- Nicholas Robinson
Nicholas K. Robinson is an Irish
author ,historian ,solicitor and political cartoonist. He is the husband ofMary Robinson , the formerUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and formerPresident of Ireland . He was educated atTrinity College Dublin , where he took a degree in Law.Over the past three decades, has helped establish numerous bodies, among them the
Irish Architectural Archive (with Edward McParland), theBirr Scientific and Heritage Foundation, the Irish Landmark Trust (of which he a Trustee, ex-officio President & Patron) [ [http://www.irishlandmark.com/about_us/current_trustees.asp Trustees - Irish Landmark Trust] ] and (with his wife Mary) the Irish Centre for European Law at Trinity College [ [http://www.realizingrights.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=75 Our Board - Mary Robinson - Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative ] ] .With his wife Mary, he has two sons and one daughter, and two grandchildren.
Works
His books include:
* "Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland" with theKnight of Glin and David Griffin
* "Edmund Burke: a Life in Caricature" (Yale, 1996).References
ource
* Olivia O'Leary & Helen Burke, "Mary Robinson: The Authorised Biography", Lir/Hodder & Stoughton, 1998 (ISBN 0-340-71738-6)
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