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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Mary Robinson, Mary Harney, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Seamus Brennan, T. K. Whitaker, Justin Keating, Patrick J. Reynolds, Michael P. Kitt, Ruairi Brugha, Mick Lanigan, John Ellis, Seamus de Brun, Catherine McGuinness, Flor Crowley, Joe McCartin, Paul Connaughton, Snr, Augustine Martin, Gemma Hussey, Michael Yeats, Charles McDonald, Patrick Cooney, Valerie Goulding, Liam Hyland, John A. Murphy, Liam Burke, Brian Hillery, Seamus Dolan, Tras Honan, Des Hanafin, Eoin Ryan, Snr, David Molony, Rory Kiely, Michael Lyons, Timothy McAuliffe, Richard Conroy, Michael Howard, Andy O'Brien, Pierce Butler, William Ryan, Michael Moynihan, Fintan Kennedy, Myles Staunton, Alexis FitzGerald, Snr, Patrick McGowan, John Blennerhassett, Martin O'Toole, Desmond Governey, Micheal Cranitch, Bernard Markey, Joseph Dowling, Gerard Lynch, Gordon Lambert, Jack Harte, P. J. Mara, Eileen Cassidy. 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 ...
