Berkas 3 - Gifts given/received 1992 Part 3

146pp, 2 photos, 2 items

Correspondence and other material relating to gifts given and received, and presentations made in 1992 in connection with Mary Robinson (MR)'s presidency, including Certificate of Appreciation sent by Programme for Belize, to certify MR had made a donation to purchase or endow "One acre of tropical forest in the Rio Bravo Conservation Area of northwest Belize", 1992; typed letter from Peter Barry, Officer I/C [In Charge (of)] Craft Unit, Place of Detention, Wheatfield [prison], Dublin, and card signed by members of the craft unit [inmates], with copy of response from MR in relation to wooden table lamp gifted to her, 14/08-03/09/1992; typed letter from Mr Thomas Lavoie, Assistant Director, Syracuse University Press, New York, United States of America, in relation to gift of Lawrence McCaffrey's "Textures of Irish America", and response from MR, 26/08-08/09/1992; handwritten letter from Irish writer, Maeve Binchy, in relation to gift of book "The Copper Beech", and mentioning she was taking four-month trip around the world to celebrate her 50th birthday, and response from MR, 24/08-08/09/1992; card with handwritten message, two colour photographs of state quarry at Windgap, Kilkenny, and flyer from Ms Breda Raggett, Federation President, Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA), Kilkenny, in relation to specially commissioned piece made from slate by artist Shamus Malone, and presented by Raggett on behalf of the Kilkenny Federation ICA, with copy of response from Ann Lane (AL), Personal Assistant to the President, 10/09/1992; typed letter in Irish from Prof Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, University College Galway [now University of Galway], handwritten response (not by MR), and typed version from MR in relation to gift of books on connection between Ireland and Australia, which she had wanted to research ahead of visit there, 30/08-22/09/1992; handwritten letter and gift of green scapula in sealed envelope from Sister Mary Magdalen of Jesus, Carmelite Monastery, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and copy of typed response from AL, 15-24/09/1992; handwritten letters from Sandro Cafolla and Rhonda Smith (partial letter), Design by Nature, in relation to presentation of single cut flower which came from the last wild Irish Cornflower, which they were working to save from extinction, and typed response from AL, 26-28/09/1992; typed letter from Mr Paul J Regan Jr, Senior Vice President, Corning Inc, Corning, New York, USA in relation to his visit to Áras an Uachtaráin [official residence of the President of Ireland] and gift of "Steuben" apple [glass apple], with commercial invoice and shipping receipt attached, and response from AL, 21-28/09/1992; several letters of congratulation, complimenting MR on her visit to Somalia the previous week, which had accompanied gifts of books, with copies of responses from AL, 29/09-14/10/1992; copy of typed letter from AL thanking Dr Bryan MacMahon, Irish playwright, for sending personally signed copy of his autobiography "The Master", 14/10/1992; handwritten letter in relation to print of photo by Fr Browne which was sent by Fr Eddie O'Donnell SJ, Gonzaga College, Dublin for MR to bring to New South Wales, Australia, with typed response from AL, 14-15/10/1992; typed letter from Michael Mehigan, Chairman, McDonald's Licensee Group in Ireland, in relation to gift of "The Cat's Pyjamas", a book of work from young writers who won Mc Donalds Young Writers competition, with copy of response from Joseph Brennan, Deputy Secretary to the President, on behalf of MR, October 1992; typed poem "Candles" written for MR by Joan McBreen, Tuam, Co. Galway, in carboard frame [originally possibly in glass frame], 04/12/1992; handwritten letter from Karen Kenny, ONUSAL El Salvador [United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador], which accompanied a picture entitled "El Calor de lo Nuestro" [the Warmth of Our Own?], 05/12/1992; handwritten letter from Regina McGarrity, Buddy Bear Trust in relation to framed scroll presented to MR during her visit to Ballina, Co. Mayo, on Heritage Day [16?]/08/1992, with typed response from AL thanking her and apologising for delay in responding, 16/08-11/12/1992; copy of typed response to Professor Roger Little, Dept. of French, Trinity College Dublin, for sending gift of book via MR's daughter Tessa, who was in Little's class, and who as per to a post-it note "doesn't like her professor at all at all!", 16/12/1992; compliment slip from Gandon Editions, Dublin and copy of typed letter to Irish artist Louis le Brocquy and his wife Anne, in relation to gift of signed copy of his book "The Irish Landscape" which was sent on his behalf by the publishers, 14-18/12/1992; handwritten letter from Ms Catherine Byron, Leicester, England (originally from Northern Ireland), in relation to gift of signed copy of her book "Out of Step: Pursuing Seamus Heaney to Purgatory", which included an 'after-dedication' to MR, with press release and biography, and copy of typed response from AL, 20/11-12/12/1992.

Correspondence also includes that relating to gifts of 19th Century French engraving, tape of Aly Bain [Shetland fiddler]'s music, painting, and to various other publications not listed above.

Ref: P143/4/13/3/3

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