File 5 - Events 1994

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Material relating to events which took place in 1994 during Mary Robinson (MR)'s presidency including correspondence from Peter Murray, curator, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, in relation to MR's visit to United States of America March 1994, and cultural inter-connections he wished to flag, 16/02/1994; brochure and booklet from Comhlámh, on Central America Week March 1994; Wheatfield Weekly, 27th May 1994 which featured "A visit to Wheatfield [Prison] by the Princess President", on 03/05/1994; special commemorative publication made with handmade paper, presented to MR by the New York Irish History Roundtable, 28/10/1994, and marking a symbolic meal and keynote address "New York and the Irish Famine", with guest list; memo on MR's engagements for 29/05/1994; copy of typed letter from Bride Rosney, Special Adviser to the President, to Mr Paul Murphy, Administrator, Rural Resettlement Ireland, County Clare, in relation to money MR was to receive on being awarded 1994 Freedom Prize by the Max Schmidheiny Foundation, University of St Gallen, Switzerland, which she was nominating Rural Resettlement Ireland to receive instead, 26/05/1994; 4"x6" colour photograph sent to MR by Kay C Greene, Clinical Psychologist, New York, USA, of Greene, President, 47th Annual DPI/NGO conference, MR, Mrs Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Samir Sanbar, Assistant Secretary General for Public Information, at reception, United Nations Delegates Room, 21/09/1994; correspondence and background material for AIM Group [Family Law Information, Mediation and Counselling Centre], seminar on "Changing Families", including letter of thanks from Jane McColgan, Conference Committee to MR (for opening seminar), text of speech delivered by Alan Shatter, TD., and paper by Dr Gabriel Kiely, University College Dublin, "Families in a Changing Society", 20/10-07/11/1994; faxed invite from Julia Hausermann, Rights and Humanity, The International Movement for the Promotion and Realisation of Human Rights and Responsibilities, to MR to be keynote speaker at opening session of Round Table for Western and Islamic Diplomats on the Universality of Human rights, Amman, Jordan, 10-13/12/1994, sent on 1st September.

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