File 2 - Addresses as President of Ireland 1995 Part 2

250pp

Material relating to President Mary Robinson (MR)'s second address to the Houses of the Oireachtas on 2nd February 1995, "on a matter of national importance: Cherishing the Irish Diaspora", including correspondence, background material, drafts and final text.

Material includes memos regarding, agendas for and minutes of two meetings with the Council of State for the purpose of allowing MR to outline her proposal to address the Houses of the Oireachtas (24/01/1994), and to address them on the stated topic "Cherishing the Diaspora" (24/01/1995), 24/01/1994-24/01/1995; photocopy of draft motion in relation to joint sitting [of both Dáil and Seanad], with handwritten notes on need for motion to be passed in both Dáil and Seanad the following week, 26/01/1995; faxed memo from Department of the Taoiseach on protocol for visit of MR to Leinster House to address Houses of the Oireachtas, 26/01/1995; photocopy of letter from Frank Murray, Secretary to the Government, Department of the Taoiseach, to [Peter Ryan], Secretary to the President, informing him that Government had approved draft text of address MR proposed to deliver, 31/01/1995; copies of address in various forms including in large type for ease of presentation, and as downloaded from Media Library, Áras an Uachtaráin website; correspondence prior to and following MR's address including from Wesley Boyd, Director of Broadcasting Developments, RTÉ [Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's national public service broadcaster], suggesting that in preparing her address MR should note services RTÉ provided for Irish people living and working abroad, 23/01/1995, fax from MR's brother and sister-in-law Adrian and Ruth Bourke, congratulating MR on her speech, telephone message from British Ambassador expressing his regrets for not being able to attend, and from Niall Crowley, thanking MR for invite to address, 03/02/1995; copies of the Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 104th Congress, First Session, Senate, Washington, 27/02/1995 in which her address was introduced and entered into the record by Senator Edward Kennedy; various drafts and background material relating to MR's address, including letter from Luke Dodd, Stokestown Park Famine Museum, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, to MR 09/01/1995.

Ref: P143/4/11/6/2

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