File 8 - General Correspondence 1997

45 pp

General correspondence to and from President Mary Robinson (MR), and other presidency related material, 1997, including card from Stan [St Stanislaus Kennedy, President, Focus Ireland], sending best wishes including in relation to MR's task of deciding whether to stay for second term of office or move on to other work, 11/01/1997; text of address by Sir Shridath Ramphal to the Commonwealth Countries League, sent to Bride Rosney, Special Adviser to the President, by Terry Dormer, Commonwealth Secretariat, with photocopy of response, 14-20/1997; typed letter from John Kennedy thanking MR for best wishes on his appointment as a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Greater Manchester, 02/04/1997; typed letter from Seán Sweeney [co-executor of James Joyce's estate], apologising for missing MR's visit to Nora Barnacle House in Galway, 08/05/1997; handwritten letter from Mary Gallagher thanking Robinsons for visiting the Nora Barnacle House, 28/05/1997; correspondence from Enda [McDonagh, Professor of Moral Theology and Canon Law at St Patrick's College Maynooth, and official chaplain for MR while President] congratulating her on appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR), 13/06/1997; handwritten postcard from ben Whitaker wishing MR all the best in Geneva, following her appointment as United Nations HCHR, 26/07/1997; handwritten letter of congratulations from John Nankivell [artist] and his wife Annie on news of MR's appointment as HCHR at United Nations, with photocopy of response, 07-11/09/1997; handwritten letter from [Dame] Jennifer Jenkins, [Chair of the National Trust] thanking MR for inviting her, [her husband, Roy Jenkins, former Labour politician and Chancellor of University of Oxford], and the Augleseys to lunch on St Patrick's Day at Aras an Uachtaráin, 19/11/1997.

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