Correspondence and other material, 1990-1991, including protocol and photocopy of faxed speaking points for the presentation of credentials of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency Dr Martin Elsässer, on 11th December 1990, 23/11-11/12/1990; photocopies of "Mar Eolas" [For Your Information] notes to Ann Lane, from Kay Gleeson, on behalf of Peter Ryan (PR), Secretary to the President, giving details of various new Ambassadors who were coming to the Áras to present their credentials to President Mary Robinson including: [dates in brackets are dates of presentation] Their Excellencies Dr Istvan Pataki, Hungary (18/02/1991), Mr Mahmoud Hammoud, Lebanon, (12/02/1991), Pengiran Mustapha bin Pengiran Metasan, Brunei (13/03/1991), Mrs N.U.O. Wadibia-Anyeinwn, Nigeria (22/05/1991), Mr Abdelaziz Hamzaoui, Tunisia (28/05/1991), Mr Gventsadze Guerman Georgievich, U.S.S.R. (04/07/1991),Mr Ali Said Mchumo, Tanzania (28/06/1991), Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Ageel Al Dhanan, Oman (03/07/1991), George Gair, New Zealand and Mr Manuel T Yan, Philippines (23/07/1991), Mr Terence Barry McCarthy, Australia (07/08/1991), Mr Christian Ulrik Haxthausen, Denmark (04/09/1991), Chitilenchery Pathivil Ravindranathan, India (11/09/1991), Mr David Elliot Spiby Blatherwick, C.M.G., O.B.E., Great Britain and Ernest Bryll, Poland (12/09/1991), Fermín Zealada Jurado, Spain (20/09/1991), Mr Ivan Stanchev, Bulgaria (24/09/1991), Sergiu Celao, Romania (07/11/1991), Stephen Cletus Chiketa, Zimbabwe (27/11/1991), Juan Manuel Figuerero Antequada, Argentina (05/12/1991), Nikolai Ivanovich Kozyrev, USSR and Carlos Augusto de Proenco Rosa, Brazil (07/01/1992); cover letter from Dermot Nally, Secretary to the Government to PR in relation to Ambassador designate S.K. Dehlavi, Pakistan, which had at one point included Dehlavi's CV, 12/12/1991.

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Correspondence and other material, 1991-1992, including originals and photocopies of "Mar Eolas" [For Your Information] notes to Ann Lane, from Kay Gleeson, giving details of various new Ambassadors who were coming to the Áras to present their credentials to President Mary Robinson (MR) including: [dates in brackets are dates of presentation] Their Excellencies Mr Nikolai Ivanovich Kozyrev, USSR (23/03/1992), Mr Abdeslam Tadlaoui, Morocco (originally 17/06/1992 and postponed until 14/09/1992), Mr Junus Effendy Habibie, Indonesia (09/06/1993), Mrs Jean Kennedy Smith, United States of America (24/06/1993), Mr Ali M Yassin, Sudan (09/07/1993), Senor Hernán Errázuriz, Chile (29/10/1993), Mr Abdallah Fouad Hafez Hilal, Egypt (11/10/1993), Mr Joseph Kipyegon Ruto, Republic of Kenya (05/11/1993), Arnoldus Antonius Maria Hermans, the Netherlands (25/11/1993), Ms Fan Huijuan, China (17/12/1993), Mr Moshe Raviv, Israel (19/01/1994), Dr Ngoni Togarepi Chideya, Zimbabwe (26/01/1994), Mr Jānis Ūšis, Latvia (01/02/1994), Mr Ali M Jaidah, Qatar (03/02/1994), Mr Mohamed Lessir, Tunisia (03/02/1994) and Alberto Eduardo Ham, Argentina (11/02/1994); cover letters sent by Dermot Nally, Secretary to the Government to PR, with CVs for Ambassador Designates Nikolai Ivanovich Kozyrev (Russia), Tongchan Jotikasthira (Thailand), William Henry Gerald FitzGerald (United States of America), Germán Riesco (Chile), Love Mtsea, Republic of Zambia and Francois Mouton, France (20/01/1992-14/07/1992); correspondence from Mr Rodney HC Walshe, Hon Consul General, Consulate General of Ireland, Auckland, New Zealand listing schedule of rugby games and enclosing biography of Kate Sheppard, ahead of MR's visit in Autumn, 1993, with copy of response from MR, 10-22/12/1992; typed note from Joseph Brennan, [Deputy Secretary to the President], to MR that Spanish Ambassador had suggested Ms Natividad Cordon as a highly qualified and discrete teacher for Spanish lessons, 21/01/1993; photocopy of letter from Ambassador Gearóid Ó Cléirigh on his farewell meeting with King Baudouin King of the Belgians, [on end of Ó Cléirigh's term as Irish Ambassador?], 24/06/1993; material for address by MR to the National Law School of India, Bangalore, on 30 September 1993, which was faxed through from the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi; draft speech to welcome new Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany to Ireland.

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Correspondence and other material, 1996-1997, including letter from Sheila Copps, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Canadian Heritage, sent via the Canadian Embassy to Ireland, thanking MR for her video message for St Patrick's Day to coincide with their announcement of an Irish memorial on Grosse Île, and noting "Everyone at the ceremony remembered with great pride your trip to Grosse Île in 1994. We are honoured that you, the real champion of this announcement, could join us in technology and spirit", 18/03-03/05/1996; fax from Dónal Denham, Permanent Mission to the United Nations, to Bride Rosney, Special Adviser to the President, for MR, with report on Rwanda-Burundi by UNHCR, which "confirms the thrust of the GOAL information", 04-05/06/1996; handwritten letter from Denham to MR thanking her for her kind letter and enclosure, 23/12/1996; photocopy of letter from Elisabeth Palmstierna, Marshal of the Court, Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden to Irish Ambassador to Sweden, Martin Burke, enclosing letter from Her Royal Highness Princess Lilian to MR, which Burke sent with compliment card for Bride (letter from Lilian not included here), following MR's visit to Sweden, 22/04/1997; photocopy of notice of motion "That this House salutes President Mary Robinson of Ireland ... on her brave and successful efforts of the last seven years to improve relations between the peoples of these islands", sent by Embassy of Ireland, London to Department of Foreign Affairs and forwarded on to Peter Ryan, 20/03/1997; letter from Brendan McMahon, Ambassador, Embassy of Ireland, Nigeria in relation to MR's candidacy for post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, noting that the most to be hoped for was that Nigeria would not actively campaign against her candidacy, given Ireland as part of the European Union had recently sponsored a very critical resolution on Human Rights in Nigeria, 25/04/1997; letter from John HF Campbell, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, congratulating MR on her nomination as United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, 16/06/1997.

[Archivist's Note: Located in the middle of the St. Lawrence River, Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site of Canada commemorates the importance of immigration to Canada, particularly via the entry port of Québec, from the early 19th century to the First World War. Grosse Île also commemorates the tragic events experienced by the Irish immigrants at this site, primarily during the typhoid epidemic of 1847.]

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Letters from VIPs to President Mary Robinson (MR) during and related to her presidency and arranged chronologically by year. Also includes a folder of responses to letter sent by MR to over 80 Heads of State calling for assistance for Rwanda following genocide against minority Tutsi population in 1994 (P143/6/3/7).

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Letters from VIPs to President Mary Robinson (MR), 1992 including typed letter from Brian Friel [Irish dramatist], thanking MR for her speech at the "I.C.E.M. ceremony", 12/02/1992; handwritten letter in Irish from Dr Kenneth Whitaker, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, thanking MR for presenting an award to An Dochtúir [Dr] Mac Conaill, 14/03/1992; typed letter from Madeline Reid, wife/partner to Keith McBean, on their return to Ireland from India for his new posting as a First Secretary, and the work she was finishing up first including with an Indian NGO "Working Women's Forum", 24/03/1992; typed postcard from Rita Childers, widow of former President of Ireland Erskine Childers, congratulating MR on the good working relationship she enjoyed with the Government, as per news article enclosed, with typed draft response, 21/04-11/05/1992; handwritten letter from Séamus Heaney [Irish poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner] to MR referring to her press conference [following visit to Somalia], congratulating her on it being "electrifying", and referring to her use of lines from his poem "Cure at Troy", noting it had given them "such currency", and stating "I was caught between a well behaved 'aw shucks' and an inclination to stand out on Strand Road asking passersby if they'd heard what the President said in the States", 09/10/1992; typed letter from Cardinal Cahal Daly, Archbishop of Armagh, expressing admiration "for the great courage and compassion which [she] showed by her visit to Somalia", with response from MR, 07-12/10/1992.

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Folder labelled "Responses to Rwandan letter", consists of photocopies of responses from Heads of State to Mary Robinson (MR)'s letter on situation in Rwanda (not included) and translations of same, including from Their Excellencies Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General to the United Nations (06/01/1995), Carl Gustaf, King of Sweden (17/01/1995), Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (18/01/1995), Catherine A Tizard, Governor General, New Zealand (31/1/1995), Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom (02/02/1995), Roman Herzog, President of Germany (03/02/1995), Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein (31/01-08/02/1995), Albert II, King of the Belgians (10/02/1995), Mário Suares, President of the Portuguese Republic (08-13/02/1995), Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark (13/02/1995), Lech Wałęsa, President of the Republic of Poland (14/02/1995), Dr U Mifsud Bonnici, President of Malta (14-21/02/1995), Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (22/02/1995), Mr A Brazauskas, President of the Republic of Lithuania (20/02-06/03/1995), Holy Father, Pope John Paul II (16-28/02/1995), Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (01/03/1995), Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, President of the Italian Republic (16/02-06/03/1995), Ezer Weizman, President of State of Israel (21/02-07/03/1995), Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, President of Mexico, 26/01-10/03/1995), Michal Kováč, President of the Slovak Republic (16/03/1995), Prince Rainer of Monaco (03-20/03/1995), Árpád Göncz, President of the Republic of Hungary (22-30/03/1995), Mr Konstantinos Karamanlis, President of the Hellenic Republic (31/01-05/04/1995), Hussein bin Talal, King of Jordan (15/04/1995), François Mitterrand, President of the Republic of France (03-21/04/1995), William J Clinton, President of the United States of America (26/04-04/05/1995), Glafcos Clerides, President of the Republic of Cyprus (15/05/1995), Mr Elias Hraoui, President of the Republic of Lebanon (09/03-24/05/1995), Royal Thai Embassy, New Delhi (29/06/1995) and Mr Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (20-23/10/1995) following a later letter from MR.

Also includes memo from Peter Ryan, Secretary to the President, with advice on who to address letters to, and enclosing list of United Nations members, 02-05/12/1994 and transcript of courtesy call by Dr Joseph Karemera, Rwandan Minister for Health, and copy of letter he presented MR from President Bizimungu, (27/01-08/02/1995).

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Letters to and from VIPs to President Mary Robinson (MR), 1990-1997 (no dates given) including handwritten letter from Gary White Deer, Elder of Choctaw Nation, thanking MR for loan of painting "Brave Hearts Must Travel" which he used during tour of Ireland; Christmas card from Graham Turley, featuring photograph of Turley, his wife, Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin [murdered in a contract killing believed to have been ordered by a South Dublin-based drug cartel, in June 1996] and their son Cathal, [12/1996?]; compliment slip from Secretary General of United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali, thanking MR for her support of the UN.

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Correspondence from the public to President Mary Robinson (MR), with some photocopies of responses, 1992, including correspondence and transcribed phone messages relating to the X Case, [a landmark Irish Supreme Court case which established the right of Irish women to an abortion if a pregnant woman's life was at risk because of pregnancy, including the risk of suicide, which overturned a High Court injunction preventing a suicidal 14 year old rape victim, known as "X", from travelling to UK for an abortion] expressing dismay at the treatment of the girl, or dismay that abortion was being considered, and commenting favourably and negatively in relation to statement MR made as President, (20/02-11/03/1992); correspondence relating to the Anti-Live Hare campaign which had reached France and where the public were being invited to write to MR, with cover note from Peter Ryan, secretary to the President, asking MR if she wanted to raise it in a meeting with the Taoiseach, (03-10/9/1992); letters of thanks for flowers and condolences sent by MR including from Irene Barber on death of her daughter Jane, 12/06/1992, from Eddie Grace who according to second letter from his son Edmond was dying, 01-17/09/1992, from Nuala [Lane?] who thanked MR for presence of Aide-de-Camp Capt Hynes at husband Victor's funeral, 02/10/1992, and from Robert E Biggs on death of his mother, 14/11/1992; letter from Dr Michael Turner, Master, Coombe Lying-in Hospital, with report on developments at the hospital of which MR was Patron, and raising issue of need for additional funds, 28/10-05/11/1992.

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Correspondence from the public to President Mary Robinson (MR), with some photocopies of responses, 1993, including letter from friend of woman who had attended Muckross Park School with MR's mother, with photograph of group of young men and women the friend though MR might like, 17-19/02/1993; cutting of obituary of Fred MacLochlainn, who had died suddenly in Brazil and whose mother had attended Irish classes with MR in Spiddal, Galway, with photocopy of condolence letter, 26/02/1993; photocopy of typed letter from Philip A Cooney, Garda [member of Irish police force] relating to article in Irish Press (24/04/1993) on the abduction of Sir Paget Bourke, Judge and uncle of MR, and informing MR that it was Cooney and a colleague who were on duty at a checkpoint at Ballyconnell, County Cavan the night of the abduction [April, 1975] who were responsible for his rescue, 25/05/1993; thank-you letter handwritten from David [?], Office of the Minister for Defence, thanking MR for flowers while he had been ill, 27/07/1993; typed letter and enclosed background material from Norman Mongan, relating to the Irish Diaspora and the wine industry in France, particularly that of Chateau La Houringue which was owned by a "Burck" in late 18th century until 1870, 03-14/12/1993.

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Photo album with illustrated poems from pupils (ages 8-11) at St Brendan's [Primary School], Craigavon, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, presented to Mary Robinson during a visit to the school (no date).

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