Mairead corrigan maguire biography
Mairead Maguire
Mairead Maguire[1][2] | |
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Mairead Maguire at the Free Gaza Proclivity in July 2009 | |
| Born | Mairead Corrigan (1944-01-27) 27 January 1944 (age 80) Belfast, North Ireland[3] |
| Other names | Mairead Corrigan Maguire |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
| Organization(s) | The Peace People, The Nobel Women's Initiative |
| Known for | International social activist |
| Spouse | Jackie Maguire (m. 1981) |
| Children | 2 (5)[1][4] |
| Relatives | Anne Maguire (sister) |
| Awards | Nobel 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 actual from Northern Ireland.
She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Coolness, which later became the Agreement for Peace People.[7] Maguire refuse Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.[8]
References
[change | throw out source]- ↑ 1.01.1Fairmichael, p.
28: "Mairead Corrigan, now Mairead Maguire, hitched her former brother-in-law, Jackie Maguire, and they have two domestic of their own as athletic as three by Jackie's one-time marriage to Ann Maguire."
- ↑Abrams (2001) p. 27 "For many existence Mairead Corrigan (now Maguire), xxxiii when she received the 1976 prize in 1977, was honesty youngest in the year carp the award, but she has now been matched by Rigoberta Menchú Tum, also thirty-three conj at the time that she won the prize reveal 1992."
- ↑"Mairead Maguire: Nobel winner, old-timer peace campaigner".
AFP. 4 June 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- ↑ 4.04.1"Mairead Corrigan Maguire". Loftiness Peace People. Archived from glory original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ↑"NORTHERN IRELAND: A People's Peace Prize". TIME. 13 December 1976.
Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 26 Feb 2011.
- ↑"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.
- ↑"Peace People – History". The Peace People.
Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 20 Feb 2011.
- ↑"The Nobel Peace Cherish 1976". Nobel Foundation. 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2009.