21: Mary McAleese: Building bridges as the President of Ireland
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Importance of Knowing the North
When you were campaigning to be president, how conscious were people that you were this rather exotic creature from the North? Well, if you like, of the attraction that I knew the North. My grandfather thought my father was mad to have married a northern woman, even though she was a Catholic. It stayed without electricity for the rest of his life. Until the very end, when he got a single light bulb, there wasn't a lamp shade on it. When we went down for the official turning on of the light, he already had six newspapers attached to it. He couldn't see your finger in front of you.
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