About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Mary Robinson, Brian Friel, David Norris, Joe Doyle, Don Lydon, Shane Ross, Katharine Bulbulia, John O'Connell, Donie Cassidy, John Magnier, Mary Wallace, Phil Hogan, Mick Lanigan, Paschal Mooney, Maurice Manning, Brian O'Shea, Padraic McCormack, Sean Haughey, Willie Farrell, Charles McDonald, Tom McEllistrim, Paul Bradford, Michael Ferris, John A. Murphy, Brendan Ryan, Joe O'Toole, Denis Cregan, Nuala Fennell, Brian Hillery, Tom Fitzgerald, Tras Honan, Des Hanafin, Dan Kiely, Eddie Bohan, Gerry Reynolds, Sean Fallon, Eamon de Buitlear, Patrick Kennedy, Jack Daly, John Connor, Rory Kiely, Thomas Hussey, William Ryan, Sean Byrne, Tony Bromell, Joachim Loughrey, Larry McMahon, Brian Mullooly, Patrick McGowan, John Robb, Martin O'Toole, Seamus Cullimore, Michael Dawson, Jack Harte, Michael Doherty. 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-...
