description: Mac Mánais, Ray. Máire Mhic Ghiolla Íosa. Beathaisnéis. Ray Mac Mánais. Indreabhán, Conamara, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2003. 23 cm. 416 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Mary Patricia McAleese ( Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa;born 27 June 1951) is an Irish Fianna Fáil and Independent politician who served as the eighth President of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. She was the second female president of Ireland. She was first elected in 1997, succeeding Mary Robinson, making McAleese the world's first woman to succeed another as president. She was reelected unopposed for a second term in office in 2004. McAleese is the first president of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster. McAleese graduated in Law from Queen's University Belfast. In 1975, she was appointed Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College, Dublin and in 1987, she returned to her alma mater, Queen's, to become director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies. In 1994, she became the first female pro-vice-chancellor of Queen's University. She worked as a barrister and as a journalist with RTÉ. She is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. McAleese used her time in office to address issues concerning justice, social equality, social inclusion, anti-sectarianism and reconciliation. She described her presidency's theme as Building Bridges. This bridge-building materialised in her attempts to reach out to the unionist community in Northern Ireland. These steps included celebrating the Twelfth of July at Áras an Uachtaráin and taking communion in a Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin, for which she incurred some criticism from some of the Irish Catholic hierarchy. Though a practising Roman Catholic, McAleese holds liberal views on homosexuality and women ..
language: Irish
title: Maire Mhic Ghiolla Iosa
titlecomplete: Maire Mhic Ghiolla Iosa (Irish Edition)
publisher: Indreabhán, Conamara, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2003.