File 1 - Addresses as President of Ireland 1995 Part 1

98pp

Texts, photocopies of texts and drafts of addresses made by President Mary Robinson (MR) at various events, 1995, excluding her address to the Houses of the Oireachtas [Irish Parliament], February 1995, and at the Nexus Ireland and UN50 Anniversary Dinner, November 1995, which are included in later files. Material includes addresses at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 29/01/1995; "Equality and Democracy: Utopia or Challenge?", Council of Europe Conference, 09/02/1995; luncheon hosted by Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima, Japan, 25/02/1995, with text of MR's inscription in Visitor's Book at Hiroshima; "The Need to Honour Developing Human Rights Commitments", Yale School of Law, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America (USA), 16/10/1995, and copies of the Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 104th Congress, First Session, Senate, Washington, 11/12/1995 in which her address was introduced and entered into the record by Senator Edward Kennedy; "Constitutional Shifts in Europe and the United States: Learning From Each Other", at Stanford University, California, USA, 18/10/1995; "Imaginative Possessions", John Galway Foster Lecture, London, England, 26/10/1995.

This file also includes material relating to a talk given at a conference in New York, which related to hunger and famine across the world and the 150th anniversary of the start of The Great Famine, in Ireland, and which included drafts of address including a faxed version from Eavan Boland Casey [Irish Poet and friend of MR's] and newspaper cuttings relating to World Health Report 1995, and to a recreation of a Famine Walk to commemorate tragic events in Doolough, Co. Mayo, by Afri, an Irish-based Third World Charity, Sunday Tribune, 05/04-07/05/1995.

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