Ó Dálaigh not the only president to resign

Published in 20th-century / Contemporary History, General, Issue 5 (Sept/Oct 2011), Letters, Volume 19

Sir,—Bookworm (HI 19.4, July/August 2011) states that Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh was the only president of Ireland to resign from office. Not so; Mary Robinson also resigned her office in 1997 in order to take up the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.—Yours etc.,DERMOT QUINNDublin 13

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