Emer Colleran [an Irish microbiologist, academic and an environmental advocate, professor of microbiology at the National University of Ireland, Galway and one of MR's nominees on the Council of State] relating to the Magna Carta of Duties Group (in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme), 17/01-05/03/1993; thank-you card from Mary [Spreng-Wartney?] to MR for sending copy of her book on Somalia, 16/02/1993; correspondence with Mary O'Donoghue, Tuam, County Galway, including a copy of the "The Great Tuam Annual 1993" with photograph of MR on back with Mayoress of Tuam on visit on 9th December 1992, and references to books sent between O'Donoghue and MR, 16/02-15/10/1993 ("Architect or Bee", Mike Cooley, sent to MR, and MR's book on Somalia sent to O'Donoghue's sister); letter from Archdeacon Cathal McCarthy letting MR know he would be missing her son Aubrey's confirmation, with photocopy of response from MR stating she too would be missing it as she had to represent Ireland at funderal of President of Turkey, 18-19/04/1993; typed letter from Ben Briscoe, TD, Dáil Éireann, marked personal and confidential, congratulating MR on "the wonderful job" she was doing and on her visit to Belfast, including the choice she made to shake hands with Gerry Adams: "By refusing to shake hands with him I think you would have created a greater controversy and I have no doubt that the media would have sold more papers", with photocopy of draft response, 28-30/06/1993; correspondence with Mrs Lavone D Andrews, Houston, Texas, in relation to invitation which Robinsons accepted to stay in her private apartment at Knappogue Castle, 04-08/07/1993; correspondence from Dermot Kinlen relating to reception MR put on for his retirement from the bar, and to a representative attending funeral of Aileen Kinlen [mother?], Summer - [November?]/1993.

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General correspondence to and from President Mary Robinson (MR), and other presidency related material, 1994, including draft letter and background material for message to Mayor George Millen, Tucson, Arizona, USA on day commemorating the founding of the city by Hugh O'Conor, in 1775, 06/02/1994; photocopy of letter from Shobhana Ranade, President, All India Women's Conference, thanking MR for sending inspiring message, for annual session in January, 22/02/1994; typed letter from Dervla Murphy [Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books] following her hearing of speech MR gave at Harvard which went on Congressional Record, which refers to Murphy's travels including South Africa, and her writing of same, and also mentions MR's work "you have always excelled at pleading for the underdog and as President you have shifted the thinking of the ordinary people of Ireland...you really have significantly changed Ireland - so why not go on to change the world?", with response from MR 28/03-15/04/1994; correspondence relating to the United Nations (UN) including letter from Professor Dr Hans Küng regarding address MR gave to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and 50th anniversary of UN in 1995, text of speeches given by Richard Butler, Permanent Representative of Australia to the UN on UN in 21st century, notes on meeting between MR, Erskine Childers and Sir Brian Urquhart in New York, October 1994, and correspondence between Mr Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the UN and MR in relation to Ireland's ratification of UN human rights treaties and their protocols, 06/07/1994-12/1/1995; correspondence between Walter JP Curley, former US Ambassador to Ireland, his with Mary and MR relating to their visit to Ireland, meeting at the IIE 75th Anniversary Forum, and in relation to the death of their son James, 11/08-07/11/1994.

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General correspondence to and from President Mary Robinson (MR), and other presidency related material, 1995, including handwritten letter from Nicky Furlong with paper "Who fears to Speak? Wexford Rebellion, Local or cosmopolitan?", which he contributed to Seminar on 1798 in Wexford, 07/03/1995; response from Bride Rosney to query from John Healy on MR's travel and cost of same, listing all visits overseas and annual expenditure, 07/03/1995; typed letter from Prof Joseph Rotblat FRS, President, Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, London, thanking her for congratulating them on Nobel Peace Prize, 23/10/1995; handwritten letter and Christmas card from Mary O'Donoghue, Tuam, County Galway, including in relation to her speech to the Houses of the Oireachtas on Irish Diaspora, 20/12/1995.

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