File 2 - Gifts given/received 1992 Part 2

94pp

Correspondence and other material relating to gifts given and received, and presentations made in 1992 in connection with Mary Robinson (MR)'s presidency, including handmade card of Japanese women in Traditional dress, "For World Peace", from Stone For Peace Association, Hiroshima, Japan, 05/06/1992; compliment slip from Mr Joe O'Shaughnessy, The Connacht Tribune Ltd., which had accompanied copies of photographs taken on MR's visit to Poor Clare Convent in Galway, with response from Ann Lane (AL), Personal Assistant to the President, on behalf of MR, 11/06/1992; typed letter from Ms Nellie O'Cleirigh, Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, in relation to gift of her book "Valentia: A Different Irish Island", and response from AL, 13-17/06/1992; typed letter from Anne Chamber, Irish writer, in relation to gift of several of her books including "Granuaile", a biography of the 16th-century Irish Pirate Queen, Grace O'Malley, with response from MR, 17-23/06/1992; typed letter from Paddy Doyle, Irish writer, in relation to gift of signed copy of "The God Squad", which chronicled the life of a child in institutional care in the 1950s and 1960s, and which he was sending on behalf of Eilish Moore [sister of Irish folk singer, songwriter and musician, Christy Moore?], with response from MR, 25-27/06/1992; typed letter in Irish and English from Liam Ó Murchú [Chair of Bórd na Gaeilge and presenter on RTÉ, Irish national public service broadcaster] in relation to memoire he gifted, and copy of response in Irish from MR, 09-17/07/1992; business card for Wallace Fitzhugh Halladay, Washington DC, United States of America, and copy of response to her from MR in relation to gift of book "Women Silversmiths", which she had gifted via Sylvia Meehan, 27/07/1992; handwritten letter from Ms Sylvia Connell, Sylvia Connell Designs, in relation to knitted jacket gifted to MR, and response from AL, 25-27/07; typed letters from Irish harpist, Ms Anne-Marie O'Farrell in relation to two events she performed at for MR and to gift of her latest recording "Heads and Harps", with response from AL, 28/30/07/1992; certificate presented to MR in tribute, by Millstreet Museum Society, to mark their visit to Áras an Uachtaráin, 30/07/1992.

Correspondence also includes that relating to gifts of lace, painting, embroidered portrait, and various other publications not listed above.

Ref: P143/4/13/3/2

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