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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 81) Belfast, Northern 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) ^[4]
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 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 wer

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Mairead Corrigan Maguire was not actively involved with the Northern Ireland peace movement until she came face-to-face with violence in 1976. On August 10th, Danny Lennon and John Chillingworth of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), were driving through Belfast, with a rifle in their car. The IRA wanted to form a united Ireland through physical force that would be outside of United Kingdom control.

British troops, claiming that the rifle had been pointed at them, opened fire on the car, instantly killing Lennon and seriously wounding Chillingworth. The car veered onto the sidewalk striking Mairead’s sister, Anne, and three of her children. While Anne survived, her three children died. Another peace activist, Betty Williams, also witnessed the crash and assembled 200 women to march for an end to the violence. When the marchers passed by Maguire’s home she quickly joined in.

Shortly after the march, Community of Peace People was founded by Maguire and Williams based on their shared belief that reconciliation was possible through the gradual integration of schools, reside

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Williams, Betty and Mairead Corrigan

Co-founders of the Irish Peace People movement of the mid-1970s, the most successful of several early attempts to create a cross-community alliance against terrorism.

Williams, Betty (1943—) . Name variations: Betty Williams Perkins. Born Betty Smyth in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on May 22, 1943; daughter of a butcher and a housewife; attended St. Teresa's Primary School and St. Dominic's Grammar School; married Ralph Williams (an engineer in the merchant marine), on June 14, 1961; emigrated to the U.S. where she later remarried; children: (first marriage) Paul; Deborah.

Awards:

honorary doctorate from Yale University; Norwegian People Peace Prize (1976); Nobel Peace Prize (1976).

Corrigan, Mairead (1944—) . Name variations: Máiread Corrigan; Mairead Corrigan Maguire. Born Mairead Corrigan in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on January 27, 1944; one of eight children of a window cleaning contractor and a housewife; married Jackie Maguire (her deceased sister's husband); children: Luke, Mark, Joanne, Marie Louise, and John.