Clinton in Dublin on Wednesday to promote book

Former US President Bill Clinton is due in Dublin next Wednesday to promote his newly published memoirs.

Former US President Bill Clinton is due in Dublin next Wednesday to promote his newly published memoirs.

Mr Clinton is scheduled to sign copies of his 957-page tome My Life in Easons on O'Connell Street.

It is understood he has no other public engagements in the Republic and will travel to the North on Thursday as part of a promotional tour for the book.

The book itself has had mixed reviews but in London recently crowds of fans queued, in some cases overnight, outside Waterstones book shop to meet the charismatic former president.

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Mr Clinton is rumoured to have received a $10 million advance to write the book which spans his life from an abuse-scarred childhood in Arkansas to the tumultuous White House years tainted by his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf received a massive two million advance orders for the book, which had a first run printing of 1.5 million copies.