Mairead corrigan and biography

Mairead Maguire

Mairead Maguire[1][2]

Mairead Maguire at the Free Gaza Movement in July 2009

Born

Mairead Corrigan


(1944-01-27) 27 January 1944 (age 80)

Belfast, Northern Ireland[3]

Other namesMairead Corrigan Maguire
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Organization(s)The Peace People,
The Nobel Women's Initiative
Known forInternational social activist
Spouse

Jackie Maguire

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(m. 1981)​
[4]
Children2 (5)[1][4]
RelativesAnne Maguire (sister)
AwardsNobel Peace Prize (1976)
Norwegian People's Peace Prize (1976)[5]
Carl von Ossietzky Medal (1976)[6]
Pacem in Terris (1990)

Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People.[7] Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.01.1Fairmichael, p. 28: "Mairead Corrigan, now Mairead Maguire, married her former brother-in-law, Jackie Maguire, and they have two children of their own as well as three by Jackie's previous marriage to Ann Maguire."
  2. ↑Abrams (2001) p. 27 "For many years Mairead Corrigan (now Maguire), thirty-three when she received the 1976 prize in 1977, was the youngest in the year of the award, but she has now been matched by Rigoberta Menchú Tum, also thirty-three when she won the prize in 1992."
  3. ↑"Mairead Maguire: Nobel winner, veteran peace campaigner". AFP. 4 June 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.04.1"Mairead Corrigan Maguire". The Peace People. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  5. ↑"NORTHERN IRELAND: A People's Peace Prize". TIME. 13 December 1976. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
  6. ↑"Die Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medaille" [The Carl von Ossietzky Medal] (in German). Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte (International League for Human Rights). Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  7. ↑"Peace People – History". The Peace People. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  8. ↑"The Nobel Peace Prize 1976". Nobel Foundation. 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2009.