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Michael Daniel Higgins ((アイルランド語:Mícheál D. Ó hUiginn); born 18 April 1941) is the ninth and current President of Ireland, in office since 11 November 2011. Higgins is a politician, poet, sociologist, author and broadcaster. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway West constituency and was Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 to 1997.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Michael D. Higgins )〕 He was the President of the Labour Party from 2003 until 2011, when he resigned following his election as President of Ireland. He made the first state visit by an Irish president to the United Kingdom in April 2014. ==Early life== Higgins was born in Limerick on 18 April 1941. His father John Higgins was from Ballycar, County Clare and was a Lieutenant with the Charleville Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican Army. John Higgins, along with his two brothers Peter and Michael had been active participants in the Irish War of Independence. When his father's health grew poor, with alcohol a contributing factor, his mother sent Higgins, aged five, and his four-year-old brother to live on his unmarried uncle and aunt's farm near Newmarket on Fergus, County Clare. His older twin sisters remained in Limerick. He was educated at Ballycar National School, County Clare and St. Flannan's College, Ennis. As an undergraduate at University College Galway (UCG), he served as Vice-Auditor of the College's Literary and Debating Society in 1963–64, and rose to the position of Auditor in the 1964–65 academic year. He also served as President of UCG Students' Union in 1964–65. In 1967, Higgins graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a Master of Arts degree in Sociology. He also briefly attended the University of Manchester. In his academic career, he was a Statutory Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at University College Galway and was a Visiting Professor at Southern Illinois University. He resigned his academic posts to concentrate fully on his political career. He is a fluent speaker of both official languages, Irish and English, and also speaks Spanish.〔(El presidente irlandés dedica tres semanas del verano a aprender español en la UIMP ) Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, 2012-08-25. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael D. Higgins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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