Máiread Maguire
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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.
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Peace People, peace organization with headquarters in Belfast, N.Ire. Founded by Máiread Maguire, Betty Williams, and Ciaran McKeown, it began in 1976 as a grassroots movement to protest the ongoing violence in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of thousands of people, not only in Northern Ireland but also…
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Publications (2)
The Vision of Peace Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland (August 2010)
The Vision of Peace, edited by John Dear, features the first ever collection of writings by Mairead Corrigan Maguire, the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Winner from Belfast.
Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams Making Peace in Northern Ireland (November 1998)
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