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. She is also known as Mairead Corrigan-Maguire. January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 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. ... For the UK post-rock band, see Troubles (band) The Troubles is a term used to describe the latest installment of periodic communal violence involving Republican and Loyalist paramilitary organisations, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the British Army and others in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s until the late... Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (de facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official languages English (de facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3, BSL, NISL, ISL Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Ian Paisley  - Deputy First Minister...

Biography

Corrigan was born into a Roman Catholic family in Belfast, the second child of seven. She attended Catholic schools until the age of 14, then found a job as a secretary. The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles, in particular Saint Peter. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ...

Corrigan became active with the peace movement after three children of her sister, Anne Maguire, 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. Anne Maguire later committed suicide. Provisional Irish Republican Army (Irish name: Óglaigh na hÉireann) (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the Army or the RA) is an Irish Republican left-wing paramilitary organisation that, until the Belfast Agreement, sought to end Northern Ireland...

Betty Williams, a baptised Roman Catholic herself, despite a Protestant father and a Protestant husband, had witnessed the event, and soon after the two co-founded Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People.

By the end of the month Betty and Mairead brought 30,000 women onto the streets of Belfast petitioning for peace between the republican and loyalist factions. She believed the most effective way to end the violence was not violence but re-education (see [[1]]). WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Irish Republicanism is an ideology based on the Irish nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a united independent republic. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

However, the venture ultimately petered out due to in large part to objections from Catholics that the Peace People were focusing entirely on republican violence and ignoring loyalist and state violence by the British security forces.

She received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Betty Williams, in 1976 for their efforts. They were criticised for deciding to keep the prize money for themselves. Lester B. Pearson after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ...

In 1981 she married Jackie Maguire, who was the widower of her late sister, Anne. She has three stepchildren and two of her own, John and Luke.

In 1990 Corrigan was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award. It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. Pacem in Terris is Latin for 'Peace on Earth.' MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... The Pacem in Terris Award has been awarded annually since 1964 in commemoration of the Encyclical Pacem in Terris of Pope John XXIII by Davenport (Iowa) Diocese. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... An encyclical was a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Christian church. ... The Pope (or Pope of Rome) (from Latin: papa, Papa, father; from Greek: papas / = priest originating from πατήρ = father )[1] is the Bishop of Rome and the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church. ... The Blessed John XXIII wearing a Papal Tiara Angelo Roncalli was born in Sotto il Monte (province of Bergamo), Italy on November 25, 1881. ... A visibly ill Pope John XXIII, who died shortly afterwards, signing Pacem in Terris. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

In 2004 she went to Israel and welcomed Mordechai Vanunu upon his release from prison, where he had served an 18-year prison sentence for disclosing Israel's nuclear secrets. Mordechai Vanunu in the garden of St. ... Israel is widely believed to possess a substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons and maintains intermediate-range ballistic missiles to deliver them. ...

She is a member of the pro-life group Consistent Life, which is against abortion, the death penalty and euthanasia. Pro-life is a term representing a variety of perspectives and activist movements in bioethics. ... The Consistent Life Ethic is an ethical, religious, and political philosophy with the basic premise that all human life is sacred, and that this calls for a coherent social policy which seeks to protect the rights of the weakest and most vulnerable in our society, the unborn, the infirm, the... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ... Euthanasia (from Greek: ευθανασία -ευ, eu, good, θάνατος, thanatos, death) is the practice of terminating the life of a person or animal in a presumably painless or minimally painful way. ...

In April 2007, while participating in a protest against the construction of the West Bank barrier outside the Palestinian village of Bil'in, Israeli security forces intervened and Ms. Corrigan was hit by a rubber-coated steel bullet and inhaled tear gas, requiring medical attention. Israel has not released the name of the coward who shot this unarmed woman in the backside April 2007 is the fourth month of 2007 A.D. It began on a Sunday and will end after thirty days on a Monday. ...

External links

• [2] Peace 1976
• [3] Peace People
• [4] Mairead Corrigan & Betty Williams
• [5] Mairead Corrigan Maguire
• [6] Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan
• [7] 2007 hit by a rubber bullet and inhaled tear gas (Israeli report)
• [8] 2007 hit by a rubber bullet and inhaled tear gas (Irish report)
• [9] 2007 hit by a rubber bullet and inhaled tear gas (her own first-hand account)

References

• [10] Mairead Corrigan - Nobel Curriculum Vitae