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Michael D. Higgins

president of Ireland
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In full:
Michael Daniel Higgins
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April 18, 1941, Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland (age 82)
Title / Office:
president (2011-), Ireland
mayor (1991-1992), Galway
mayor (1982-1983), Galway
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Michael D. Higgins (born April 18, 1941, Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland) Irish politician, human rights activist, university lecturer, and poet who served as president of Ireland (2011– ). At age five Higgins was separated from his parents, whose struggle to make ends meet was partly the product of his father’s ill health. He was raised in modest means by relatives in County Clare and started his working life as a clerk in a bank. With a loan from a benefactor, he entered University College Galway (now National University of Ireland, Galway) at age 20 and continued his study with the ...(100 of 813 words)

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