Mary Robinson
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Mary Therese Winifred Robinson is an Irish politician who served as the president of Ireland from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously
Robinson in 2024
Trinity College Dublin. Robinson served as Reid Professor of Law in the university, as well as being one of its three elected senators in Seanad Éireann for twenty years.
Robinson gives a speech, 1994
Robinson greets U.S. President Bill Clinton on a visit to Dublin, 1995
Patrick Hillery
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Patrick John Hillery was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the president of Ireland from December 1976 to December 1990. He also served as vice-president of the European Commission and Eur
Mary Robinson
…friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to Garret FitzGerald, the Taoiseach at the time; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure. Lenihan denied…
Hillery in 1986
Hillery's Pub on Main Street, Milltown Malbay
Hillery in 1973