Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robinson started her campaign six months before the election, unusual in a country where elections are usually dispensed with in three weeks...
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...
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...
...Robinson, acutely aware of the limitations placed on the presidency by the Irish constitution, had to work around the restrictions of what was largely considered a ceremonial and symbolic office...
...Robinson revolutionized the office...