Material which was sent to Mary Robinson while President Elect, and just following her inauguration, to familiarise herself with the running of Áras an Uachtaráin (Áras) including photocopy of letter from Department of Finance relating to the revision of pay of certain civil service grades, 11/09/1990, with list of pay scales as of 01/10/1990 and compliment slip from Secretary of the Government; photocopy of page labelled "General Information - Salaries of Public Representatives and Officials", taken from unknown publication, as of 01/07/1989.

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Material which was sent to Mary Robinson (MR) while President Elect, and just following her inauguration, to familiarise herself with the running of Áras an Uachtaráin (Áras) including two photocopies of "Áras an Uachtaráin Review of Organisation and Procedures, Management Services, Department of Public Services", June 1986; photocopy of memo "On the Employment of Aides-De-Camp to An tUachtarán" from "A" Administration Section, Adjutant-General's Branch, Defence Forces Headquarters, Dublin to [Frank] Murray, Assistant Secretary to the Government and [Peter Ryan] Secretary to An Uachtarán [The President], 20/11/1990; information document on "The Presidential Establishment" (make-up of the secretariat, note on aide-de-camp, status and salaries of household staff, President's salary, and allocation of costs for entertainment by President), "State and other visits abroad", "Administrative arrangements" and "the Inauguration", 11/1990; typed letter to Ass. Commissioner Ned O'Dea and Supt. Aidan Brown from Bride Rosney, Special Adviser to the President on behalf of MR, listing members of An Garda Síochána [Irish police force] MR was seeking for various tasks, [11]/1990; typed memos from Peter Ryan, Secretary to the President, to MR in relation to funding for the household of Áras, 05/12/1990, financial resources, services provided by other departments and C.E.R.T. review, 17/12/1990; typed list of telephone extensions for the Áras, listing staff names, [12/1990?].

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Material in this subsubseries, consisting mainly of correspondence, relates to the administration of Áras an Uachtaráin, the official residence of the President of Ireland, for 1990. It includes that relating to a review of staff and staffing levels and resources at the start of Mary Robinson (MR)'s term as President, which began officially when she was inaugurated on 4th December 1990, as well as allocation by the Government of costs for entertainment by the President. General background information on the running of the Áras is also included, much of which was sent to MR once she was declared President elect following the election on 7th November 1990.

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This subseries relates to Áras an Uachtaráin, the official residence of the sitting President of Ireland and the administration, organisation and management of resources within it, including staffing. Material includes correspondence, minutes and agendas and is arranged chronologically by year.

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

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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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