In November 1997 Mary McAleese was elected 8th President of which European country?
Mary McAleese Mary McAleese Mary Patricia McAleese (; ; ; 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,
Mary McAleese President. They have three children: Emma, born in 1982, who graduated as an engineer from University College Dublin and graduated as a dentist from Trinity College, Dublin; and twins born in 1985, Justin, an accountant with a master's degree from University College Dublin, and SaraMai, who obtained a master's degree in biochemistry at the University of Oxford. Ahead of the 2015 Marriage Equality referendum Justin McAleese spoke for the first time about growing up gay. In 1975, she was appointed Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology in Trinity College, Dublin, succeeding Mary Robinson. Also in 1975, McAleese chaired