Edited sentence: Her family had links with many diverse political strands in Ireland.Like many who came to Ireland with the Norman invasion, it was said of the Bourkes that they ended up "more Irish than the Irish themselves".One ancestor was a leading activist in the Irish National Land League of Mayo and the Irish Republican Brotherhood; an uncle, Sir Paget John Bourke, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II after a career as a judge in the Colonial Service; while another relative was a Roman Catholic nun.Robinson was therefore born into a family that was a historical mix of rebels against and servants of the Crown.Some branches of the family were members of the Anglican Church of Ireland while others were Roman Catholics.The Hiberno-Norman Bourkes have been in Mayo since the thirteenth century