Nicholas Robinson (historian)

For other people of the same name, see Nick Robinson (disambiguation).

Nicholas K. Robinson is an Irish author, historian, solicitor and cartoonist.^[1] He is the husband of Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland. He was educated at Trinity 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), the Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation, the Irish Landmark Trust (of which he a Trustee, ex-officio President & Patron) ^[2] and (with his wife Mary) the Irish Centre for European Law at Trinity College.^[3]

With his wife Mary, he has one daughter and two sons, and four grandchildren.

Works

His books include:

Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland with the Knight of Glin and David Griffin
Edmund Burke: a Life in Caricature (Yale, 1996).

References

Source

Olivia O'Leary & Helen Burke, Mary Robinson: The Authorised Biography, Lir/Hodder & Stoughton, 1998 (ISBN 0-340-71738-6)

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