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- The Seanad Éireann career of Mary Robinson (Irish: Máire Mhic Róibín; née Bourke) began on 11 June 1969 and ended on 5 July 1989. Mary Robinson was elected for a total of seven terms as a member of Seanad Éireann (the Irish senate), always running in the Dublin University constituency. Upon leaving her seat in 1989, she did not seek re-election. Prior to her election, Bourke had already qualified as a lawyer and been called to the Irish Bar, and had been made the Reid Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin. Her legal work and academic career continued concurrent with her Seanad career. First elected as an independent senator, Robinson joined the Labour Party in July 1976 during her second term as senator. Robinson left the Labour Party in 1985 and thereafter worked as an independent politician. Known for her dissenting voice, Robinson campaigned against the Catholic Church's influence on the Irish state. A self-professed liberal, her time in the Seanad is most strongly associated with her work on issues such as the legalisation of contraception, the legalisation of divorce, the establishment of women's right to sit on juries, and her involvement with the Wood Quay protests. (en)
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- "I have paid a high price for my involvement in the Labour Party in giving up my independence, and I could go back to it." (en)
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- Robinson speaking in 1984. (en)
- p.104 (en)
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- [The referendum] has become a litmus test for the kind of society we are going to have in Ireland in the eighties. If the referendum goes ahead it will confirm the worst fears about those who are concerned about the influence of the majority Church on legal and social developments in the state. If it is dropped, it will signal that we have taken a significant step in the direction of a pluralist and tolerant society. (en)
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- Mary Robinson: An Independent Voice (en)
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- The Seanad Éireann career of Mary Robinson (Irish: Máire Mhic Róibín; née Bourke) began on 11 June 1969 and ended on 5 July 1989. Mary Robinson was elected for a total of seven terms as a member of Seanad Éireann (the Irish senate), always running in the Dublin University constituency. Upon leaving her seat in 1989, she did not seek re-election. (en)
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- Seanad Éireann career of Mary Robinson (en)
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