Texts and photocopies of texts of addresses made by President Mary Robinson at various events, July - September 1993, including at opening of 21st Willie Clancy Summer School, Milltown Malbay, County (Co.) Clare, 03/07/1993; opening of Jonathan Swift Seminar, St. John of God Brothers, Celbridge Abbey, Co. Kildare, 08/07/1993; address in Irish at Comhdháil An Chraoibhín, Coláiste Naithí, Bealach an Doirín, Co. Ros Comáin [Douglas Hyde Congress in Coláiste Naithí Secondary School, Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon], which includes draft, and brochure for the Dubhghlas de hÍde [Douglas Hyde] Interpretive Centre, listing out trees planted and giving details on old Ogham lettering and link with Tree and Bird Calendars, 16/07/1993; opening of new Cairde premises, 07/09/1993; International Conference of Women Judges, Wellington, New Zealand, 17/09/1993; State dinner, Parliament House, Wellington, and unveiling of memorial to Kate Sheppard, Christchurch, New Zealand, 19/09/1993; reception hosted by Lord Mayor of Auckland, 20/09/1993; Auckland Chamber of Commerce luncheon, New Zealand, 21/09/1993; "Irish Identity Within Europe", Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club, 24/09/1993; President Sharma's banquet, Rashtrapati Bhavan, India, 27/09/1993; opening of GOAL/CINI complex in Calcutta [renamed Kolkata in 2001], India, 30/09/1993.

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Texts and photocopies of texts of addresses made by President Mary Robinson at various events, October - December 1993, including at CII seminar, Bombay, India, 01/10/1993; Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), Ahmedabad, India, 02/10/1993; launch of Warrington Project, Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire, England, 09/10/1993; Premiere and Awards ceremony of The Very Special Arts Young Playwrights Programme 1993, Beckett Centre, Trinity College, 10/10/1993; visit to premises of AIDS Held West, Galway, 26/10/1993; presentation of the National FÁS Community Initiative Awards, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, 02/11/1993; opening of exhibition of ceramic sculpture by pupils of St. Joseph's School for Visually Impaired Boys, Drumcondra, Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 03/11/1993; opening of 22nd General Assembly of Association of European National Olympic Committees, 05/11/1993; opening of Art exhibition in honour of Dr Seán Ó Suilleabháin, on invite from Professor Bo Almquist, with translation sent by Bord na Gaeilge, 10/11/1993; opening of the New Mould Room, Cork Regional Hospital, 23/11/1993; on accepting the Liberal International Prize for Freedom, Budapest, Hungary, 27/11/1993; on conferral of Honorary Degree at University of Wales, Cardiff, 30/11/1993; opening of first Annual Christmas Lecture, by Professor Pierre-Gilles De Gennes (France), University Industry Centre, University College Dublin, 15/12/1993.

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Texts and photocopies of texts of addresses made by President Mary Robinson at various events, 1994, including "Ireland: The European Union and Eastern Europe. A Shared Future", at United States [of America] Council on Foreign Relations. 09/03/1994; "'We The Peoples of The United Nations...' Renewing That Determination", Irish Times/Harvard Colloquium, John F Kennedy School of Government, Boston, United States of America, 11/03/1994, and copies of the Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 103d Congress, Second Session, Senate, Washington, 22/03/1993 in which her address was introduced and entered into the record by Senator Edward Kennedy; "Sustainable Development - But For Whom?", Pope Paul VI Memorial Lecture, on invite of CAFOD [Catholic Agency for Overseas Development], Manchester, England, 17/04/1994; opening of Strokestown Park House Famine Museum, 14/05/1994; Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 24/06/1994; Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 29/06/1994.

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Texts and photocopies of texts of addresses made by President Mary Robinson at various events in 1995.

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Texts, photocopies of texts and drafts of addresses made by President Mary Robinson (MR) at various events, 1995, excluding her address to the Houses of the Oireachtas [Irish Parliament], February 1995, and at the Nexus Ireland and UN50 Anniversary Dinner, November 1995, which are included in later files. Material includes addresses at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 29/01/1995; "Equality and Democracy: Utopia or Challenge?", Council of Europe Conference, 09/02/1995; luncheon hosted by Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima, Japan, 25/02/1995, with text of MR's inscription in Visitor's Book at Hiroshima; "The Need to Honour Developing Human Rights Commitments", Yale School of Law, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America (USA), 16/10/1995, and copies of the Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 104th Congress, First Session, Senate, Washington, 11/12/1995 in which her address was introduced and entered into the record by Senator Edward Kennedy; "Constitutional Shifts in Europe and the United States: Learning From Each Other", at Stanford University, California, USA, 18/10/1995; "Imaginative Possessions", John Galway Foster Lecture, London, England, 26/10/1995.

This file also includes material relating to a talk given at a conference in New York, which related to hunger and famine across the world and the 150th anniversary of the start of The Great Famine, in Ireland, and which included drafts of address including a faxed version from Eavan Boland Casey [Irish Poet and friend of MR's] and newspaper cuttings relating to World Health Report 1995, and to a recreation of a Famine Walk to commemorate tragic events in Doolough, Co. Mayo, by Afri, an Irish-based Third World Charity, Sunday Tribune, 05/04-07/05/1995.

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Material relating to President Mary Robinson (MR)'s second address to the Houses of the Oireachtas on 2nd February 1995, "on a matter of national importance: Cherishing the Irish Diaspora", including correspondence, background material, drafts and final text.

Material includes memos regarding, agendas for and minutes of two meetings with the Council of State for the purpose of allowing MR to outline her proposal to address the Houses of the Oireachtas (24/01/1994), and to address them on the stated topic "Cherishing the Diaspora" (24/01/1995), 24/01/1994-24/01/1995; photocopy of draft motion in relation to joint sitting [of both Dáil and Seanad], with handwritten notes on need for motion to be passed in both Dáil and Seanad the following week, 26/01/1995; faxed memo from Department of the Taoiseach on protocol for visit of MR to Leinster House to address Houses of the Oireachtas, 26/01/1995; photocopy of letter from Frank Murray, Secretary to the Government, Department of the Taoiseach, to [Peter Ryan], Secretary to the President, informing him that Government had approved draft text of address MR proposed to deliver, 31/01/1995; copies of address in various forms including in large type for ease of presentation, and as downloaded from Media Library, Áras an Uachtaráin website; correspondence prior to and following MR's address including from Wesley Boyd, Director of Broadcasting Developments, RTÉ [Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's national public service broadcaster], suggesting that in preparing her address MR should note services RTÉ provided for Irish people living and working abroad, 23/01/1995, fax from MR's brother and sister-in-law Adrian and Ruth Bourke, congratulating MR on her speech, telephone message from British Ambassador expressing his regrets for not being able to attend, and from Niall Crowley, thanking MR for invite to address, 03/02/1995; copies of the Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 104th Congress, First Session, Senate, Washington, 27/02/1995 in which her address was introduced and entered into the record by Senator Edward Kennedy; various drafts and background material relating to MR's address, including letter from Luke Dodd, Stokestown Park Famine Museum, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, to MR 09/01/1995.

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Material relating to "Tolerance", an address by President Mary Robinson (MR) at NEXUS Ireland and UN50 Anniversary Dinner, Dublin Castle, 22/12/1995 including text of address and various drafts with notation; background material on NEXUS Ireland, an initiative of the Youth Board of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland; programme for "Freedom of Religion and Belief and The UN Year for Tolerance" conference in The Barbican Centre, City of London, September, which has quotes on Tolerance from many including MR; other background material including pamphlet from Island Pamphlets, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland on Shankill Think Tank, 1995, articles by Fintan O'Toole "Toppling The Dreary Steeples: 25 Years of Change in Ireland", Dr Garret FitzGerald, T.D. [and former Taoiseach], "Thoughts on Two Cultures: Learning to Live Together", Annual Memorial Lecture, 25/02/1988, Tess Hurson, "Picasso in Portadown: The Changing Faces of Rural Arts", presented to Irish Association Annual Conference, 10/1995, Gabriel Daly "Religion on the Defensive" and "Irish Catholicism - A Monolith?", and Máire Mac Aongusa, "The Alienation of Irish Travellers From the Educational System", 199[3-5?].

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Texts, photocopies of texts and drafts of addresses made by President Mary Robinson at various events, 1996, including "New Challenges to Leadership", keynote address at Stockholm, [Women Leaders event?], 06/05/1996; "Humanitarian Crises: Prevention, Response aid [and?] Rehabilitation", The National Forum on Development Aid, Dublin Castle, 09/07/1996, and draft sent to Government for consideration; opening of Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, 01/10/1996; "Civil Society: Renewal at Work", Rede Lecture given by MR, Cambridge University, England, 02/12/1996; "Humanitarian Crises: Prevention, Response and Rehabilitation", to English Speaking Union, (Churchill 1996 lecture), 03/12/1996.

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Material relating to "Tribute to Daniel O'Connell", an address President Mary Robinson made to the Reform Club, London, England, 15/05/1997, including text and drafts of address, background information on Daniel O'Connell prepared by Maurice O'Connell, The King's Hospital, Palmerstown Dublin, and his cousin Professor Emeritus Maurice R. O'Connell, both possibly descendants of Daniel, April 1997; background material on The Reform Club, 21/03/1997; newspaper cutting on Daniel O'Connell "New Ireland writes The Liberator out of History", The Irish Catholic, 08/05/1997.

[Archivist's Note: 1997 marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Daniel O'Connell.]

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Material relating to talks/addresses President Mary Robinson (MR) gave during her presidency, where details are incomplete. This includes text of address given by MR, in Irish and English, relating to the Council of State Room at Áras an Uachtaráin; handwritten note from Ann [Lane?] to MR relating to phone-call from Pat Cox regarding MR being invited to address [European] Parliament; text of a welcome toast in Irish from MR and Nick Robinson; phone message from Maura Quinn, Secretary to Sir David Fell requesting copy of MR's speech at Queen's University [Belfast]; draft text in Irish for address at Slógadh Náisiúnta, possibly at presentation of prizes at Slógadh Náisiúnta [national music, song and dance competition], Thurles, Co. Tipperary, [07/04/1991 (see P143/4/11/2/2), but also possibly another year]; draft for The Friends of Raoul Wallenberg invite to send message to Stockholm symposium "Beyond Lamentation: Options for Preventing Genocidal Violence"; photocopy of report from 1849, and of letter to Irish Times , 16/09/1996, in relation to donation by Mauritius to Ireland during "the Great Famine 1845-1850", which may have been used as background material for an address, and photocopy of newspaper article of MR address at Grosse Ile, former quarantine station or Irish refugees fleeing the famine, Canada; page listing costs for printing MR's Presidential Election address [1990/1991?].

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