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Letters from VIPs to President Mary Robinson, 1990 including letter from Frank McDonald, The Irish Times, congratulating MR on winning election, enclosing article he wrote on Áras an Uachtaráin [the official residence of the President of Ireland] and asking her to "keep the Fifties powder room!", 09/11/1990; letter of congratulations from The Hon Wendy Fatin MP, Minister for Local Government and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women, Canberra, Australia, 16/11/1990; card with pressed flowers on front, with handwritten message from Éamon de Buitléar [Irish writer, musician and film maker] to MR in Irish and English, wishing her long life and best wishes, 11/1990; handwritten letter from Gordon Wilson, thanking MR for inviting him to her inauguration, for all she stood for, for being her and stating "I was moved beyond words. Keep spreading the love", 06/12/1990; typed letter of thanks from Séamus Heaney [Irish poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner], thanking her for the honour of the invitation to the inauguration, and noting in handwritten postscript "Trust the poet to miss the obvious: the big incandescence was to be quoted so aptly and centrally. Grandeus grandeo!", 19/12/1990.

[Archivist's note: Gordon Wilson, a draper from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, survived the IRA bombing at Enniskillen, 08/11/1987, but lost his daughter, Marie, who died from her injuries. He became known internationally as a peace campaigner.]

Ref: P143/4/6/3/1

Letters from VIPs to President Mary Robinson (MR) during and related to her presidency and arranged chronologically by year. Also includes a folder of responses to letter sent by MR to over 80 Heads of State calling for assistance for Rwanda following genocide against minority Tutsi population in 1994 (P143/6/3/7).

Ref: P143/4/6/3

Typescript titled "Violets for Breakfast" (5pp). About a woman named Rita who receives a box full of violets every morning but does not know who sends them.

Government of Northern Ireland, 'Violence and Civil Disturbances in Northern Ireland in 1969', report of Tribunal of Inquiry, 2 volumes, 2 copies

Report by the Article 19 International Centre of Censorship documenting the curbing of freedom of expression in Turkey during the 1980s, including censorship laws, oppression of Kurdish people, state interference in freedom of expression, attacks on press freedom including imprisonment and murder of journalists, interference in book publishing, film censorship, and interference with religious expression.

TS script of radio play for "Vinegar Hill - a Chronicle of '98' (A Commemoration Play)" by Michael Andrew Lysaght Rynne. Includes letter from Rynne to the production/broadcast manager at the GPO, Dublin regarding the play.

'Village Wooing' - Written by George Bernard Shaw and directed by Garry Hynes. Lunchtime play produced at Druid Lane Theatre, Chapel Lane, Galway. Includes printed paper flyer (5 copies) detailing members of cast and production crew, dates, times and venue of production, a note on the author and details of other works being produced by Druid during lunchtime season of Irish plays.

File of black and white images from the play, featuring cast members Marie Mullen, Paul O'Neil and others, in costume and on set.

File of research notes by Etienne Rynne relating to Viking and iron age weapons. Includes a typescript paper by Rynne entitled "The Impact of the Vikings on Irish Weapons" (c. 1960s); A second typescript paper, untitled, by Rynne and relating to Viking and early Christian period weapons in Ireland. Also assorted articles used by Rynne in his research on the topic.