Presidential Visit in Dublin: Part 2

12:30pm Áras an Uachtaráin


President Higgins hosted lunch for Lord Bannside and Baroness Paisley today. I accompanied them on their visit , where they had a friendly and wide-ranging discussion on several matters of common interest with the President and his wife Sabina.

 Michael Daniel Higgins (Irish: Mícheál D. Ó hUiginn; born 18 April 1941) is the ninth and current President of Ireland, having taken office on 11 November 2011, and was President of the Irish Labour Party until his resignation following the presidential election. He was formerly a Teacha Dala (TD) for the Galway West constituency and served as Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 to 1997.

As well as being successful in politics, the President has also had a career as a poet, author and broadcaster. He has contributed widely to political and philosophical journals on many subjects including ideology, the sociology of literature, clientism in politics, regionalism and the politics of the media. His personal notes and work books reside at the National Library of Ireland

He wrote and presented a television film on Montserrat, entitled The Other Emerald Isle for Channel 4 and his documentary on the life of Noel Browne, for RTE, has also been screened. He has had poems published in a number of periodicals, as well as publishing three collections of his poetry, including, The Betrayal (1990), his second book of poems The Season of Fire (2004) and his latest book An Arid Season (2004).

 

 

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