Mary Robinson: St. Gallen, Switzerland (2008)
Born in 1944 in Ballina, Co. Mayo, Mary Robinson n?e Bourke was inaugurated as first woman President of Ireland, in Dublin Castle, on 3 December 1990. She was educated at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), King’s Inns and Harvard University. Lawyer, human rights activist and politician, as member of Seanad Eireann (1969-89), she became known for her legal work in many constitutional cases before both Irish and European courts during the 1970s. In 1969 she became Reid professor of Constitutional…
