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- As president of Ireland, who at one stage received 93% approval ratings, she advocated the legalisation of using contraceptives, removing the prohibition of divorce, the right of women to sit on juries, and for women to be able to continue work in the civil service after they married.
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Mar 10, 2023 · Ireland's first female president, a woman of pioneering spirit and a welcoming heart - Mary Robinson. Editor’s note: Women's History Month, March, highlights the contributions of women to...
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Nominated by the Labour Party and supported by the Green Party and the Workers’ Party, Robinson became Ireland’s first woman president in 1990 by mobilizing a liberal constituency and merging it with a more conservative constituency opposed to the Fianna Fáil party.
When asked about the opposition, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs replied "Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland, and she is somebody whom we are honouring as a prominent crusader of women's rights in Ireland and throughout the world."
Nov 7, 2019 · Here we look back at her inaugural speech from 1990. On this day 29 years ago, politician, barrister and social justice campaigner Mary Robinson became the first woman to hold the office of President of Ireland.
May 26, 2016 · The first female Irish president who proved that women could be ‘the hands that rocked the system’ as well as the ‘the hands that rocked the cradle’. Mary Robinson’s views of the legal system were shaped by the optimism of the 1960s to use the law as an instrument of social change.
Mar 31, 2023 · Throughout the campaign, Robinson spoke about her great interest in the plight of Irish emigrants and about representing Ireland abroad. These were among the issues she continued to advocate for during her seven-year term after she won 51.9% of the final vote and was inaugurated as the seventh president of Ireland on December 3, 1990, as the ...
May 30, 2022 · Mary Robinson was appointed Reid Professor of penal legislation, constitutional and criminal law, and the law of evidence, and followed this with a stint as lecturer in European Community law, subsequently establishing the Irish Centre for European Law.
