- Born
- Birth nameMary Teresa Winifred Bourke
- Mary Robinson was born on May 21, 1944 in County Clare, Ireland. She has been married to Nicholas Robinson since 1970. They have three children.
- SpouseNicholas Robinson(1970 - present) (3 children)
- President of the Republic of Ireland from 1990 until 1997. She would have served exactly seven years, but resigned about twelve weeks early.
- Radio Telefís Éireann famously replaced the Angelus before the Evening News with her victory speech when she was elected President.
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights since 1997. Was interviewed by Kirsty Wark in 2004.
- Was an Irish Senator between 1969 and 1990. While in the Seanád Éireann, she sometime discussed the decriminalizing of homosexuality (achieved in 1993), and subsequently also setting about an equal age of consent for gays and heterosexuals when President, something then unknown in most countries.
- Brian Lenehan (1930-1995), who was a defeated Presidential candidate, once claimed before his death that Robinson was a better President than he could have ever been.
- On sexual politics: In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
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