Film still courtesy Aoife Kelleher.
Award-winning filmmaker, writer, and lecturer Aoife Kelleher will screen her feature documentary Mrs. Robinson. Unfolding a story about female leadership, human rights activism and climate action, Mrs. Robinson tells the inspirational life story of change-maker Mary Robinson: Ireland’s first female President, a pioneering U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the successor of Nelson Mandela as Chair of The Elders. The film was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary Award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. A Q&A with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
The Fund for Irish Studies Series is co-chaired by Jane Cox, Director of Princeton’s Program in Theater & Music Theater, and Robert Spoo, Princeton’s Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters.
Tickets & Details
Free tickets required. Should the event sell out, there will be a wait line at the event to fill any empty seats.
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Directions
Get directions to the James Stewart Film Theater, located on the first floor at 185 Nassau Street.
Accessibility
The James Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
About Aoife Kelleher
Photo credit: Rachel Lysaght
Aoife Kelleher is a distinguished filmmaker, writer, and lecturer from Dublin, Ireland.
Her debut film, One Million Dubliners, about Glasnevin Cemetery, Ireland’s celebrated necropolis, received numerous awards and screened internationally.
She has worked in current affairs programming for RTÉ, Ireland’s national broadcaster, and made documentaries for RTÉ, Sky, ARTE, and the British Film Institute.
Her feature documentary Mrs. Robinson, about former Irish President and current Chair of The Elders, Mary Robinson, was nominated for the George Morrison Feature Documentary award at the 2025 Irish Film & Television Awards. Her most recent film, Testimony, about the Justice For Magdalenes campaign on behalf of the survivors of Ireland’s institutions, premiered at the 2025 Dublin International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Human Rights Film.
She lectures in Film & Broadcasting and Journalism in the School of Media at Technological University Dublin.
