File 1 - Events and addresses, 1970s Part 1

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Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s contribution to the Thomas Davis Lecture Series "Women and Irish Society", which aired on RTÉ [Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Irish public service broadcaster] radio for International Women's Year 1975. It includes correspondence from Sr Benvenuta [Margaret MacCurtain, (SrB)], Lecturer in Modern Irish History, University College Dublin (UCD), and Consulting Editor for the series including research notes to assist MR, a copy of SrB's own lecture from same series 15/07-05/12/1975; correspondence from Michael Littleton, Head of Features and Current Affairs RTÉ and General Editor for the series, 16/09-10/10/1975/1975; typed list of the 9 programmes in the series, with details on lecture titles and contributors, 1975; official booking form (provisional) for broadcast of lecture, with date and title of lecture, booking fee and time slot, 17/11/1975; typed text of MR's lecture "Women and the New Irish State", broadcast on 30/11/1975; letter of congratulations from US Ambassador Walter JP Curley, on MR's lecture, and her reply 02-05/12/1975; letter from Mary Rose Callaghan, Assistant Editor, Journal of Irish Literature, requesting contribution for special edition, autumn, 1976 devote to Irish Women, to which MR suggests contacting RTÉ who hold copyright of the Thomas Davis Lecture series, to seek permission to include extract of MR's contribution, 02-15/12/1975; letter from Colum Gavan Duffy, Editor of the Gazette, The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, thanking her for allowing summary of her Thomas Davis lecture to be included and requesting corrections, and including typed draft summary which has handwritten corrections from MR, 16/12/1975; correspondence from SrB in relation to a contract she and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Co-Consulting Editor, had negotiated with Arlen House Limited, Galway ("The Women's Press"), to have a hardback book published with all nine lectures, 07/12/1976-06/05/1977; correspondence between MR and Catherine Rose, Arlen House in relation to the publication including request for biographical information and corrected proofs, invite to launch of the publication, January 1979, and flyers relating to publications, 04/03/1978-07/02/1979.

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