Files relating to Corn Exchange production of Through a Glass Darkly by Ingmar Bergman and adapted for the stage by Jenny Worton, directed by Annie Ryan. Staged at Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

Files of production material from plays produced by The Corn Exchange Theatre Company. Files include scripts, draft and rehearsal scripts, production/direction notebooks by Annie Ryan, design material and related items to production.

Manuscript copies of journals produced by Republican prisoners within Long Kesh prison, edited by Paddy McMenamin. Topics covered in the journals include Irish nationalism and republicanism, government and societal reform, military intelligence, world news, editorial cartoons, and updates on individual prisoners.

Ring binder with A4 pages of manuscript notes, vocabulary, learning notes, and writings about the Irish language by Paddy McMenamin. Includes notes on words, tenses, phrases in the Irish language, poetry in Irish, as well as writings by McMenamin, such as a short essay entitled "The Gaelic Tongue". Also includes a certificate of "Feis Cheis Fada" (Long Kesh Feis), Christmas 1975, awarded to McMenamin.

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).]

This subseries consists of material relating to the setting up and running of Euro Avocats, 1989-1990. As per documentation in this subseries, Euro Avocats was set up to be a European set of Chambers, to meet needs for legal services within the community and EFTA [European Free Trade Association] countries, ACP countries [African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States] and elsewhere, and was possibly jointly founded by Mary Robinson and Anthony Lester. It was launched October 1989.

Some material in this subseries has been closed to adhere to GDPR regulations.

The ICEL [Irish Centre for European Law] was founded, June 1988 by Mary Robinson (MR), to advance legal education by focusing on issues arising from the European Community's Single Market Programme, which was designed to achieve an integrated market of ca 320 million by the end of 1992. This initiative was taken at a time when university cutbacks would otherwise have inhibited academic developments in this field. Established and based in Trinity College Dublin, ICEL had MR as its director for the 1st two years, and as Chair of the Executive Board, with Nicholas Robinson (NR) as Administrator. At some point in 1991, Alex Shuster took over as Director and Pauline Curtin as Administrator. NR continued for an unknown period on Board, and MR is listed as a Patron.

Material consists of memorandum and articles of associations (P143/1/7/1), material relating to a two-year policy-oriented project known as the Study Group on European Citizenship (P143/1/7/2), correspondence, minutes, agendas (P143/1/7/3,4), pamphlets, membership forms, flyers and newsletters (P143/1/7/5) and material relating to MR’s visit to Sweden, as Director of ICEL, May 1990.

Material relating to the Council of Europe's interregional meeting "Human Rights at the Dawn of the 21st Century", organised in advance of the World Conference on Human Rights, and for which Mary Robinson (MR) was General Rapporteur, 28-30 January 1993. Her delegation included Nicholas Robinson, Peter Ryan, Secretary to the President, Bride Rosney, Special Advisor to the President, Brian McCarthy, Department of the Taoiseach, and Colm O'Floinn and Síle Maguire, Department of Foreign Affairs. It consists of papers and reports from the meeting including MR's conclusions, and a letter of thanks from Peter Leuprecht, Director of Human rights, Council of Europe 24/03/1993.

[Archivist’s Note: This work overlaps MR’s term as President of Ireland (P143/4)]

Material in this subseries consists of general correspondence connected to Mary Robinson's legal work arranged across six files and covering the period 1980-2011. It includes correspondence relating to the General Council of the Bar of Ireland (P143/1/17/1), to payment of costs from the Attorney General Fund in adoption cases (P143/1/17/2, restricted), to the provision of low-powered community radio station in Dublin (P143/1/17/4), and correspondence between Mary and Nicholas Robinson and Lord Anthony Lester, Queen's Council and Human Rights Lawyer, (P143/1/17/5).