Members of the 16th Seanad - Mary Robinson, James Dooge, Mary O'Rourke, Shane Ross, Katharine Bulbulia, Seamus Mallon, Patrick J. Reynolds (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Mary Robinson, James Dooge, Mary O'Rourke, Shane Ross, Katharine Bulbulia, Seamus Mallon, Patrick J. Reynolds, Michael Smith, Flor O'Mahony, Donie Cassidy, Mick Lanigan, Ned O'Keeffe, Seamus de Brun, Bernard Durkan, Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Flor Crowley, Timmy Conway, Willie Farrell, M. J. Nolan, G. V. Wright, Charles McDonald, Michael Ferris, John A. Murphy, Brendan Ryan, Dick Dowling, John Mannion, Jnr, Denis Cregan, Paudge Brennan, Tom Fitzgerald, Tras Honan, Des Hanafin, Eoin Ryan, Snr, Sean Fallon, Jack Daly, Billy Kenneally, Sean O'Connor, Timothy McAuliffe, Michael Howard, Thomas Hussey, Luke Belton, William Ryan, Joachim Loughrey, Brian Mullooly, Monica Barnes, John Robb, Martin O'Toole, Richard Hourigan, Micheal Cranitch, James Larkin, Maurice O'Connell, Joseph Lennon, Jack Harte, Sean Conway, Deirdre Bolger, P. J. Mara, Camilla Hannon. 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 I...