Mrs Máiread Corrigan Maguire

Mrs Máiread Corrigan Maguire's Biography

Forename(s)
Máiread Corrigan
Sex
Female
Date of Birth
27/1/1944
Surname
MAGUIRE
Style
Mrs Máiread Corrigan Maguire
Recreations
swimming, music

Mrs Máiread Corrigan Maguire's Professional Career

Career
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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