Mary Robinson
21 May 1944 – present
Mary Robinson is an Irish lawyer and politician who served as the seventh President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, the first woman to hold the office, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002. A barrister and former Reid Professor of Constitutional Law at Trinity College Dublin, she sat in Seanad Eireann from 1969. She later founded a climate justice foundation and chairs The Elders.
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Life events
She was born Mary Bourke, the daughter of two medical doctors.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe studied in the United States on a fellowship before returning to Ireland.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe took the chair at the age of 25.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe represented the University of Dublin constituency in the Irish senate for twenty years.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married a fellow law graduate, with whom she had three children.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe became the first woman elected to the Irish presidency and served a single seven-year term.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe left the presidency shortly before the end of her term to take up the UN post in Geneva.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received the United States civilian honour from President Barack Obama.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Dublin-based centre worked on the human rights dimensions of climate change.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe succeeded Kofi Annan as chair of the group of former leaders founded by Nelson Mandela.
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