General correspondence relating to legal matters including from Monika Leech, Solicitors Debating Society of Ireland in relation to them representing Ireland at the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot competition 1990 in Washington DC, 26/01/1990; circulars from the Benevolent Society of the Bar of Ireland relating to annual appeal, 07/2001; email correspondence in relation to the compilation by the International Bar Association of a Worldwide Directory of organisations offering assistance to the rule of law, 08-14/05/2002; email correspondence from Brigid Inder at ICC Women and Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, including in relation to the announcement that ICC [International Criminal Court]'s first investigation will be on crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 01 July 2002, and of the US withdrawal on resolution 1487, 23-27/06/2004; email correspondence from John R Healy, Atlantic Philanthropies, in relation to an appeal taken by the Family Planning Association in Northern Ireland against the dismissal of a judicial review into the Department of Health's obligations to issue guidelines on circumstances in which abortion was legal, 08-15/10/2004; correspondence with and related to the ABA (American Bar Association), including from Michael Pates in relation to Mary Robinson (MR) serving as panellist in the programme "The Global War on Terror: Conflict or Compatibility with the US Bill of Rights and the International Rule of Law?", 25/07/2005, from Lynn Hecht Schafran, National Judicial Education Program, Legal Momentum Advancing Women's Rights, in relation to the Summer 2005 issue of the University of Toledo Law Review, A Symposium on Women of the Courts, and in relation to the lecture MR gave at Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Distinguished Lecture on Women and the Law, 03/10/2005, from Ellen G Yost on ABA's Commission on Immigration, 30/03/2006 and from William H Neukom, President elect, in relation to MR agreeing to serve as Honorary Co-Chair of the World Justice Project, 31/01/2007, (05/2000-09/10/2007); cover letter from John Horgan, Professor of Journalism, Dublin City University and draft article he wrote regarding the "assault by the Minister for Justice on the Centre for Public Inquiry", 13-14/02/2006, and letter from Mary H[arney?] in relation to lecture she was asked to give during the Tercentenary of "the Medical School", and questions she had for it which related to the support or lack of that MR received while working on the Contraceptive Bill, 31/05/2011.

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Photocopies of "The Legal Diary" The Courts of Justice sittings for 18/07/1957 and 14/01/1959 and of the Seanad Electoral Law Commission 1959 report.

Commission of the European Communities "Recommendation for a Council Decision setting up a Committee for Youth Questions, Recommendation for a Council Decision on the creation of a European Youth Forum", (submitted to the Council by the Commission), 26/02/1975; Chart of "the Life Cycle of Legislation - From Idea into Law", California State Assembly, 19[7?]; photocopy of typed report "British Financial Withdrawal from NI [Northern Ireland]?" relating to article by Ciaran McKeown in The Irish Times, 197[5?]; folder labelled "Law and Law Reform" with handwritten notes on the number of reported cases on interpretation of the Irish Constitution, and numbers which referenced US cases, 1937-1979; typed document "Averil K.S. Deverell - An Appreciation", 03/03/1979; National Youth Council of Ireland annual report October 1978 - September 1979 and Accounts 1978; ringbound document, Catholic Youth Council annual report 1979 with cover letter from Rev John Fitzpatrick, and reply from Mary Robinson, 11-25/03/1980.

Dublin District Council Youth Committee ITGWU [Irish Trade and General Workers Union] School survey report relating to continued employment of young people under school leaving age, with cover letter from Michael Wall, Youth Officer, ITGWU, press release and statement by Minister of State at the Department of Labour, 28-29/05/1980; typed document "Justice and Legal Aid", 198[?]; typed bound report "The future of the Solicitors' Profession in Ireland", by Brendan Walsh, Department of Political Economy, University College Dublin and Maurice Roche, Department of Economics, University College Maynooth, 25/09/1985; ringbound folder relating to the EEC Directive on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security, 19 December 1978, and number of European cases related to that directive, 1987-1989.

Photocopy of revised proof of Equal Status Bill, 1990, and explanatory documents, 1990; Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Bureau of the Assembly report "on developing legislation, Human Rights and the rule of law in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", prepared by Sir John Freeland, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and Mr Gankur Jorundsson, Member of the European Commission of Human Rights, 04/05/1995; typed copy of Annual Lecture to The Social Sciences Research Centre, University College Galway, "The Increasing Need for a Modern Management Infrastructure to the Courts", Mrs Justice Denham, 05/05/1995; report "The United States and the Establishment of a Permanent International Criminal Court", the Carter Centre, 13/11/1997; European Law Research Centre Annual report 1998/1999.

The Graham Turnbull Essay Competition 2000/2001 "In what circumstances can humanitarian intervention be justified?", The International Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales, 10/2001; European Law Research Centre Annual report 20001/2002; typed document on the mission of the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP), [10/2002?]; Interights - The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights Annual Review 2002-03; typed document "Punishing the enemy", Bo Ekman, 19/08/2003.

Early typescript draft of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs. Handwritten comments on the manuscript by Etienne Rynne.

Corrected draft of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs. Spellings errors and grammar corrected in ink. Some pieces of text have been cut and pasted in to the manuscript, adding new wording. Three copies of a hand-drawn Location Map are included.

Corrected typescript text of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs and maps.

Mockup of the final manuscript including photographs and maps. Paper with text has been glued to pages, and there are notes in the margin with details on font and margin sizes.