File 7 - Interviews, press releases, other press 1995

64 pp

Material relating to press coverage of President Mary Robinson (MR), 1995, including typed letter from Heather Parsons, Editor RTÉ Guide [Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's national public service broadcaster], requesting MR do interview for Guide on her family life, with faxed handwritten reply turning down interview for privacy reasons, 25-30/01/1995; photocopy of typed letter from David Dickinson, Executive Producer, "Monarchy", in relation to featuring MR in 3rd programme in series about the British Monarchy, for episode provisionally called "Republic", 28/02/1995; typed letter from Anne Daly, Esperanza Productions Ltd, Dublin, thanking MR for meeting with her and enclosing article from Guardian on development agencies, 11/04/1995; card and note which accompanied a tape (US version and format) of the historic visit by MR to Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma, June 1995, which was left at Áras an Uachtaráin [official residence of the President of Ireland] by Mrs Garrard, 23/06/1995; photocopy of interview request from Sara Green, Euronews, to Bride Rosney (BR), Special Adviser to the President, 18/07/1995; photocopy of typed letter from Michael Waterhouse, Series Producer, Bounds Away Productions, Kent, England to BR in relation to a series of programmes on women in positions of political importance, which BBC had asked him to develop and which he was asking whether MR was interested in taking part in, 20/07/1995; typed fax from Paul Smith, regional editor, Daily Mirror, to BR in relation to proposals for a special edition in Northern Ireland and Ireland to mark 1st anniversary of IRA cease-fire on 30th August, and inviting MR to make personal contribution to publication, 26/07/1995; handwritten fax from Paul Larkin, Producer, RTÉ, requesting interview with MR when she was visiting Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, that weekend, 26/07/1995; material relating to BBC Radio Four Programme, "Candle in the Window", on Irish Diaspora, and MR's light she placed on window at Áras an Uachtaráin, including correspondence and draft script with edits, 01-14/09/1995; fax from Ed Mulhall and Charlie Bird, RTÉ, in relation to a second documentary on MR's Presidency covering second half of her term, following the success of their first one, 19/12/1995.

Ref: P143/4/8/1/7

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