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Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland.
Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish peace activist who, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, founded the Peace People, a grassroots movement of both Roman Catholic and Protestant citizens dedicated to ending the sectarian strife in Northern Ireland.
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Mairead Maguire was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in l976 for her work for peace and a nonviolent solution to the ethnic/political conflict in Northern Ireland – an award she shares with Betty Williams.
She is a co-founder of the Committee on the Administration of Justice involved in human rights protection.
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She was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work 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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Máiread Maguire is the cofounder of the peace organization Peace People, headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Maguire was the cowinner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Peace. She is the coauthor of The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland. photograph: Courtesy of Máiread Maguire.
