Mary Courtney Kennedy, a daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, has married Paul Michael Hill, an Irish Republican Army figure who was wrongfully jailed for 15 years for bombing pubs frequented by British soldiers.

The announcement was made in Boston Thursday by the Kennedy family.Kennedy, 37, is the niece of the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith. Hill, 38, is a Belfast native who is free on bail pending an appeal of his conviction in the 1974 killing of a British soldier.

The two were wed Saturday aboard the yacht Varmar VE in the Aegean Sea by the ship's owner and captain, Vardis Var-di-noy-an-nis. Kennedy's brother said the two hadn't set a wedding date.

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