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Mairead Corrigan (born 27 January, 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, was the co-founder, with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People, an organization which attempts to encourage a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Biography

Corrigan was born into a Roman Catholic family in Belfast, the second child of seven. She attended Catholic schools until the age of 14, then found a job as a secretary.

Corrigan became active with the peace movement after three children of her sister, Anne Maguire, were run over and killed by a car driven by Danny Lennon, an IRA man who was fatally shot by British troops while trying to make a getaway. Anne Maguire later committed suicide.

Betty Williams, a baptised Roman Catholic herself, despite a Protestant father and a Protestant husband, had witnessed the event, and soon after the two co-founded Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People.

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A book about Williams and Corrigan.
By the end of the month Betty and Mairead brought 35,000 people onto the streets of Belfast petitioning for peace between the republican and loyalist factions. She believed the most effective way to end the violence was not violence but re-education.[1]

However, the venture ultimately petered out due to in large part to objections from Catholics that the Peace People were focusing entirely on Republican violence and ignoring Loyalist and state violence by the British security forces.

She received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Betty Williams, in 1977 (the prize for 1976) for their efforts.

In 1981 she married Jackie Maguire, who was the widower of her late sister, Anne. She has three stepchildren and two of her own, John and Luke.

In 1990 Corrigan was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award. It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. Pacem in Terris is Latin for 'Peace on Earth.'

She is member of the Honorary board of the International Coalition for the Decade of the culture of Peace and Nonviolence.

In 2004 she went to Israel and welcomed Mordechai Vanunu upon his release from prison, where he had served an 18-year prison sentence for disclosing Israel's nuclear secrets.

She is a member of the pro-life group Consistent Life, which is against abortion, the death penalty and euthanasia.

In April 2007, while participating in a protest against the construction of the West Bank barrier outside the Palestinian village of Bil'in, Israeli security forces intervened and Ms. Corrigan was hit by a rubber-coated steel bullet and inhaled tear gas, requiring medical attention (see external links 7, 8 and 9 below).

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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
Betty Williams / Mairead Corrigan (1976) • Amnesty International (1977) • Anwar Al Sadat / Menachem Begin (1978) • Mother Teresa (1979) • Adolfo Prez Esquivel (1980) • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1981) • Alva Myrdal / Alfonso Garca Robles (1982) • Lech Wałęsa (1983) • Desmond Tutu (1984) • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (1985) • Elie Wiesel (1986) • scar Arias (1987) • UN Peacekeeping (1988) • Dalai Lama (1989) • Mikhail Gorbachev (1990) • Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) • Rigoberta Mench (1992) • Nelson Mandela / F.W. de Klerk (1993) • Yasser Arafat / Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin (1994) • Pugwash Conferences / Joseph Rotblat (1995) • Carlos Belo / Jos Horta (1996) • International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams (1997) • John Hume / David Trimble (1998) • Mdecins Sans Frontires (1999) • Kim Dae Jung (2000)
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Betty Williams (born 22 May, 1943) was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 (the prize for 1976) for as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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