Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson (Irish: Maire Mhic Róibín), was born in Ballina, County Mayo, May 21, 1944, age 67 years), were selected as the first woman president of Ireland in 1990. Between 1997 and 2002 he became the UN commissioner for human rights.

He was educated at Trinity College and King's Inns in Dublin, and then to Harvard in the United States. Then he started teaching in the subject of international law at Trinity College, which he remained there until 1990, when he was appointed president. He was in the Labour Party and supported by the Green Party and the Worker's Party. As president he worked hard for the modern picture of the world.


Background

Born Mary Therese Winifred Bourke in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1944, she was the daughter of two medical doctors.Her father Dr. Aubrey Bourke from Ballina, County Mayo, while his mother from Donegal, Dr Tessa Bourke (née O 'Donnell) from Carndonagh , Inishowen. The Hiberno-Norman Bourkes have been in Mayo since the thirteenth century. His family has ties with many diverse political strands in Ireland. One ancestor was a prominent activist in the Irish National Land League of Mayo and the Irish Republican Brotherhood; uncle, Sir John Paget Bourke, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II after a career as a judge at the Colonial Office, while another relative was a Roman Catholic nun. Some branches of the family are members of the Anglican Church of Ireland while the other is Roman Catholic. More distant relatives, including William Liath de Burgh, Tiobóid mac Ciotach Walter Bourke, and Charles Bourke. Robinson was born in a family as a mixture of history and the slave revolt against the Crown.


Mary Bourke attended Mount Anville Secondary School in Dublin [citation needed] and studied law at Trinity College, Dublin and Harvard Law School.In twenties, she was appointed Reid Professor of Law at the college, which is considered a prestigious appointment made to accomplished lawyers holders. Subsequent titles have included a successor of the President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Professor John F. Larkin QC, Irish Human Rights Commissioner and a leading pro-choice activist Senator Ivana Bacik.


In 1970, Bourke married Nicholas Robinson. Despite the fact that his family has close ties with the Church of Ireland, his marriage to a Protestant student caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding. Rift was finally resolved in the next months.Together they have three children. His son Aubrey, a photographer and film maker who is "committed to social justice", received media attention in 2011, when he participates in Dame Street occupies.