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Mairín Bean Uí Dhalaigh was a Gaelic scholar and the First Lady of the Republic of Ireland from 1974 to 1976, when her husband, former Attorney General and Chief Justice Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, served as President of Ireland. Following her husband's resignation in 1976 and his death in 1978, Uí Dhálaigh was appointed to the president's advisory Council of State by his successor, Patrick Hillery.
Uí Dhálaigh died in the 1990s. The couple had no children.