McAleese, Mary

McAleese, Mary

▪ president of Ireland
née  Mary Patricia Leneghan 
born June 27, 1951, Belfast, Northern Ireland
 
 president of Ireland from 1997.

      Raised on the edge of the nationalist Ardoyne area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, from which her family was forced to flee in the early 1970s because of paramilitary violence, McAleese attended the Queen's University of Belfast and qualified as a barrister at the Inns of Court of Northern Ireland in 1974. She served as Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Penology at Trinity College in Dublin in 1975–79 and 1981–87, and she also worked as a journalist and announcer for RTÉ (the Irish national television service) in 1979–81. In 1987 she became director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queen's University, and she was named its first Roman Catholic pro-vice-chancellor (senior administrative official) in 1994. An unapologetic and nationalist Catholic with conservative views on abortion and divorce, she was a member of the Catholic church's delegation to the New Ireland Forum in 1984 but was also critical of the church hierarchy on a number of issues.

      McAleese ran unsuccessfully as a candidate of the Fianna Fáil party in 1987 for a parliamentary constituency in Dublin and was surprisingly selected ahead of Albert Reynolds (Reynolds, Albert), prime minister of Ireland from 1992 to 1994, to be the Fianna Fáil candidate for the 1997 presidential election. Following an occasionally scurrilous campaign in which she was accused of sympathizing with Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), she won by a record margin to become the country's first president from Northern Ireland. In 2004 McAleese won reelection unopposed.

Michael Marsh
 

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