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Mairead Corrigan, född 27 januari 1944 i Belfast, är en nordirländsk nobelpristagare. År 1976 erhöll hon Nobels fredspris med Betty Williams för sitt arbete för fred på Nordirland. [6] Vid 33 års ålder blev Corrigan den dåtilldags yngsta fredspristagaren. [7]
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.
Mairead Corrigan o Mairead Corrigan-Maguire (Belfast, Irlanda del Nord, 27 de gener 1944) fou cofundadora, al costat de Betty Williams i Ciaran McKeown, de Dones per la Pau, que més tard es va convertir en la Community of Peace People (Moviment per la Pau d'Irlanda del Nord), una organització dedicada a buscar solucions pacífiques al ...
Máiread Corrigan 1976 Nobel Peace Prize-winner for her efforts to create a grassroots movement to end decades of violence in Northern Ireland. Sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics had existed for centuries, but worsened because of economic and political problems in the period from 1969-1998 known as “The Troubles”.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire. On August 10, 1976, a car chase between IRA and British troops through Belfast, Northern Ireland, led to an accident in which two of Mairead Corrigan Maguire's nephews and one of her nieces were killed. Her sister, distraught over the death of her ...
Mairead Corrigan (n. 27 ianuarie 1944 , Belfast , Irlanda de Nord ) este o militantă catolică pentru pace din Irlanda de Nord. A primit Premiul Nobel pentru Pace în anul 1976 , împreună cu Betty Williams .
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 […]
