Reports and correspondence relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and reaction to it, 1987, including letter from Mary Robinson (MR) to the Editor, Irish times in relation to the angry reaction to tom King's "clumsy attempt to create some political space for dialogue with Unionist politicians", 23/01/1987; report "Common Sense (Northern Ireland - An Agreed Process)" with cover letter to MR from John McMichael, Chairman, Ulster Political Research Group, Belfast, 01/1987; text of speech by John Cushnahan, Alliance Party Leader, addressing 17th annual conference of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, 11/04/1987; handwritten letter from Bill Barbour, Alliance party, wishing MR luck in Senate elections, 13/04/1987; press release from Rev Martin Smyth, Ulster Unionist, claiming "Referendum on Single Act should be used to amend claim over Ulster", 15/04/1987 with cover note from his assistant Ron Aitken congratulating MR on her re-election to [to Seanad Éireann, Irish Senate]; flyer from Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London, UK, stating her commitment to equality of employment opportunity in Northern Ireland, 09/1987; two publications on "Religious Equality of Opportunity in Employment" from Department of Economic Development (UK): "Guide to Effective Practice" and "Classification of Schools for Monitoring Purposes", 09/1987; Standing Advisory Commission on Human rights (UK) report "Religious and Political Discrimination and Equality of Opportunity in northern Ireland - report on Fair Employment", with press release and background briefing from Policy Studies Institute, 29/10/1987; "Minority Rights and Majority Rule", paper delivered by Tom Hadden and Kevin Boyle, delivered at Queen's University Belfast, 1987.

Material consisting of correspondence, flyers and background information relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and reaction to it, 1988, including flyer publicising book "Human Rights And Responsibilities in Britain and Ireland: A Christian Perspective", produced by an interchurch working group from United Kingdom and Ireland, 01/1988; correspondence between Dr Christopher McGimpsey, Anthony Moriarty and Mary Robinson (MR) in relation to court challenge to the Anglo-Irish Agreement being brought by McGimpsey, and Michael McGimpsey, 07-25/01/1988; text of statement by Taoiseach [Irish Prime Minister] Charles J Haughey on Anglo-Irish Relations in Dáil Éireann [lower house of Irish parliament], 17/02/1988; correspondence between MR and several Unionists in relation to the efficacy of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, and suggestions for improvement, 30/11/1985-05/03/1988; correspondence between MR and Geoff Gilbert in relation to conference on Anglo-Irish Relations which MR could not participate in due to clash with David Norris hearing in Strasbourg [see P143/1/2/17], 03/1988; flyer for "The Hillsborough Accord A Review", series of four public meetings, Royal Dublin Hotel, 31/05/-21/06/1988, organised by the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, County Wicklow; "The Constitutional Roots of the Troubles of the North of Ireland", draft of address by MR at Irish forum Event in United States of America, 08/08/1988.

Correspondence and other material relating to My Robinson's address to the Union Society of Cambridge debate on the Anglo-Irish Agreement, on 3rd February 1989, including flyers, agenda and text summary of MR's address on motion "this House believes that the Anglo-Irish Agreement offers no long-term solution to ulster's problems".

Reports relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985-1989 including copies of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 11/1985; "Anglo-Irish Encounter" conference on the role of the churches in British-Irish Relationships, Dublin, 26-27/11/1985; "Parliamentary Sovereignty And Northern Ireland - A Review of the party system in the British Constitution, with relation to the Anglo-Irish Agreement", Brendan Clifford, 11/1985; official report of parliamentary debates in Seanad Éireann for 27/11/1985, on Anglo-Irish Agreement motion, including Senator Mary Robinson's address; Co-operation North Annual Report 1985; "Why Unionists Say No" with cover letter from Sylvia Meehan, Chairperson, Employment Equality Agency, 1985; "Parliamentary Despotism - John Hume's Aspiration", Brendan Clifford, 01/1986; "Church & State - A Forum of Irish Secular Opinion", issue 21, Spring 1986 with flyer enclosed for The Social Study conference on theme "Reconciliation in Northern Ireland", Naas, August 1986; "A Better Deal Together", Campaign for a Devolved Government, 198[6?]; "Anglo-Irish Encounter" conference on the role of the media in British-Irish Relationships, London, 19/03/1986; pamphlets including "I am An Irish dimension (A Prod's-Eye-View of Northern Ireland", Vera E Nevin, 1986; "The Democratic Socialist" discussion journal vol 3 no 1, Autumn 1986, with cover letter from Martin McGarry, Secretary, 19/11/1986; newsletter "Unionist", issue 8, [12/1987]; The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (journal), with article "Criminal Justice and human rights in Northern Ireland", William E Hellerstein, Robert B McKay, Petr R Schlam, 03/1988; "The Courage of the brave - The Anglo-Irish Agreement a Politico-military Analysis", James Kelly 1989.

"Changing Skies - Writing Through the Climate Crisis", publication for Creative Nonfiction programme "Writing And Rhetoric and Mission Zero", University of Colorado, Boulder, 2022, with business card attached for Scott King, Executive director, Mission Zero.

Material in this subsubsubseries consists of correspondence sent and received by Mary Robinson (MR) in her role as Senator in Seanad Éireann [Irish Senate], including leading up to elections. It is arranged chronologically and includes correspondence with members of the public in relation to the Family Planning Bill 1973 (relating to removal of contraception ban) (P143/2/2/1/2/3), divorce laws and double taxation issues faced by those living and working on different sides of the border with Northern Ireland, (P143/2/2/1/2/7), and MR's stance on articles 2 and 3 of Irish constitution [which had laid territorial claim to Northern Ireland] and MR not running again for place in Seanad Éireann (P143/2/2/1/2/8).

[Archivist's note: some material in this section overlaps with P143/1/3/1]

Correspondence relating to Northern Ireland arranged chronologically across two files covering the period 1998-2002 (P143/2/3/2/1) and 2004-2011 (P143/2/3/2/2).

Letter from Michael Posner, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, to Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, conveying concern about proposed Northern Ireland Police Bill which they felt did not reflect the Patten Commission's vision for police reform, with cover letter from Lisa Laplante to Mary Robinson (MR), in her role as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 16-22/06/2000, and photocopy of letter from MR to United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair (TB), expressing same concern, 04/07/2000; further letters from MR to TB expressing need for establishment of an independent Human Rights Commission in Northern Ireland, 18/06/1998, 16/07/2001; photocopy of letter from Ciarán Ó Maoláin, Research Worker, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission to Kevin Lyne, Second Secretary, UK permanent mission, in relation to "International human rights treaty monitoring process", with cover letter sent to MR, 13/05/2002.

Correspondence between David Trimble, Ulster Unionist Party and Michael Posner, Executive Director, Human Rights First re comments Trimble made at First International Congress of Terrorism Victims in Madrid, January 2004, 06-17/02/2004; article "Diversity, Identity and Loss Among the Irish Diaspora", Irish Studies Review journal, 2007, by Brian Walker, Department of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, with cover letter from Walker to Mary Robinson, 24/10/2007; printout of email from Inez McCormack in relation to "Right to Housing" briefing (work by Seven Towers residents group), and press opportunities MR was doing for Amnesty in Belfast, 03/05/2011.

Material covers Mary Robinson (MR)'s election to Seanad Éireann which followed the general election (18 June 1969). Ballots were received between 04 July and 12 August 1969, and term ran from 5 November 1969 - 30 March 1973. MR was one of three candidates elected from Dublin University [Trinity College Dublin] constituency and ran as an independent.

Material consists of correspondence and election address flyers of MR and other candidates. Correspondence (11/05-12/10/1969) in the form of letters seeking and giving support, including to and from MR's family, as well as letters apologising that votes were going elsewhere, include letters from Professor JM Kelly, Department of Jurisprudence and Roman Law, University College Dublin, 28/05/1969; typed letter from Mr Tom G Wilson to Dr Aubrey de Vere Bourke [MR's father], 29/05/1969; handwritten letter from Nicholas Robinson [MR's partner and later husband] to Miss Bourke, London, 10/06/1969; handwritten letter from MR to her parents giving details of the campaign, 13/06/1969; Bishop of Tuam, 14/06/1969; Professor Robert FV Heuston, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Southampton, 17/06/1969; letter to Mrs Tess Bourke [MR's mother] from Sarsfield Hogan, Irish Steel Holdings Ltd, 18/06-04/07/1969; handwritten letter from Hugh Alexander Boyd, Ballycastle County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 19/06/1969; The Very Reverend C Gray-Stack, 19/06/1969; handwritten letter from Henry Bourke [MR's brother], Singapore, to parents, 03/07/1969; handwritten letter to MR from Paget [MR's uncle?], 11/07/1969; letter from James Mitchell Wright, Sydney, Nova Scotia and reply which gave vote tally, which showed MR got 3rd and final seat, 27/06-12/10/1969; typed copies of letters sent by MR to potential voters; typed list of potential voters in County Cavan. Election address flyers from William Bedell Stanford, William A Dillon, Dr Owen Sheehy Skeffington (1965 Senate election), for John N Ross (year not listed) and for MR (1969).