Word: irelands
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Mary Terese Robinson was born May 21, 1944, in Baline, County Mayo, in western Ireland. Both her parents were doctors...
Thanks to her tireless campaigning, a scandal which discredited the Fianna Fail candidate, Ireland's electoral system of proportional representation and a fundamental change in the Irish electorate, Robinson prevailed in the November election...
After her victory, the Irish Press heralded her election as a signal of "change in Irish society and a shift away from traditional attitudes and allegiances," evidence of a generational and ideological shift within Ireland...
Trina Y. Vargo, president of the U.S.-Ireland Alliance, says that "Ireland had, with its young population, changed so much that Mary Robinson could be elected president...
Unlike her sedentary predecessors, she traveled throughout Ireland, at times fulfilling between 25 and 30 official engagements per week, exploiting the symbolic power of the office to its fullest extent...