Mrs Máiread Corrigan Maguire's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Máiread Corrigan
- Sex
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Female
- Date of Birth
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27/1/1944
- Surname
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MAGUIRE
- Style
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Mrs Máiread Corrigan Maguire
- Recreations
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swimming, music
Mrs Máiread Corrigan Maguire's Professional Career
- Career
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initiator of Peace Movement in NI, jt fndr Community of the Peace People, chm Peace People 1980-81, hon life pres Peace People; winner numerous honours and awards; jt recipient Nobel Peace Prize 1976; winner: Norwegian People's prize, Carl-Von-Ossietzky medaille for Courage Berlin 1976; special honouree: UN Women of Achievement programme 1978, American Acad of Achievement; winner Pacem in Terris (Peace and Freedom award) Davenport Iowa 1990, Hon Dr Yale Univ; co fndr Ctee for the Administration of Justice, former volunteer Legion of Mary (work with prisons and prisoners); previously employed as confidential sec to md A Guinness Son & Co (Belfast) Ltd
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