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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: 32. Chapters: Mary Robinson, Ruairi Quinn, James Dooge, Mary O'Rourke, Shane Ross, Richard Bruton, Katharine Bulbulia, Jim Higgins, T. K. Whitaker, Patrick J. Reynolds, Flor O'Mahony, Joe Walsh, Mick Lanigan, Maurice Manning, Catherine McGuinness, Timmy Conway, Ulick Burke, Gemma Hussey, Charles McDonald, Michael Ferris, John A. Murphy, John Mannion, Jnr, Paddy Dunne, Brian Hillery, Seamus Dolan, Alexis FitzGerald, Jnr, Tom Fitzgerald, Tras Honan, Des Hanafin, Dan Kiely, Liam Naughten, Eoin Ryan, Snr, Sean Fallon, Barry Cogan, Patrick Kennedy, Rory Kiely, Timothy McAuliffe, Michael Howard, Thomas Hussey, Andy O'Brien, Pierce Butler, William Ryan, Myles Staunton, Brian Mullooly, Donal Carey, John Blennerhassett, Martin O'Toole, Jimmy Leonard, Micheal Cranitch, Sean O'Leary, Patsy Lawlor, John Carroll, Maurice O'Connell, Robert Fausset, Jack Harte, Deirdre Bolger, Pat Magner, Miriam Kearney. 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 be...
