Share book detailing shares for members of the society.

Correspondence dealing with the annual returns to the Registry of Friendly Societies, annual accounts with the auditors and the liquidation of the society.

Cheque book stubs detailing cheques paid.

Returns to the Registrar of Friendly Societies and the cancelling of the registry with the Registrar. Includes the rules of the Society.

Folder labelled "Children First" consists of correspondence, newsletters, meeting agendas and other material related to the organisation, formed in 10/05/1974, concerned with the welfare of children in adoption, and with proposed amendments to the Adoption Bill 1974. It includes correspondence between Vera Stokes, PRO [Public Relations Officer] Children First, and Minister for Justice, [Mr Cooney], 07/06/1974; correspondence between R Charles Mollan, member of Children First, and Mary Robinson (MR), introducing the organisation, its aims and recommendations, and requesting informal meeting, 08/06/1974 and further correspondence 21/06/1974; proposed constitution for Children First, 197[4?]; memorandum sent to every senator by Children First, [06/1974]; letter of thanks from Vera Stokes to MR, following her meeting with the Committee of Children First, 06/1974; correspondence between Nan Avery, Mary Heffernan, Children First, and MR including various case studies outlining examples of issues with adoption law*, 26/06-19/07/1974; Children First 1st progress report 05-11/1974; submission from Children First to Task Force on Child Care Services, with cover letter to Senator MR from Anne Larkin, Secretary, Children First, 31/01/1975 which also mentions sudden death of Vera Stokes in previous October; 2nd progress report 12/1974-05/1975; Agenda for AGM, 28/05/1975 and 17/04/1978; Children First newsletters Winter 1975-6, Summer 1976, Autumn 1976, Winter 1976-7, Special issue on Proceedings of the Children First Conference on Substitute Parenting, Spring 1977 with supplement, Summer 1977, Autumn 1977, Winter 1977-8, Summer & Autumn 1978, Spring 1979 with supplement, Summer & Autumn 1979, Winter 1978-9 and Winter 1979-80; flyers for symposium "Working Together for our Sick and Handicapped Children", 18/11/1976, Children First seminar "From Birth to Three the Most Vulnerable Years", 03,04/11/1978, and flyer for Bernardo’s Adoption Advice Service, 197[?].

*Non anonymised case studies have been removed to closed file.

Correspondence between Nan Avery, and Mary Heffernan, Children First and MR including various case studies outlining examples of issues with adoption law [*], 26/06-19/07/1974 -non anonymised case studies

This subseries consists of material relating to 2 Hare Court, Temple, London, and Mary Robinson's work as Member of Chambers, 1988-2014, and is arranged chronologically across five files.

[Archivist's Note: 2 Hare Court is a barristers' chambers specialising in criminal and regulatory law, located in the Inner Temple, one of the four Inns of court, the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales. According to Mary Robinson's memoir "Everybody Matters", she joined chambers at 2 Hare Court "around 1987, at the invitation of my friend Anthony Lester, QC, one of the great human rights lawyers of our generation", having been called to the Middle Temple in 1973 (See P143/1/1).]

Correspondence and other material relating to 2 Hare Court, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s work as a member, including minutes, accounts, draft constitution and reports; correspondence with Anthony Lester, QC, Martin Smith, Clerk to Chambers and TM Barker, Director and other members of Chambers; correspondence with Forrester, Norall and Sutton, Brussels. Material also relates to Chambers Seminar on Community Law (17/02/1990) and includes list of participants.

[Archivist's Note: Material overlaps with the start of MR's term as President of Ireland (04/12/1990-12/09/1997) and letters from Lester in December 1990 refer to her inauguration and to her no longer working with 2 Hare Court. Also overlaps with Euro Avocats (see P143/1/6)]

Closed material includes CVs, and documents with home addresses and telephone numbers of members of chambers.

Correspondence and other material relating to 2 Hare Court, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s work as a member, 2000-2014, including circulars and fixture lists relating to events (2000, 2002, 2014); Bench Lists for 2009 and 2012; magazine The Middle Templar, Issue 51, Winter 2011; correspondence from Ms Hilary Woodard, Editor, Middle Temple Bench Book, 11/08/2014.