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Texts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles 1974-1976, some with notation, including "The role of the Irish Parliament", Spring 1974; "The Special Criminal Court", 16/05/1974; "Abuse of the Special Criminal Court", 02/12/1974;"Some Reflections on Personal Liberty and the Constitution", 27/02/1975; "Law as an Instrument of Social Change", 21/10/1975; "that the Senate is an Unnecessary Extravagance", 06/1/1975; "The Regional Policy of the EEC - Implication for Ireland", 03/1976; "WB Yeats, The Senator", (incomplete) speech to open 17th Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, 08/08/1976.

Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles 1977-1978, some with notation, including "The State Shall Not Legislate for Private Morality", Trinity College [Dublin, (TCD)] Historical Society, 02/02/1977; "The Effect of European Social Legislation on Ireland", Law Students' annual conference, TCD, 11/02/1977; "Further Extension of the European Community - Political Implications", 197[?]; "Irish Fishing in the EEC - The Real Emergency", 197[?]; "That a Woman's Self Realisation is thwarted in a Capitalist Society", at UCG [University College Galway, now University of Galway] branch Labour party meeting, 10/02/1978; "Status of Aliens and Right to Vote at Municipal Elections in Ireland", Irish report for colloquium in Louvain, Belgium, 28/02/1978; "The European Communities and the ECHR", 197[?]; correspondence for, drafts, proofs and final text (photocopied) of "Preparations in Ireland for Direct Elections to the European Parliament", Common Market Law Review, 10/05/1977-11/04/1978; "Opportunities for Young People - Male and Female", 07/11/1978, at meeting organised by Labour Party Constituency Council, Rathmines West, Dublin; "European Commission for Low Energy Working Group", 11/1978; correspondence for and texts and drafts of "Irish Parliamentary Scrutiny of European Community Legislation", Common Market Law Review, 10/05/1977-22/12/1978.

Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles, 1979, some with notation, including "For a Europe Active in the Service of Peace in the World", 10th Congress of the Confederation of the Socialist Parties of The European Community", 12/01/1979; "That the Law is the Preserve of the Rich", 07/02/1979; "Senator Mary Robinson argues that the Senate could be transformed if there was simply the political will to do so"; 197[?]; "Strategy for a Living City", 10/05/1979; "AGM of the Old Men's Home", 02/05/1979; "Traffic in Dublin - The Southern Cross Ring Road", at meeting organised by Dodder Residents' Association, Rathfarnham, Dublin, 02/05/1979; "Belgrade Square Residents Association", 22/05/1979;"Churchtown Residents Association", 28/05/1979; "the Jury system in Ireland", 197[?]; "In Favour of an Energy-efficient Society", 06/1979; "Family Law Reform and Access to remedies", public meeting organised by Clontarf Constituency Council, Labour Party, 18/07/1979;"Bail Explained", article for "Labour", 197[?]; "Deeds of trust for Community Schools - A New Discrimination?", 26/09/1979; "Urban Legal Studies", 197[?]; "Public Order and Emergency Legislation (Reply to Paper by Dr Paul O'Higgins)", 197[?]; "Interview with Senator Mary Robinson by Brian D'Arcy, C.P.", 197[?]; "The Role of Parliament and European Integration", paper outline for symposium, 197[?]; 7th International Congress for European Law, "The Individual and European Law", Commission 3, (MR as Rapporteur), 197[?]; "the Role of The Irish Parliament", symposium on European Integration and Parliaments in Europe, 197[?]; "the Influence of US Federal Supreme Court Decisions on the Development of Constitutional Law in Ireland", 197[?].

Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles, 1980-1982, some with notation, including "A Sense of Ireland", 198[?]; "The Single Parent Family", 198[?]; "IS Marriage threatened by Abolishing Status of Illegitimacy", 198[?]; "the Oireachtas in the 80s", summary of contribution by MR to conference on "Parliament in Crisis - A European Perspective", 18/01/1980; "Housing and Land: The Constitutional Issue", Labour: Action on Housing event, 24/02/1980; "The Protection of Human Rights in the Republic of Ireland", Belfast, 18/04/1980; "the government's Scheme of Civil Legal Aid and Advice", 26/04/1980;"Irish Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights", 02/05/1980; "The Single Parent Family", AGM of Medical Union, 16/10/1980; "Young Women and Employment - workshop on accumulation of social handicaps", European Youth Forum, Brussels, 03/12/1980; "Law in Morality in Ireland", Bedford College, London, 10/12/1980; summary of speech to one-parent family group, Clonsilla, Dublin, 05/02/1981; "Ireland Plus Thirty - A Political Perspective", 08/07/1981; "The Senate's Legal Powers", WPA meeting, 23/09/1981; "Law and Conscience - A Conflict of Laws?", 198[?]; "the Brandt Report: Implications for Ireland", 09/02/1982; "Legal Education - Public Injustice", students' union meeting, Trinity College Dublin, 10/03/1982; opening address at seminar on health hazards and safety in the environment, Labour Women's Council, 03/04/1982; "Social Reform - A New Legislative Approach", 26/04/1982; comment on "Survey of Arklow's People's Knowledge of, and Attitude Towards Family Matters 1981/82", 13/05/1982; "Our Bluff Called", 07/09/1982.

Material including correspondence, itineraries, receipts and programmes, relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 1980s, including that concerning talk "Ireland and the Communities - after the honeymoon period", given at Centre of European Governmental Studies, University of Edinburgh, 12/12/1980, with correspondence between MR and Prof John DB Mitchell, and later between MR and John MacPherson, Deputy Secretary, University of Edinburgh, on sudden passing of Mitchell, 10/10-31/12/1980; correspondence between MR and Claire O Jackson, College Theological Society, Trinity College Dublin relating to talk "Law and Conscience", given by MR to the society, 23 November 1981 and copy of Jackson's own paper "Law and Conscience - A Conflict of Laws", 22/09-26/11/1981; correspondence between MR, Mary Kirwan, Secretary, Dublin University Law Society inviting MR to participate in opening meeting on 19 October, and same between MR and Angela Foyle, Hon Secretary, 22/06-05/08/1982; correspondence concerning MR chairing David Coombes Inaugural Lecture, National Institute of Higher Education, Limerick (NIHEL) [now University of Limerick] from Coombes, and from Paddy Doran, Dean, College of Humanities and Edward M Walsh, President NIHEL, 12/12/1982-24/01/1983; material concerning talk MR gave at Alexandra College exhibition on Non-Traditional Careers for Girls, at the RDS [Royal Dublin Society], April 1985, [22/04?]-10/05/1985; material concerning talk "Women and Parliament" given by MR at Merriman Summer School Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, 09-24/08/1985; correspondence concerning talk on "Family Law" MR was giving to Dublin University Women Graduates Association on 4 Feb 1986, from Marion Barrett, Hon Secretary, Gerry Watts and Amy Phillips, 17/12/1985-14/02/1986; material concerning talk MR gave "Irish Women and Ireland's Laws in the European Context" at "Women in Contemporary Ireland" conference at Center for Irish studies, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, April 1986, 06/12/1985-14/11/1986; correspondence and maps relating to speech MR gave as Guest speaker at Trinity College Dublin Association annual dinner, in Royal Portrush golf club, county Antrim, Northern Ireland, on 25 April 2986, 18/12/1985-27/04/1986; and material concerning keynote speech MR gave at "Women and Law in Ireland" seminar organised by University College Dublin Women's Studies Forum, May 1986, including letter of thanks from Ailbhe [Smyth] 11/03-03/05/1986.

Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles, 1984-1986, some with notation, including "The Strasbourg Connection", 198[?]; "That our Written Constitutional has served us well", debate in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), 24/10/1984; "The Mechanics of Law Reform", public lecture in series on Law and social policy by Law School Staff, TCD, 29/11/1984; "Legislative Change - Too Many Bottlenecks", Law Students' Congress, UCC [University College cork], 01/02/1985; draft of interview for New Labour & Ireland, 03/1985; "One-parent Families - the Need For an Integrated Approach", Cherish conference, 26/04/1986; "The single European Act: Has the correct Constitutional Procedure Been Followed?", article for Irish Times, 198[?]; "Family Law in Ireland", 18th Triennial Conference of the Associated Countrywomen of the World, Killarney, 27/05/1986; "Liberty and Society", University College Dublin, 28/11/1986; "Judicial Protection of Freedom of Expression in the Other Common Law Countries: United Kingdom and Ireland", 198[?].

Texts and drafts of Mary Robinson (MR)'s addresses and articles, 1987-1989, some with notation, including "That Ireland Should Reconsider its Membership of the EEC", inaugural debate organised by FLAC, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), 22/01/1987; "That Seanad Éireann notes the Fiftieth Anniversary of Bunreacht na hÉireann", 1987; "Social Reform - An Urgent Priority", 198[7?]; "The Politics of Anti-Poverty", 14/02/1987; "Sex Education - Its Place in Irish Schools", 25/02/1987; "USI Protest on Third Level Education" [USI is Union of Students of Ireland], 09/03/1987; "Tendencies Towards A European Foreign Policy", Florence, Italy at conference on "Structure and Dimensions of European Community Policy", 11-13/06/1987; "Devant La Cour" [Before the Court], L'Avocat et l'Europe [The Lawyer and Europe], Strasbourg, France, 09/10/1987; "Parliament and Foreign Policy Accountability in Ireland", 10th annual conference of Royal Irish Academy, 27/11/1987; "The Constitution and the Courts", article for Irish Times supplement on the Irish Constitution, December 1987; "Legislative Framework for 1992 - Can the System Cope?", ACCA conference, Rosslare, County Wexford, 07-08/10/1988; "This House believes that the Anglo-Irish Agreement offers no long term solution to Ulster's problem's", Cambridge Union Debate, 03/02/1989; text of article for the Independent, [05/1989?]; "Formal Opening of Clanwilliam Institute", 12/06/1989; "Implications of 1992 for Trade Unions and Staff Associations", ICPSA seminar, 22/09/1989; seminar on equality 1989, annual seminar organised by public service executive union, 23/10/1989; address at launch of pamphlet on judicial separation by AIM Group, 18/11/1989.

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in the 1990s including handwritten inserts and draft of address by MR (while President of Ireland), with notation, given at Brown University to mark 100 years of the university opening its doors to women, and photocopy of final address ("100 Years of Women at Brown - Ogden Lecture") [1991]; text of speech "The Need To Honour Developing Human Rights Commitments", given by MR at Yale Law School, 16/10/1995; loose programme flyers for Herman Phleger Lecture, "Contrasting Constitutional Shifts - Europe and the U.S.", given by MR at Stanford University, 18/10/1995 (see poster for same P143/3/20/1); letter of thanks from Richard Murphy, Faculty of English Language and Literature, Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tulsa", to MR for coming the to the university and giving speech, 29/02/1996, with poem he wrote "Ardilaun" attached.

Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s attendance at events at Academic Institutions, where date was unknown. Consists of text "Douglas Hyde (Duglas de h-Ide) (1860-1949): The Trinity Connection", 19[90s?] and 15 colour photos from event where MR gave talk at University of California, Irvine, Centre for the Study of Democracy, 20[10s?].

Material relating to launches Mary Robinson (MR) addressed at Academic Institutions in 2000, consisting of partial text of address given at launch of London School of Economics Centre for the Study of Human Rights, [2000]; letter to MR from Sara Cantillon, Co-ordinator, the Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin, relating to Equality Studies 10th anniversary report "Education For Transformation" which Mr was launching on 15 December, along with copy of report and flyer for event, 12-15/12/2000.