Mary McAleese, President of Ireland from 1997-2011Mary McAleese, who as president of Ireland helped bring about an end to “The Troubles” she had known during her youth in Northern Ireland, will come to Boston College this fall as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish StudiesAs Burns Scholar, McAleese will teach a course and present public lectures during the fall semester while pursuing research in the Burns Library“Coming to Boston, using that wonderful Burns Library, talking with students and faculty members from a variety of disciplines, including my beloved Irish Studies,” said McAleese, “will be for me a seminal opportunity to enrich and deepen the insights I can bring to my own research and also hopefully to add a little to the insights of others”A Catholic from Belfast, McAleese became the first Northern Irish native to be elected Irish president when she took office in 1997, bringing with her memories of sectarian violence that forced her family to move out of North Belfast READ MORE
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland from 1997-2011Mary McAleese, who as president of Ireland helped bring about an end to “The Troubles” she had known during her youth in Northern Ireland, will come to Boston College this fall as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish StudiesAs Burns Scholar, McAleese will teach a course and present public lectures during the fall semester while pursuing research in the Burns Library“Coming to Boston, using that wonderful Burns Library, talking with students and faculty members from a variety of disciplines, including my beloved Irish Studies,” said McAleese, “will be for me a seminal opportunity to enrich and deepen the insights I can bring to my own research and also hopefully to add a little to the insights of others”A Catholic from Belfast, McAleese became the first Northern Irish native to be elected Irish president when she took office in 1997, bringing with her memories of sectarian violence that forced her family to move out of North Belfast READ MORE