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	Mairead Corrigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mairead Corrigan (born 27 January 1944) 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.
		Corrigan was born in a Roman Catholic family in Belfast.
		Corrigan became active with the peace movement after her sister, Anne Maguire's 3 children 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mairead_Corrigan (345 words)

	Mairead Corrigan Inspires Struggle, Hope for Irish Peace
		Mairead Corrigan, founder of The Peace People and former Nobel Laureate, was and is an Irish social activist and humanitarian.
		However, Corrigan also realized that the institutionalized system of education had become infested with the hatreds which permeate her home, an antipathy which the children of Northern Ireland are often taught never to question.
		Mairead Corrigan was one of the first of a new breed of Irish social activists; she was a pioneer of the generation of educated Irish Catholics who came of age in the late 1960s in Northern Ireland, a group of people determined to fight for equal rights and for peace in their society.
	www.ibiblio.org /prism/mar98/mairead.html (1619 words)

	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.
		Together with Mairead Corrigan, Anne Maguire's sister, she cofounded the Women for Peace which later, with co-founder Ciaran McKeown became The Community for Peace People.
		On 13 August, the day of the Maguire children's funeral, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were to appear with journalist Ciaran McKeown, on a current affairs television program, and although they arrived too late, they met McKeown, who joined the two women in founding the Peace People.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Betty_Williams_(Northern_Irish) (954 words)

	Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's pages - Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		Mairead Corrigan Maguire has continued to work with the Peace People in Belfast and has also effectively carried her message of nonviolence into other countries.
	www.dassk.org /contents.php?id=71 (487 words)

	nobleprize
		Mairead Corrigan is a shorthand typist and secretary in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
		In the aftermath, Mairead Corrigan, and colleagues Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown began to organize some of the largest peace demonstrations in the history of their region.
		The rallies throughout London, Belfast, Derry/Londonderry and Dublin spurred Corrigan and her compatriots to found an organization which they named "Women for Peace," but which continues to exist under the title, "The Peace People Organization," a movement of Catholics and Protestants dedicated to ending sectarian fighting in Northern Ireland.
	members.tripod.com /yarpc/noblepri.htm (2607 words)

	Bear Left!: Anti-War Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My son recently chose Mairead Corrigan, a secretary from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and cofounder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (Peace People), as the topic for a school paper.
		Corrigan won the 1976 Nobel Prize for her courageous stand against political and religious violence.
		Twenty-six years after Mairead Corrigan made a difference, women are again taking the lead to prevent the devastation that war brings to children and communities.
	www.bear-left.com /original/2002/1208heroes.html (608 words)

	Corrigan, Mairead on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KAREN QUINN spoke to the organisation's co-founder and joint Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, about the impact of the movement on Ulster's Troubles and her hopes for the future.(Features)
		Jody Williams à Washington lors d'une manifestation en 2001 Mairead Corrigan Maguire, prix Nobel 1976 pour son engagement.
		GINA DOGGETT Agence France Presse 04-16-2003 Peace activist and 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire (C) protests the Iraq war across the street from the White House 16 April, 2003 in Washington, DC.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Corrigan.asp (600 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mairead Corrigan (Social Reformers) - Encyclopedia
		Mairead Corrigan[moi´ru kOr´igun] Pronunciation Key, 1944–;, Irish social activist, b.
		A volunteer social worker in the Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast, Corrigan saw three of her sister's children killed when a car driven by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorist went out of control after being fired on by British troops.
		Betty Williams, who also witnessed the incident, joined with Corrigan to form the Peace People Organization, a movement of Catholics and Protestants dedicated to ending sectarian fighting in Northern Ireland.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Corrigan.html (230 words)

	PMag v08n4p07 -- Mairead Corrigan Maguire and the Northern Irish Peace People
		The children's aunt, Mairead Corrigan, was the second of seven children of a working-class family unable to provide for her education, Apart from some business courses, she left school at age 14.
		In 1976, Mairead was serving as a secretary to a director of a brewery.
		Mairead helped her brother-in-law take care of the three remaining children, and in 1981, they were married.
	www.peacemagazine.org /archive/v08n4p07.htm (830 words)

	Mairead Corrigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mairead Corrigan (born January 27, 1944) was the cofounder, with Betty Williams of the, an organization which attempts to encourage a peaceful resolution of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
		She married Jackie MacGuire in 1981, who was the widower of Corrigan's sister Anne who died in 1980.
		She is a step-parent to three of MacGuire's children, and she has two of her own - John and Luke.
	www.lakejackson.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mairead_Corrigan (200 words)

	Mairead Corrigan Maguire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Máiread Corrigan Maguire by John Dear, S.J. "If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."
		In October 1977 Betty and Mairead were told they had received the 1976 prize, while Amnesty International received the 1977 prize.
		As Northern Ireland emerges from its bloodbath and commits itself to a future of peace, the rest of us do well to ponder the wisdom of this persistent, gentle visionary, a wisdom born out of pain and bloodshed, in the hope that we too might learn to see the way to peace.
	www.peacepeople.com /MaireadByJohnDear.htm (1081 words)

	Nobel Laureate Compares Israeli Nuclear Arms to Gas Chambers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire on Sunday compared Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal to Hitler's gas chambers and called on Israel to lift travel restrictions on nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu.
		Maguire, awarded the 1976 prize for her Northern Ireland peace campaign, was at the prison gates to welcome Vanunu when he was released in April after serving an 18-year sentence for disclosing Israel's nuclear secrets.
		Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Mordechai Vanunu during their press conference in Jerusalem on Sunday.
	www.nonviolence.org /vanunu/archive92/20041219haaretz.html (316 words)

	Mairead Corrigan Maguire - Resources for Teachers and Students
		Prepare: Mairead Corrigan Maguire was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 after having helped organize a series of peace marches in Northern Ireland.
		These marches, where tens of thousands of Catholics and Protestants marched together in support of peace, were initiated as a nonviolent response to the killing of her sister's three children by an IRA gunman.
		Extend: Mairead Corrigan Maguire developed a two-part curriculum, "Peacemakers in Training" and "Peacemakers in Action," for the PeaceJam Youth Dialogue Series.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/architects-of-peace/Maguire/lesson.html (455 words)

	Peace People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bishop Desmond Tutu, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Ernesto Cardenal, Fernando Cardenal and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton are among those answering the call of Fr Joseph Mulligan SJ to fast on Fridays from food and/or water in solidarity with the Guantanamo internees who are on hunger strike.
		Nobel Laureate Mairead traded views on non-violence with youth, teachers and university mentors from four States, walked with the Mayor in a public march, and visited a Juvenile Detention Centre where she was presented with peace gifts by the youth in the Centre.
		Mairead was a guest for the 2005 Great Lakes Peace Jam Conference in Michigan University, April 9th and 10th, 2005.
	www.peacepeople.com (1431 words)

	Mairead Corrigan - Curriculum Vitae
		In September 1981 Mairead married Jackie Maguire, widower of her sister Anne, who never recovered from the tragic loss of her children and died in January 1980.
		Mairead is step-mother of Mark, Joanne, and Marie Louise, and mother of John Francis (b.
		Mairead was a co-founder of the Committee on the Administration of Justice, a non-sectarian organisation of Northern Ireland which defends human rights and advocates repeal of the government’s emergency laws.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1976/corrigan-cv.html (573 words)

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		Betty Williams was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for her work against violence in Northern Ireland together with Mairead Corrigan-Maguire with whom she co-founded the Community of Peace People, an organization that advocates non-violence and peaceful co-existence in Northern Ireland.
		Mairead and Ciaran and I had the honour to receive the Carl von Ossietsky medal in Berlin last year; from the Berlin section of the International League of Human Rights.
		Mairead Maguire has been an outspoken advocate for non-violence and worked ceaselessly with grassroots community groups to promote dialogue and understanding between the divided communities in Northern Ireland.
	aix1.uottawa.ca /~nstaman/alternatives/Nobels/TheNobelPeacePrize1976.doc (2999 words)

	First UK PeaceJam - Press release from the University of Bradford
		The Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Corrigan McGuire, will give a free public lecture at the University of Bradford this week ahead of a unique weekend of activities around conflict resolution for school children.
		Mairead will be discussing global issues around peace and conflict resolution with staff, students and members of the public at 5pm on Friday 24 March 2006 in the John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre, Richmond Building, on the main campus of the University.
		"Mairead's lecture and her workshops with the youngsters are wonderful opportunities to learn from a great and inspiring practitioner who is involved in the vital work of peacemaking.
	www.brad.ac.uk /admin/pr/pressreleases/2006/peacejam.php (839 words)

	Using the Internet -- Brown Quarterly -- v. 5, no. 1 -- Winter 2002
		Two women, Betty Williams, who came upon the scene, and Mairead Corrigan, the aunt of the children, led marches in which Protestants and Catholics walked together to demonstrate against violence.
		At the presentation of their Nobel Peace Prize in 1976, it was said, "In the name of humanity and love of their neighbor; someone had to start forgiving...
		Mairead Corrigan Maguire continued to carry the message of non-violence to other countries.
	brownvboard.org /brwnqurt/05-1/05-1d.htm (197 words)

	International Committee for the Peace Council: Maguire News
		Maguire is asking for a dialogue between the Bush Administration and the government of Iraq in order to put a halt to the unnecessary deaths of Iraqi civilians and soldiers from both sides.
		Police handcuffed Mairead Corrigan maguire, who won the prize in 1976 for peace activism in the Northern Ireland conflict, and jody Williams, a 1997 winner for her work to ban land mines, after they refused to leave Lafayette park opposite the home of the U.S. president.
		The Nobel laureates were detained along with religious leaders and Vietnam-era protester Daniel Ellsberg as they sat in a circle in the park and chanted "Peace, shalom." they held roses as well as gruesome posters showing civilian casualties from the war.
	www.peacecouncil.org /maguirenews.html (1051 words)

	Belfast women who can claim the first honour
		In 1976, it was awarded to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, co-founders of the Community of Peace People in Belfast.
		Miss Corrigan, the Maguire victims' aunt, and Mrs Williams, a witness to the incident, began collecting signatures for a petition.
		Miss Corrigan said: "John Hume and David Trimble have shown tremendous courage in moving the process forward and the Nobel Committee has recognised that." She added: "People known and people unknown whose names we will never know, helped bring about this process.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/10/17/npax417.html (420 words)

	Nobel Laureate compares Israel to Nazi Germany - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1976, Corrigan was awarded the Nobel Prize for her Northern Ireland peace campaign, in which she compared Israeli nuclear activities to Hitler’s gas chambers during world war II.
		Corrigan was at the prison gates to welcome Vanunu when he was released in April after he was jailed for 18 years for disclosing information about Israel's nuclear capabilities.
		During a joint press conference with Mordechai Vanunu in West Jerusalem Sunday, Corrigan said that Israel's possession of nuclear arms was as dangerous as Nazi Germany's gas chambers.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=6290 (682 words)

	Materijali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Betty Williams i Mairead Corrigan pokazale su nam ta mugu učiniti obični ljudi, da bi unaprijedili mir.
		Anne (Corrigan) Maguire was walking along Finaghy Road North with her children.
		Nearby was Anne's sister Eilish (Corrigan) O'Connor, whose eldest child, Michelle, had been killed by a car, driven by a frightened motorist fleeing a riot situation, on this same road, about a hundred yards further down, eight years earlier.
	www.dadalos.org /cg/Vorbilder/PeacePeople/materialien.htm (1061 words)

	Interview - Activist’s peace movement born from violence - 10/24/04
		Mairead Corrigan Maguire: “For me, the message of the cross is absolute non-violence.”
		On Aug. 10, 1976, Mairead Corrigan McGuire’s sister Anne took her four children for a walk in West Belfast, Northern Ireland.
		Mairead Corrigan Maguire: Well, we had a great experience of violence—both state violence and paramilitary violence—and we had seen that wasn’t working.
	www.catholicnewworld.com /cnw/issue/102404/interview.html (1769 words)

	Nobel Peace Laureates Conference \| 1998
		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.
		In presenting the prize to Williams and Corrigan, Norwegian Nobel Committee vice-chairman Egil Aarvik said, "One of the reasons why the women proved so successful in their campaign is that on both sides of the frontline, a desperate yearning for p eace had taken root.
	www.virginia.edu /nobel/laureates/bios/williams_bio.html (1080 words)

	Nobel Bios
		A 32-year-old executive secretary, Corrigan Maguire's young niece and nephews were killed on a street in Belfast.
		Corrigan Maguire will speak to the profound internal struggles and outside pressures she faced in making the choice for peace, and how an “ordinary” woman like herself was able to do so.
		The death of Corrigan Maguire’s niece and nephews was a call to action for Williams.
	www.journeytopeace.org /project.php?id=24&pid=2 (1037 words)

	Peace Jam - One Person Really Can Make A Difference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Students will discuss the life of Máiread Corrigan Maguire as a case study in what it takes to be a peacemaker.
		Students will discuss and explore how Máiread Corrigan Maguire's service in the Legion of Mary prepared her for her life's work in the Peace People.
		On October 10, 1977, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee announced that the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded to Máiread Corrigan Maguire and Betty Williams for their work to end violence in Northern Ireland.
	www.peacejam.org /pages/laureates_mairead/laureates_mairead_Unit1_Ch4_pt1.htm (6070 words)

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