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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, James Dooge, Shane Ross, Brendan Howlin, Jimmy Deenihan, Michael D. Higgins, Katharine Bulbulia, Jim Higgins, Patrick J. Reynolds, Michael Smith, Flor O'Mahony, Donie Cassidy, Mick Lanigan, John Ellis, Seamus de Brun, Catherine McGuinness, Brid Rodgers, Timmy Conway, Ulick Burke, Martin O'Donoghue, Charles McDonald, Mark Killilea, Jnr, Michael Ferris, Brendan Ryan, Stephen McGonagle, Denis Cregan, Nuala Fennell, Brian Hillery, Alexis FitzGerald, Jnr, Tras Honan, Des Hanafin, Eoin Ryan, Snr, Sean Fallon, Paddy O'Toole, Helena McAuliffe-Ennis, Patrick Kennedy, Jack Daly, John Connor, Rory Kiely, Michael Howard, Thomas Hussey, Andy O'Brien, Luke Belton, William Ryan, Joachim Loughrey, Larry McMahon, Brian Mullooly, Michael Lynch, John Robb, Martin O'Toole, Richard Hourigan, Sean O'Leary, John Browne, Brian Fleming, Joseph Lennon, Jack Harte, Pat Magner, Michael Quealy. 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 h...
