BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The man who will become the next president of Ireland is an Indiana University graduate.
University President Michael McRobbie is extending congratulations to Michael D. Higgins, who won election last week. He is to be inaugurated Nov. 11 as the country's ceremonial head of state.
Higgins received a master of arts degree in sociology from IU's Bloomington campus in 1967.
He is veteran left-wing politician, poet and human rights activist who has been president of Ireland's Labour Party, a member of the Irish parliament and mayor of Galway.
In the mid-1990s he was the country's first cultural minister and established an Irish language television channel.
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