The 80-year-old stateswoman will take part in a Q&A on January 29 at Kiln Cinema in Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, after the showing of Mrs Robinson.
Directed by Aoife Kelleher, it was shot over three years and takes a deep-dive into Robinson’s childhood and career – discussing the significant controversies of her presidency and regrets in her professional life.
The screening is part of the Irish Film and TV UK’s St Brigid’s Film Festival.
Robinson was already a constitutional lawyer and had served as a senator when she was elected the Seventh President of Ireland in 1990.
She said at the time: “I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”
As lawyer, senator and president, she took progressive positions against a hidebound establishment on equal pay, reproductive rights, decriminalising homosexuality, legalising contraception and legalising divorce.
She was hugely popular during her seven-year term as president, earning 93 per cent approval ratings at one point.
She travelled to Somalia, became the first serving Irish president to visit the Queen, and shook hands with both Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and other Northern Irish politicians in the run up to the Good Friday Agreement.
As UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 she built a lasting legacy, challenging perpetrators of human rights abuses all over the world.
Mary Robinson recently stepped down as chair of the Elders – a group of former world leaders – a position she held for six years after taking over from Nelson Mandela.
She remains politically active, campaigning for climate justice via the Mary Robinson Foundation.
Mary Robinson will attend the January 29 screening of Mrs Robinson at The Kiln Cinema, Kilburn, including a Q&A by Mirror journalist Anne-Marie Tomchak.
