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Irish and President
* 1882 – Seán T. O ' Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland ( d. 1966 )
In contrast, the only contact the Irish president has with the Irish government is through a formal briefing session given by the Taoiseach ( prime minister ) to the President.
For example, members of the Irish Cabinet are dismissed by the President on the advice of the Taoiseach ; in other instances, the head of state may be able to dismiss an office holder unilaterally ; other heads of state, or their representatives, have the theoretical power to dismiss any office-holder, while it is exceptionally rarely used.
Between 1943 and 1946, the de facto President of Argentina was Edelmiro Farrell, whose paternal ancestry was Irish.
* Eliza Lynch, Irish born mistress of President Francisco Solano López of Paraguay
Cosgrave ( President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State | Irish Free State ).
* 1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee ( d. 1999 )
* 1860 – Douglas Hyde, Irish President of Ireland ( d. 1949 )
He is also a Knight of Malta, and currently President of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
* The President is ex officio President of the Irish Red Cross Society.
* The President appoints, on the advice of the Government, the Senior Professors and chairman of the council of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ; the governor of the Central Bank of Ireland ; the members of the Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal ; the Ombudsman ; and the members of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.
To date every President has subscribed to the declaration in Irish.
At all times the President travels with an armed security detail which is provided by the SDU ( Special Detective Unit-an elite wing of the Irish police force ).
The President also has the full use of all Irish Air Corps aircraft at his / her disposal if so needed.
The office of President was established in 1937, in part as a replacement for the office of Governor-General that existed during the 1922 – 37 Irish Free State.
During the period of 1937 to 1949 it was unclear whether the Irish head of state was actually the President of Ireland or George VI, the King of Ireland.
Britain in turn insisted on referring to the President as ' President of the Republic of Ireland ' or ' President of the Irish Republic '.
President Robinson ( 1990 – 97 ) chose unilaterally to break the taboo by regularly visiting the United Kingdom for public functions, frequently in connection with Anglo-Irish Relations or to visit the Irish emigrant community in Great Britain.
Though the President's title implicitly asserted authority in Northern Ireland, in reality the Irish President needed government permission to visit there.
A new Constitution of Ireland, with a President as head of state except for external relations, was approved by Irish voters in 1937, with the Irish Free State becoming simply " Ireland ", or, when speaking or writing in the Irish language, Éire.

Irish and Mary
Mary Daly grew up an Irish Catholic and all of her education was received through Catholic schools.
Mary J. Hickman writes that " plastic Paddy " was a term used to " deny and denigrate the second-generation Irish in Britain " in the 1980s, and was " frequently articulated by the new middle class Irish immigrants in Britain, for whom it was a means of distancing themselves from established Irish communities.
* Mary Jemison, Irish captive adopted by Native American Seneca tribe.
* Lee Harvey Oswald, presumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, Irish great-grandmother Mary Tonry
Since Imbolc is immediately followed ( on 2 February ) by Candlemas ( Irish Lá Fhéile Muire na gCoinneal " feast day of Mary of the Candles ", Welsh Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau ), Irish imbolc is sometimes rendered as " Candlemas " in English translation ; e. g. iar n-imbulc, ba garb a ngeilt translated as " after Candlemas, rough was their herding ".
In 1906 Mary, Lottie and Jack supported the great Irish American singer Chauncey Olcott on Broadway in the play Edmund Burke.
Smith returned to the theatre stage after some 20 years in August 2006, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Allegiance, Irish journalist and author Mary Kenny's play about Churchill's encounter with the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins in 1921.
Subsequent holders of the title have included her successor as Irish president Mary McAleese, Professor John F. Larkin Q. C., Irish Human Rights Commissioner and prominent pro-choice activist Senator Ivana Bacik.
Coincidentally, just as Mary McAleese replaced Mary Robinson as Reid Professor of Law in Trinity, and would succeed her to the Irish presidency, so Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform.
Presidents prior to the presidency of Mary Robinson were regularly refused permission by the Irish government to visit Northern Ireland.
Tánaiste Mary Harney said no deal had been done with Sinn Féin or the IRA over the three's return to Ireland adding that the Irish government would consider any request from the Colombian authorities for their extradition.
Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in the campus of St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, Bengal, India ( British India ), to Ernest Hartley, an English officer in the Indian Cavalry, and Gertrude Mary Robinson Yackjee ( 1888-1972 ), a devout Roman Catholic of Irish and Armenian descent, the daughter of Mary I. Robinson and John G. Yackjee, who wed in 1872.
* August 31 – Irish scientist Mary Ward is killed in a steam car accident, probably the world's first victim of a mechanically-propelled road vehicle.
* August 31 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist and the first car accident victim ( b. 1827 )
His parents were Thomas Sullivan ( 1805 – 1866 ), a military bandmaster, clarinettist and music teacher born in Ireland and raised in Chelsea, London, and Mary Clementina ( née Coghlan, 1811 – 1882 ), English born, of Irish and Italian descent.
He is the son of Irish Canadian Catholic parents, Mary Irene ( née O ' Shea ) and Benedict Martin Mulroney, who was a paper mill electrician.
He was the son of Irish immigrant actor James O ' Neill and Mary Ellen Quinlan.

Irish and McAleese
Visitors to Omagh have included Queen Elizabeth II, Charles, Prince of Wales, former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, Irish president Mary McAleese, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Prior to becoming president in 1997, McAleese had also held the following positions: Director of Channel 4 Television, Director, Northern Ireland Electricity, Director, Royal Group of Hospitals Trust and Founding member of the Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas.
In 1997, McAleese defeated former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in an internal party election held to determine the Fianna Fáil nomination for the Irish presidency.
McAleese undertook an official two-day visit to London on 28 – 29 February 2010, where she visited the site of the 2012 Summer Olympics and was guest of honour at the Madejski Stadium for a rugby union match between London Irish and Harlequin F. C.
She was welcomed by President McAleese, inspected a Guard of Honour, signed the visitors book and planted an Irish Oak sapling.
The Irish general election of 2002 was held on Friday, 17 May 2002 just over three weeks after the dissolution of the 28th Dáil on Thursday 25 April by President Mary McAleese, at the request of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.
In 2011, Maureen O ' Hara was formally inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame at an event in New Ross, County Wexford, receiving letters from Mary McAleese and Bill Clinton.
On 1 June 2003, she received her Warrant of Appointment as Irish Ombudsman and Information Commissioner from the then President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, at Áras an Uachtaráin.
In 2005, the Royal Irish Academy awarded him their gold medal, presented by President Mary McAleese.
In January 2004, the Paris branch of the center asked the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, to suspend the ' Irish Museum of the Year Award ' given to the Hunt Museum in Limerick, until the conclusion of a demanded inquiry into the provenance of a significant number of items in the collection.
* Former Irish President Mary McAleese and her family lived in Rostrevor village centre before she was elected to office in 1997.
Flaherty stands behind Irish President Mary McAleese
In 1998 Irish President Mary McAleese visited it.
* Michael Davitt-in 2006 a revamped memorial to Davitt was unveiled by the Irish President Mary McAleese in Wilkinson Street as part of the Davitt centenary celebrations.
Following this were various Irish Presidents including Éamon de Valera, Mary McAleese, and Taoiseach.
Kanturk Unity ParkThe Unity StoneThe heart beat is the riverSky is imagination's faceWe bridge all foreverStars in universal spaceInscription on the lower plaque: This Park was open by President Mary McAleese on July 7th 1998 Also available for viewing in the library are: The Irish Examiner, Irish Times, Farmer's Journal and the Corkman.
Now living in the USA, he has been honored by President McAleese for his recording of the Complete Works of Turlough O ' Carolan, In 2008 he was a recipient of the Top 100 award from Irish America Magazine.
President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern represent the Irish people at his funeral.

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