About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Mary Robinson, Brian Lenihan, Snr, Ruairi Quinn, James Dooge, Noel Browne, Michael D. Higgins, Kit Ahern, Bernard Cowen, Billy Fox, Joe McCartin, Augustine Martin, Michael Yeats, Brendan Halligan, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Michael Ferris, Roddy Connolly, John Mannion, Jnr, Liam Burke, John Boland, John Brennan, Ted Russell, Austin Deasy, Seamus Dolan, Des Hanafin, Eoin Ryan, Snr, Michael O'Higgins, Evelyn Owens, Paddy O'Toole, Sean Keegan, Sean Brosnan, Pat Codd, Jack Daly, Michael Lyons, William O'Brien, Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, Timothy McAuliffe, Denis Farrelly, Patrick Kerrigan, Andy O'Brien, Pierce Butler, William Ryan, Michael Moynihan, Fintan Kennedy, Alexis FitzGerald, Snr, Patrick McGowan, John Blennerhassett, Fad Browne, Bob Aylward, Bernard Markey, Michael Mullen, Philip Burton, Martin Finn, Jack Harte, Mary Walsh. 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...
