Mary McAleese

Mary Patricia McAleese [ mɛəɹɪ pətɹɪʃə makəli ː s] (Irish Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla IOSA [ moɪr ʲ ə pɑ ː Drig ʲ i ː ɲ v ʲ ik ʲ jilə i ː əsə ]; born 27 July 1951 in Belfast) is an Irish journalist and politician. From 1997 to 2011 she was the eighth President of Ireland.

Life

McAleese was born in 1951 in Belfast as Mary Patricia Leneghan. She attended St. Dominic's High School, Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. In 1975, she took over the Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and prison at Trinity College, in place of Mary Robinson ( a pattern that would be repeated more than twenty years later). In 1979, she was at Raidió Teilifís Éireann ( RTÉ ) journalist and announcer. In 1981, she returned to the Reid Professorship, but worked part-time in addition a further four years for RTÉ. McAleese was a member of the Episcopal delegation of the Catholic Church in the New Ireland Forum in 1984 and a member of the delegation of the Catholic Church in the northern Commission for contentious parades in 1996.

1997 McAleese won the election for the nomination to the presidency of the Fianna Fáil ( the largest Irish party ) against the former Taoiseach ( Prime Minister ) Albert Reynolds. On 11 November 1997 its inauguration was the eighth president of Ireland, in turn, to replace Mary Robinson. So was followed for the first time in modern history a woman from another as elected head of state after.

As a native Nordirin they visited Northern Ireland regularly and enjoys the affection of both populations. Also McAleese is considered admirer of Queen Elizabeth II, who she met during her time as Pro- Vice Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast. So Elizabeth II was invited McAleese ' for a state visit, which they undertook in May 2011.

Your first term ended in November 2004. September 14, 2004, she agreed to a second term of office and was sworn in on 11 November 2004 for the second time. After she could not run for a third term constitutional, was determined in the Presidential election 2011 Michael D. Higgins as her successor. He took office on 11 November 2011.

Prior to her presidency McAleese was:

  • Pro- Vice Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast
  • Fianna Fáil candidate in the general election in 1987
  • Journalist, Today Tonight, RTÉ ( Raidió Teilifís Éireann )
  • Reid Professor of Law, Trinity College Dublin ( "University of Dublin " )
  • Counselor of the Irish Catholic bishops during the New Ireland Forum
  • Along with Senator David Norris founder of the Campaign for legislative reform in favor of homosexuals

She is married to Martin McAleese.

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