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Mary Patricia McAleese is an Irish activist lawyer, academic, author, and former politician who served as the 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…
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Born 27 June 1951 · Q174662
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They gave to their children an irrational hatred of Jews in the same way that people in Northern Ireland transmitted to their children an irrational hatred, for example, of Catholics, in the same way that people give to their children an outrageous and irrational hatred of those who are of different colour and all of those things,
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“When someone like me wants to provide opportunities to bring two communities together not everyone is going to jump at it with excitement, but it is useful to remember that little acorns grow into great oak trees,”
“They gave to their children an irrational hatred of Jews in the same way that people in Northern Ireland transmitted to their children an irrational hatred, for example, of Catholics, in the same way that people give to their children an outrageous and irrational hatred of those who are of different colour and all of those things,”
“the lawyer in me says our migration controls are very different, and they are going to be if Britain is no longer part of the EU, and if they tighten the migration controls it won”
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“chances of customs controls being reconstituted are probably greater as they had been eliminated by EU laws, not Anglo-Irish efforts”
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“In the days when I was president, we had workshops on various issues and if I wanted to look at an issue, I would consult the experts... But look at the Synod, I have to ask the question: If I wanted expertise on the family, I honestly cannot say that the first thing that would come into my mind would be to call together 300 celibate males who, as far we know, have never raised a child...Let me repeat a question I asked last year when I saw the Vatican”
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“I believe that women should be ordained, I believe the theology on which that is based is pure codology. I”
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“President of Ireland and not just of Catholic Ireland”
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Irish Daily Mirror: Mary McAleese slams those who use Irish flag to intimidate and say 'Irish for the Irish'
The Irish News: Belfast students land podcast interview with former President Mary McAleese
Argued that "Baptism denies babies their human rights," stating that "No one is Catholic by birth and the notion of ‘Baptismal promises’ is risible
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The Irish Times: Mary McAleese recalls own experience of homelessness as she calls for action so ‘every child has a home’
McAleese joined forces with broadcaster Mary Kennedy to host the "Changing Times - The Allenwood Conversations" podcast
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Irish Central: Happy birthday to Mary McAleese! A look back at the legacy of the former Irish President
Won: France (2019).
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McAleese published Children's Rights & Obligations in Canon Law: The Christening Contracts (Brill Publishers)
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McAleese criticised Catholic group Courage International as “Machiavellian, dangerous and deliberately specious”
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Irish Central: Mary McAleese says Vatican tried to block documents on Irish sex abuse
National Catholic Reporter: Mary McAleese
Oxygen: Does the Catholic Church Have A Problem With Women? Former Irish President McAleese Thinks So
McAleese was awarded a doctorate in canon law (JCD) from Pontifical Gregorian University
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McAleese was awarded a doctorate in Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2017).
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McAleese described Brexit as like "pulling a tooth with 10,000 roots"
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McAleese received The Northern Ireland Tolerantia Award for "her commitment to equal treatment and the dignity of LGB&T people for over four decades"
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McAleese received the "Ally of the year" award from GALA's
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McAleese was appointed Distinguished Professor in Irish Studies at St Mary's University, Twickenham In 2015, McAleese was visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame, USA
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2013).
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McAleese was appointed Chair of the Von Hugel Institute at the University of Cambridge
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2012).
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Said that Law told her he was "sorry for Catholic Ireland to have you as President" and went on to insult a Minister of State, who was accompanying McAleese
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McAleese published Quo Vadis
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McAleese was announced as the Chair of the European Commission High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education in the European Union
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Won Golden Key of Madrid (2011).
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McAleese received the GALA Political Figure Award
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McAleese declined an invitation to be the New York City St Patrick's Day parade Grand Marshal
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Awarded honorary doctor of Fordham University (2010).
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McAleese addressed the LGBT Diversity National Conference in Dublin
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“not a choice but a discovery”
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Forbes named her among the hundred most powerful women in the world later that year
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McAleese addressed a gay youth forum in Galway and encouraged people to confront those who make anti-gay remarks
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Otago (2007).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Chile (2004).
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And was returned unopposed for a second term
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Harbin Institute of Technology (2003).
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Met Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston on an official visit to the United States
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McAleese had also held the following positions: Channel 4 Television, Director, Northern Ireland Electricity, Director, Royal Group of Hospitals Trust and Founding member of the Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas
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McAleese defeated former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and former minister Michael O'Kennedy in an internal party election held to determine the Fianna Fáil nomination for the Irish presidency
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Career landmark: president of Ireland (1997–2011).
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Having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil
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Became the first female pro-vice-chancellor of Queen's University
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And its report (1993) was described by Professor Marianne Elliot as "the most notable" work of the Inter-Church Meetings
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McAleese was a prominent opponent of the proposal to ratify the Single European Act during the referendum campaign for the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland
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Returned to Queen's University, to become Director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies
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And a member of the Catholic Church delegation to the Northern Ireland Commission on Contentious Parades in 1996
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Returned to the Reid Professorship, but continued to work part-time for RTÉ for a further four years
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To join RTÉ as a journalist and presenter, during one period as a reporter and presenter for their Frontline replaced by Today Tonight in 1980 programme
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Married Martin McAleese, an accountant and dentist
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Having spent a year as a practising barrister in Belfast, she was appointed Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology in Trinity College Dublin, succeeding Mary Robinson
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McAleese and David Norris founded the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform
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McAleese chaired a meeting at Liberty Hall that advocated a woman's right to choose and was quoted as saying that "I would see the failure to provide abortion as a human rights issue"
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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
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With a Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons) degree
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To work with intellectually disabled people
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Born 1951-06-27.
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In the days when I was president, we had workshops on various issues and if I wanted to look at an issue, I would consult the experts... But look at the Synod, I have to ask the question: If I wanted expertise on the family, I honestly cannot say that the first thing that would come into my mind would be to call together 300 celibate males who, as far we know, have never raised a child...Let me repeat a question I asked last year when I saw the Vatican
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