File 5 - Relating to Ambassadors, Embassies 1996-1997

21 pp

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.]

Ref: P143/4/6/2/5

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