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Filmmaker David Whitney said McAleese, who was born in Glasgow in 1942, was a "complex man" who had a lot of "inner turmoil". He was brought up in Riddrie - on the outskirts of Scotland's biggest city - and in the shadow of its infamous prison Barlinnie, where his father - a "very tough and violent man" - spent time.