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Maeve Hillery

Maeve Hillery
First Lady of Ireland
In office
3 December 1976 – 2 December 1990
President Patrick Hillery
Preceded by Máirín Bean Uí Dhálaigh
Succeeded by Nicholas Robinson (First Gentleman)
Personal details
Born Mary Beatrice Finnegan
(1924-08-14)14 August 1924
Douglas, Cork, Ireland
Died 10 January 2015(2015-01-10) (aged 90)
Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
Resting place Sutton
Nationality Irish
Political party Fianna Fáil
Spouse(s) Patrick Hillery (m. 1955; d. 2008)
Children
  • John
  • Vivienne
Alma mater University College Dublin
Religion Roman Catholicism

Mary Beatrice (Maeve) Hillery (née Finnegan; 14 August 1924 – 10 January 2015) was First Lady of Ireland from 1976 to 1990, as the wife of 6th President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery.

Maeve Finnegan was educated at University College Dublin where she studied medicine. It was here that1 she met her future husband, Patrick Hillery, who was also studying medicine. The couple married on 27 October 1955. Together they had a son, John, and a daughter, Vivienne, who died after a long illness in 1985, shortly before her eighteenth birthday. Patrick later served in a number of political roles, including Foreign Minister and European Commissioner. After the completion of his term as EC Commissioner in 1976, he contemplated leaving politics and returning to medicine. Instead, Hillery was asked to become the sixth President of Ireland. Patrick died on 12 April 2008. She died in Dublin on 10 January 2015.


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