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	Betty Williams (Northern Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Betty Williams (born 22 May 1943) was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organization dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
		Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and baptized a Roman Catholic despite the fact that 3 of her 4 grandparents were not Catholic.
		Williams was walking nearby, heard the crash, and was the first on the scene.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Betty_Williams_(Northern_Irish) (1031 words)

	Northern Ireland - MSN Encarta
		After partition, Catholics in Northern Ireland were a disadvantaged minority in matters of employment, housing, education, and effective cultural and political participation—a situation which the British government failed significantly to address.
		Violence in Northern Ireland and terrorist attacks in England increased in intensity, reaching a peak in 1973 and 1974.
		In 1981 a number of Provisional IRA prisoners in Long Kesh (the Maze) prison began a hunger strike; the first of 11 to die was Bobby Sands, who had been elected as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, on May 5.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571415_8/Northern_Ireland.html (723 words)

	Study in Northern Ireland
		Location: Northern Ireland is composed of 26 districts, derived from the boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry and the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone.
		Northern Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom (it has 12 representatives in the British House of Commons), but under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act in 1920, it had a semiautonomous government.
		The goal of the I.R.A. was to eject the British and unify Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic to the south.
	www.studyoverseas.com /europe/nothernirland1.htm (1564 words)

	Nobel Peace Laureates Conference \| 1998
		Such is the case with Betty Williams, a native of Belfast, Ireland, whose intuitive, immediate response to a senseless act of violence created the Northern Ireland Peace Movement.
		It was against this backdrop of spiraling violence that Betty Williams said "enough." For her efforts in trying to bring peace to Northern Island, she received the 1976 Carl von Ossietsky Medal for Courage from the Berlin section of the Inter national League of Human Rights.
		Williams was also jointly honored with Corrigan as a recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their grassroots work that spawned the Northern Ireland Peace Movement.
	www.virginia.edu /nobel/laureates/bios/williams_bio.html (1080 words)

	BookRags: Corrigan and Williams Biography
		Mairead Corrigan-Maguire (born 1944) and Betty Williams-Perkins (born 1943) were the founders of the women's peace movement in Northern Ireland in 1976.
		Betty Williams was born on May 22, 1943, in a Catholic sector of Belfast known as Andersonstown, the eldest daughter of a mixed family (her father was Protestant and her mother Catholic, her grandfather Jewish).
		Betty Williams, who had witnessed the tragedy, went about in the Catholic areas securing 6,000 signatures to a peace petition which she read on television.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/corrigan-and-williams (1536 words)

	AllAboutIrish - Women's Timeline
		Born the daughter of a chieftain and his slave, she grew up to establish the first Irish women's monastery and to be a mentor of both men and women in the early Church.
		The daughter of a wealthy Irish family who had emigrated to Paris, she left behind her socialite world to return to Ireland and take the risk of establishing schools for poor Catholic children and established the religious women's order known as The Presentation Sisters to carry on her work.
		Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, of Belfast, received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their efforts in establishing the Northern Irish Peace Movement.
	allaboutirish.com /library/history/herstory.shtm (631 words)

	Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's pages - Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Egil Aarvik, vice-chairman of the committee presented the postponed 1976 prize to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan in 1977, he began his speech with a graphic description of the tragic accident that had occurred the previous August on a street in Belfast in Northern Ireland.
		The movement was led by Betty Williams, a housewife who came upon the scene after she heard the shot, and Mairead Corrigan, the young aunt of the dead children.
		Betty Williams emigrated to the United States, where she teaches in a university and has become a stirring lecturer on peace.
	www.dassk.org /contents.php?id=71 (487 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Betty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Peoria, Ill. as Bettye Goldstein, educated at Smith College (B.A., 1942) and the Univ. of California at Berkeley.
		Williams, Betty WILLIAMS, BETTY [Williams, Betty] 1943-, Northern Irish peace activist, b.
		The novelist William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Betty (604 words)

	Receptionist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When receptionists leave the job, they often enter other career fields such as sales and marketing, public relations or other media occupations.
		A few famous people were receptionists in the beginning, such as (Northern Irish) Betty Williams, a co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.
		A number of celebrities had worked as receptionists before they became famous, such as the late entrepreneur/Beatle wife Linda McCartney[1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Receptionist (727 words)

	Williams, Betty - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		WILLIAMS, BETTY [Williams, Betty] 1943-, Northern Irish peace activist, b.
		She began publicly demonstrating for peace, joining forces with Mairéad Corrigan, the aunt of the slain children, soon after the incident.
		Sun Herald, Port Charlotte, Fla., Betty Williams Column.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wmsb1e.html (262 words)

	AllRefer.com - Betty Williams (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Betty Williams 1943–, Northern Irish peace activist, b.
		In Aug., 1976, Williams witnessed the death of three children when a car driven by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorist went out of control after being fired on by British troops.
		She began publicly demonstrating for peace, joining forces with MairEad Corrigan, the aunt of the slain children, soon after the incident.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WmsBe.html (209 words)

	AllAboutIrish - Irish Nobel Laureates
		He served in France during World War II as a member of the Resistance and remained their as a member of the Irish Red Cross after the war was ended.
		Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for their work in establishing the Northern Ireland Peace Movement.
		In the face of long-standing conflict and violence, they worked to establish a grass-roots movement which gave the people of Northern Ireland a vehicle to say that they had had enough of the violence that wrecked their daily lives.
	www.allaboutirish.com /library/people/irishnobels.shtm (780 words)

	A Brief History of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We have already learned of the disastrous schemes of Scottish financier William Paterson, who in the 1690's tried to break the East India Company’s monopoly by planting a colony across the Isthmus of Panama with a port on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
		Not all early church leaders were Presbyterians, however; in Virginia, the first president of William and Mary College was James Blair, pioneer and subsequent architect of Scottish influence upon the Colonial Episcopal Church.
		His assistant was William Hastie, who designed the contract house in Kiev in 1815, the first stone building of note after a catastrophic fire of 1811.
	www.peternwilliams.com /scot17.html (2731 words)

	Race Matters - Betty Williams Says Protect The Innocents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Williams, who won the 1976 peace prize for efforts to end strife in Northern Ireland, said it was natural, even human, to want to avenge Tuesday's devastating bloodshed.
		Williams' quest for peace began 25 years ago when she watched as a car fleeing an exchange of gunfire during the unrest in her native Belfast ran down a mother and her three young children.
		Williams' words resonated throughout the Palm Beach Lakes Community High auditorium, where students responded with two standing ovations and multiple bursts of spontaneous applause.
	www.racematters.org /bwilliamsprotectinnocents.htm (434 words)

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		Not by me, or Jody Williams, or His Holiness, or anybody else who is supposed to have "a famous name." The insanity of that has got to be challenged by every single one of you.
		Betty Williams: I meant to mention that, but I get so nervous that sometimes I forget what I need to say.
		Betty Williams: Well, I think in this situation-I can only speak for Northern Ireland, I am not an expert in the world, I can only speak for a situation that I saw-one of the greatest things I referred to was Lagan College.
	www.virginia.edu /uvanewsmakers/newsmakers/williams,b.html (6465 words)

	Peace Jam - One Person Really Can Make A Difference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Betty also spoke and the Declaration was read for the first time, many reading it from newspaper clippings.
		Although it lacked the drama of other marches, and some of the subsequent glamour, it was the most significant symbolically, and its success meant that we could proceed later with other deliberately symbolic marches across territories presumed by centuries of prejudice to be impassable by one section or the other.
		Williams, Betty One of the three founders of the Peace People in Northern Ireland, for which she shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Máiread Corrigan Maguire.
	www.peacejam.org /pages/laureates_betty/laureates_betty_Unit1_Ch5_Pt2 (4227 words)

	Frank J. Williams \| Lincolniana in 1988 \| Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 10
		William Hanchett delivered his "Abraham Lincoln—Man in the Middle" at the February 12 meeting, and Harold Holzer and Mark E. Neely, Jr., delivered "The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause" on March 11.
		In commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the birth of John Hay, the October 8 meeting was held at Brown University with presentations from Jennifer Lee ("John Hay: From Poetry to Statesmanship") and Frank J. Williams ("John Hay and Abraham Lincoln: A Relationship Re-examined").
		Chief Justice William Rehnquist and members of the Pennsylvania legislature were in the audience.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /10/williams.html (9541 words)

	CNN - Peace Prize humbles N. Ireland's Hume and Trimble - October 16, 1998
		LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Two political rivals with the common goal of ending decades of religious-inspired violence in Northern Ireland won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday but said the honor is not for them as individuals.
		Controversial Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, another key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, said he was not disappointed at being left out.
		The 1976 prize went to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan of Northern Ireland for their peace efforts in founding the International Peace People group, which later fizzled.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9810/16/nobel.peace.prize.03 (1352 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Irish Famine causes Irish population to decrease by 2 million due to death and emigration.
		The Irish Home Rule Bill, which grants an independent parliament to Ireland, passes, though enactment is delayed until 1920.
		The parliament of Northern Ireland is suspended and the British impose direct rule over the province.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~cemulshi/timeline.html (354 words)

	Betty Williams
		Mairead Corrigan - Corrigan, Mairead, 1944–, Irish social activist, b.
		Betty Shamieh worlds apart: writing articulate Arab women is her specialty.(Profiles)(Interview)(Biography)
		Williams Ready for His Close-Up; Foreign Press to Honor Veteran Actor With DeMille Award.(Special Report: Golden Globes Preview)(Robin......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852323.html (295 words)

	Quinnipiac University \| Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams to speak at Quinnipiac University on March 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Along with Mairead Maguire, Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize and the People’s Peace Prize of Norway in 1976 for her work against violence in her native Northern Ireland.
		Williams is president of World Centers of Compassion for Children International based in Florida.
		Williams also is chairwoman of the Institute for Asian Democracy in Washington, D.C., and serves on the Council of Honor for the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /x9989.xml (502 words)

	irish republican army - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Irish Republican Army--History, Political Violence--Ulster (Northern Ireland And Ireland), Revolutionaries--Ulster (Northern Ireland And Ireland), Ulster (Northern Ireland And Ireland)--History, Military
		For Irish "Republicanism" is not republican in any...real inspiration of present Irish Republicanism emerged during the 1916 Easter...an independent Ireland.
		The British and Irish governments were already doing everything...for the British governments role in the Irish potato famine a century and a half ago...
	www.questia.com /search/irish-republican-army (1754 words)

	Heroines of Peace
		William James declared that "she inhabited reality," and to Walter Lippman, "she was not only good, but great."
		At the age of eighteen she joined the Irish order of Loeto and went to teach in their girls' school in Calcutta.
		Seán McBride (1974) was an Irish beauty of whom the poets sang.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/articles/heroines/index.html (5576 words)

	MAY
		1671: Colonel Thomas Blood, the Irish adventurer, gained entry to the Tower of London disguised as a parson, and befriended one of the keepers of the Royal Regalia.
		He won the Nobel Literature prize in 1950 and was one of the founders of the Committee of 100 advocating nuclear disarmament.
		1819: Birth of Victoria, Queen of England on the death of William IV in 1837 and Empress of India in 1876.
	www.camelotintl.com /365_days/may.html (11647 words)

	Peace Prize Forum 2000: Conflict Timeline
		Ulster Protestants accepted the act, and the state of Northern Ireland was formed from six counties in Ulster.
		It creates the Irish Free State, comprising 26 of the country's 32 counties, 23 southern counties and 3 counties of Ulster.
		It gives Dublin government consultative voice in daily running of Northern Ireland, prompting Protestant demonstrations and it determines that a united Ireland can only be achieved by a majority vote of Northern Ireland's citizens.
	www.stolaf.edu /nppf/2000/resources/timeline.htm (909 words)

	Peace agreements promise hope - November 2, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But she went on to write about the negotiations to end the conflict in Northern Ireland as "politics practiced as an art, which can rescue a society from savagery and fear - the conduct of war by other means."
		It is true that one almost expects "broken" and "derailed" to follow "signed" and "sealed" when it comes to peace agreements but grandiose symbolic acts of peace such as the signing of a peace agreement is a monumental symbol for what individuals and small groups cannot accomplish on their own.
		In 1976, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two Northern Irish women, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, for leading the Northern Ireland peace movement.
	wc.arizona.edu /papers/92/50/05_1_m.html (813 words)

	Message receives several ovations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Williams argued that Bush and Blair were "elected terrorists."
		Williams said that the only way to end the killing of children was to give
		Williams and Mairead Maguire co-founded the Ireland peace movement in an
	www.tibet.ca /en/wtnarchive/2002/9/24_9.html (495 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Northern Ireland
		The Northern Ireland peace deal struck this weekend between Ireland, Britain, and political leaders of the British-ruled province faces a tough road ahead.
		The Nationalists in the six counties of Northern Ireland have long been fighting decades of domination and discrimination by the ruling Unionist majority, so-called because they seek to remain part of the union of Great Britain.
		The people of Northern Ireland will head to the polls May 22nd to vote on the referendum and Washington, London and Dublin are mobilizing to sway voters their way.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0337245 (443 words)

	Betty Williams Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Peace
		Betty Williams Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Peace
		Betty williams portrayed in Invitation (submitted by School of Metaphysics)
		Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan Irish social activists (submitted by Aaron)
	nobelprizes.com /nobel/peace/1976a.html (154 words)

	Peace prize winner 'could kill' Bush \| World Wide Weird \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
		Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum, being held in Brisbane, Ms Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr Bush.
		Ms Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years ago, when she circulated a petition to end violence in Northern Ireland after witnessing British soldiers shoot dead an IRA member who was driving a car.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,19902313-29677,00.html (447 words)

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