About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Mary Robinson, James Dooge, John Doyle, John M. Kelly, Patrick J. Reynolds, John Horgan, Ruairi Brugha, Kit Ahern, Michael Yeats, Charles McDonald, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Eileen Desmond, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, Peggy Farrell, Liam Ahern, John Mannion, Jnr, John Boland, John Brennan, Ted Russell, Des Hanafin, Eoin Ryan, Snr, Michael O'Higgins, Evelyn Owens, Sean Keegan, William Sheldon, Brendan Crinion, Michael Lyons, William O'Brien, Denis Farrelly, Andy O'Brien, Pierce Butler, Patrick Malone, William Ryan, Fintan Kennedy, Sean Walsh, Alexis FitzGerald, Snr, Patrick McGowan, Farrell McElgunn, Thomas Mullins, Micheal Cranitch, Patrick Norton, Joseph Farrell, Richard Belton, Dermot Honan, John J. Nash, Thomas Flanagan. Excerpt: Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (nee Bourke) (Irish: born 21 May 1944) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate (1969-1989). She defeated Fianna Fail's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fail. She is widely regarded as a transformative figure in the presidency of Ireland, who revitalised and liberalised a previously conservative political office. She resigned the presidency two months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the United Nations. Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002 and of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation EIUC since 2005, she is Cha...
