Editing Mary McAleese (section)

==Honours and awards==
===Honours===
* {{flagicon|France}} [[France]]: McAleese was awarded the [[Ordre National du Mérite|Dignité de Grand Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite]]<ref>Dignité de Grand Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite</ref>  – 2019

====Freedom of the Burgh====
* {{flagicon|Ireland}} [[Kilkenny]] (third living person to be awarded, succeeding [[Brian Cody]] and [[Séamus Pattison]].<ref name="Cool Cat Mary hopes to capture Kilkenny magic">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cool-cat-mary-hopes-to-capture-kilkenny-magic-1744549.html|title=Cool Cat Mary hopes to capture Kilkenny magic|last=Kane|first=Conor|date=20 May 2009|access-date=21 December 2009|newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]|archive-date=5 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605161214/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cool-cat-mary-hopes-to-capture-kilkenny-magic-1744549.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The ceremony, at which she was presented with two [[Hurley (stick)|hurley]]s, took place at [[Kilkenny Castle]].<ref name="Cool Cat Mary hopes to capture Kilkenny magic" />)  – 19 May 2009

====Dynastic orders====
*[[File:Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.png|60x60px]] Dame Grand Cross of the [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George|Two Sicilian Royal Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, Special Class]]{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

===Honorary doctorates, degrees and fellowships===
* {{flagicon|Ireland}} Member of the [[Royal Irish Academy]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ria.ie/mary-mcaleese|title=Mary McAleese|date=19 October 2015|work=Royal Irish Academy|access-date=9 November 2018|language=en|archive-date=9 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109153151/https://www.ria.ie/mary-mcaleese|url-status=live}}</ref> – 1998
* {{flagicon|China}} Honorary Degree from the [[Harbin Institute of Technology]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/why-is-dit-big-news-in-china-1.1003754|title=Why is DIT big news in China?|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=16 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516205141/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/why-is-dit-big-news-in-china-1.1003754|url-status=live}}</ref> – 2003
* {{flagicon|Ireland}} Honorary [[Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rcsi.ie/index.jsp?p=164&n=894&a=1165|title=0 – Royal College Surgeons in Ireland|website=rcsi.ie|date=29 September 2006 |access-date=9 November 2018|archive-date=9 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109153242/http://www.rcsi.ie/index.jsp?p=164&n=894&a=1165|url-status=live}}</ref> – 2006
* {{flagicon|New Zealand}} Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the [[University of Otago]] – 31 October 2007
* {{flagicon|USA}} Honorary Doctorate of Law from the [[Mount Holyoke College]] –  24 May 2009
* {{flagicon|USA}} Honorary Doctorate of Law from the [[Fordham University]] – 22 May 2010
* {{flagicon|UK}} Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/mary-mcaleese/|title=Professor Mary Patricia McAleese HonFRSE, HonFLSW – The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=26 June 2018|language=en-GB|archive-date=26 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626201039/https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/mary-mcaleese/|url-status=live}}</ref>  – 2012
* {{flagicon|USA}} Honorary doctorate at [[University of Massachusetts|UMass]] Lowell – 8 November 2013
* {{flagicon|UK}} Honorary Fellow of the [[Learned Society of Wales]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/mary-mcaleese/|title=Mary McAleese {{!}} The Learned Society of Wales|work=The Learned Society of Wales|access-date=9 November 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=9 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109195240/https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/mary-mcaleese/|url-status=live}}</ref> – 2017
* {{flagicon|UK}} Honorary Member of the [[Society of Legal Scholars]]

===Awards===
* {{flagicon|USA}} The [[Silver World Award]] of the Boy Scouts of America - March 1998
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[The American Ireland Fund]] Humanitarian Award – 3 May 2007
* {{flagicon|USA}} Blessed are the Peacemakers Award from [[Catholic Theological Union]] – 17 April 2013
* {{flagicon|Germany}} Alfons Auer Ethics Award-2019<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/prestigious-catholic-theology-award-to-be-presented-to-mary-mcaleese-1.3994464 |title=Prestigious Catholic theology award to be presented to Mary McAleese, Irish Times. 22 August 2019 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |access-date=23 August 2019 |archive-date=22 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822221404/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/prestigious-catholic-theology-award-to-be-presented-to-mary-mcaleese-1.3994464 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Other honours and awards===
On 8 June 2013, a ceremony was held to rename a bridge on the [[M1 motorway (Republic of Ireland)|M1 motorway]] near [[Drogheda]] as the [[Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge]] to honour McAleese's contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0608/455430-mcaleese-bridge/|title=Drogheda cable bridge named after Mary McAleese|work=[[RTÉ News]]|date=9 June 2013|access-date=10 June 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001518/http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0608/455430-mcaleese-bridge/|url-status=live}}</ref>