Correspondence between Mary Robinson (MR) and The General Council of the Bar of Ireland including meeting agendas, accounts and Honorary Secretary's report, circulars relating to subscriptions to the Law Library and to amendments to the Code of Conduct, appeals for contributions to the Benevolent Society of the Bar of Ireland, Law Library News newsletters, tables of Counsels' fees in relation to High Court matters, material relating to Group Income Protection Schemes, Professional Indemnity Insurance and Bar Retirement Pension Schemes, and material relating to the provision and development of library services. It also includes correspondence between MR and GD Doyle, secretary of the Professional Practices Committee in relation to her appearance on Today Tonight, RTÉ to discuss the Divorce referendum, and possible breaches of the Bar Council's ruling on appearances by barristers, 16/03-17/05/1982; direct correspondence from Norman Jones (Insurance and Financial Services) in relation to the Income Protection Scheme, and its cancellation upon MR taking role of President of Ireland (30/09/1986-24/04/1991) and from Miller (Ireland) Insurance Brokers Ltd. in relation to Professional Indemnity Insurance and the reduced rates available once MR took up office as President (12/03/1990-24/08/1992), and subsequently Coyle Hamilton Corporate Broking, for same (19/03/1993-03/05/1995) and in relation to the Fair Trade Commission report on Restrictive Practices in the Legal Profession (02-05/07/1990).

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General correspondence relating to legal matters including from the Honorable Society of King's Inns, Henrietta street, Dublin which consists of circulars, correspondence relating to the numbers of student intake for the degree course, the adequacy of the degree course in light of the "emerging single market in Europe", and a change of address form showing Mary Robinson (MR)'s maiden name and home address in Mayo listed, 19[7?], (19[7?]-15/11/1989); correspondence between Nicholas Robinson and CJM Faber, Bar List Editor, London, in relation to MR getting an entry in the international section of the Bar List, 11-29/09/1980; from Herbert Mulligan, Honorary Secretary, Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association in relation to ongoing issues he was having with various Corporation and County Council officials regarding the operation of building estates and industrial estate leases, 14/11/1980; correspondence between Siobhán Lohan, committee member, Young Lawyers' Representative Body and MR in relation to the setting up of the body and to their concerns about the legal education of solicitors, and costs thereof (28/07-17/09/1982); circulars and agendas from The Irish Society of European Law ([1]/1984-[06]/1987); correspondence from The Law Society, Blackhall Place including general circulars to members and correspondence with MR in relation to a Symposium "The Family and the Law - Progress & Projections", 21 August 1987, (22/05/1986-19/02/1990); paper by MR "The Special Criminal Court" which was sent with cover letter from Ann Lane to Mr McClean, Principal Secretary of Lord Chief Justice, Northern Ireland, and returned (as promised) by Mc Clean, (10-18/02/1988); material relating to the battle to save and re-open St Maur's Church, sent by Margaret Moore, Secretary, St Maur's Catholic Church Restoration Group, Rush, County Dublin, along with a request for assistance and legal advice from MR which she was not permitted to give, as a barrister, (17/07/1987-06/04/1988); receipt for Queen's Counsel uniform from Ede and Ravenscroft Limited, Chancery Lane, London, 11/12/1989.

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Correspondence relating to the expression of interest by Tom Murchan, Dublin South Community Radio to the IRTC [Independent Radio and Television Commission] in providing a low-power community radio station in the Dublin area, and photocopies of related correspondence sent by Frank Jordan, Chairman, National Association of Concerned Viewers of Ireland, objecting to the retention permission for the transmission mast on Keeper Hill, County Tipperary, and planning permission for future masts. Includes photocopies of reports and press cuttings on dangers of "Microwave TV" as well as solicitors’ letters on behalf of Jordan, to The Planning and Development Section, Tipperary North Riding County Council. Unclear what Mary Robinson's involvement was.

Correspondence between Lord Anthony Lester, Queen's Counsel (QC), Hare Court [aka Lord Lester of Herne Hill] and Mary Robinson (MR) and her husband Nicholas Robinson including copy of letter from Lester and Barbara Dohman, QC recommending MR to be considered for membership of the Executive Committee of the Bar European Group, to William Elland, Secretary, Bar European Group, 01/02/1990; cover slip and photocopy of extract of Parliamentary Debate in House of Lords on "European Union: ECC Report", 12/04/1994; cover letter, draft article on problems achieving constitutional change in Great Britain, and copy of official report of Parliamentary Debates in House of Lords which included debate on recent developments in Northern Ireland, 17-18/10/1994; cover letter and copy of Second Reading debate on Lester's Treaties (Parliamentary Approval) Bill, and copy of supporting editorial from The Times, 28-29/02/1996; cover letter and photocopy of lectures Lester gave on Sex Equality Law, and on Race Discrimination and copy of Private Members Bill he introduced on the incorporation of the European Convention into UK Law, 10-11/1996; cover letter and copy of lecture given by Lester in Kuala Lumpur, "Human Rights and the Rule of Law - Memories and Reflections", 07/01/1997; cover letter and copy of official report of Parliamentary Debates in House of Lords which included debate on Lester's amendment to compensate firearms dealers whose businesses are destroyed by legislative ban, and debate on his Private Members bill on incorporating European Convention 04-10/02/1997; cover letter and copy of official report of Parliamentary Debates in House of Lords which included debate on Lester's Civil Partnerships Bill, 25-29/01/2002; cover letter and official report of Parliamentary Debates in House of Lords which included debate on Kyoto Protocol, 07-26/03/2002; copy of official report of Parliamentary Debates in House of Lords which included debate on Public Bodies Bill, 23/11/2010. Also includes typed copy of paper/talk by Lester, "Taking Human Rights Seriously", 19[??].

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.