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John Hume KCSG (18 January 1937 – 3 August 2020) was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. A founder and leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume served in the Northern Ireland Parliament; the Northern Ireland Assembly including, in 1974, its first power-sharing executive; the ...
John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland from 1979 to 2001. He also was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 to 2000. In 1998 he and David Trimble were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. Learn more about Hume’s life and career.
Aug 3, 2020 · John Hume, a prominent Northern Ireland politician and a key figure in the peace process, has passed away in a Londonderry nursing home. He was praised by political leaders from across the spectrum for his vision, courage and commitment to nonviolence and democracy.
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"John Hume was a political titan; a visionary who refused to believe the future had to be the same as the past. His contribution to peace in Northern Ireland was epic," former British prime minister Tony Blair, who was in office at the time of the Good Friday accord, said in a statement. Another former British prime minister, John Major, also paid ...
Hume in 1968 joined a movement to protect the civil rights of the province's pro-Irish Roman Catholic minority, fighting against discrimination by the pro-British Protestant majority in everything from housing to education. As leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Hume was an important advocate of non-violence as fightin...
In a pivotal breakthrough, Hume in 1993 took part in pioneering talks with Gerry Adams, who was at the time the leader of the Sinn Fein party that was then the political wing of the guerrilla Irish Republican Army (IRA). The talks helped pave the way for a joint initiative by the British and Irish governments in 1993 that spawned a peace process an...
Aug 3, 2020 · John Hume, who has died at the age of 83, made a singular contribution to securing peace in Northern Ireland after decades of political violence that claimed more than 3,000 lives in one of...
Aug 4, 2020 · Former SDLP leader and key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, John Hume, has died at 83. Politicians and others from across the spectrum pay homage to his vision, courage and commitment to nonviolence and democracy.
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Aug 3, 2020 · John Hume, a moderate Roman Catholic politician who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his dogged and ultimately successful campaign to end decades of bloodshed in his native Northern Ireland...
