June, 2019 THE CANADA TIMES Celebrating little known or forgotten stories of our history There are no unmixed blessings in life Newsletter from The Jeanie Johnston Educational Foundation -Mary Robinson , the woman that changed Ireland -Dubliner Cornelius Ryan “ I was there” The Longest Day” -Sir John Gorman -Hennessey, the Cognac Founder 155, du Buisson, Pierrefonds, P.Q. H8Y 2Z5 Tel.: 514-341-7777 Email:
[email protected] Website: jeaniejohnstonfoundation.com Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem Website: hospitaller.ca Note from the Chair Mary Robinson, the woman that changed Ireland (ake Marie Therese Winfred Robinson,nee Bourke) By Leo Delany “Mary Robinson the most consequential Leo Delaney Irish woman of the 20th Century” "Ireland’s first female president with a A Dubliner's "I was there" pioneering spirit and a welcoming heart," coverage of World War II's so says Niall O’Dowd, Irish Central. D-Day, 75 years ago today, changed journalism forever in Mary Robinson was elected President of Ireland in 1990, causing the biggest terms of how he documented shock wave in Irish politics. The all powerful Fianna Fail’s Brian Lenihan was the Allied invasion. The regarded as a shoo-in for the job upon the resignation of Patrick Hillary the description came from sitting President. Rommell’s adjutant and puts the reader smack in the room At this time family planning was forbidden using condoms and birth control with Hitler’s greatest general pills. Women could not serve on Juries, women had to retire from teaching just as the Allied invasion is and any government jobs if they married and they were paid approximately about to hasten his end.