Mary McAleese - First Woman to Succeed Another as President
Former law professor Mary McAleese is the first woman to succeed another as president, and is Ireland's current head of state. She took over leadership of the country from Mary Robinson. In 2008, she was ranked #74 on the Forbes list of most powerful women in the world.
Mary McAleese Biography
Mary McAleese is the first Irish president to come from Northern Ireland. Read more about her in this biography from Wikipedia.
Mary Patricia McAleese (; born 27 June 1951) is the eighth, and current President of Ireland. She is Ireland's second female president and the world's first woman to succeed another woman as an elected head of state. She was first elected president in 1997 and was re-elected, without contest, to another seven-year term in 2004. McAleese was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland and prior to becoming president she was a barrister, journalist and academic.
Mary McAleese Quotes
- People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
- We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
- Out of such humanity we see the power love has to transcend even the most appalling evil.
- The conflict which bedevilled Northern Ireland... had its roots in centuries of poisoned relationships. What is in many ways astounding is the sheer shelf-life of the toxic seeds which were carried from one generation to the next and which so often had already poisoned the future even before its children were born.
Love in Chaose: Spiritual Growth and the Search for Peace in Northern Ireland
Ireland's president writes about peace
Love in Chaos: Spiritual Growth and the Search for Peace in Northern Ireland
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From Amazon: In this work, Mary McAleese shares her deepest beliefs about the way to lasting peace. She provides a perspective on the origins of violence and also the painful cure for it. She writes with the authority of a woman who has herself suffered sectarian violence but who has been actively involved for many years in the search for peace in Northern Ireland. Her insights draw on deep religious faith, the practice of meditation, and the irrepressible hope that is born of these. She illustrates her ideas with telling stories from her personal life and family, as well as her political experience.
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Ireland (pronounced ; ) is the third largest island in Europe,Great Britain being the largest and Iceland being the second largest. and the twentieth-largest island in the world.See List of islands by area. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain. Politically, the state Ireland (described as the Republic of Ireland in cases of ambiguity) covers five-sixths of the island, with Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, covering the remainder in the north-east.
The population of the island is slightly over 6 million (2007), with 4.4 million in the Republic of IrelandCSO: Central Statistics Office Ireland (1.7 million in Greater DublinPopulation of the Greater Dublin Area to reach 2 million by 2021, Central Statistics Office Ireland) and an estimated 1.75 million in Northern Ireland[http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhcwkfmhsnkf/rss2/ Breaking...
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Hello Mary McAleese. My family thought we were related to you, but I did a lot of research and came to find out we are related to Mary Robinson. I was so excited to be related to you! =], but I'm not. At least, all my research says that I'm not. I hope you have a wonderful day.
-sarah
Posted March 18, 2008
hi there......i'm sinead and i'm doing a project on Mary McAleese and i think shes a great presidant!!!!!!!xxx
Posted March 04, 2008
hey there... i have a VERY important topic that i need to let Mary McAleese know of. Do you know how i can contact her?
Posted December 08, 2007
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