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Mary McAleese memoir: Fascinating, but not the full story

Here’s the Story: A Memoir

Author:Mary McAleese

ISBN-13:9781844884704

Publisher:Penguin/Sandycove

Guideline Price:€25.95

Mary McAleese’s extraordinary career has taken her from law studies in a troubled Belfast in the late 1960s, to lecturing and journalism in Dublin, on to a two-term presidency of Ireland and then to Rome to complete a doctorate in canon law. She is an intriguing, accomplished and decorated public figure. This memoir is suffused with her customary mixture of frankness and folksiness, a style she honed to great effect as president.

The book addresses many of the conquests and controversies associated with her journey, but there are also issues elided or omitted. And as she gazes back on her tender years, it does seem that some of her later awareness and causes have perhaps been transplanted back to those days. What is most striking about her account is how her life has been enveloped by an intense religiosity, a vital driving force, and central to the extensive range of contacts she amass

Mary McAleese

President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011

Mary Patricia McAleese (MAK-ə-LEESS; Irish: Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa;[1]née Leneghan; born 27 June 1951[2]) is an Irish activist lawyer, academic, author, and former politician who served as the eighth president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. McAleese was first elected as president in 1997, having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil. She succeeded Mary Robinson, making her the second female president of Ireland and the first woman in the world to succeed another woman as president.[3] She nominated herself for re-election in 2004 and was returned unopposed for a second term.[4] Born in Ardoyne, north Belfast, she is the first president of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster.[5]

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

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Mary Patricia McAleese (mak-Ə-leess; Irish: Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa; néeLeneghan; born 27 June 1951) is an Irish activist lawyer, academic, author, and former politician who served as the eighth president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. McAleese was first elected as president in 1997, having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil. She succeeded Mary Robinson, making her the second female president of Ireland, and the first woman in the world to succeed another woman as president. She nominated herself for re-election in 2004 and was returned unopposed for a second term. 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 Univ

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